Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
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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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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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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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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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MLB 09 The Show: Lighting
The latest Playstation Blog has some details on the process behind the lighting in MLB 09 The Show. There are even some screenshots included that display sort of how they come together step-by-step. You can check out the full blog posting here. Lighting was a major focus for us this year, and we implemented a Global Lighting model. What does that mean? It means that objects are lit by their surroundings. It means that when players are in shadow, they can still get light from the sunlight hi...
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MLB 2K9 Conference Call on Friday
As is the case with many of their titles 2K Sports is holding a media-invited conference call prior to release. For MLB 2K9 that is taking place on Friday at 5ET/2PT. During the call myself and Chase Becotte of Operation Sports will be teaming up for a live blog. Expect reflection on what we are hearing or not hearing, our general thoughts, and probably some insults between each other throughout. After it is over I will still do a full write-up as usual for anyone who would just like to read...
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