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2015 Pastapadre Community Awards Preview
The annual Pastapadre Community Awards are back, offering an opportunity to reflect upon the year in sports gaming and recognize developers for their accomplishments in specific areas of the games and as a whole. In today's video Rich and I discuss the basis for the Community Awards along with all the categories and respective nominees. Now Open for Voting: Best Gameplay – Best Presentation – Best Post-Release Support –Best Career Mode – Best Team-B...
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End of Year Community Awards Voting: Best Post-Release Support of 2015
The voting for various categories in the Pastapadre Community Awards continues with Best Post-Release Support. These days publishers can't get away with simply releasing and moving on. Consumer expectations include multiple patches, to just not fix any glaring problems but further improve the game and offer new content, along with constant updates in areas such as rosters and team-building modes. Now Open for Voting: Best Gameplay - Best Presentation - Best Post-Release Support T...
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New mode for Rocket League transforms the soccer into hockey with Winter Event
Last month developer Psyonix released free "mutators" for Rocket League with a dedicated playlist featuring the new twists on the game. At the same time another one was announced, for many maybe theĂ‚Â most intriguing of them all, as the soccer foundation of the game would transform into hockey with a special new mode. That hockey form of Rocket League debuts today with the "Snow Day" playlist on PS4 and PC along with new holiday-themed drop items that are earned by playing games: ââ‚...
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End of Year Community Awards Voting: Best Presentation of 2015
The voting for various categories in the Pastapadre Community Awards continues with Best Presentation.Ă‚Â This is a category that has simply been owned by the NBA 2K franchise, having taken home the award all five years. Now Open for Voting:Ă‚Â Best Gameplay - Best Presentation NBA 2K16 looks to be in strong position to extend that to six in a row, after adding pre-recorded cutaway interviews during games, featuring a studio show with three quarters of the Inside the NBA crew, and even...
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Fourth patch for FIFA 16 bringing significant changes to gameplay
Currently available on PC and arriving soon on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the fourth post-release patch for FIFA 16 looks as though it'll have a tremendous impact on gameplay. Based largely on consumer feedback, EA Sports prioritized the improvements implemented in the latest patch through four keyĂ‚Â areas: penalties and referee decisions, passing, defensive pressure, and player positioning.Ă‚Â (more…)...
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EA has created a Competitive Gaming Division headed by Peter Moore
Though late to the party Electronic Arts has been attempting to make a push into eSports, and that's been evidenced by recent feature additions within Madden NFL 16 and FIFA 16, and others that will play a role in various EA Sports titles emerging in the space. Yesterday the company announced the creation of a Competitive Gaming Division which will be headed up by former EA Sports president and current EA COO Peter Moore, noting three "core pillars": Competition To create highly-enga...
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End of Year Community Awards Voting: Best Gameplay of 2015
With 2015 coming to a close it’s time to begin looking back on the developments that have taken place and award the various efforts in sports gaming. To start will be the first of the Community Awards. You can check out the winners from previous years here. The categories to look forward to are Community Sports Game of the Year, Best New or Non-Yearly Sports Game, Best Online Play, Best Presentation, Best Franchise Mode, Best Career Mode, Best Post-Release Support, Best New Feature...
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Free-to-play myClub edition of PES 2016 out now on PS4 and PS3
The free-to-play version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 is now available to download on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. While "Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 myClub" is centered around offering the full myClub experience it also includes seven teams for use in offline exhibition matches and the Training mode. The 22GB download be queued up for PS4 here. Based on the returns so far in yesterday's poll, it appears people are at least open to the concept of limited FTP editions of sports ...
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