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Fast & Furious Themed Forza Horizon 2 Expansion Coming Next Month for Free
A standalone expansion to Forza Horizon 2 was announced today. Releasing on March 27 Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious will be available to download for free to everyone on Xbox One and 360 through April 10. Owning or even having played Forza Horizon 2 is not required. After that point it will cost $10 but those who downloaded previously will keep it for free. The promotion coincides with the release of Furious 7 on April 3rd. In Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furiou...
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EA Sports UFC Coming to Mobile
EA Sports announced yesterday that UFC is coming to iOS and AndroidĂ‚Â in the near future. The game is already available in a few regions including Canada, going out early there as a tactic EA has utilized with mobile games in the past to gather feedback and make some updates before rolling themĂ‚Â outĂ‚Â in the US and other larger territories.Ă‚Â (more…)...
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Features for Franchise Hockey Manager 2 Coming This Spring
In 2013 OOTP Developments, creators of the Out of the Park Baseball franchise, debuted Franchise Hockey Manager. The game was met with mixed reviews that trended negative as a large number of users cited frequent crashes and other elements deemed disappointing or troublesome.Ă‚Â Later this year the company will release Beyond the Sidelines Football in an attempt to break into the untapped market in that sport for PC management sims. With response to the first Franchise Hockey Manager in m...
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NBA Live 15 Now Available for Free with EA Access Subscription
It took nearly two weeks since discovering that NBA Live 15 was headed to the EA Access "Vault" but the game is now one of the benefits of the subscription service. Those with active subscriptions will have unlimited time with the full game for no additional cost. The EA Access service is currently exclusive to Xbox One as Sony opted not to allow it for the PS4. It’s $30 for a full year or $5 month-to-month. Members get unlimited access to the Vault which contains older EA games...
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Your Thoughts on the Impact of MLB 15: The Show New Features and Improvements
With just five weeks to go until release most of what there is to know about MLB 15: The Show has already been laid out. The complete features list summarizes the important information while live streams on gameplay and Licensed Equipment/Universal Rewards/Diamond Dynasty have followed to expand on the improvements detailed earlier, with a full game video pulling much of it together. Earlier polls have gone up to gauge interest in the various features while this one is intended to dete...
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The Line Drive for February 22
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. ♦Put together the top risers and fallers in NBA 2K15 ratings for Sporting News. ♦New screenshots have been added the FB album for MLB 15: The Show. ♦EA detailed the Winter Upgrades made to players in FIFA 15 Ultimate Team. ♦EA has also completed Skill Upgrades for players in FIFA Ultimate Team. ♦FIFA 15 should be getting an...
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Press Row Podcast: Has NBA 2K Grown Bigger Than Madden?
The latest Press Row Podcast features two primary topics. First is a discussion on MLB 15: The Show - what the improvements to Diamond Dynasty mode mean to the product and some early impressions. Then the episode turns to an argument over whether NBA 2K has overtaken Madden NFL as the second biggest sports game behind only FIFA. There's no way to definitively answer that but it's an interesting debate given that a case could be made for either depending on what specifically is being measured...
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MLB 15: The Show Full Game Live Stream
SCEA held a third developer live stream for MLB 15: The Show. The focus this time wasn't on specific features but rather just playing through the majority (a few innings were skipped) of a lengthy game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates. The stream ran for just over 90 minutes and is broken into two video segments below. Please enable Javascript to watch this video Please enable Javascript to watch this video...
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