Each year's slate of new pro sports games comes with a goofy set of new proper nouns to describe their cutting-edge animation and physics systems: Madden introduced "FieldSENSE" a few years ago, for instance, and now Madden NFL 25 promises "FieldSENSE powered by BOOM Tech." You can't make this stuff up, unless you're EA of course, in which case you literally have.
A group of former EA developers have left that technical arms race behind to make a different kind of sports game, one they think has been missing from the scene. Announced today, The Run: Got Next is a 3v3 arcade basketball game with quick matches for our hopelessly corroded attention spans (and no BOOM Tech). And unlike certain other sports games—EA's new college football game comes to mind—it's getting a PC release as a priority.