The NBA Elite 11 demo is out now on PS3 for North American gamers. The demo will be releasing on the 21^st for the Xbox 360 and European gamers will see the PS3 demo on the 22^nd. EA is hoping to turn around the struggling franchise with a new mindset, total control. The controls have been tweaked to allow the player to have complete control over dribbling and shooting. And for the first time ever, EA Sports has implemented real-time physics into NBA Elite so there are no canned animations. Hit the break to check out the new trailer.

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Today EA Sports announced that all new copies of NBA Elite will come packaged with NBA Jam. This is the same deal where you have to buy it new to get the code to download it but that’s one hell of an incentive to buy it new. There will three modes of NBA Jam included with NBA Elite, one of which is an online mode. NBA 2K11 has Jordan on the cover and now NBA Elite has NBA Jam, the competition is heating up. Along with this announcement EA also talked about the improved physics system and the new control scheme, check out the video interview.

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The two biggest games hitting the court this year, NBA Jam and NBA Elite 11, have finally been given a long-awaited official release date from the EA Sports team. Both games will be releasing simultaneously this fall on October 5, 2010. NBA Jam will boomshakalaka on the Wii while NBA Elite 11 goes for a three-pointer on the Xbox 360 and PS3. What do you think of the box art just revealed for NBA Jam? And how do you feel about NBA Live being renamed to NBA Elite this year?

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