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Online Play Report: MLB 2K8 and MLB 08: The Show
As I've focused on pointing out on several occasions, online play is something that is practically ignored by reviewers and the online details you get prerelease are those that have been regurgitated from fact sheets. Occasionally the topic will come up in interviews but it ends up being more of the same. It isn't until the community actually plays online that the true sense of what is offered is known. Now that the two baseball titles have been out for a few days we can look at the onlin...
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First NCAA Football 09 screenshots
EA Sports has released the first two screenshots from NCAA Football 09 showing off Xbox 360 cover athlete Darren McFadden. Of course McFadden won't even be in the game but they have featured him here to coincide with the cover announcement. I did email in to get confirmation that these are official 09 screens released by EA (they are). They just aren't all that impressive and I wondered at first if they were legit. If you go back to the first two screens of 08 which had Jared Zabransky an...
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NBA Live OTP night eight
Another NBA Live 08 OTP night is set for Saturday beginning at 5PT/8ET. You can meet up in the pastapadre custom lobby room or if I see you on my friends list playing Live and not in the middle of another game I'll generally send out an invite as well. The first game starts up minutes after the meet-up time with the invites for the second game going out after the completion of the first (once I've written down the stats). With the roster update out we'll get in a couple games with teams t...
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Online Baseball Night One Recap
Just wanted to drop a few thoughts on the handful of games I got played this evening. Thanks to everyone who participated and hopefully we'll be able to organize the nights on a weekly basis like has been done with the Online Team Play for NBA Live 08. Anyone who sent me an invite that I wasn't able to get to I look forward to playing in the near future. Below are details on how two of the games I played turned out. The night started off with a game of MLB 2K8 against Reeso2991. It was play...
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NCAA Football 09 to have platform specific covers
As speculated upon after the news that Darren McFadden would be the Xbox 360 cover athlete for NCAA Football 09 broke, EA has made it official that there will be four platform specific cover athletes this year that will come from different regions of the country. If you count the mascot on the cover of the Wii version that means all five will have their own exclusive covers. The PS3 version will be announced on April 24th with the PS2 and PSP covers being announced in early May. "These f...
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MLB 2K8 downloadble content for 360 available
The Cool Base alternate jerseys and three minor league stadiums (that apparently couldn't fit on the disc) that 2K had promised would come at release are now available in the Xbox 360 Marketplace. Durham Bulls Athletic Park, Hadlock Field, and Legends Field are included. As previously stated these are free to download. In an interesting twist the content is currently only available to Gold members. Even though it was intended to be included with the game and is meant to go to everyone it...
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Darren McFadden is the NCAA Football 09 cover athlete (360)
As revealed Wednesday on G4's X-Play, Arkansas RB Darren McFadden will be the cover athlete for the 360 version of NCAA Football 08. We know that a mascot will be on the cover of the Wii version but that doesn't explain why they were specific to him being on the cover of the 360 version. Given the developments it won't be long before EA Sports issues the press release officially announcing this and likely detailing what is going on with the covers for the PS3 and PS2 versions. McFadden will ...
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Online Baseball Night one
The first Online Baseball Night will take place tomorrow (Thursday) with the concentrated upon time being 3pt/6et through 7pt/10et. This is a time for the community to gather and get in some good games against quality opponents for the 360 MLB 2K8 or the PS3 MLB 08: The Show. You can read up more on what the night will entail here. After trying out The Show online tonight I've found there to have been significant improvements made and I've been seeing reports of that from others as well. Th...
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