Every Sunday we get you caught up on the sports gaming news you might have missed. This week we have plenty of new details on MLB The Show 23, WWE 2K23 and our interview with the EA Sports PGA Tour developer team. We also have some news and media on the upcoming Maximum Football, a Super Bowl prediction and much more featured content.
Sports Gaming News
- MLB The Show 23 Release Date, Game Modes, and More
- MLB The Show 23 Introduces Storylines Mode: The Negro Leagues – Season 1
- WWE 2K23 WarGames – Rules, Arenas, Gameplay Details & More
- Madden NFL 23 Predicts Super Bowl LVII – Eagles Over Chiefs 31-17
- MLB The Show 23 Revamps The MLB Draft Experience, Expands Commentary and In-Game Presentation
- Undisputed Patch Addresses AI Stamina, Counterpunch Damage & More – Patch Notes
- Madden NFL 23 Patch #7 Fixes Some Gameplay, Face of the Franchise & MUT Issues – Patch Notes
- Maximum Football Trailer, Screenshots, Features & More Revealed – Coming This Spring, Free to Play
- OlliOlli World Available Now For PlayStation Plus Subscribers
- FIFA 23 Patch #7 Available Now on All Platforms – Patch Notes
- NFL Returns to Rocket League Just in Time For the Super Bowl
- Retro Bowl Update Adds Exhibition Games, Updated Team Ratings & More – Patch Notes
- WBSC eBASEBALL: Power Pros Available on Nintendo Switch & PlayStation 4 For $1
- EA Sports UFC 4 Adds Bo Nickal & Raul Rosas Jr. to Roster
- MLB The Show 23 Storylines: The Negro Leagues – Season 1 Feature Premiere
- Madden NFL 23 Available Now on The Play List For EA Play Subscribers
- NBA 2K23 Trade Deadline Roster Update Available
- PGA Tour 2K23 Adds Finau Fresh Country Club
- TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 3 Gameplay Video Highlights Section 3 of Snaefell Mountain
- NHL 23 Patch 1.51 Available Today Fixing a Crash in Be a Pro and Franchise Mode Screens
- Play TT Isle of Man 2 Through the Weekend with Xbox Live Free Play Days
- Pre-Order EA Sports PGA Tour Digital Edition and Get Madden NFL 23 Free
- WWE 2K23 Roster: Full List of Wrestlers
Operation Sports Featured Articles
Sports video games encapsulate many aspects of life. Obviously, video games are a form of entertainment and a fun way to pass the time. The sport element, however, offers a whole new dimension of importance for those who play. We form bonds with our favorite teams and attachments to our favorite players. Jumping into a sports video game allows us the chance to be our favorite players and teams. We get to play in lifelike recreations of the stadiums and arenas that we see on television nearly every day.
That’s why there’s such a level of excitement when new legends are announced in sports gaming. Legends are players long or recently retired, no longer in the perpetual highlights that we consume on a daily basis. No longer in the immediate sphere of sports rhetoric that echoes through offices and inside headphones at the gym. Legends become ingrained into the fabric of their sport’s history and only occasionally bubble to the surface when someone breaks a record or performs a notable feat. You’ll see loyal fans still donning their jerseys to games on a quest to stay connected to their youth. Outside of that, the focus is (rightfully) on today’s stars.
Sports games allow us the chance to mix both worlds, building epic teams of our favorite childhood players and today’s greatest. Derek Jeter’s return to sports gaming is astronomically significant.
Baseball has long been known as America’s pastime. As society has evolved and grown, baseball has been by its side with every step. No matter the political atmosphere or socioeconomic climate, baseball has been an undying force quintessential to the American spirit. That side-by-side relationship between baseball and American society also included segregation. As color barriers prevented all men from playing Major League Baseball, the Negro Leagues formed out of necessity. And it was there that the legend of many historical players began and became a part of baseball history.
The curse of the Bambino. The curse of Shoeless Joe Jackson. The Madden curse. The Kardashian curse. The curse of the MLB The Show cover athletes? There are indeed plenty of examples of cover athletes who have fallen on hard times post-cover appearance. But we here at Operation Sports had to discover the truth. Is there really a horrible curse, perhaps initiated by some baseball witch who lives deep in the bowels of Fenway — by the clicking of our gaming thumbs, something wicked pissah this way comes! Or is it just an unsubstantiated bit of baseball gaming lore?
Of course, given that cover athletes are typically selected because they’ve just had an impressive season, it’s reasonable to expect that there might be a drop-off in performance the following year. Perhaps this is the simple truth that spawned theories of a curse.
The spread read option featured by the offense of the Philadelphia Eagles, the 2022 NFC Champions, is a bonafide problem for any defense unfortunate enough to oppose it. The original idea and the many concepts which dovetailed from it are not new by any means — longtime college football coach Rich Rodriguez first drew up zone read as the head coach of Glenville State in 1991. However, head coach Nick Sirianni and offensive coordinator Shane Steichen have their professional football team running the now-ubiquitous scheme arguably with better results than we’ve seen before at any level of football.
Recently, we had the privilege of conducting an interview with Craig Penner, the gameplay designer of EA Sports PGA Tour, David Baker, the lead producer, and Ben Ramsour, the producer. The majority of the questions asked during the interview were related to gameplay and were submitted by members of our community. Our goal is to have several more interviews in the future as more information about the game becomes available leading up to its release.
