News

Will We Have Any Baseball Video Games On The Xbox 360 Next Year?

Though I wish I could say I was smart enough to think up this ruse in advance, I really did forget my backpack somewhere inside EA Sports’ Tiburon studio during a recent visit. This became an opportunity to roam all of its upper four floors of development, though not unescorted.


March 30, 2012
PlayStation

The Silly Bulls*** Of Censored Soundtracks In Sports Video Games

Sports video games must licence everything. League symbols, player likenesses, individual events, even certain stadiums. Then they must provide a soundtrack every year and, yep, those songs must be licensed, too. It is a neverending headache unique to the sports genre.


March 24, 2011
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.


December 3, 2010
News

2K’s Big Boss Badmouths Baseball Again

The chairman of Take-Two Interactive – the parent company of 2K Sports – called his company’s exclusive pact with Major League Baseball a “losing proposition” and suggested they would walk away when the deal expires in 2012.


August 1, 2010

An MVP Hangs In There, With Los Muchachos Del Verano

It seems like a familiar story: a baseball veteran gets to the end of his contract, can’t sign another one, and finds new life, and love, in another country. In this case, it’s EA Sports’ long lost MVP Baseball 2005.


December 9, 2009
News

EA Sports Announcing “New Game” In January

EA Canada’s community manager tweeted last night that “execs at EA SPORTS will announce a new game sometime in January. I wonder what it’ll be?” Yeah, I wonder, too. Let’s wonder together.


February 12, 2009
In Real Life

Boisterous Gaming Session Leads to Police Brutality Complaints

A Colorado man filed complaints against three Aurora police officers alleging they beat him, leaving him bruised and with a sprained neck, after they responded to complaints about a particularly loud session of gaming.