Evan and Stax led us in a live stream this morning while revealing the NBA 2K26 The City mode. There's a plaza now, instead of winding roads, and everything you can do, you can see, if you spin the camera around. While you spin that camera around, you will also notice that the City runs at 60FPS on the Playstation 5, and Xbox Series. Nintendo Switch 2 will also have The City, but will run at 30FPS, in case you cared.
The parks are remastered, and feature some links to the past. There will be a 25% rep bonus for competing in the parks. Season one will be Skyline Park, and will change every 6 weeks. 2K gave us a look at other parks, Hamilton Station, City Heights, and courts from 2K16 like Old Town MyPark, Sunset Beach MyPark and Rivet City MyPark Championship
There will be Park MVPs. One designated player will get an MVP marker, will get 5x rep, 5x VC. You can seek them out, and take them down. You can also go on win streaks, and you are immortalized on that specific court. If you get more that 20 wins, you get 1000 VC for every win after 20. However, if you snap someone's streak, you can get all the VC earned per the win streak. Snap a 20 win streak, get 20,000 VC.
Crews can consist of up to 50 players. As far as customization, you can upload your logo, and you can receive your own crew rewards. You can assemble the avengers, and take another team down, or send a member of your crew to take down some streak breakers. Take your squad, and dominate the rewards. Active members reap the rewards.
Leaderboards update daily, but now the top player will be displayed outside the parks. You can also see how you're ranked geographically. You can see how you stack up by country, or state, and you can check your progress. You can also check for crews rankings.
Pro-AM Summit consists of 3V3 and 5V5 tournaments happen every three weekends. If you play 10 games in the pro-am summit, you automatically qualify for the tournament. Your top 5 performances will be added to the leaderboard. And, as you know, the top team gets some good rewards.
Proving Grounds has a new logo, and a new UFC looking court, with a full crowd. End of season rewards include the animated banner, and top ranked in proving grounds will receive 100,000 VC, and permanent unlimited skill boosts in one of the categories, meaning that you should probably shoot for top ranked every season.
Street Kings is street ball in one place, instead of spread out all over the city. You can grab up to two people, and take down the bosses in the Street Kings mode.. Again, the rewards are plenty, and include a Shaquille O' Neal bobble head. But this is the street ball mode, and I'll be here most of the time.
Challenges care thresholds you can meet while playing in The City mode. There are four categories. You had your daily challenges, and there are 3 that update every day. If you complete all three, you get double rep for 1 hour. If you have the pro pass, and hall of fame pass, you get additional bonus VC. There are starter challenges, for those casuals (like me), and these are sort of the tutorial challenges. Then there are lifetime challenges that update for the duration of the game which unlocks cap breakers, uniforms, and double rooms. These rewards don't reset, and stay with you for the lifetime of the game. Lastly, there are Season Challenges, for every single season, and if you know NBA2K, you know seasons are a plenty.
Swap build is a new feature. The only way to explain this, is that if you have another build that you need to swap out, you can do it on the fly. No more do you have to quit the mode, or the server, go back to the main menu, get the right build, go back in, find that game, and then play. With swap build, it's a button, another button, and done.
MyCourt is your own place. The court is fully customizable. You can change the wall, the court, the floor, the basketball hoop, and even put clothes on the mannequin. This is also where you can access the Learn2K module, where I will be.
Evan wanted to make sure you knew that the REC, and the Theater are also returning after the MyCareer trailer aired. You're still MP. Deal with that.
You can check out the 45 minute stream replay below, and read the developer diary as well.
