In this edition of 'News that emerged during Gamescom but slipped through the net', let us discuss baskets and the balls that so neatly pass through them. NBA 2K15's PC release will be equivalent to the PS4 and XB1 versions, which is good news. When a sporting console release straddles the past and the present, the PC has often found itself relegated to the past, presumably to maximise the number of possible players. Not so with NBA though and that's cause for celebration - 2K's basketball series has the greatest career mode in any sports game franchise. It's sport as RPG and I find it enormously compelling, despite knowing next to nothing about point guards and low posts.

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