{"id":35196,"date":"2018-07-24T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nba_playgrounds_2_will_now_be_published_by_2k_games_adding_some_nba_2k_flair"},"modified":"2018-07-24T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T13:15:00","slug":"nba-playgrounds-2-will-now-be-published-by-2k-games-adding-some-nba-2k-flair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/nba-playgrounds-2-will-now-be-published-by-2k-games-adding-some-nba-2k-flair\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playgrounds 2 Will Now Be Published By 2K Games, Adding Some &#8220;NBA 2K Flair&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nba_playgrounds_2_will_now_be_published_by_2k_games_adding_some_nba_2k_flair\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nba_playgrounds_2_will_now_be_published_by_2k_games_adding_some_nba_2k_flair\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"nbaplayground.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nba_playgrounds_2_will_now_be_published_by_2k_games_adding_some_nba_2k_flair\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nba_playgrounds_2_will_now_be_published_by_2k_games_adding_some_nba_2k_flair\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"nbaplayground.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>NBA Playgrounds 2<\/strong> was originally planned to release on the Nintendo Switch on 22nd May, but a mysterious delay prevented the launch from taking place. At the time, developer\u00a0Saber Interactive said that\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nba_playgrounds_2_will_miss_its_22nd_may_launch_date_dev_promises_exciting_things\">there are exciting things brewing<\/a>&#8221; with the franchise, resulting in this delay, and it seems we now have our answer as to what those things were.<\/p>\n<p>It has been announced that 2K Sports will take over publishing duties for the title, sitting it alongside the studio&#8217;s best-selling NBA 2K franchise and giving it a rebranded name in the process &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/nba_2k_playgrounds_2\">NBA 2K Playgrounds 2<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The over-the-top, two-on-two basketball experience is hoping to complement the best-selling\u00a0series and &#8220;expand 2K\u2019s footprint in the basketball video game space&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Thomas, President of the NBA 2K series developer Visual Concepts, has said the following about the new partnership:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe original\u00a0NBA Playgrounds\u00a0was a fantastic throwback to the glory days of arcade-action sports. The new\u00a0NBA 2K Playgrounds 2\u00a0will step up this energy and attitude big time \u2013 with a bit of added\u00a0NBA 2K\u00a0flair &#8211; giving fans of both franchises an exciting new way to game with friends around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The game is now expected to release in &#8220;fall 2018&#8221; for Switch and other platforms. We&#8217;ll make sure to keep an eye out for any more news on this one over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about this partnership? Are you happy to see 2K Sports takeover the Playgrounds franchise? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA Playgrounds 2 was originally planned to release on the Nintendo Switch on 22nd May, but a mysterious delay prevented the launch from taking place. At the time, developer\u00a0Saber Interactive said that\u00a0&#8220;there are exciting things brewing&#8221; with the franchise, resulting in this delay, and it seems we now have our answer as to what those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}