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MLB 2K9 To Have Revamped Pitching System
When Tim Lincecum was announced as the cover athlete for MLB 2K9 no details on what to expect from the game were provided. Up to now all that has been known is the cover athlete and about the move to Visual Concepts. Jon Robinson with ESPN has an interview with Lincecum that also includes mention of how 2K9 is aiming to simplify the pitching controls. Last year, MLB 2K8 confused gamers with a pitching system casual fans saw as overly complex. MLB 2K9 changes all that as the developers of th...
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Pastapadre on OS Waiver Wire Podcast
Once again Chase from Operation Sports and I have teamed up for the Waiver Wire Podcast. This week we discuss a number of topics including the Arena Football license, thoughts on a potential EA Sports/Gamestop "Season Pass", the broken roster sharing in NCAA Basketball 09, and the NXE update. To download the file directly click here. You can also subscribe via iTunes here. Feel free to leave your thoughts on the show in the comments....
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Nascar Coming To The Wii
The Wiire has news today that EA Sports is developing Nascar for the Wii. Apparently it will not attempt to replicate the Nascar games on the 360 or PS3 and instead will go the route of driving karts, possibly with caricatures of the licensed drivers. No telling yet if heads of drivers will be massively oversized to balance out the cartoonish nature of the karts. While the karts may resemble an idea from Mario Kart, most likely the tracks will remain the same oval shape, true to the NASCAR ...
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09 Baseball Titles Need to Improve Online Play
As I covered extensively last year neither MLB 2K8 nor MLB 08: The Show provided a sufficient online experience. 2K8 was arguably the worst online sports title ever while The Show was very inconsistent in its own right. My full online report on both games can be found here along with an update a week later here. While it was the performance that primarily dragged them down last year both titles also lacked some basic options that would've been beneficial. SCEA does deserve credit for the ...
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Madden 09 Roster Update #13 Details
With it being a holiday week the roster update for Madden 09 is set to be out tomorrow, Tuesday November 25th. This is the 13th update of the season and given the shorter period of time to put it together it isn't quite as extensive as the previous ones. However there are a few notable changes such as the rating drop for Donovan McNabb , increase for Tyler Thigpen. and Felix Jones moving to IR. I'm still waiting on the significant boosts that Anquan Boldin and Matt Cassel deserve. Continu...
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Early Look at Madden 2010 Running Animations
EA Sports has released two videos providing an opportunity to see some running animations being worked into Madden 2010. This obviously isn't gameplay footage but instead a chance for an unprecedented glimpse into what goes into a game still very early in the development process. Continue on to watch the two videos and leave your thoughts in the comments. (more…)...
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MLB Front Office Manager Preview
Gamespot has posted up the latest preview of MLB Front Office Manager. As we've now hit what is generally the dead spot in the sports gaming year it is nice to have a game to look forward to that splits the difference between now and when the baseball titles are released in the first week of March. In the past January has generally offered an arcade style game such as NBA Street or NFL Tour. Based on the depth of statistics, you can probably guess the level of off-the field depth in the FOM...
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The Line Drive
As some of you may have already noticed I have installed a new comment system. This one seems to work well in both Firefox and IE and has replies show up in threaded form. It also allows registered users to give a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to any particular comment. I'll be looking to find a way to allow for the editing of comments in the near future. I've started back using Twitter so anyone that would like to follow along here is my address. I've also added the last two upd...
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