Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
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Out of the Park Baseball 14 Offering Early Pre-Order Deal
The next version of the highly regarded Out of the Park Baseball series is now available to pre-order and at a discount to those who do so by February 15. The PC/Mac baseball management sim can be had for $35 until then which is $5 off the retail price. In addition everyone who pre-orders will be entered into a drawing for a 64GB iPod touch or one of three $100 Amazon gift cards. All those who pre-order, whether prior to 2/15 or after, will have access to the game three days before the of...
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Jose Bautista’s Canadian Cover of MLB 13: The Show Now Up for Vote
Unlike the cover campaign for the standard edition of MLB 13: The Show, won by Andrew McCutchen, the Canadian version already has the athlete determined. Toronto Blue Jays' slugger Jose Bautista will be featured again with three potential cover art options to choose from. Last year Bautista wore the alternate blue jersey. This time around the choices are between the home white, road grey, and Canada Day red. The red edition looks likely to win even though that particular jersey is only wo...
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MLB 13: The Show Diamond Dynasty Mode Improvements
SCEA has released a look at some of the changes coming to Diamond Dynasty mode in MLB 13: The Show. Diamond Dynasty was introduced in MLB 12 as an attempt at creating a team-building/card collecting mode similar in nature to Ultimate Team found in EA Sports titles. Conceptually the mode was sound but there were several poor design decisions and technical issues that made it difficult to enjoy. Check out full impressions of the mode from last year. In MLB 13 the mode is receiving improveme...
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MLB 13: The Show Full Features List
Though the first feature details for MLB 13: The Show arrived in early December that represented a more basic approach to describing what the product will offer. As has become tradition SCEA has followed that up with a much more extensive listing of new and established features along with various improvements made throughout. In addition to previously announced features like Playoff and Beginner modes MLB 13 will offer evolved Franchise and Road to the Show modes, "The Show Live" (think N...
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Andrew McCutchen Wins Cover of MLB 13: The Show
A week long voting process to determine the cover athlete for MLB 13: The Show has come to an end with the Pittsburgh Pirates' Andrew McCutchen coming away with the honor. McCutchen was identified immediately as the candidate most likely to get support from anyone who wasn't necessarily fans of the others in the mix. He still though appeared to be an underdog to Triple Crown and AL MVP winner Miguel Cabrera as well as NL MVP Buster Posey following the Giants' World Series victory. How the at...
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What to Expect from MLB 2K13
The announcement of MLB 2K13 made earlier this week caught everyone off guard and for good reason. The third party league license that had been signed in 2005 expired and Take Two (parent company of 2K Sports) had long expressed their disdain for the deal which the leadership inherited as they lost over $30 million every year. At the same time they made clear their intention to turn towards projects which were based on owned IP rather than licensed properties. A deal with MLB was not imme...
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First MLB 2K13 Screenshot and Details on Feature Set
The surprise announcement that the MLB 2K series would return for another year - and the new license agreed upon with MLB is just for one year - came down this morning. Though the cover athlete news was announced along with it (David Price) no details on what to expect from the game feature wise were made immediately available. Now though there is a early features list for the game that won't quell any pessimism around how much work is going to be put into the product. It contains only fe...
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2K Sports Startles Everyone By Announcing MLB 2K13
Huge surprise today as 2K Sports has officially announced MLB 2K13. Last year the third party exclusive license with the MLB expired and at the time the company did not renew. That deal was losing Take Two over $30 million every year. At some point in between then and now a deal was reached to continue to the 2K series but under much more favorable terms. 2K is now operating under an agreement that is not exclusive and financially reasonable. MLB was in a position where they could either ...
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