In Real Life

Perfect Games Scores MLB 2K10 Player A Million Dollars

In January, 2K Sports put up a $US1 million prize for the first person to pitch a perfect game in MLB 2K10. Today an Alabama man is $US1 million richer.


May 2, 2010

With Baseball Stats, Trying To Synthesise Real, Fun

The more true-to-life the machine simulation, the more repulsive humans find it. That’s the “uncanny valley.” After hundreds of games I realise baseball on my Xbox 360 and PS3 will always battle that conundrum – and not in their visuals.


April 18, 2010

Working The Angles To Make Video Game Baseball Look More Like TV

Maybe no other sport is influenced this much by irregular stadium dimensions. Maybe no other sport has fans who’d care about this. But how you see a baseball game on TV is unique, park-to-park. In video games, however, it’s uniform.


April 6, 2010
News

PC Gamers Can Play Ball For Only Three Dollars

Baseball season is officially here, and GameStop’s first pitch allows PC gamers to score MLB 2K10 for less than the price of a hot dog at the stadium.


March 17, 2010
News

Well, That Didn’t Take Long; MLB 2K10 Patch Arrives

After vowing yesterday a patch fixing a bad multiplayer glitch and punching up the game’s AI had been “fast-tracked” for delivery, MLB 2K10‘s team backed it up today with the arrival of the game’s first Xbox 360 patch, sometime overnight.


March 16, 2010
News

Multiplayer Fix For MLB 2K10 Could Arrive This Week

A fix correcting a debilitating dead-end bug for players connecting to random ranked matches in MLB 2K10 could go live as early as this week. The patch addressing the error contains a multitude of other fixes as well.


March 14, 2010
News

2K Sports Finishes Multiplayer Fix Patch

The patch that presumably will solve MLB 2K10′s connectivity problems in online multiplayer has been finished and submitted for certification on the Xbox 360, meaning the fix should be arriving shortly.


March 8, 2010

Major League Baseball 2K10 Review: Pitching With Two Strikes

If MLB 2K9 had been an actual ballplayer, last year’s performance would have sent it to the minors, if not the waiver wire. After a soul-searching offseason, 2K Sports decided to focus on the fundamentals for MLB 2K10.


March 5, 2010
News

First Claims Laid To Million-Dollar Perfect Game

Barely two days after release and MLB 2K10 players are boasting they’ve pitched perfect games – worth a $US1 million bounty to the first to do so, verifiably. But cool your jets, we won’t know for sure for a while.


News

Multiplayer Problems Persist In MLB 2K10

We’re in day three of MLB 2K10‘s North American release, and also day three of MLB 2K10‘s multiplayer problems. While player-to-player game invitations are said not to be involved, many are having problems connecting to ranked matches. The solution requires a patch.