We’re seeing more sports games include legendary players to square off against today’s stars. EA’s NHL 12 will continue that trend, bringing in nine of hockey’s greatest to mix it up. Revealed so far are Wayne Gretzky, Chris Chelios and Ray Bourque.

EA’s NHL 12 blog let us in on the details about the legends. The game’s Be a Pro mode will have features allowing you to play as one of the legends. Can you score top Gretzky’s 894 career goals or get seven assists in a single game? After you achieve these milestones, you’ll unlock video footage of legends talking about their accomplishments. There will be single-game, season and career milestones to shoot for.

EA Sports is trying something completely different with its Wii hockey offering, NHL Slapshot.

While the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will get NHL 11 as usual, Slapshot is an experience completely designed for the Wii. It even comes packaged with a 21-inch hockey stick peripheral that attaches to the Wii’s motion controller.

It is time for the annual, er, weekly Playstation Store update, this one comes with some sport-related goodness in addition to some unexpected Valentine’s presents for the love struck gamers out there.

The highlights of this update include 3 on 3 NHL Arcade for $10, along with the full version of…

EA has announced that it will be discontinuing online support for older sports games effective September 1, 2007. These older sports titles would be rendered redundant, at least, as far as online gameplay is concerned, beginning September 1, 2007. Major sports titles including NHL 06, NBA LIVE 06, FIFA 06, NCAA FOOTBALL 06 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 will go offline.

Racing games Burnout Revenge and Need for Speed Most Wanted will have their online wings clipped from November 1. It will be a complete withdrawal of online support and all versions, both PC and console, will be affected.

At first glance, it seems to be a…