baseball
In Real Life

Here’s Your Covah Stah F’ MLB Th’ Showah

Boston first sacker Adrian Gonzalez holds down the box shot of MLB 12 The Show from Sony, breaking the two-year hold of Minnesota’s Joe Mauer. Before Mauer, the last cover star for Sony’s boutique baseball franchise was also a Red Sox, Dustin Pedroia, for MLB 09 The Show. Before him, it was Philadelphia’s Ryan Braun.

January 13, 2012
News

2K Sports Opens Doors On MLB 2K12 Million-Dollar Challenge

2K Sports is offering a cool million to the winner of a public, eight-person Major League Baseball 2K12 tournament… this April. From the MLB’s Opening Day on April 4 (definitely learned something just now) to the end of that cheerfully prank-filled month, athletes (read: gamers) will be clawing their way to the top of the leaderboards, where a spot in the tourney awaits.

December 29, 2011
In Real Life

An MVP Graces MLB 2K12′s Cover

Adam Larson, the artist behind the three custom covers for NBA 2K12, has also supplied the base art of the Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander for the cover of MLB 2K12.

October 13, 2011
PlayStation

PlayStation 3 Says Barry Bonds Wouldn’t Come Close To This Year’s True MVP

Detroit’s ace pitcher Justin Verlander registered a once-in-a-generation performance this year. Still, even that magnificence may not enough to overcome some baseball writers’ biases against awarding the Most Valuable Player award to a pitcher. But a video game — Sony’s acclaimed MLB 11 The Show simulation — suggests anyone who votes against him is flat wrong.

September 10, 2011
Xbox

The 6 Biggest Sports In The World In One Kinect Game

Why worry about which sports game to play on your Xbox 360 when you can get baseball, hockey, basketball, golf, football, and other football, all in one handy Kinect game?

June 17, 2011
Nintendo

Nicktoons MLB Is More Than The Bigs For Little Kids

At E3, I visited the 2K Games booth every day of the show. Every day I went there, I saw these two guys in the 2K “Sports Bar”, sitting in easy chairs, playing Nicktoons MLB. As far as I know, it was all they did all day.

June 14, 2011
In Real Life

Ranking The Tech Nerds Who Own Sports Teams

You might have wondered why so much attention was lavished on one doughy white guy after the Mavericks won the NBA title last night.

May 27, 2011
News

This Gaming Geek Shall Inherit MLB 2K11′s Million-Dollar Prize

Before setting off to claim a million-dollar bounty offered by MLB 2K11, Brian Kingrey did an analysis. He pored over batting averages, compared pitcher strengths and tendencies, examined the probable starters for the contest’s opening day and the batting orders they faced, to determine what hurler had the best chance of tossing a perfect game.

May 19, 2011
In Real Life

We Have A Winner In MLB 2K11′s Million-Dollar Perfect Game Challenge

When 2K Sports vowed to declare a winner in its second Million-Dollar Perfect Game contest as soon as a winner could be verified, most assumed we’d have heard of a winner in April. Last year’s inaugural challenge was won on the very first day, as a matter of fact.

May 5, 2011
Nintendo

2K’s Next Baseball Title Sends SpongeBob To The Plate

Baseball, the American national pastime. For 141 years, it is a game whose numbers and names need no introduction. Mantle. DiMaggio. .406, 755. Ren. Stimpy.

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