Rumors

Even though my kids outgrew games targeted at the elementary school set, I’m still a big proponent of premium games for children and their families. The market needs more of them, especially since so much awful, predatory free-to-play slop pitched as “kid friendly” dominates mobile platforms and Roblox. Outright Games launched NBA Bounce on Sept. 26 for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and Steam platforms. While it has colorful characters and lots of fun animations, such as how mascot players dunk, it also seeks to teach the basics of basketball while offering arcade game-like controls that are more intuitive than what you get with NBA 2K.

Sports Business Journal

Gordon Hayward: I grew up on, the very first video games I started playing was just the NES. Then the Super Nintendo. I had a Sega GameGear. Of course, I had a GameBoy. Then N64. I've had 'em all. Some of those older games, they used to have versions of them on GameBoy or whatever. I definitely played Pac-Man and some of those older games before. I enjoy playing those, sure. … Contra: I always played Contra when I could get it to work. On the original Nintendo you had to blow into the thing a couple times to get it to work. Whenever I could get Contra to work me and my friends were also playing that.

Salt Lake Tribune