It's not often we cover EA games, or even sports games, on the front page of BP, but Digital Spy are reporting that for the first time, a UK athlete will be featuring on the cover of their annual NBA title.

Luol Deng, leading the team hoping to represent Great Britain at the 2012 olympic games but ordinarily of the Chicago Bulls, is the lucky individual recieving the honour of being on the cover of NBA Live '09 in the UK and Europe.

"It’s an honour to be recognised by EA Sports as a UK ambassador for NBA Live 09 and I’m looking forward to playing for the Great Britain national team.", he said in a press release.

Okami Wii, Bully 360, The World Ends With You DS. You?

But Oh So Wright

Finished Half-Life 2 and have gone straight into Ep1, but the football is getting in the way of playing anything else.

However I spent the weekend round a mates where we had a bit of a multiplayer session. For a lot of it this was focused on Virtua Tennis 3, I've barely played it since I got it, but this past weekend has reminded me why I love the series and once I get my 360 back off a mate I'll finish the world tour mode.

The 360 based multiplayer session also visited the joys of Streets of Rage 2 and Sensible Soccer. I wasn't all that pleased with the port the 360 got of Sensi, either the PC version for the management mode or the Megadrive version for its gameplay would have been the better bet imho. However in multiplayer the version we got is superb and filled a few hours.

The main focus of the night was Rock Band, expensie as it is it really is a lot of fun. Which is why we were playing a mates copy of the game. I'm rubbish at the drums, struggling on medium, thankfully I can pull my weight with the vocals getting a couple of 99% on hard and blitzing Vasoline. I do hate Iron Maiden though, can't do it, or that Rolling Stones song

The return of our Top Ten article is here!

This week I take a look at what I believe to be the top ten Videogame Introductions. I've linked to the videos on Youtube for you to watch as ten embedded video clips may kill some peoples browsers...

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In keeping with Ben sticking his column on the front page yesterday I'll be doing the same thing. Anyhow, after getting a little worked up about The Daily Mail's treatment of the Hannah Bond suicide case, I had a little bit of a rant.

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At Mark's request God Mode On now has its own topic in news!

This week are PC controls really better than consoles? Not in my well informed and reasoned opinion.

This should also be the last PC based post for a while, although that does mean I don't have anything to write about

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Well, after Marks bitching last week I've picked up the hurdle. But to be honest, I've been playing pretty much the same as I were last week (GTAIV, Forza 2, Super Mario Galaxy, No More Heroes), although with all the football on I've not found room for No More Heroes. I have picked up Gears of War though and have started going through that in Co-op mode. I was playing alot of Football Manager 2007 but the game seems to have screwed up and won't even boot up now.

Not sure if it counts but I've entered into the Fantasy Football thing on the official Euro 2008 website, hoping the French, Spanish and Dutch do well as they make up the majority of my team...

A group of Halo players have decided to use Forge to recreate the Fresh Prince of Bel Air intro sequence within Halo 3. Its by no means perfect, but its quite entertaining.

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I know I've said I'm against all this Mario stuff in the past, but this one I do quite like! Mainly because I can't help thinking that if Mario had of used the method displayed in this video, Bowser may never have kidnapped the Princess again!

Hit the jump for the video.