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Review MLB The Show 19 - Sony's Flagship Sports Series Keeps Getting Better

The Bryce is right

Republished on Tuesday 24th September 2019: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of October's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. With no competition and an unexciting elevator pitch [Poor pun intended – Ed], we were ready to pinch hit on MLB The Show 19 until next...

• Tue 24th Sep 2019
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS4
• MLB The Show 19

Review MLB The Show 18 (PS4)

Home run

Sony San Diego doesn’t always get the credit that it deserves for MLB The Show, with the franchise routinely overlooked by PlayStation fans as forum list wars focus on the heavy hitters like God of War and The Last of Us: Part II. But the developer’s quietly created one of the best sports series available on any platform, and while this...

• Thu 29th Mar 2018
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS4
• MLB The Show 18

Review StarBlood Arena (PS4)

Lost in space

Republished on Wednesday 27th December 2017: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of January's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. Overwatch in virtual reality is not a bad pitch on paper, but it's one that struggles in practice. StarBlood Arena has its heart in...

• Wed 27th Dec 2017
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS4
• PlayStation VR
• StarBlood Arena

Review MLB 15 The Show (PlayStation 4)

Infield home run

It's hard to believe that MLB The Show is now celebrating its 10th anniversary. Despite dominating every other baseball title for the majority of these years, Sony's series has never shown complacency. Instead, it's aged like a fine wine, and gotten better with each new release. When booting up MLB 15 The Show, there's nothing here...

• Sun 19th Apr 2015
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS4
• MLB The Show

Review MLB 14 The Show (PlayStation 3)

Pinch-hit home run

MLB 14 The Show is this year’s entry in the long running and highly respected baseball series from Sony’s own San Diego studio. Being a sports game, it’s to be expected that it ends up feeling a little like an iterative experience as opposed to an innovative one – but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing good going...

• Thu 17th Apr 2014
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS3
• MLB The Show
• Retro

Review Pinball Heroes: Complete (PlayStation Vita)

Flippin' heck

If there’s one area that the PlayStation Vita is not underrepresented, it’s the simulation pinball genre. While the fledgling handheld may have struggled to trigger the multiball on big blockbuster releases, the console already plays host to two flippin’ good bumper-based affairs in both Zen Pinball 2 and the Pinball Arcade. Sony...

• Mon 8th Jul 2013
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS Vita
• Arcade
• Pinball