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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.


Average Xbox User Is Online For 84 Hours Per Month, Gaming For About Half Of It

The Xbox 360 is perhaps our most beloved current generation gaming console, with millions of units sitting in millions of living rooms entertaining millions of gamers. But for all that the 360 is the platform of choice for players to devour blockbuster and indie game titles alike, its biggest draw may be for watching television.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Robot Throws Pitch At Major League Baseball Game

Video: Robot throws first pitch Hmm. This isn’t technically about video games. How can I introduce this… Erm – Portal 2 has robots and now, so does Baseball as this little dude, who could actually be Johnny 5 from Short Circuit, has been granted the honour of throwing the first pitch at a baseball game.


Sega’s MLB-Licensed Management Sim Launches

Just to make it official, Sega’s MLB Manager Online had a beta launch earlier this month, not a full launch as some posts had implied.


Million-Dollar Perfect Game Contest Kicks Off Tomorrow

2K Sports has laid another seven-figure bounty on a perfect game thrown in its Major League Baseball game. Players have had about a month to practice with MLB 2K11′s pitching and fielding; the chase for 27 straight outs officially begins at noon EDT tomorrow.


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