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NCAA Football 14 Cover Vote Appears to be Plagued By Rampant Cheating; EA Sports Now Investigating
For those who have followed the ongoing cover campaign for NCAA Football 14 since it began in mid-December or at any point since then, it has ranged from acting as a mild distraction to being a major annoyance. EA Sports has incessantly pushed it through social media while making huge mistakes along the way by settling on Facebook polls as the method of collection, which was not the way it was originally explained and instead deciding to add even more polls mid-round, along with changing end dates for rounds arbitrarily and expecting fans to vote so many times that fatigue set in and indifference won out. Read more
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Your Thoughts So Far on MLB 13: The Show
Outside of Postseason mode MLB 13: The Show didn’t carry with it a bevy of flashy new features. What it did do however was work to refine and enhance all aspects of the series while increasing accessibility. Outside of an issue with CPU pitchers serving up fat first pitches most at-bats and an occasional stutter out of the pitching delivery (both of which are documented quite well in threads on Operation Sports – first pitch meatballs here and stutter here – but also noted by myself) this may be the year where The Show has achieved a near ideal balance between realism and fun combined with a great deal of content and different ways to play.
Leave your impressions and observations of the first few days with MLB 13: The Show in the comments and vote in the poll below!
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New Franchises Could Be Coming From EA Sports
As first noted today by Polygon, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen spoke at the Wedbush Technology Conference and dropped an interesting line that the company could have “a couple of new sports franchises” on the way. Statement from EA Sports has since been provided to Kotaku, predictably that Jorgensen was just referring to UFC and some overseas projects, but the company wasn’t going to announce anything new at this time so that doesn’t eliminate the possibility that new franchises could be in the pipeline. Read more
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Baseball Games Leak the All-Star Uniforms
Both MLB 13: The Show and MLB 2K13 include the uniforms and batting practice caps for the 2013 All-Star game. The designs being worn for the All-Star festivities have yet to be officially revealed by the league but are available within the games. This year’s event takes place at New York’s Citi Field and as such the colors and logo are inspired by the Mets. Continue on to check out images for the AL and NL as captured from both titles. Read more
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MLB 13: The Show Release Day Roster Update
Yesterday when the online servers went live SCEA pushed out the first roster update for MLB 13: The Show. The most significant move comes the addition of Michael Bourn to the Indians. He signed on February 12 which was well after the cut-off date for the shipped roster. Continue on for a look at the primary changes made in the release day roster update! Read more
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MLB 2K13 Isn’t Just 2K12 With a Roster Update…It’s Less Than That
Having put in 35 innings of “work” with MLB 2K13 and time skimming through Association and MyPlayer modes there’s really no reason to dig any deeper into the game to review. Conjecture that it would be 2K12 with a roster update and only the absolutely necessary changes like the Astros to the AL and new schedule was in fact on the mark and as it turns out generous. It’s a product that on its own is certainly not 2K9 levels of bad, it’s okay for those who don’t care all that much about baseball or haven’t played recent iterations of the series, but represents a year that was not utilized to improve it yet the price remains the same. Read more
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Demo for Tiger Woods 14 Now Available; Includes Online Tournaments and Arnold Palmer Unlock
Out now on the Xbox 360 with the ability to queue up for download here, and expected this afternoon on the PS3 when the store updates, is the demo for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 which arrives three weeks before the game is set to be released. It comes in at a hefty 1.98 GB as it carries with it quite a bit of content.
The demo features the opportunity to try out “Legends of the Majors” mode (receiving an unlock of Arnold Palmer for the full game) and “Live Tournaments” online along with tournament rounds from The Open Championship (Royal Birkdale), the PGA Championship (Oak Hill Country Club), and the LPGA Tour (using Lexi Thompson). Difficulty is adjustable from Amateur all the way up to Simulation and many other gameplay, presentation, and audio settings can be changed as well.
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Soundtrack for MLB 2K13
With MLB 2K12 a fair amount of ridicule was thrown 2K Sports’ way for counting the soundtrack among the game’s five primary features. With 2K13 the company failed to promote anything including the soundtrack, but there is in fact a new playlist included. Continue on for the full rundown of 12 songs from 10 different artists. Read more
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