Yesterday a reader sent me a screenshot in MLB 13 The Show of Nick Markakis, the Baltimore outfielder, taking his position at shortstop after pinch-hitting for J.J. Hardy. To a casual fan, it sort of sits there, waiting for you to guess what's wrong. Here's a hint: In real life, Markakis throws lefthanded.
A student at the University of Oregon claimed the $250,000 grand prize in MLB 2K13's Million Dollar Challenge yesterday, relying on his own knowledge as a high school and college pitcher to prevail in a 3-1 nailbiter for all the money. He says he'll pay for law school with the winnings.
Yesterday I mentioned that some familiar faces cashed $25,000 checks
A contestant accused of cheating
T.J. Brida, one of Kotaku's Gamers of the Year
MLB 2K13 has been blasted for being little more than a re-skinned edition
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 are nothing but reskinned…
Last month I cast doubt on the idea that MLB 2K13 would be noticeably different from MLB 2K12
Last year, 2K Sports did a shrewd thing, bootstrapping its flagging MLB 2K series to its best-in-class NBA 2K in a combo package announced a month before the baseball game was due for release
The Perfect Game Challenge offered by the Major League Baseball 2K series, tainted by allegations of cheating and rules loopholes last year, returns under a new format this time, its fourth in as many years. Though the million-dollar prize pool is still the same size, it will now divide the loot among 30 overall…
If you thought 2K might sell MLB 2K13 at a discount, nope, it's $59.99 and its feature set reads a lot like last year's.
