He used the benefit of his data trove to know this post was going to be made on Slashdot...

Hmm. Its worth mentioning that GameSpot was one of the last review sites to post a review for Hellgate: London, which also received sub-par scores. I wonder if the publishers of HG:L (Electronic Arts) called for a review delay due to the amount of advertising dollars spent on the game, as GameSpot ran numerous stories/previews/video demos on the game prior to launch (much like K&L) to hype it up, and even skinned the site on launch day (also like K&L).

I read previously when this deal was rumored that this may also affect fantasy sports sites like yahoo and sandbox. Rarely do they use team logos (if ever) but they do refer to players in the MLBPA and report stats from major league games. I know there is a court battle going on saying that stats inc(the stats company that provides stats to most fantasy sites like sandbox and television broadcasts like the cubs on WGN) is arguing that stats from games are based on factual events and can not be claimed as intelectual property.

In response to some of the previous posts about the simplicity of baseball games I have to disagree. I'm a pretty big baseball fan and I really like some of the more advanced baseball games like EAs series. They bring more of the pitcher hitter battle into it where you are changing speeds location and pitch selection. You control whether you try to pull the ball or go the opposite way. You can choose slide types to break up double plays or avoid tags and everyone can jump dive and reach for balls.

Overall I really felt like baseball games were going in the right direction and I hope this doesn't change that. That said one of my favorite baseball games was called(I think) world series baseball for the sega dreamcast and it was done by sega sports.