MLB 13: The Show - March 5, 2013 - Cover Athlete Is Andrew McCutchen

Available for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita systems, MLB 13 The Show is due to arrive in stores on March 5, 2013, just in time for MLB Spring Training.

Which baseball superstar will be on the cover of MLB 13 The Show? For the first time ever, fans will select the cover athlete for this year’s title via a Cover Campaign in early January. Stay tuned — some of the top names in the sport will be announcing their candidacy in the upcoming weeks.

This year’s title knows that nothing compares to Postseason baseball. That’s why The Show offers an All-New Playoff Mode, which will include an in-stadium atmosphere that replicates the excitement and tension of October baseball. The experience is unrivalled by anything The Show has ever exhibited.

Other new features include a completely new beginner mode and instructional enhancements that make The Show the best pick-up and play baseball experience available. In addition, the improved Play Now mode streamlines gameplay for the option to play faster and simpler games. San Diego Studios has also revamped The Show’s Franchise and Road To The Show modes with expanded options and new gameplay experiences that improve the highest-rated baseball video game on the market.

Taking The Show on the road? The PS Vita version of The Show features the same list of upgrades and new features as the PS3 version. As with last year, you can sync your Season, Franchise and Road to the Show saves between platforms to continue the action anywhere. MLB The Show also offers the opportunity to play with friends around the world at no extra cost on PlayStation Network.

These are just a few of the enhancements San Diego Studios have made to the 2013 version of The Show. All new features and game modes will be unveiled and detailed throughout the coming months.

The Show has been and continues to be the market leading and highest-rated officially licensed baseball title of this console generation (according to Metacritic.com), delivering true-to-life gameplay, authentic franchise and season modes, and incredible detail not found in any other sports game.

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The highest-rated sports videogame over the past 4 years (according to average ratings on MetaCritic.com and GameRankings.com), MLB® 13 The Show™ is once again ready to provide fans with over 50 more enhancements, new features, and improvements that will make every baseball fan think they are really living the Major League Baseball® (MLB®) experience. The Show is the most realistic baseball video game with its authentic franchise and season modes, and incredible detail not found in any other sports game.

MLB 13 The Show improves upon what has been delivered in previous franchise releases, however, The Show also adds many new features that continue to push the envelope in the sports video game genre. The Show will once again prove to be the industry’s premier licensed MLB game, both critically and commercially.

Due to hit stores on March 5, 2013, just in time for Spring Training™, as the only officially licensed first party MLB game exclusively for the PlayStation®3 (PS3™) and PlayStation®Vita (PS Vita) systems, MLB 13 The Show is prepared to deliver a one-of-a-kind experience for all fans, new and old.

NEW FEATURES IN MLB 13 THE SHOW:

• The “Post Season” Mode (PS3 & PS Vita) – MLB 13 The Show will introduce users to Post Season Mode this year as it offers quick entrance directly into the Post Season, fast-tracking your run to the World Series. The mode offers you the choice of selecting to play with one team, or all 10. The format utilizes the newly changed playoff structure, with a single-game Wild Card round leading into the standard Division, Championship, and World Series rounds. The Division Series, Championship Series, and World Series can all be set to varying lengths (Single game, best of 3, best of 5, or best of 7 are all available). Only the Wild Card round is hardwired to a single-game, winner advancing format. Additional options for the mode include selecting the venue for each game. Lastly, all of the game control options you've come to know are available in this mode, including: single player, head-to-head play, co-op play, and PlayStation®Move support.
  
• Cross Platform Online Home Run Derby (PS3 & PS Vita) – MLB 12 The Show introduced Online Home Run Derby™ to the PS3. MLB 13 The Show brings this experience to the PS Vita with the inclusion of cross platform play. Regardless of whether users are logged into a PS3 or PS Vita, selecting an Online Home Run Derby match will gather users into one game experience. You could be playing against users in a train, plane or their living room!
  
• Beginner Mode (PS3 & PS Vita) – In an effort to make The Show more accessible and to help users learn the fundamentals of the game Beginner Mode has been added. No matter the age or skill level, the new Beginner Mode offering allows the user the opportunity to succeed when playing The Show. Beginner mode uses an advanced, adaptive AI system that dynamically updates your skill level on the fly. It starts out on the easiest of levels and only advances as the user improves.
  
