Posts Tagged ‘latest news’
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Mutant Football League reached all its stretch goals in fundraising campaign
The Kickstarter campaign for Mutant Football League has come to a close and the final tally of $138,092Ă‚Â was enough to hit not just its initial funding target but all 21 stretch goals. It took only 3 days for the fully funded goal of $60,000 to be met that would ensure online play but all the way into the final hours for the last of the stretch goals - a full 13 game season with playoffs. Along the way the extra money collected meant additional teams, species, dirty tricks, gorier visua...
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MLB The Show 17 video goes over two new features for Franchise Mode
This week is all about Franchise Mode for MLB The Show 17 and a new video today has detailed two features designed with the intention of getting through games and seasons faster while still providing some level of influence on their outcomes. Critical Situations will place you into late-game scenarios like walk-off and save opportunities, no-hitters, and when on the verge of reaching statistical milestones. Quick Manage is a text-based sim that provides the ability to make some strategica...
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The Line Drive for March 5
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. ♦Peter Moore is leaving to become CEO of Liverpool FC after 10 years as exec with EA. ♦Mutant Football League has one day of Kickstarter left and is nearing final stretch goal. ♦MLB The Show 17 is back available for pre-order on Amazon and 20% off with Prime. ♦The digital PlayStation 4 sale on EA games will be coming to a close...
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Press Row Podcast: Passing the buck
The video game industry is following in the path of other forms of entertainment by normalizing subscription services. What at one time was only XBL or PSN for the purposes of online play has now expanded to those offering free games and various discounts every month, the fantastic value of EA Access, and the recently announced Xbox Game Pass. That Xbox-related news, the release of Disc Jam which will be free to PlayStation Plus members, and what it all means for gaming now and in the fut...
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Player ratings movement for early March in NBA 2K17
NBA 2K17 has had two major updates affecting player ratings since last checking in on the rosters in late January. Back then Nikola Jokic was in the midst of a meteoric rise and that has since continued as he is up another 2 points now to 87 Overall. A couple new players have reached the 90 Overall threshold replacing those who dropped out. Kyrie Irving and John Wall have moved up to 90 while DeMar DeRozan and Jimmy Butler are down to 89. Recently acquired DeMarcus Cousins, who has had so...
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MLB The Show 17 presentation live stream
On Monday the new presentation elements for MLB The Show 17 which include heavy MLB Network integration were revealed through a brief video. Following up on that was the developer live stream archived below, going further into everything from the new commentators and broadcast package, to Showtrack, enhanced visuals, and of course a lot more gameplay. Please enable Javascript to watch this video...
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Another Madden eSports champion has been sanctioned, this time in cheating scheme
On the heels of one ugly situation that saw the Madden Bowl champion penalized due to conduct on social media now EA Sports has announced findings of an investigation and it involves the winner of the Madden Classic. 'SpotMePlzzz' has been disqualified from the Madden Challenge and penalized 125 Madden Championship Series points. Another participant, 'Mr. Hollywood,' has lost 125 MCS points and had his future invite status downgraded. All of this is due to account sharing where an indi...
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Screenshots show off some of the new uniforms found in MLB The Show 17
Last week during a live stream all the uniforms for every team in MLB The Show 17 were briefly displayed. Now developer Sony San Diego has released a number of screenshots which prominently feature some new unis in action on the field as opposed to just the menu screen. ...
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