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- 2K Sports has announced a new game for the Wii coming out this fall (likely coinciding with the playoffs) called MLB Superstars and will be a collection of mini-games. This follows EA’s announcement a few weeks ago of Celebrity Sports Showdown for the Wii which is also a collection of mini-games. Is there more appeal in controlling MLB players or people who could barely qualify as being described as celebs?
- This just makes me wonder even more though 2K…where is The BIGS 2???
- Currently there are 119 people in the Pastapadre NFL Pick’em. Make sure to sign up and get your pick in for the Redskins vs Giants opener by Thursday evening! All others lock at kickoff on the first game Sunday. The info you need can be found here.
- The achievements for NBA Live 09 are now known and can be found here. Looks like a good mix of realistic achievements that include some of the new game modes such as NBA Academy and OTP Clubs.
- EA Sports Fantasy Football has announced that the grand prize will be a trip to the Tiburon studio where (among other things) the winner will be scanned in as a free agent that will be included in Madden 2010.
- Tiger Woods 09 released this last week and appears to have been received very well. While I don’t have a 360 copy yet I did just get one for the Wii and will have impressions and videos over the next few days.
- After asking for clarification on what is being done with progression in Madden 09’s second patch I received the following information back:
1) The Edit Player Progression Bug. So now edited players and created players will progress like normal. Before, anytime you edited a player’s ratings, he would then never progress in your franchise.
2) Fixed a major bug that stopped awarding progression points after the top 2-3 players at a position. So before, only 2-3 players per position were getting awarded the proper progression points. That has been fixed now, all players are now being assigned the proper progression points.
August 31, 2008 at 8:14 am
yeah pasta,I had fun playing the first bigs.
doesn’t seem like they are making another.
August 31, 2008 at 8:31 am
the 09 achievements sound pretty good, any new word on what 2ks achievements are going to be?
August 31, 2008 at 9:31 am
I don’t think 2K will be making any more side games for XBOX360, and PS3 after Prizefighter bombed like it did.
August 31, 2008 at 10:01 am
The BIGS sold relatively well (especially for having little to no marketing push) had good consumer response and got good reviews. It was even the first sports game on the Wii to pull a respectable amount of sales. Blue Castle made a good effort, it wasn’t like what Kush did with Prizefighter. I’m baffled why they didn’t do a sequel this year but I hope it is in the works for next year.
August 31, 2008 at 11:42 am
Pasta, I have a question and figured you would know the answer to it:
The two screens in the Madden menu this year – Can you put highlights on them? I know in NCAA 09, and Madden 08 you could. The menu looks awfully plain and looks like you can put highlights up there but I have posted this on numerous forums with no answer.
Thanks alot in advance Pasta.
August 31, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Hey Pasta, I have a question regarding the progression issue in Madden.
Did they tell you exactly how much they’ve beefed that slider up? Is it more like past gen progression was? Any extra details you can share would be awesome.
Hopefully they sim a season and give you some examples of how much they’ve tweaked the progression.
August 31, 2008 at 1:39 pm
pasta, any news on when the next roster update for madden will be? is chad johnson gonna be chad ocho cinco? just wondering
August 31, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Pasta have you heard any details or had hands-on time with the Be A Pro mode in Live 09?
August 31, 2008 at 2:46 pm
[quote comment="33828"]Pasta have you heard any details or had hands-on time with the Be A Pro mode in Live 09?[/quote]
Yeah, because it is just a one game situation I found it to be more useful as a way to practice for Online Team Play than anything.
[quote comment="33823"]pasta, any news on when the next roster update for madden will be? is chad johnson gonna be chad ocho cinco? just wondering[/quote]
Should be sometime this week. Id assume they’ll make the change for him as well, though I’ve yet to see where the NFL has confirmed it. He’s still listed as Chad Johnson on the Bengals website. This could be something the NFL says no to for the time being.
[quote comment="33822"]Hey Pasta, I have a question regarding the progression issue in Madden.
Did they tell you exactly how much they’ve beefed that slider up? Is it more like past gen progression was? Any extra details you can share would be awesome.
Hopefully they sim a season and give you some examples of how much they’ve tweaked the progression.[/quote]
That is all I know about it at this point.
[quote comment="33807"]Pasta, I have a question and figured you would know the answer to it:
The two screens in the Madden menu this year – Can you put highlights on them? I know in NCAA 09, and Madden 08 you could. The menu looks awfully plain and looks like you can put highlights up there but I have posted this on numerous forums with no answer.
Thanks alot in advance Pasta.[/quote]
Not that I’m aware of.
August 31, 2008 at 4:23 pm
hey pasta
do you know when the nba live 09 demo is coming?
August 31, 2008 at 5:52 pm
[quote comment="33835"]hey pasta
do you know when the nba live 09 demo is coming?[/quote]
Mid-September
August 31, 2008 at 6:44 pm
[quote comment="33823"]pasta, any news on when the next roster update for madden will be? is chad johnson gonna be chad ocho cinco? just wondering[/quote]
pastra, from what i remember weren’t roster updates rekeased on tuesdays? is this still the case and do u find out about the update a day prior or later?
September 1, 2008 at 12:14 am
Hey Pasta, Will EA be coming out with an Arcade game this year like a New NFL Street or NFL Tour 2. I would really like to see an improved NFL arcade game. I would rather have them make a next gen NFL street but if they make a NFL Tour 2, They should consider most of the ideas that was on your wish list back in January
September 1, 2008 at 7:11 am
I don’t have any info on one. If they do I suspect it would be an every other year thing, so there probably wouldn’t be in 2009 but it’s a possibility.
September 1, 2008 at 7:27 am
are both nba Live and nba 2k demos going to come out @ the same time?
September 1, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I would love to see midway sell NFL Blitz to EA Sports….
nfl tour was bad
September 1, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I know this is off topic from this post but is there any news on the 2nd Madden patch?… because I deleted my last franchise and refuse to start another one until the patch comes out