ESRB rates DS MLB fantasy game
By
Brendan Sinclair, Senior Editor
Latest update to ratings board Web site reveals Take-Two's next licensed baseball offering, possible PlayStation Network downloads of Street Fighter Alpha, Rayman.
Shortly after Electronic Arts snapped up exclusivity rights to the National Football League, competing publisher Take-Two Interactive signed a deal with Major League Baseball to be the exclusive third-party publisher of pro baseball games in the US. Since that time, Take-Two and its 2K Sports label have tried to make the most of the deal. The publisher has released annual installments in its MLB 2K sim series of games, dipped into the arcade-style sports market with The BIGS, and even imported and published Konami's MLB Power Pros, part of the popular Japanese line of Powerful Pro Yakyuu games.
However, it appears 2K Sports wants to get more mileage from the license, as the Entertainment Software Rating Board recently updated its database to include a Take-Two Interactive DS game called MLB Fantasy All-Stars. Presumably a fantasy baseball recreation for the handheld, Fantasy All-Stars received an E for Everyone rating.
Two more listings on the ESRB database provide insight into some original PlayStation games that might soon be appearing on the PlayStation Network. Rayman and Street Fighter Alpha have both been rated for the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable (the former received and E for Everyone, the latter a T for Teen).
While Ubisoft originally published Rayman and Capcom published Street Fighter Alpha, both games are listed as being published by Sony Computer Entertainment America, similar to the way the ESRB listed the downloadable PS3/PSP version of Konami's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
By
Brendan Sinclair, Senior Editor
Brendan Sinclair has been a games journalist since 1999. His tastes are eclectic, though he has a definite affinity for games with arcade roots. He's Canadian, but has also been at home in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, and San Francisco.
20 comments
hopefully it's better than mlb 2k7. touch screen or not, i refuse to play ANY game with SNES-quality graphics on the ds. if i do, that's what the GBA slot is for.
I have to agree with the people commenting about the MVP series. I pretty much stopped playing the baseball games after the MVP Series. They were the best Baseball games I have played and many of my friends also wish to play a new MVP game. I can easily see the MVP series selling a lot if it ever returned cause many people still love it.
Slow news day. And RawkHawk, I thought it was pretty obvious you were joking. If it makes you feel better.
Now I blame myself for not being around here long enough for anyone to know much about me, but I was making a joke. Being a "moron", it's kind of my thing.
2K's baseball series is always right on point. I wish MVP would come back just so the companies would compete and give the consumer options.
uhhhh they're not. they're listed as the publisher cause it's being released on PSN. it's not like you start the game up and it says it's made by Sony.
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