• New Push/Pull Hitting Trajectories Engine (PS3 & Vita) – New to MLB 13 The Show is our Push/Pull hitting trajectory tendencies engine. When you hit select during the pitcher-batter matchup, the in-game screen it will show you if the current hitter is Extreme Pull, Pull Hitter, Balanced, Opposite field Hitter, or an Extreme Opposite field hitter. Both A.I. and human hitters will hit more balls to their preferred side according to this attribute. This data is derived from real yearly spray charts provided to us by MLB.com. Despite this shift, very late and very early timing remains unchanged. Rather, within good timing, a larger chunk of the timing window is considered early for pull hitters. This means if you swing too early on a changeup, your timing won’t change at all. But if you get good timing on a pitch, it will be biased towards the hitters preferred zone. You will also now see more defensive shifts when Push and Pull hitters are at the plate.
  
• Franchise and Season Mode Evolution (PS3 & PS Vita) – MLB 13 The Show is set on improving the user's experience in Franchise mode by focusing on player development, while creating a more realistic and dynamic league as time progresses. Additions include a newly implemented team budget that focuses on a reward-penalty system which is solely based on a team's performance on the field. MLB 13 The Show is the most realistic baseball game ever as multiple years’ worth of real-life data was used to determine the team-specific correlation between win-loss record and budget size, while also looking at postseason performance. This new budget system results in a more dynamic league, in which a low-budget team can become a big spender after a period of sustained excellence, mirroring real teams in the big leagues.
  
• Furthermore, team-specific player valuations were also added in order to add personality to each team. These valuations are based on the team's league, their home stadium and historical tendencies. These changes affect every facet of a team's decision making process, from drafting, to promotions and demotions, to trade decisions and free agent acquisitions. In addition to these changes, the user can expect improved Player Generation and Career Progression, as well as new Scouting and Training systems.
  
• Road to The Show Evolution (PS3 & PS Vita) – One of the most popular aspects of MLB 13 The Show, Road To The Show, has been reworked this year in an effort to provide players with the most immersive and realistic on-field experience ever in a sports video game. More focus has been made to bring simpler control over a users’ player on the field in order to bring an unparalleled experience to the game. Environmental improvements, such as a revamped on-field sound system, enhances hundreds of new sound FX, player yells, and crowd sounds so they are heard prominently and realistically from the player's perspective on the field. Other notable improvements include a new user-controlled catch system, a revamped catcher mode, an improved Performance Evaluator to include baserunning and fielding, new custom batting animation sets, pitch type tip-offs when on defense, position-specific tasks such as calling for a pick-off as a middle infielder, and much more.
  
• The Show Live (PS3 & PS Vita) - The Show Live provides an exhibition-based mode using data from MLB.com to populate daily match-ups, line-ups and starting pitchers, giving users the opportunity to play in an environment that matches the “real-world.” The Show Live presents games in the same way as season-based modes, with up-to-date player and team statistics. Hear commentators reference the previous or next day’s events, based on real-world situations and information. Users have the choice to play a game from today, or turn the calendar back and play any game from earlier in the season. The Show Live brings users closer to Major League Baseball action than ever before!
  
• Diamond Dynasty 2.0 (PS3) – Diamond Dynasty juggles aspects of team management, player progression, and online competition, with more creative freedom than any sports game to date. In order to improve Diamond Dynasty, feedback from The Show Nation was used to expand and fine tune the systems that make up the mode. DD will now be simpler to understand for new users, while also being easier to navigate and manage for previous users. In addition to being more intuitive, visual tutorial walk users through the more complex screens or systems within DD.
• Diamond Dynasty introduces the Designated Hitter in MLB ’13. Users can choose whether they want to play by American or National League rules at their home park. Are you a baseball tactician who wants to use small-ball tactics and challenge your opponent to make strategic substitutions? Or will you stack nine sluggers and let your bats do the thinking?
• The Marketplace gets a haul over as well as users can post and cancel orders with ease. The Marketplace has gotten smarter, minimizing the amount of potential exploits.
  
• The Dynasty card type has also evolved. Dynasty Cards now display more information about the player's abilities. This information gives you an idea of what you are getting right away, but more importantly how good a player can get. Each Dynasty Player has maximum thresholds he can reach in each attribute, so picking which cards to activate to a team has become much more important.
  
• Many core systems have become more versatile to cope with the inherent volatility of multiplayer online play. Overall, Diamond Dynasty in MLB '13 is smarter, deeper, and much more stable.
  
