NBA Live 14 release date announced

EA Sports is back in the National Basketball Association, finally releasing an update to their NBA Live franchise.

Polygon reports that the game will be released on November 19th of this year, after the PS4 hits North America and before the Xbox One does.

That means the basketball game won't quite make the PS4's North American launch, which will take place the previous Friday, Nov. 15. However, NBA Live 14 will be available in time for the Xbox One's North American release on Nov. 22, three days after the game comes out.

NBA Live 14 will be the first game that will come out in the series since 2010, when Dwight Howard graced the cover. This year it will be Cleveland Cavaliers star Kyrie Irving, an interesting choice to compete with former Cleveland god and current Miami Heat superstar LeBron James that landed on the NBA 2K14 cover.

As a friendly reminder, the game will only be released on the next-generation consoles. The PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC will not see a release.

EA Sports knows it has a lot of catching up to do in order to win NBA fans again. After multiple attempts at releasing NBA games, we'll see how this one shapes up to what 2K Sports seems to have mastered in the past couple years.

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