Month: November 2005

There’s a 34 MB demo available for Grey Dog Software’s Bowl Bound College Football. Also, some new screen shots for those of you not trying out the demo.

There’s more about tactics on the Football Manager 2006 site.

There are two new clips available that show the attack of the pawns, er, I mean the Championship Manager 2006 3D match engine.

Shaun Sullivan posted a pre-release version 1.1a patch for PureSim Baeball 2005 Gold Edition.

I just noticed that on the Out of the Park Baseball Manager site there is a link at the bottom of the page to CATOBASE 2006. The link doesn’t work, but has OOTPBM finally officially embraced Catobase in some fashion? This is good news for OOTPBM fans if true.

Vanderbilt defeated Tennessee. In a football game.

Strat-O-Matic released patch 5.01E for their Version 5.0 CD-Rom Football game.

Instead of discussing my concerns here on the blog, I decided to go straight to the source. I am very confident that Out of the Park Baseball Manager will be a great game for solo players. I am not so sure how things will work for those of us that run online leagues. It appears we will have more information after January’s OOTPBM blog post. No big deal, I can wait and pay full price.

For those that missed it, there’s a 10% pre-order discount and 20% if you’re an OOTPBM newsletter subscriber.

FInally, Grey Dog Software, please go to the OOTPBM web page to see how you should handle pre-release information for your games.

I still think OOTPBM is just too perfect an abreviation if the game turns out to be, BM, but I digress. All sorts of updates available on the new SI site. I just got back from a meeting, but I’ll have more to say about this tomorrow. Hint – I will not be pre-ordering this game.

Eidos posted an article that discusses player happiness and interactive systems in Championship Manager 2006. This is a pretty detailed explanation of the “talk” system in the game, which includes 30 possible events that players can react to. Looks pretty interesting.

Strat-O-Matic Football Version 5.01C is available for download.

Sports Interactive posted an article with suggestions for better tactics in Football Manager 2006.

Developer Arlie Rahn posted an update about his Bowl Bound College Football game. Appears to be a demo coming, but still no screeen shots of any volume. An “alumni card” picture is posted as part of the update.

For those that missed it, Worldwide Soccer Manager 2006 is available as a digital download via SEGA’s web store. A steal at $29.99.

PureSim Baseball 2005 Gold Edition 1.1 patch was officially released yesterday. PureSim wins the “shortest time from beta patch to final” award among text-based baseball games. Out of the Park Baseball 6.5b has been in beta for a very, very long time.