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Fanswag winners: MLB Power Pros and Mario Super Sluggers
When we were going to pick the winner of our latest giveaway, we completely realized that we forgot to announce the winner for our previous giveaway. Also, we received quite a few emails from you all. So, without further delay, here's our winners: Chris Luebe won our copy of MLB Power Pros 2008 NickBeamin won our copy of Mario Super Sluggers Congrats to all of our winners and better luck next time to the rest of you!
Fanswag: MLB Power Pros 2008
Even though we're a few days past the holiday, there's still plenty of reason to enter our latest giveaway, which will award one lucky reader with a copy of MLB Power Pros 2008 for the Wii (retails for $30) from 2K Sports. To enter, simply leave a comment between now and Wednesday, September 10th at 11:59PM ET, telling us what your favorite baseball team is. We'd like to say being fans of certain teams will get your bonus points, but the winner will be chosen via random drawing. You can leave one comment per day.There are a few things you should know before entering. Entrants must be current and legal residents of the United States or Canada (excluding Quebec) and at least 18 years of age or older. Read up on the rest of the official rules right here.%Gallery-27384%
Top 5: Games for your Day Off
Gaming is a hobby, but sometimes it can feel like a job. As developers try to boost replayability, your gaming commitments can become anxiety-inducing. Just ask anyone who dared to attempt achieving 100% of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. At first, it's a fun and wonderful romp through a vivid world that's just oozing with life and character. By the end, you wish you'd never left Vice City. Did anyone here complete all of Super Smash Bros Brawl? I'm talking Classic Mode with every character, all of the Event matches, the target smashes, and every trophy and sticker available. At a certain point, some games can become an obligation rather than a means to entertainment. Today being Labor Day in the US, let's take a break from completing every mission, collecting every star, and unlocking all bonus content. Sometime between your 11 AM rise from bed and your evening consumption of copious amounts of hot dogs at your family barbeque, take some time to truly enjoy gaming. Here's our Top 5 recommendations. NEXT >> #ninbutton { border-style: solid; border-color: #000; border-width: 2px; background-color: #BBB; color: #000; text-decoration: none; width: 100px; text-align: center; padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px; margin: 2px 2px 2px 2px; } .buttontext { color: #000; text-decoration: none; font: bold 14pt Helvetica; } #ninbutton:hover { text-decoration: none; color: #BBB; background-color: #000; } The Top 5 is a weekly feature that provides us with a forum to share our opinions on various aspects of the video game culture, and provides you with a forum to tell us how wrong we are. To further voice your opinions, submit a vote in the Wii Fanboy Poll, and take part in the daily discussions of Wii Warm Up.
Wii releases this week: Sam and Max edition
This week, we've got a bunch of new games releasing on the Wii. Seriously, there are plenty of options this week if gamers are looking for something fun to play on the Wii. If you can only snag one thing, we'd suggest Sam & Max: Season One. There is some seriously awesome content in that one.This week's Wii releases are: MLB Power Pros 2008 SNK Arcade Classics V.1 King of Clubs Mini Golf Summer Athletics The Ultimate Challenge Sam & Max: Season One Ford Racing Off Road Are you picking up something new this week?%Gallery-23759%
MLB Power Pros is back for the 2008 season
With the advent of the Wii, baseball fans are throwing in realism for rock-em-sock-em chibi sports games, complete with big heads, big bats and little (or in this case, completely absent) legs. It was a joyous affair when 2K Sports first hit the airwaves with details of the MLB Power Pros series, and now the rugged little chaps have stepped up to the plate for the next season of quasi-baseball fun in MLB Power Pros 2008.Little in size doesn't necessarily mean little on content. Gameplay modes include Exhibition, League, Home Run Challenge, Success and MLB Life -- just to name a few. Wannabe big-shots can manage teams and organize rosters, seasons and equipment, all with the goal of becoming World Series champion. MLB 2008 looks pretty gosh darn good, and with solid gameplay to back it up, this might be a winner when it hits the shelves on July 29th. Scroll through the mammoth gallery of images below for a sneak peek at the action!%Gallery-27384%[Via press release]
