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MLB 2K9 Demo Now Available
The demo for MLB 2K9 is now out for the 360 and will be arriving for the PS3 on Thursday. This is a relatively highly anticipated demo coming off of last year's poor offering and with the studio move to Visual Concepts. Unlike last year the demo is out prior to the game's release which is encouraging in itself and this could result in some confidence heading up to it's release next week. A three inning rematch of the World Series with the Tampa Bay Rays @ Philadelphia Phillies is featured...
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Improvements to QBs in Madden 10
Another posting on the Inside EA Blog details improvements that are being made for Madden 2010 to the QB position. Of note are five new ratings categories, layered blending, and changes to how accuracy is determined. This is a significant update and you can read it in full here. 1. Deep Ball Accuracy: Determines the accuracy on deep passes (streaks, deep posts, etc) 2. Medium Passing Accuracy: Determines the accuracy on medium passes (outs, corners, etc) 3. Short Passing Accuracy: Determi...
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EA Should Consider An Arcade Baseball Game
With 2K Sports holding the third-party MLB license they have tried to squeeze the most out of it by branching out through several off-titles. The BIGS, MLB Front Office Manager, MLB Superstars, MLB Stickball, MLB Fantasy All-Stars, and MLB Power Pros (as distributor). What has frustrated me as of late is that they haven't followed up with a sequel to The BIGS which is a game I enjoyed immensely, sold relatively well, and had a lot of potential for ways to be even better. Recently EA Sport...
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FNR4 Community Event Today
The day has arrived with numerous website representatives in attendance at the EA Canada studio in Burnaby BC for the Fight Night Round 4 Community Event. Throughout the day I'll be updating this posting with the latest links to content or any information coming directly out of the event. Given that the game is still 4+ months out from release we won't be seeing gameplay footage and the details the group will be able to share may be pretty limited. However EA is attempting to provide by f...
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The Line Drive 2/22
While it was known that NCAA Football 10 would include the procedural awareness that was discussed for Madden, the first NCAA focused offering has hit the Inside EA Blog here. The feature revealed is not an exciting one but to a small segment of the hardcore base. It is QB Auto-Pass which results in a quasi coach mode. As the NFL season has ended the Top 10 videos on EA Sports World for Madden will be taking on some various themes. This week it was Anquan Boldin on a new team. I of ...
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MLB 2K9 Conference Call Recap
Earlier this afternoon I had the opportunity to participate in the media conference call for MLB 2K9 with Lead Features Designer Erick Boenisch and Gameplay Producer Jonathan Rivera. Along with Chase from OS we live blogged the call. You can catch the transcript here. I also wanted to write up a recap to go accompany the live blog. These calls usually provide a good overview of the game as some of the attendees have not followed the pre-release progress and the questions reflect that. Sti...
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Live Blog: MLB 2K9 Conference Call
As mentioned on Wednesday the MLB 2K9 media conference call takes place today at 5ET/2PT. While I'll have a full recap article up on it late tonight myself and Chase wanted to live blog it. We'll be commenting throughout and hopefully it'll be interesting for everyone to follow along with. Generally these sessions run for about 45 minutes. If you miss out on following along live the transcript stays so you can still check it out after it is over. Continue on to view the live blog. Feel fr...
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Recording HD Gameplay Videos
I recently made the purchase of an HD PVR. From what I had read about it and watched samples of this would provide great quality HD recordings as opposed to the capture card I have been using which did not do HD. I'm excited to be able to produce some HD video content going forward. So I've been experimenting some since hooking it up earlier this week. While everything was easy enough to get going I'm having an issue with the playback of the videos after they are uploaded to hosting sites...
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