NHL 19 Playoff Simulation Predicts Tampa Bay Lightning to Win Stanley Cup The race for the Stanley Cup, is set to begin tonight and NHL 19 has run their annual playoff simulation to determine this year’s champion. According to the simulation, the Tampa Bay Lightning are set to capture the franchise’s second Stanley Cup (2004). After tying the NHL record for most wins in a single season, the Lightning square-off against the St. Louis Blues in a hard-fought seven game series, before captain...

MLB The Show 19: Road to the Show Continues to Give Thrills, Even Familiar Ones January 6, 2014 is the day 2K Sports announced they would no longer produce their baseball series. With the demise of both 2K and EA in this sport, I decided to return to The Show, a game I had not played since Road to the Show was introduced in MLB 07: The Show. Conventional wisdom in the sports community tells us that when there is no competition, things get stagnant. And yet here I am, in 2019, still...

MLB The Show 19 Patch 1.07 Available - Adds New March to October Opening Day Roster, Patch Notes Here MLB The Show 19 game update 1.07 is available, adding a new March to October opening day roster and a couple of other fixes. It does include adding a 2018 NL East Champion pennant flag to Atlanta SunTrust Park, which was mentioned to be in patch 1.06, but wasn’t actually included. Check out...

Building a Pitching Staff From Ace to Closer in MLB The Show 19 It’s all about pitching. This phrase is often said during the course of a baseball season. In today’s MLB, it seems as though pitching is more important than ever. Power hitters and the home run are becoming a regularity and countering that power requires a solid pitching staff to get you through a grueling season. This is especially true when you’re facing lineups consisting of Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Gaby Sanchez and...

OOTP’s This Week In Perfect Team: Great Opening Day Performances! Opening Day was last week, and in honor of that, OOTP Developments’ Perfect Team Community Manager Kris Jardine used This Week in Perfect Team to unveil 6 new cards that commemorate great Opening Day performances. You can check out the replay on YouTube and catch future episodes live every Monday at 9 PM ET at...

Managing a Franchise in MLB The Show 19 With the arrival of spring, comes the return of America’s pastime and renewed hopes for each franchise to compete for a World Series title. Each team has been painstakingly put together through free agency, trades and the draft in the hopes of putting a contender out on the diamond. The same holds true on the virtual baseball field because spring is the time of year that the release of MLB The Show allows the GM inside all of us to try and take our...

MLB The Show 19 Diamond Dynasty: Week 1 With the release of MLB The Show 19 comes the inevitable return of its card-collecting behemoth of a mode, Diamond Dynasty. While the essentials may remain fundamentally the same, there are plenty of new wrinkles this year to keep things fresh and interesting. Thankfully, some of the more tedious parts of the mode from previous years have even been removed (and in the case of all of those stupid team collectibles and bobbleheads, hopefully...

NHL 19 Available Now in The Vault For EA Access Subscribers NHL 19 is available now in The Vault, for EA Access subscribers. If you are not seeing it in the app, try downloading it from here or head over to the Xbox Store on your console and search for it. For those of you that might still be unaware, EA Access is an Xbox One exclusive, allowing members to try upcoming EA games prior to...

Stephan T. Benson Wins $1,000,000 in the WWE 2K19 Million Dollar Challenge During the NXT TakeOver Pre-Show at Barclays Center, consumer finalist Stephan T. Benson of Philadelphia defeated WWE 2K19 cover superstar AJ Styles to win the WWE 2K19 Million Dollar Challenge. Benson’s journey began in October 2018 with the launch of WWE 2K19 and the Million Dollar Tower, a difficult gauntlet challenge designed to put players to the ultimate test. After toppling the tower and submitting a video...

R.B.I. Baseball 19 Roster Update Details (4/5) A new R.B.I. Baseball 19 roster update is available now, adding 19 new players and some player rating adjustments. PLAYERS ADDED

• Wes Parsons (Braves)
• Pedro Araujo (Orioles)
• Richie Martin (Orioles)
• Ryan Flaherty (Indians)
• Eloy Jimenez (White Sox)
• Reed Garrett (Tigers)
• Frank Schwindel (Royals)
• Brian Goodwin (Angels)
• Ryne...

