mlb
PC

EA Sports Working On Baseball Game – Probably For Facebook

EA Sports, whose beloved MVP Baseball series went into exile when 2K Sports won an exclusive contract back in 2005, is working on a Major League Baseball-licensed property, according to ESPN’s Jon Robinson. Before you get all giddy, a close reading of contracts leaves the impression this will be another Facebook game.

March 18, 2011
PlayStation

Even The All-Stars Are Role Players In MLB 11 The Show

Sitting there with my DualShock in my lap, I struggled to recall the last time a video game blindsided me this hard, much less at a point this early in playing it. I’d ranked up at a respectable rate, gained a fast understanding of my abilities and the situations in which they were useful. I was fearless and, I thought, indispensably valuable to the cause. The story of my success was playing out conventionally.

March 14, 2011
PlayStation

MLB 11 The Show Is Still The Finest In The Field

I’ve seen the big leagues, son. I’ve squinted at the lights at Fenway as the sun makes a cotton candy sky behind the Citgo sign in left. But I ain’t there right now. I’m down here chewing on grass, pitching in my third game in as many days, deep in the well of the low minor leagues, where the uniforms are washed every other day.

March 13, 2011
In Real Life

New Settings Highlight The Show’s Good Cause

MLB 11 The Show arrived on Tuesday, bringing with it a set of controls and options designed to include disabled gamers. The association for these gamers, begun by a 25-year-old college student, also launched on Tuesday and gets a plug from the PS3 game.

March 12, 2011
News

MLB 11 The Show Gets In A Dig At MLB 2K11′s Cover Boy

MLB 11 The Show’s third-wheel analyst, Eric Karros, completely telegraphs this burn of Roy Halladay, who graces the cover of Major League Baseball 2K11.

PlayStation

This SportsCenter Anchor Is Dedicated To A Different Show

Some ESPN personalities are known, and chided, for making product endorsements. Steve Berthiaume isn’t in that crowd. Writing a 2500-word guide on how to create, in MLB The Show, painstakingly accurate journeymen players from the 1970s is not being a lip-service pitchman. That is a bona fide roster editor.

March 10, 2011
Xbox

A Million Dollars And No Change For A Perfectly Humble Gamer

You can do a lot of crazy stuff when you win a million bucks. When he did, Wade McGilberry was approached by a long-lost relative with a pitch for buying into a pineapple farm. No thanks, Wade said. What he really wanted was a Harley. And with the dough he won from MLB 2K10, you’re damn right he bought one.

March 4, 2011
PlayStation

Kevin Butler, VP Of The 2-1 Meatball Pitch

Trying very hard to make “Well played, Mauer” into a meme, or at least a theme, here’s fake honcho Kevin Butler getting worked at clutch time by the Minnesota Twins’ all-star catcher in a spot going up now for MLB 11 The Show.

February 18, 2011
Uncategorized

MLB 11 The Show Is Ready For Its Closeup

Baseball fans will fetishize any detail. This year, MLB 2K11 will make the real-life broadcast camera angles of all 30 major league parks the default view in its game. MLB 11 The Show will, too, and add even more customisation.

January 30, 2011
In Real Life

How A Video Game Made Him Into A Major Leaguer

He’d given up six runs in three innings of work when MLB 10 The Show sent the manager out to remove him from the game. Even in a video game, the bad losses stick with you. They stick with Hans Smith a little more.

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