Posts Tagged ‘latest news’
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New Patch for The Golf Club On The Way
The runner-up for Best Post-Release Support in the 2014 Pastapadre Community Awards recently sent out another patch for the PC version which will soon come to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The Golf Club's Twitter account noted today that it has been submitted to Sony and Microsoft which means it should be expected to go live within the next two weeks. The patch isn't bringing in new features like some of the past ones have but instead is focused on bug fixes and adjustments bas...
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Final Set of 2014 Community Award Winners
After a few weeks of collecting votes – the total of which exceeded 31K – it’s time to announce the remaining winners of the 2014 Pastapadre Community Choice Awards. Make sure to check out the earlier results for the first six categories here. Continue on to see what has won Best New Feature, Most Disappointing Game, Best Mobile Game, Best New or Non-Yearly Sports Game, and Best Sports Game of 2014! (more…)...
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Special Teams May Never Get Sufficient Attention in Madden
For as long as I've been covering sports video games the neglect of special teams in the Madden series has been readily apparent. Such a huge part of the NFL goes without much of anything being done to represent the aspect of the game properly. Tinkering with kick meters has been about the only thing that has changed over the years. So on Saturday when Kam Chancellor stunned everyone by perfectly timing and jumping over the offensive line on back-to-back field goal attempts naturally m...
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Madden NFL 15 Divisional Round Upcoming Roster Update Discussion
The Divisional round is now complete and the NFL is on to its final four with the Conference Championships on Sunday. They'll feature three QBs with rings, two with MVP awards and two that seem likely to get their own in the future, one historically great defense, and playmakers like Rob Gronkowski, Marshawn Lynch, T.Y. Hilton, and Jordy Nelson. After the performances in the Divisional games players likely to rise in the next Madden NFL 15 roster update include Russell Wilson, Tom Brady, ...
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The Line Drive for January 11
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. ♦Still can get votes in for the following Pastapadre Community Awards with winners announced early this coming week: Best Sports Game of 2014 - Best New or Non-Yearly Sports Game - Best Mobile Game - Best New Feature - Most Disappointing Sports Game ♦Make sure to check out the articles I wrote for Sporting News this last week. ♦A minor p...
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NBA 2K15 Week 11 Ratings Changes
Despite slowing down on the rate of roster updates featuring ratings changes NBA 2K15 has been on top of player movement (unlike the competition) often updating transactions the very next day. Yet after starting the season with ratings being changed on a near daily basis there were only five updates that contained them between mid-November and the end of the year. Since then though there have been six more updates that have adjusted ratings to better reflect current performance levels.ÂÂ...
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Three New Articles on Sporting News
I'll be contributing articles regularly going forward to Sporting News and the first three went up this week. The idea is to write there for a more general audience - many of the themes and practically all of the pertinent information having already being covered here but presented in a different manner - and tie it in more with relevancy in the sports world. One article is on Super Mega Baseball which beat the odds not just in becoming a fantastic game but in even getting off the grou...
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First Set of 2014 Community Awards Winners
After a few weeks of collecting votes – the total of which exceeded 31K – it’s time to announce the winners of the 2014 Pastapadre Community Choice Awards. In this half of the reveal the categories being examined are Best Gameplay, Best Franchise, Best Career, Best Presentation, Best Online, and Best Post-Release Support. (more…)...
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