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American League’s Best Pitcher Is A Warcraft Player
2:00PM Owen Good | Kansas City’s Zack Greinke locked up Cy Young Award as the American League’s top pitcher, but he never gave much thought to his shot at the hardware. “I’ve been playing this World of Warcraft game,” he told the hometown paper. More »
News
Leaked Survey Tips Off MLB 2K10 Cover Athlete
10:30AM Owen Good | A tipster taking a marketing survey was asked to judge four potential covers for next year’s MLB 2K10. The Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman Evan Longoria is on all of them. More »
Culture
Cole Hamels Reminds You That Grenades Are “For Pussies”
1:20PM Owen Good | Well. This is edgy as all get-out. Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels comes to Modern Warfare 2 to tell us that mindlessly hucking grenades is a dickbag cop-out. And then there’s “Fight Against Grenade Spam,” which makes a cheerful acronym. More »
Culture
Will Monkeyshines At ESPN Throw A Monkeywrench In A Video Game?
4:30PM Owen Good | Steve Phillips, formerly of ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, lost that gig in a sex scandal that you might have read about. He was also the colour analyst in MLB 2K9. That title doesn’t feature in-game boinkable PAs, but will he stay? More »
Culture
What Does Ichiro Do When He’s Hurt?
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | He plays Dragon Quest, that’s what. In a recent interview in which he discussed his nine consecutive 200 hit season, the topic of Square Enix’s role-playing-game came up. More »
Culture
Watch Major League Pitcher Play Wii Fit
2:00PM AJ Glasser | Remember that baseball player who wanted to slim down his Mii and wound up losing 11kg in real life? The Wall Street Journal chronicled his success story in a video. More »
Features
So I Went To A Fight, And A Video Game Broke Out …
2:00AM Owen Good | When Oregon’s LeGarrette Blount falcon-punched Boise State’s Byron Hout to begin the college football season (and end his own career) it made me wonder: Why don’t we see that in NCAA 10? It’s in the game, right? More »
Culture
Yankees Pitcher Goes For Old-School Video Game Baseball
7:00AM Stephen Totilo | With a seven-year, $US161 million contact, New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia could afford to play any expensive modern game during a rain delay yesterday. But he didn’t. More »
News
Milwaukee’s Prince Fields The BIGS 2 Cover
1:40AM Mike Fahey | The Milwaukee Brewer’s All-Star first baseman Prince Fielder has been tapped to represent the nation of baseball as the cover athelete for 2K Sports’ The BIGS 2. More »