• TruBroadcast Presentations 2.0 (PS3) – True Broadcast Presentations 2.0 continues to blur the line between reality and The Show. This year focuses on further refinement of game continuity through the restructuring of thousands of presentations but also a heavy emphasis on taking stadium ambiance and big game atmosphere to a new level. The addition of new scenes, new cameras, new OSDs, new music and new audio allows MLB 13 The Show to take a huge step forward in the twofold approach of truly immersing the user in the moment during the pre-game while satisfyingly rewarding the user once the final pitch is thrown. Now more than ever the user will feel the difference between Opening Day, the Regular Season, the All-Star Game and the Postseason, and increasingly strive for a taste of the new Postseason celebrations.
  
• New Scouting and Training System in Franchise Mode (PS3 & PS Vita) – A "human element" was incorporated into MLB The Show’s Scouting system, which affects the user's decision making process when dealing with scouting directives, position changes and, ultimately, drafting a player. This idea originated from Community feedback as The Show continues to strive be the most realistic baseball video game on the market. The goal for the Training system changes is to allow the user selecting individual players to train in areas of their own choice. More variety will be offered as training on a positional level will not be offered which will require the user to make their own choices of how to impact the development of their players.
  
• Road To The Show Commentary and Presentation Evolution (PS3) – The Road To The Show mode received a major commentary and presentation overhaul in an effort to bring the focus back to the player in the mode. The largest change is the removal of all commentary during the action. This was done to place more emphasis on the enhanced on-field sounds and to give users the sense of what is really like to be on the field as opposed to simply controlling a player on a screen. Commentary and presentations will still be heard before and after a play, but only when something important or notable regarding the user’s player is going to be highlighted. In addition, a new pre-game player spotlight will feature the user’s player and discuss his recent career progress or performance. Finally, hundreds of new presentation scenes have been created and thousands of new commentary lines have been recorded to give the RTTS player the attention he deserves and to highlight notable single-game, single-season, and career achievements like milestones and records.
  
• Online Road To The Show Leaderboard (PS3 & PS Vita) - Users can track their Offline Road to the Show careers and compare their player against all players from the community using RttS Leaderboards. Users can compare stats to see who is considered the best at their position, at similar levels. Users and their stats will be grouped by organization level: Double-A, Triple-A, MLB, as well as by position. All this will be tracked, displayed and sortable as long as you are connected online and PlayStation®Network signed in.
  
• Universal Profile (PS3 & PS Vita) - Universal Profile provides a central hub for any statistics a user records while playing The Show. Regardless of the modes or platform played, stats will be tracked and viewable in a user’s profile. In addition, profiles will have levels associated with them. As a user plays, they accumulate experience (xp) towards their profile’s level. Users now work towards a universal progression system whenever they play, regardless of the mode or platform they play on.
  
• Button Accuracy Meter (PS3 & PS Vita) – Users will now have more control over the fielding aspects of the game than ever before. For users who choose the new button accuracy meter they will now have complete control over the fielders arm accuracy and arm strength. No longer will an errant throw be the result of a random dice roll.
  
• Steve Lyons Joins The Booth (PS3 & PS Vita) - Joining the The Show’s Broadcast team for MLB 13 is MLB veteran Steve Lyons. Steve started his Broadcasting Career with Fox in 1996, and has called several Division & League Championship series with the network. Steve currently does Color Commentary for the LA Dodgers.
• Steve brings new energy and insight into the game, refreshing the commentary for MLB 13 The Show.
  
• MLB 13 Online Leagues Overhaul (PS3) - This year with MLB 13 The Show Online Leagues has been given a complete and total overhaul. New features include being able to play the real MLB schedule with all 30 teams, coupled with upgrades and refinements – like being able to manually control the pace of the league. Ultimately, the commissioner of a league will have the tools to be able to create and customize it in order to play with anyone anywhere to have a complete MLB experience in an online environment.

The Best Gets Better! MLB 13 The Show includes over 50 more enhancements, new features, and improvements!

