NHL 2k7

2K Sports today announced new features for NHL 2k7, adding houndreds of animations to the game (which sometimes can be better than high-resolution textures). There are some really cool stuff in there, and it now seems like we have to choose: the best possible game with the old controls, or EA's new cool controls? Check out this trailer before you judge this game. Maybe I'll have both. Or just use the old control scheme in NHL 07.

It didn't take long for 2K Sports to answer EAs challenge - they've now announced Joe Thornton as the player to be on the cover for NHL 2k7, with these images and a trailer. As a great hockey fan, I must ask - how long will it take for the developers to make the players actually interact with the stone cold hard walls AROUND the ice? I was hoping for at least an animation upgrade, but it doesn't seem like we get that. Either. The hockey genre makes me sick.

2K Sports released a bunch of images from NHL 2k7 and NBA 2K7, but there's a chance that you've seen some of them already.
Update: Added a NHL 2k7 trailer.

As always now, Microsoft did a video montage of a bunch of Xbox 360 games, some showing some short bits of unseen before gameplay footage.