2K and Konami reveal MLB Power Pros 2008
Fans of baseball, be excited. The MLB Power Pros franchise isn't going away, as 2K and Konami announce the joint venture of bringing MLB Power Pros 2008 to a DS near you this fall. The game will feature real MLB players, along with the a promising Franchise mode that lets you take over the role of general manager and control your team's destiny. The game will also feature two story-based game modes, in the Success and MLB Life modes. In Success mode, players take part in the story-based career of rising players in the Double-A Minor League system, where MLB Life lets players simulate the exciting life and experience of being a Major League Baseball player over the course of a 20-year career. [Via press release]
MLB Power Price: $19.99 [update]
If you consider yourself a connoisseur of baseball video games, there's no reason why you shouldn't have a copy of MLB Power Pros! Never mind the deceptively simple art style with its super-deformed characters -- this is one of the deepest baseball titles currently available. Konami packed over a dozen different modes into MLB Power Pros, including an RPG-esque mode in which you follow a college baseball player's career to help him realize his Major League dreams.Amazon has MLB Power Pros priced at $19.99 as part of an ongoing sale for sports-themed games today, so now is the time to pick it up if you're interested! Keep in mind that this deal will only last until midnight (or until stocks run out).Update: It looks like this popular bargain is going in and out of stock. You might have to keep checking back until the $19.99 price shows up.
WRUP: You have to love October edition
For most, when they think of October, they think of Halloween and the leaves changing color. For all of us sports fans, though, October marks baseball playoffs. And, Konami, in their infinite wisdom, released a baseball game we're very interested in this week called MLB Power Pros. So, will you be taking part in the festivities with us, or are you planning on playing through something else?
MLB Power Pros demonstrated in detail
MLB Power Pros Exhibition Match Uploaded by thetanooki The Tanooki's review of MLB Power Pros includes some lengthy video of the game in action, along with informative text about how gameplay works. We're fascinated by the series' continued Japanese success and impressed by the audacity of releasing an SD sports game in the realism-obsessed U.S. sports market. The cutesy appearance belies some fairly deep gameplay. The review speaks of things like a batting "sweet spot" that shrinks and grows according to your performance, and pitching that gives the player control over not speed, but precise positioning.The review makes some negative points about the difficulty of fielding and the nerfed motion controls, but is positive overall, and it sounds like the game can still be fun with waggle turned off. You can make your own observations from this video and the others found at the site!
TGS07: Power Pro Baseball swings for the fences
This latest clip from Power Pro Baseball (MLB Power Pros for us here in the states) has us all kinds of excited for some super-deformed baseball on our Wii. In showing us how a game is set up and played, we're dying to get in on the action. We just wish the game was Wi-Fi compatible ...
TGS07: Turn your giant, featureless head toward some Power Pro screens
Are you a fan of baseball played by enormous-headed people with free-floating, stumpy limbs? Of course you are. The Power Pro Baseball series has been doing the Weeble/Rayman thing since before the first Mii was Mii'd, and it's bringing its adorable signature look to the Wii.These screens of MLB Power Pros from the pre-TGS Konami Media Conference show the Japanese version of the game, called Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2, which, just like our release, uses the American Major League Baseball teams. If Japanese gamers can handle American MLB games without mullets (the "Powerprokuns" have no hair at all), then maybe we can too.
MLB Power Pros Japanese site launches
If you've been looking forward to the U.S. debut of the Japanese baseball franchise MLB Power Pros, the Japanese site for the game has launched. Within you can find tasty morsels of content in the form of screens and artwork. And, being the baseball enthusiasts that we are, you can bet we're dying to get our hands on the titile.[Via Go Nintendo]
