Best Buy Co. Inc. this week discounted select titles for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 to under $10 in a new game sale. Titles discounted to $9.99 include MLB 2K8, Facebreaker, and Condemned 2: Bloodshot.
Major League Baseball 2K8 is a baseball game for the PlayStation Portable. Its brothers on the Xbox 360 and the PS3 have done great jobs after their release, and nothing less can be said about the PSP version.
Aeropause: On Thursday, 2K Sports was nice enough to invite Aeropause to their conference call for the upcoming title, MLB Power Pros 2K8. The conference call was about 45 minutes in length, and allowed the writers invited to ask questions with the producer of the title, Rob Nelson. The game is a unique partnership, with Konami designing the game in Japan, but with distribution coming through 2K Sports.
PlayStation 3 outsold Xbox 360 for the third month in a row, but the Nintendo Wii overshot the combined sales of its rivals, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. Ahead of March's NPD Group sales data, due to release this Thursday, Pachter forecast PS3 sales of 365,000 units, edging out sales of 310,000 for Xbox 360. In a Monday investor note, Pachter predicted that Nintendo will come out on top for yet another month, with Wii sales of 700,000 during March's five-week retail period.
TVGB: Last month 2K Sports, part of Take-Two, released MLB 2K8. Because Take-Two has exclusive third-party rights to make MLB games, every baseball gamer who has an Xbox 360 and some PS3 gamers (most will go for MLB 08: The Show) flocked to get this game, me being one of them. Yes, I did read the reviews and saw the comments about some bugs and glitches, but from what I read the good outweighed the bad. Besides, 2K Sports had said they would be releasing a patch to fix the issues. Being someone who has played PC games for many years now and downloading many patches I said to myself, Thats ok, been there dealt with that.
2K sent over word to Loot Ninja that they're working on some patches for MLB 2K8 for a few issues. Mainly, the framerate issues are being fixed on the Xbox 360. But that's not the only console with stuttering issues. The PS3 version is about the same in terms of the slowdown in the field. When asked about a patch to address these issues on the PS3, a representative for 2K had this to say: At this time, these are the only updates 2K Sports is working on for MLB 2K8 for these issues.
2K Sports is addressing some of the nagging issues with MLB 2K8 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but the PS2 and Wii versions aren't as lucky, according to a report on DailyGame.net.
There are patches coming soon to address the framerate and other issues with the 360 and PS3 versions of MLB 2K8.
2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two, announced today that the highly anticipated title, Major League Baseball 2K8, is now available on retail store shelves nationwide. As the most fun and exciting baseball experience on the market, Major League Baseball 2K8 revolutionizes player control in the latest installment of the popular franchise with brand-new pitching, fielding and baserunning, as well as a completely overhauled batting interface.
US Games * Major League Baseball 2K8 * Army of Two * MLB 08: The Show EU Games * Army of Two * MX vs ATV: Untamed * Dynasty Warriors 6 * Blacksite Area 51 * Soldier of Fortune: Payback * Battle for the Pacific (History Channel) Asian Games * Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock * Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan (Yakuza 3)
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