Blog Posts by Ben Silverman

(Credit: 2K Sports)Kobe Bryant stirred the pot a few weeks back when he declared that this year's U.S. Men's National Basketball squad would have beaten the legendary 1992 Dream Team. Hall of Famers like Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Larry Bird laughed it off, but the debate took on a life of its own as media pundits went wild trying to sort out which team would actually win.

Gamers, however, will have a chance to figure it out for themselves in the upcoming NBA 2K13. The basketball sim will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the '92 team by bringing them — and the gold-wining 2012 squad — into the game.

One of the priciest consoles in video game history is getting a reboot...and it's still kinda pricy.

Releasing December 6, the Neo Geo X Gold Entertainment System is a handheld that plays classic Neo Geo arcade games. In addition to the handheld itself (which boasts a 4.3-inch LCD screen),  it comes packaged with a standard-sized joystick controller, a dock that connects the handheld to your TV, and 20 pre-loaded Neo Geo games.

And it can be yours for only $200.

If you're planning on playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 — and based on everything we know about the buying habits of gamers, there's a really, really good chance you are — you're likely itching to do so online. Activision and Treyarch, however, have thus far been focusing on the game's solo campaign, leaving its legions of multiplayer fanatics a little miffed.

Well, be miffed no more. Here's the first official Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 multiplayer trailer in all its explosive glory:

Things just went from bad to worse for beleaguered social game maker Zynga.

On Friday, EA filed a lawsuit against Zynga, accusing the company of directly copying elements from EA's The Sims Social in Zynga's recently released The Ville game.

"In legal terms, our claim is that Zynga copied the original and distinctive expressive elements of The Sims Social in a clear violation of the U.S. copyright laws," said Lucy Bradshaw, general manager of Sims maker EA/Maxis, in a blog post.

According to the complaint, EA contends that The Ville, released in June, copies multiple elements of The Sims Social, a Facebook version of EA's long-running franchise released back in 2011. From broad design

Clue (Parker Brothers)Fresh off determining the real-world prices for Monopoly properties, the board game fans at Movoto have tackled another famous piece of fictitious real-estate: the mansion from Clue.

Star Wars: The Old Republic (EA/Bioware)Forget toppling Warcraft -- EA's massively-multiplayer hopeful Star Wars: The Old Republic is just trying to keep its galaxy from turning into a black hole.

In an earnings call Tuesday, EA noted that the game some believed had the firepower to take down perennial online role-playing game champ World of Warcraft currently sports fewer than one million paying subscribers. That's down from the 1.3 million it reported back in May and a serious drop from the 1.7 million it enjoyed in March.

Sick and tired of entertaining us with their adorable antics, pandas are about to become a lot less cuddly.

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, the fourth official World of Warcraft expansion, will be available for purchase both digitally and at retail for PC and Mac on September 25^th, Blizzard announced Wednesday.

NCAA Football 13 (EA)If you're sick of playing college football games made solely by EA, you're in luck.

According to a proposed settlement filed by attorneys representing consumers in a class-action anti-trust lawsuit, EA has agreed to give up their stranglehold on the NCAA and AFL (Arena Football League) licenses for five years and will further dole out $27 million for overcharging customers.

First filed back in 2008, the lawsuit essentially claims that EA formed an unfair monopoly by locking in exclusive licenses just as the market was creating lower prices for consumers.