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How A Video Game Made Him Into A Major Leaguer
3He’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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A Fighting Game With A Sports Name Kicks Up A Fuss
Being unlicensed means you can be uncompromising, says Ricci Rukavina. It also means you’re unaccountable, especially to those heavily invested in a sport built with violence and blood, who bristle at any association with them.
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Can Sports Close Facebook Gaming’s Credibility Gap?
The coda for Facebook games, among serious gamers anyway, normally begins with a sneer at the idea and then an accounting of all the ways it’s not a video game. Would a sports title make any difference?
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Fields Of Dreams Lay New Ground Rules In Video Games
People forget how unabashedly capitalist the emotional climax was in Field of Dreams. “It’s only $US20,” Terence Mann told Ray Kinsella, vowing that they would save the farm. “They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it.”