Gigantic games developer EA Sports have been churning out NHL games annually since 1991. That’s right, they’ve been releasing ice hockey games yearly for twenty years,and it can’t be easy coming up with exciting new features, and tinkering with the game enough to satisfy customers on a year by year basis.
Yet at the same time, EA will be acutely aware that ice hockey fans who play video games, will more often than not, shell out for the new game, just so they can have...