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Familiar Names Get Paid In MLB 2K13′s Perfect Game Contest
A contestant accused of cheating in last year’s scandal-plagued MLB 2K Million Dollar Challenge pocketed $US25,000 in this year’s contest, staged under a new format — and with the exploits patched out. William Haff, of Owatonna, Minnesota, is not a finalist for a $US250,000 grand prize in this year’s contest, but he still did better than in 2012, when he won an all-expenses-paid trip to New York to compete for a winner-take-all million-dollar prize. (He was eliminated before the final round).
MLB 2K13′s Million-Dollar Challenge Fixes Exploit That Tarnished Last Year’s Contest
MLB 2K13 has been blasted for being little more than a re-skinned edition of last year’s game. But 2K Sports did correct one of its most glaring exploits at least — the means of altering an opponent’s lineup during a Million Dollar Challenge game to better your chances of throwing a perfect game and winning a huge cash prize.
Major League Baseball 2K13: The Kotaku Review
Major League Baseball 2K13 is an offensively recycled product and an embarrassment to sports video games. In my five years as Kotaku‘s sports writer, I’ve spent a good deal of time in comments defending the genre, and those who make its games, from the worn-out slur that annual sports titles are nothing but reskinned roster updates. Yet that is exactly what MLB 2K13 is, and its existence is forever an argumentative trump card to any advocacy I can make for sports, whether for a series that did meaningfully improve itself — like Madden NFL 13, or a consistently excellent title that made largely cosmetic upgrades, such as NBA 2K13.
Ready For Some Football? On The PS4, Not Really …
David Halberstam was killed in a car wreck the day I bought my Xbox 360. I don’t mean to trivialize the death of a great writer — October 1964 is one of my favourite books, in any subject — but it’s God’s honest truth that his death is the only reason I remember anything about the day. The rest of my experience with the machine was forgettable and disappointing.
Less Than Two Weeks Before Release, MLB 2K13 Gets A Trailer
Last month I cast doubt on the idea that MLB 2K13 would be noticeably different from MLB 2K12. This trailer from 2K Sports, released Thursday, shows me that I am wrong. MLB 2K13 will have the Houston Astros realigned to the American League, and they’ll be wearing their new uniforms.
It’s Officially WWE 2K14, And It Will Still Release Later This Year
In an interview published this morning by ESPN, 2K Sports and World Wrestling Entertainment discussed their new, five-year contract arising from THQ’s bankruptcy and dissolution, formally christened their next collaboration as WWE 2K14, and said it should launch during its traditional Q4 release window this year.
2K Sports Duct-Tapes MLB 2K13 To NBA 2K13 And Sells It For $US70
Last year, 2K Sports did a shrewd thing, bootstrapping its flagging MLB 2K series to its best-in-class NBA 2K in a combo package announced a month before the baseball game was due for release. The publisher is doing the same thing again this year, but listing the bundle for $US10 more.
It’s Official: 2K Will Make WWE Video Games From Now On
As was rumored during the breakup and selloff of THQ, Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of 2K Sports, will take over the licence to make WWE video games. Documents filed today in court say Take-Two, THQ and Yuke’s, the Japanese company which developed the wrestling games for THQ, have come to an agreement settling all claims.
MLB 2K’s Perfect Game Challenge Is Back Under New—and, One Hopes, Exploit-Proof—Rules
The Perfect Game Challenge offered by the Major League Baseball 2K series, tainted by allegations of cheating and rules loopholes last year, returns under a new format this time, its fourth in as many years. Though the million-dollar prize pool is still the same size, it will now divide the loot among 31 overall winners, with a grand prize winner getting $US250,000.
