R.B.I. Baseball franchise revived for Xbox One, PS4

After a 20-year absence, the R.B.I. Baseball series is making a comeback this spring. Major League Baseball (MLB) has announced that R.B.I. Baseball 14 will launch across current- and next-generation consoles this spring. It will also release for smartphones and tablets.

R.B.I. Baseball 95 was the last entry in the series, which launched in 1994 for the Sega 32X.

MLB is developing R.B.I. Baseball 14 in-house, tasking its own Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) unit to create the game. MLBAM's other duties include managing the official MLB website and websites for the league's 30 teams.

Official details on R.B.I. Baseball 14 are hard to come by, as MLB's press release announcing the game was only two sentences long. MLB has set up a teaser website and a Twitter channel for the game, but right now, that's all there is to go on.

MLB's announcement of R.B.I. Baseball 14 comes just a week after 2K Sports confirmed that its own MLB 2K professional baseball series was finished, following the expiration of its licensing contract.

At the time, this news meant Sony's PlayStation-exclusive MLB The Show series would be the only baseball series on the market, leaving Xbox fans in the lurch. But that's no longer the case, as R.B.I. Baseball 14 will see a multiplatform release this spring.