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Gametrailers Looks Foolish With New Video
The latest video posted up on Gametrailers features MLB 2K9 and is labeled as though it is just a normal video displaying gameplay footage. It turns out however that the person responsible for it just played it like an ass and posted it anyway. This is a video going out for everyone to see pre-release that doesn't properly represent the game and that is unfortunate. There is a certain amount of respect you should give a game when the opportunity to provide consumers with early looks or in...
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Serious Problem With MLB 2K9 Franchise Mode Discovered (Updated)
As sites began receiving their copies of MLB 2K9 yesterday impressions have started flowing. The most alarming development however is the discovery of a major issue with franchise mode by Chase at Operation Sports. This is something that will negatively affect anyone who plays more than just the first year in franchise. You can start reading about the problem on this page of the forum thread and continue through it to follow further developments. What is happening is that CPU controlled t...
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No Nascar Game This Year
An interview on Sporting News brought into question the plans for EA Sports' Nascar branded titles. Since then First Cuts and ESPN have been able to confirm that there will be no Nascar 10 released. The only Nascar branded game this year will have been Nascar Kart Racing for the Wii. NASCAR Kart Racing on the Wii is the only NASCAR-licensed videogame that will ship this year from EA SPORTS. Due to the family-friendly atmosphere of NASCAR, we felt that a title developed exclusively for the W...
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The BIGS 2 Coming This Summer
Just the other day I wrote about my hope that someone would step up and produce an arcade baseball game. My original plea had always been for a sequel to The BIGS but no indication had been given that one was in the works. The BIGS was released in June 2007 and was my favorite sports title of the year. It mixed exaggerated action with solid strategic elements and also had one of the first online co-op modes to be offered. Thanks to a teaser trailer (as confirmed to me by Chase and through...
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MLB 2K9 and 09 The Show Player Comparison Video
I'm really enjoying creating the HD videos so I decided to do something a little different and make one that put MLB 09 The Show and MLB 2K9 right up against each other. This one isn't in full HD since I had to convert it but it still looks pretty good. I took at bats from Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, and Carl Crawford from the pitching perspective so you can compare graphics and signature stances among other things. Actually an unintended result of the video is displaying one of the probl...
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Top NCAA Football 10 Cover Athlete Candidates
With EA Sports already beginning to roll out some info on NCAA Football 2010 I thought it would be time to look at the top candidates for the cover this year. From what I've been able to gather EA won't be attempting to repeat last year's experiment of a different cover athlete for each platform. Instead it appears they are going back to the standard single cover athlete. The only defensive player to ever be on the cover of the NCAA Football franchise was Charles Woodson and there doesn't...
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MLB 09 The Show: Online Improvements
The most recent Playstation Blog entry for MLB 09 The Show details the online improvements coming to the game and contains a strong focus on the online league feature. You can read it in its entirety here. The draft system rivals that of any fantasy sports system. It allows from 6-30 players to hold a FULL LIVE Draft, with the ability to set your draft day/time, pick timer/length, chat (and harass), view the Player Card/stats of available players, view the Player Card stats of other users i...
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MLB 2K9 Demo Impressions and Videos
I wanted to get up some initial impressions of MLB 2K9 after running through the demo a couple times. By no means is this a definitive assessment of the game, but there are numerous things worth mentioning that I found to be positives as well as dislikes that I have come across already. Overall the reaction to the demo seems to be quite mixed with most everyone recognizing improvement but much of that being overshadowed by discussion of various issues. Continue on to read through my thoug...
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