Posts Tagged ‘latest news’
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The Line Drive for April 29
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, deal alerts, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. ♦All first round picks from the NFL Draft have been added to Madden 18 Ultimate Team. ♦The NBA 2K18 sim predicting the Thunder's season was pretty much dead-on. ♦Twitter poll asked about right stick usage on offense as NBA 2K19 is being worked on. ♦Look for the review of Super Mega Baseball 2 to go live on Sporting News mid-week. ...
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Details on the first ratings changes for MLB The Show 18
Today's roster update for MLB The Show 18 is the first to include ratings changes. While it's still relatively early in the season enough data is now present to justify making those changes but the upgrades and downgrades have been kept somewhat minimal considering it has only been a month. The specific ratings mentioned here belong to Diamond Dynasty mode where the numbers are lower across the board than those found in the rest of the game. Of greatest interest are the players in Diamond...
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Press Row Podcast: Entering the golden age for value
Subscription services continue to provide great value and the news on three games impacted by them headlined the week in sports gaming. Discussion on this episode of the Press Row Podcast includes Super Mega Baseball 2 being offered for free to Xbox Live Gold subscribers, PES 2018 being added to the Xbox Game Pass service, and a 20% discount for PlayStation Plus subscribers on NBA Playgrounds 2 which looks to also now have a release date. Additionally there's sadness over the lack of a W...
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PES 2018 headed to Game Pass and another content update arrives
Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 today receives its fourth content update. Most notably the previous ones have included improved player faces, new stadiums, new kits, and Xbox One X enhancements. This latest release includes over 100 player face updates, the addition of Nike Mercurial Superfly 6 Elite boots, and 26 new kits with 17 of them for national teams. The other big PES 2018 news is that the game is headed to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service on May 1. The series already offers a fr...
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NBA Playgrounds 2 may be releasing sooner than expected
A week ago NBA Playgrounds 2 was officially announced with a stated summer release window. That would have put its landing date between June 21st and September 22nd. The game may actually be a spring release instead with Gaming Tailgate first spotting the PlayStation Store product page which includes its apparent release date and pricing. If the Sony page for the game is accurate - and considering they are taking pre-orders it seems reasonable to assume that it is - NBA Playgrounds 2 will...
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If there were a 2018 FIFA World Cup game it probably would have released by today
Seven weeks have now passed since the article was written about the lack of news related to a 2018 FIFA World Cup game. Absolutely nothing has happened in that window of time and this likely would have been the date the game would have released by at the very latest. EA Sports has not made any comment related to the World Cup since implying that a new game was being worked on during an investor call all the way back in January. The last four World Cup games have released on 4/15/14, 4/27/...
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Super Mega Baseball 2 will release for free on Xbox One
It wasn't even a week ago that developer Metalhead Software announced the official release date and pricing for Super Mega Baseball 2. Due out on May 1st, SMB2 will be sold for $30 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Since then however there's been an exciting development for those on XB1. Microsoft has uploaded a video featuring the announcement of Games with Gold for May 2018. Super Mega Baseball 2 is featured as one of the two games that will be free to Xbox Live subscribers who downlo...
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Career Mode explained for Tennis World Tour
Release of Tennis World Tour is now under a month away and publisher Bigben Games has unveiled a first look at its Career Mode. The video goes through the general objectives of Career Mode, how scheduling is broken down, management of fatigue, how earnings can be spent, and the ability to take those created players into online matches. ...
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