Posts Tagged ‘latest news’
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Seahawks Trade for Percy Harvin; 49ers Follow with Anquan Boldin
Percy Harvin is on the move to the Seattle Seahawks. In exchange for their first round pick (#25), a seventh rounder, and a conditional fourth rounder in 2014 the dynamic offensive weapon is joining a team that clicked in all facets on offense in the second half of the season giving Russell Wilson another weapon at his disposal. The Minnesota Vikings are now barren at wide receiver so expect them to make moves there as free agency opens as well as in the draft. They now will have the 23rd an...
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The Line Drive for March 10
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. •Giving away a budget bonus code for MLB 13: The Show Diamond Dynasty on Facebook. •Madden NFL 25 cover voting will begin Monday w/ announcement of the 64 candidates. •EA plans to announce the winner of the NCAA Football 14 cover, which has become mired in controversy due to widespread voter fraud, by Tuesday. •The off...
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Online Play Takes Tremendous Step Forward in MLB 13: The Show
Online play has forever been the Achilles' heel of the MLB: The Show series representing the worst sports gaming has had to offer in that area. When NBA 2K made strides last year it left The Show as the only sports franchise that was not providing an acceptable online experience. Regardless of the reasons why, online performance was typically awful, and the games were simply not fun to play due to the advantage held by the pitchers. Based on the days following release of MLB 13: The Show ...
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Press Row Podcast: Episode 14
Baseball takes center stage in the latest edition of the Press Row Podcast. Extended discussion focuses on the impressions from the panelists of MLB 13: The Show which is then followed by an evisceration of MLB 2K13. The episode runs over an hour and a half and could have even gone on far longer. A must listen for anyone interested in baseball gaming this year. Check it out through iTunes or with the embedded player at Operation Sports. Feel free to leave any feedback and suggest...
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One Longtime Exclusive Partner With NFL Considers Dumping Their License
Last week an NFLPA representative shed some light on how the exclusive league license for video games is viewed. They consider their relationship with EA Sports strong and ultimately the job of the Player's Association is to protect the members and bring in as much money for them as possible. Considering the established history with EA, and the amount of control the NFL likes to exert regarding image, it displayed the picture of how the licensing is viewed as a whole. The NFL (not just NFLPA...
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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...
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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 ma...
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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 t...
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