16 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Madden, News, Technology, Video Games, Virtual Sports, press releases
EA Sports Releases Fantasy Football Live Draft Tracker - A few days early too! But still, the main detractor is that leagues cannot do their draft online using their Xbox360.
FantasyFootballNerd.com Opens Site to Developers - We mentioned their comparison site last week, which uses a meta-search engine. Now, they are announcing the release of a […]
14 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Athletes, Business, FSTA, Fantasy Sports, News, Olympics, Social Media, Technology, Virtual Sports, fantasy soccer
A Meeting of Fantasy’s Sharpest Minds - A review of the FSTA conference that occurred last week.
Atomic Moguls announces dozens of new fantasy games to be released in coming sports seasons - Lots of new games planned from this company, including college football, and English soccer.
Michael Phelps’ wave takes swimming to new heights - It’s […]
11 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Baseball, Business, Fantasy Sports, MLB, News, Technology, Video Games, Virtual Sports
As we previewed yesterday, Challenge Games has released a new online game that combines virtual baseball trading cards with a fantasy game. Challenge Games is not new to the online gaming field, they created a successful online multiplayer game called Duels. The difference with their games versus some of the more massive online games requiring […]
03 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Baseball, Business, Legal, News, Social Media, Video Games, Virtual Sports, press releases
Fantasy Sports’ Reverse Crossover - Interesting article from the Wall Street Journal
which chronicles how cutting-edge technology used to track baseball stats can help fantasy owners own their competition.
Press Release: Play Hard Sports Announces Beta Sign Up for Its Free to Play Online Football Game - Get in now to lock in your team name […]
Thud. That was the sound the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first attempt at a video hitting the floor back in 2004. UFC’s Sudden Impact game was roundly booed and threatened to harm the company’s chances at legitimacy with any game in the future. Dana White, President of UFC, admitted as much in a recent interview:
“Everyone knows […]
18 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Football, Madden, Technology, Video Games, Virtual Sports
Well, they finally did it. Electronic Arts has integrated it’s popular Madden football video game franchise with a fantasy football league and information website. It makes a lot of sense, after all. When you have the wildly popular following that Madden has garnered, you have ready audience of fanatic football fans, and yes, likely fantasy […]
10 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Baseball, ESPN, Fantasy Sports, Golf, Legal, MLB, Media, News, Streaming Games, Technology, Virtual Sports, press releases
Some interesting stories on Tuesday, June 10, 2008:
NBCSports.com Partners With AirPlay to Deliver Live Interactive Game for U.S. Open - You can predict the action at the U.S. Open this year through this interactive game.
Stats aren’t for sale - Some more post-analysis on the Supreme Court case.
MLB draft on ESPN shows promise - A review […]
The Nintendo Wii continues to push the barriers as far as gameplay goes with sports video games. The Wii Fit has finally hit the streets and word is that it’s pretty damn cool. Check out the two reviews below, courtesy of IGN and Gamespot. One day virtual sports is going to be a reality and […]
05 May
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Streaming Games, Virtual Sports, Yahoo!
Check out these stories for the top of your week:
Now that Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Yahoo! is over, what next? - Lots of things, but it will be interesting to see how the Yahoo! Open platform is unveiled.
Ibeatyou is off to the races and on to the social networks - The competition-based site has announced […]
29 Apr
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Blogger, Blogs, Business, Facebook, Fantasy Sports, Interviews, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Technology, Virtual Sports
It’s clear with that with the news that Yahoo! and CBS Sportsline are creating open networks allowing developers to create applications that the online sports and fantasy sports world is about to change. A project ahead of the curve appears to be SCORE OS - Fantasy Sports Management System. His team’s goal is to […]