1. Hitting engine improvements deliver more hit variety than ever before
2. Wider timing window across all difficulty levels
3. Improved ball physics (less ground rule doubles etc.)
4. Over 250 new fielding and running animations
5. Over 90 new batting stances
6. Over 130 batting stance re-captures for players who changed their stances
7. Over 50 new pitching motions
8. Over 60 new HR swings
9. New Defensive Positioning screen, view the whole field and watch your players shift on the fly
10. Franchise Mode: Team specific player valuations, which affect drafting, trades, free agency, etc.
11. Franchise Mode: Projected team budgets and free agents for the upcoming season
12. Franchise Mode: Previous award winners and each team's Hall of Fame members will now be tracked and displayed
13. Franchise Mode: Ticker in Franchise that displays scores, milestones, trades, etc.
14. Franchise Mode: Top 50 Prospect icon, used to indicate the best up-and-coming minor leaguers
15. Franchise Mode: Organizational Depth Chart which displays your starters at each level (AA, AAA and MLB)
16. New CBA "Qualifying Offer" system included
17. 7 New Minor League and Spring Training stadiums
18. On screen Tutorials to help you navigate some of the more complicated screens.
19. New silhouette bat when bunting
20. Back picks while a catcher in RttS
21. Ability to assign swing animations when creating or editing a player... follow through, step in, etc...
22. Big glove for catcher when a knuckle ball pitcher is on the mound
23. Over 500 new presentations
24. Pitcher Energy/Rotations for Online Play Now
25. Mercy Rule for online games
26. Twitter in The Show
27. Ping indicators in online game rooms
28. New online ranked game Play Now flow with game worth
29. New post-game summary screen for all online ranked games
30. Player photos updating with Roster updates
31. In-game simulator when FF to the end of game
32. PCI Appearance - There are 4 alternate PCI appearances
33. Pitcher Batter Analysis will now display 40 instead of 25 pitches
34. New Throwback uniforms
35. More catcher animations on plays at the plate providing more exciting outcomes
36. Enhanced CPU base running. Less predictable and more human like behavior
37. New base running animations "around the bases". Allows for more control of your base runner
38. Back picks while a catcher in RttS
39. Player mugs update with roster updates
40. New online ticker design, more stats and information
41. RTTS infielder’s pickoff request
42. New more interactive user steal system
43. Improved CPU pitcher substitution logic
44. New player card
45. Guess pitch evolution
46. RTTS Removal of the “green-light” system
47. Over 1,000 new RTTS-specific presentations
48. New RTTS user catch option
49. New RTTS On/Off options for ball halo and ball trail
50. Over 15 new batting camera’s and 5 new pitching camera views

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Hunter Pence grins as he watches his cyber-self strut to the batter’s box in “MLB 13: The Show.”

“They beasted me out,” he tells me with a laugh, proud to see his character captured so accurately, from his high socks to his quirky batting stance. “This year, they went all-out on my character. They were definitely kind to me. It’s the best I’ve ever looked in a video game.”

All that’s missing are the Pence sermons in the dugout to pump up his virtual teammates.

“Maybe next year,” says “The Show” community specialist, Ramone Russell, minutes after demoing the game to Pence on AT&T Park’s JumboTron.

“Besides, that was last year, this game is based on the 2013 season,” Pence says. “I just hope I can live up to how great they made me in this game.”

ESPN Playbook: Word in the clubhouse is you’re one of the biggest gamers in all of baseball.

Hunter Pence: I’m a huge video game player. I try to balance it, because there are a lot of things that I have to do, but I always make time to play video games.

What have you been playing recently?

I actually got big into “Mortal Kombat 9” on the Vita and PS3. I’m knocking out some Kabal, trying to get my nomad dash cancels down and trying to land my combos correctly without missing. I’m playing “MK 9” right now, and then I’ve also been playing a little bit of “PlayStation All-Stars” and “Assassin’s Creed.”

Kabal? I’ve always been a Sub-Zero guy, myself.

I don’t like Sub-Zero, because in the new game, with his zoning, you have to play him going backwards. He has that low slide to gain ground, but it’s all about positioning, and that low slide puts you at too much risk if you’re playing against someone who knows how to block properly.

Do a lot of the Giants play video games during the season when you go on long road trips?

They all have their Vitas on their plane flights, and actually, everybody was playing “MLB: The Show” last year. Everyone was playing. It’s pretty cool.

Do you play as the Giants, or do you like playing as other teams?

I’m playing as the Giants. Actually, I want to play "Road to the Show" mode, and your player can get traded, so you never know where I’ll end up. I remember I was watching Sergio Romo playing all the time last year, and he ended up on the Mariners. He made his character Rex Romo, after his son, and he was a hitter. He wasn’t even a pitcher in the game.

No Reverend Hunter speeches in the video game, but the impact your speeches made during the playoff run can’t be denied. What was it about your words that lit a fire among your teammates?

