For the second straight year we’ve gotten a January surprise with regards to baseball video games. And for the second straight year, it only nominally keeps Xbox as a relevant platform for Major League Baseball fans.
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…
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.