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NBA 2K13 Release Date Revealed

The latest entry in 2K Sports' NBA series will be hitting later this year, and those who preorder will have access to new All-Star content.

When NBA 2K13 releases on October 2 in North America, gamers who preordered will be be able to download additional All-Star bonus material. The extra content includes the ability for players to set up their own All-Star games, as well as participate in activities like three-point shootouts and slam dunk contests.

The preorder content is only available for players getting the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of NBA 2K13, even though the game is also coming out on Wii, PSP, and PC.

A Wii U version will be released at an unspecified later date to coincide with the new system's launch.

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  • wow Wii U getting lot of titles this year NBA 2K12 was great can't wait for 2K13

  • This is cool.I only wish I knew anything about the game though...

  • No Vita?

  • Vita version with cross platform online support please!

  • 3 point shooters and slam dunk contests should be already on the game but its free so who cares
  • Why is it coming to psp? Vita looks like a much better outlet
  • Hey Joe, the title of your article says that they revealed a release date, but you don't mention it in your article.

    EDIT: My bad, I looked for it like a million times and couldn't see it! Random moment of idiocy, please forgive me.
  • Can't wait. Here's a list of things I would like to see for 2K13:

    1. Change the amount of time it takes for the referee to give you the ball. I'm tired of waiting 10 minutes to inbound the ball

    2. All too often when there is contact down low when attempting a layup, and if you're not playing with guys like Steve Nash and Tony Parker, it's like it's already pre determined that the ball will not go into the basket so the ball will do impossible things like roll around the rim and pop out or bounce hard around the rim and pop out even though the layup wasn't even that hard. I'm just asking for more realistic physics when the ball is around the rim.

    3. Give ball handlers more awareness where they are passing the ball to. Besides passing to the post players, it's frustrating when you're player could just lob the ball over the defender but instead they pass it right to him.

    4. Put Scalabrine on the All Star team

    5. Make controls a little more responsive. There's a slight delay when you pass, backing down in the low post, and shooting

    6. When you're playing as the Heat, in the final two minutes of the game Lebron's stats should drop tremendously. He can't close and he's irrelevant in real life during the clutch so might as well incorporate it into the game.

    There's more but I feel like these can improve
  • Totally hoping that 2k13 will improve AI, animations, and server issues rather than pulling a Madden and throwing in modes and whatnot. I love 2k12 and play it a lot, but sometimes the issues make me hate it and never want to play it again.
  • Cool i have 2k10 and 2k11 not getting any more.

  • Please, for the love of god bring back all the fun Blacktop game modes. All we got to do was play a foul-less, shortened game of basketball when in Nba 2k11 you got so many fun modes..Nba 2k12 got jack.
  • What?! This should be in the game already!

  • Yes they finally added all-star weekend.

  • This should already be part of the game allstar weekend is always in other basketball games

  • sprite!

  • sweet!

  • Hope they change the animations for kick balls. I got way too many of those that were clearly steals. They need to fix the glitch that takes the players way too long to get to the bench when you're waiting for the ref to give you the ball to inbound. I agree the all star weekend was definitely the weakest thing about 2k12, it was like playing another game, only not fun, so I'm glad they're adding stuff. I really wish they had a feature to add your own music. I like 2ks music selection for the most part, but it get's very tiring listening to it for 4-5 seasons.

  • I hope I can get a lot of people to agree that this game must have the MJ creating a legend mode. I am on my 3rd season on 2k11 I reserved 2k12 9 months before it came out and took it back as soon as I realized their was no MJ creating a legend mode if 2k13 does not have it another year without me buying it 2k11 best game ever!!!

  • on my player make them 80 overall and top pick and a option of less years in the contract