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It Seems Easy, But Tiger’s Greatest Feat Is Damn Hard In A Video Game
5In no rec league could I ever throw a no-hitter. Alone on a basketball court I’d need half an hour to score 69 points — and a trampoline to dunk. But I can do all of those things in my living room. Video games give us the conceit of doing the impossible, but only now…
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Familiar Names Get Paid In MLB 2K13’s Perfect Game Contest
A contestant accused of cheating in last year’s scandal-plagued MLB 2K Million Dollar Challenge pocketed $US25,000 in this year’s contest, staged under a new format — and with the exploits patched out. William Haff, of Owatonna, Minnesota, is not a finalist for a $US250,000 grand prize in this year’s contest, but he still did better…
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Producer Of Michael Vick’s Video Game Won’t Give Out His Real Name
In one of the more unusual interviews I’ve seen for a new, licensed sports game, the producer of Mike Vick: GameTime, on iOS, asked that his real name not be used. Might being associated with Vick, the NFL quarterback who did federal time for running a dogfighting operation, have something to do with that?
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Real-World Team Executives Coming As Madden Adds Back ‘Owner Mode’
Monday, Madden‘s publicity operation notified writers that its “playbooks” — the weeks in which they discuss features of the upcoming game — begin this week. In it, “Connected Careers”, the mode introduced last year, was rebranded as “Connected Franchise”. A GameStop listing sheds a little more light on what that means.