Milestone Presents A.N.N.A., The New Artificial Intelligence System For MotoGP 19 The world of racing games enters a new era, as Milestone presents Artificial Neural Network Agent (A.N.N.A.), the new MotoGP 19 Artificial Intelligence System, based on Neural Networks. A.N.N.A. stands for Artificial Neural Network Agent: an AI that does not rely on predefined commands, written by a designer, but on rewards. Each action she makes – yes, some of us likes to address our AI as a “she” – can...

Official MLB The Show 19 Roster Update Details (4/5) The official MLB The Show 19 roster update is available now, adding over 20 new players, including rookies Fernando Tatis Jr. (Padres), Eloy Jimenez (White Sox), Pete Alonso (Mets) and Yusei Kikuchi (Mariners). It also has a bunch of transactions. View the screenshots and all of the details below. Players added:

• Drew Jackson – BAL
• Richie Martin – BAL
• Manny Banuelos – CHW
• Eloy Jimenez – CHW
• Reed Garrett – DET...

RIDE 3 Japan Pack Available For $4.99 The RIDE 3 Japan Pack is available for PC/Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. for $4.99. It features the (2017) Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP, (1991) Suzuki GSX-R 750, (1994) Yamaha FZR...

How the NFL's Top Offseason Moves Change Their New Teams in Madden NFL 20 Every year, teams load up on cap space in the NFL and go splurging like Scrooge McDuck in free agency. The Dolphins were offseason winners for the better part of a decade while being stuck in mediocrity. Only now are they starting to realize it’s not the right way to build an NFL franchise. Beyond signings, we also know not all moves are made in free agency, as we saw throughout this most recent offseason. So...

MLB The Show 19 Patch 1.06 Available, Patch Notes Here MLB The Show 19 game update 1.06 is available, featuring some gameplay and miscellaneous updates. Check out the patch notes below and let us know what you’re seeing. GAMEPLAY UPDATES

• Fixed a sequence in March to October that would result in the 7th game of the World Series to be simmed instead of played, nullifying rewards.
• Minor tuning to AI and...

MLB The Show 19's Gameplay Showcases Big League Improvements While baseball season may have begun a little early this year, with a couple of games in Japan to properly honor the legendary Ichiro Suzuki, it just didn’t feel right to get excited for the sport’s return until MLB The Show 19 was released. As is the case each year, there’s the opportunity to test out all of the different modes and see exactly what new and exciting features have been added to the game. But all of these...

Road to the Madden Bowl Premiers Tonight at 10:30 PM ET on ESPN2 EA Sports, in partnership with ESPN and the NFL, will air a four-week docuseries, that spotlights the world’s best Madden NFL players’ Road to the Madden Bowl. Airing throughout April, the four-week docuseries spotlights the world’s best Madden NFL players’ triumphs and tribulations throughout the Madden NFL 19 Championship Series season. WHAT: Created by Electronic Arts (EA) and in partnership with ESPN and the NFL is...

Charlotte Hornets Affiliate to Join the NBA 2K League in 2020 The NBA 2K League and Hornets Sports & Entertainment, have announced that an affiliate of the Charlotte Hornets, will join the league’s third NBA 2K League season, beginning in 2020. Charlotte is set to join 21 other franchises that are currently competing in the NBA 2K League. The...

PES 2019 Data Pack 5.0 Scheduled to Release Tomorrow, Over 60 Updated Player Faces & More - Full Details Here PES 2019 Data Pack 5.0 is scheduled to release tomorrow, featuring the latest Argentina and Colombia national team kits, as well as the Chinese Football Association Super League and Thai League strips for the new season. Data Pack 5 will also feature more than 60 updated player faces from around the world, to...

EA Sports UFC 4 Being Under Development Is Not Surprising Today’s news that EA Sports UFC 4 is under development hardly comes as a surprise. When the licensing deal was announced, EA Sports mentioned we’d expect new UFC titles every two years or so. The last EA Sports UC title, EA Sports UFC 3, released on January 30, 2018. With that in mind, a release date of January 2020 or October 2019 is probably a...