It was an amazing run the way the team came together. People try to make a lot about the speeches, but it was the way our guys played, our bullpen, our pitching … there were so many heroes who stepped up, it was an incredible run. And you have to give our scouting department huge credit for how they built this team. The young pitching staff of [Tim] Lincecum and [Matt] Cain, and the bullpen that has come up with Romo and [Brian] Wilson and [Santiago] Casilla and [Jeremy] Affeldt. They’ve had incredible pitching and really good management to be able to win it all two out of the last three years.

I like the evolution of the speeches, how it went from you yelling, to the end with sunflower seeds flying and everyone jumping around like madmen.

We had fun. [Laughs.] There were a collection of us who came up with that. We tried to create a parade before we had a parade. Somehow, it magically worked.

Your broken-bat triple hit was one of the most memorable and at the same time improbable plays of last year’s postseason. Have you ever seen anything like that before?

I’m sure it’s probably happened before in games, but we just never noticed it because they didn’t have that super slow-mo camera. But it just seemed like one of those funny things where the ball just bounced the right way for you; that’s what they like to call it. Fortunately, it bounced the right way for us.

I’ve heard stories about you riding your scooter around San Francisco. What do you think of living downtown and taking your scooter to the park every day?

I love it. It’s a really fun city. I have a lot more discovery to do, but fortunately I have my scooter, so I can get around in style. It’s definitely one of the most unique cities I’ve ever been to. I thoroughly enjoy it.

Do you have a motor on the end of that scooter, or are you going old school and pushing off with your legs?

It’s motorized. I’m not actually scootin’. [Laughs.]

You mentioned earlier that you’ve been playing “Assassin’s Creed” lately. What is it about that game that has you hooked?

It’s just the style. It’s really a unique game that you have to play a little bit and see for yourself because it’s just so different than anything else you play. You can be really creative about how you go about and do different things in the game. Add those elements to a great story, and you have a really fun game.

Besides the console games, I hear you’re also a big “Warcraft” guy.

Oh yeah. I played “Warcraft” a little bit when “Pandaria” first came out, but once I got my 2,200 weapons, I kind of lost interest. I don’t know why, but my team all split up. So mainly I’ve been playing “Torchlight II,” I play a little “Diablo III,” and I’m really excited about “Path of Exile.” It looks like my style of game. I really loved “Diablo II” back in the day, and while I really like “Diablo II,” I’m all about checking out “Path of Exile” right now.

Is it true that away from video games, you’re also a big chess player?

I love playing chess. I love pingpong. I just love to compete, and especially competing with the mind. I love to read too, so I try to balance a little bit of everything into what I do. I grew up such a huge gamer, that I almost have to force myself not to game too much. Obviously, baseball’s first, but when I’m done with that, it’s between reading, movies and gaming.

Do you remember the first game that got you hooked?

Honestly, my mom was playing video games when I was in the womb. So I think she did it to me. [Laughs.] The first game to get me hooked was probably “Tecmo Bowl” on the old Nintendo. I remember playing games before that, but “Tecmo Bowl” was like an addiction. The first game I ever remember playing was “Q*Bert,” but the first games I really loved were all on the original Nintendo, like “Tecmo Bowl” and “RBI Baseball.” I’ve been a huge gamer ever since.

Do you guys still play “RBI Baseball” in the clubhouse?

Every team I’ve ever been on has been huge into “RBI Baseball” except the Giants. I try to get people to play me all the time, but the Giants only want to play “Track & Field.” I’m just so disappointed. They sit around and hit the buttons as fast as they can, and guys like Matt Cain love it. I try to get on there and play, but there are some records on there that I don’t even understand how they got them. Some guys have a way to play where they can hit the buttons faster. I need to learn some of their tricks before I play that again.

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Hitting is such an important aspect in baseball, and it’s an area we continually strive to make as realistic as possible. Last year we introduced our True Ball Physics engine to the franchise for ultra-realistic ball physics. This year we’ve done even more work to really make this area of the game as dynamic as possible with true to life outcomes. Take a look at what we’ve done to make hitting in MLB ’13 The Show more accessible to everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ochFV9Ym6dc

We really want to make hitting more streamlined for players. Beginner mode allows people who have never played The Show — or have struggled with it — to learn the fundamentals of hitting. It’s meant to teach you the basics of Plate Discipline, Pitch Recognition and Timing.

This mode uses adaptive A.I. that only advances as you do. If you take longer to get the hang of hitting in The Show, you won’t be forced to advance. The A.I. will only advance once you’ve passed a certain threshold at each level.

In regards to the Push/Pull hitting Trajectories Engine, MLB.com gives us spray chart data for all current MLB players. This data is then imported into a program, which tells us what type of hitter the player should be in game. All hitters in the game fall under one of five hitter types: Push, Pull, Balanced, Extreme Push or Extreme Pull. Both A.I. and human players will now hit more balls to their preferred side based on this attribute. Generated players in franchise and Road to the Show modes are given a random hitter type. However, it’s a weighted random number so you won’t see a ton of guys in the draft from year-to-year who are labeled as extreme push hitters etc…

Furthermore, the timing window across all difficulty settings has been increased to allow everyone more time to react to the ball. While this change will lead to more offense, it’s relative to each difficulty setting. For example: if you hit .220 on All-Star last year, and you play the exact same way this year, you will probably hit in the .260 range.

We’ve detailed what was in the video, now here’s some info about what wasn’t in the video: There are a total of 16 batting views, and you can even create your own. Every batting view in the game has been re-created to increase pitch recognition. You will see more variability between gold glove type fielders and those players who aren’t known for their fielding prowess. Lastly, there are now less ground rule doubles in the game, and wind will now have less of an effect on the ball.

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EXCLUSIVE!! This year we’ve added the ability to check out player Tweets from within the game. All approved and official Twitter handles of MLB Players will be shown in MLB 13 The Show.

Player Tweets will be updated on the fly and in real-time! And as always, the weekly Live Roster will be available each Monday. Through Weekly Live Roster updates, Twitter handles will be updated throughout the 2013 MLB season.

First, there is an “MLB on Twitter” option from the Main Menu > Community tab:

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There you can cycle through all 30 teams and each team’s approved player Twitter handles:

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From there, you can select a specific MLB player and see all of his recent Tweets:

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Second, there’s a view from within each MLB Player Card. Along with all the normal views – Attributes, Career Stats and Advanced Stats, there is a new Twitter view. There you can also see all of the players recent Tweets.

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MLB 13 The Show hits stores March 5, 2013 for your PlayStation®3 and PlayStation®Vita.

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Franchise Mode has been a big part of MLB The Show ever since its induction, and we’re confident that this iteration is our best yet. We redid most of our core systems, such as Scouting, Training and Player Progression, shifting the mode’s main focus back to player development. We also improved our menu and added a ticker bar so that you feel more connected to what’s happening in your league. Go ahead and watch our video to see all of this in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv6UjZCcfRc

Training is now done on an individual player basis, and it can be as simple or as complex as you want. You can go in and custom set training drills for every one of your players, or have the auto-trainer handle this for you. If you only want to set drills for a couple of your players and the rest set to auto, you can do that too.

Scouting has received a major overhaul. The main goal was to give it a “human element,” to mimic the fact that there are “busts” and “diamonds in the rough” in every draft class. The scouting system itself boils down to first discovering players, and then scouting them individually to get a more accurate report of their attributes and MLB ETA.

In an effort to add personality to each club, we’ve incorporated Team-Specific Player Valuations. These numbers are based on each team’s historical tendencies, their stadium and league. For example, teams from the AL will not value bunting as highly as teams from the NL, while certain teams like the Yankees will value on-base-percentage much more so than the average team. Teams with home stadiums that suppress power will tend to value speedy contact hitters over slower power hitters. These changes affect every facet of a team’s decision making process, from drafting, to promotions and demotions, to trade decisions and free agent acquisitions.

You’ll get to experience all of this, and more, when MLB 13 The Show is released on March 5th for both PlayStation 3 and PS Vita.

For more information about MLB 13 The Show, visit www.facebook.com/mlbtheshow and @mlbtheshow on Twitter.

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Howdy fellow gamers, Nick Livingston back again to introduce another new feature in MLB 13 The Show. Today, we’re going to talk about how MLB 13 The Show will bring you closer to Major League Baseball than ever before with our brand new mode, The Show Live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHIbPUg_nQA

The Show Live allows you to play any games from the 2013 MLB schedule with the most up-to-date rosters, lineups, and statistics, fed directly from MLB.com. Whether the game is starting in an hour, or was played a month ago, the presentation and commentary in The Show Live is dynamic to the landscape of the MLB on the date the game was scheduled. Relive a player’s 40th Home Run, clinch the pennant for a team that choked it away, or play along with the game you’re watching or listening to. The Show Live is a mode for the truest of MLB fans.

Please note that the video footage is of a work-in-progress, and many things will update before we hit the shelves.

Lastly, here’s a look at the PS Vita version of MLB 13 The Show. We can’t wait for March 5th, 2013. Can you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCStdONuwaE

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