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OS Weekly Wrap Up, Getting You Caught Up on Sports Gaming News (May 3 - May 9, 2020)
Every Sunday, we will get you caught up on the sports gaming news and our featured articles, you might have missed, during the busy week.
Sports Gaming News
- NBA 2K20 MyTeam: Spotlight Sim Update Includes Galaxy Opal Steve Francis
- Project CARS 2 on Sale – 80% Off Standard & Deluxe Editions, All DLC 50% Off via Steam
- EA Play Going Digital on June 11 with World Premieres, News & More – Is There Anything You Are Hoping to See or Hear About?
- Codemasters Announcing a New Game Very Soon, Surprises Coming to DiRT Rally 2.0, But No More Additional Seasons
- EA Addresses Questions Regarding FIFA 20 Game Data Centers
- Formula Retro Racing Arrives on May 15 For Xbox One and Steam
- DiRT Rally 2.0 Patch 1.14 Available Today – Patch Notes Here
- MLB The Show 20: Glavine and Zobrist New Battle Royale Flawless Rewards
- MLB The Show 20: Gold Glove Award Jason Heyward in Headliners Set 16
- NBA 2K20 MyTeam: New Buzzer Beater Pack Featuring Galaxy Opal Kevin Love, Locker Code and Dynamic Duo Updates
- NASCAR Heat 5 Announced – Trailer & Cover Art Revealed, Releases on July 10
- Madden NFL 20 Patch 1.31 Refreshes Key Art Assets For Madden Bowl
- FIFA 20 Patch 1.20 Available For PlayStation 4 and Xbox One – Patch Notes Here
- NBA 2K League 2020 Season Tips Off Right Now – Here’s a Preview and Where to Watch
- Forza Street Available Now For iOS and Android Devices
- Skater XL Release Date Set For July 7 – New Trailer Shows Off Brands & Customization Options
- NBA 2K20 MyTeam: 100 Evolution Cards in Evo Super Packs, Plus Evolutions Added to Many Outdated Players
- PGA TOUR 2K21 Announced, Teaser Trailer Revealed – Full Details Arrive on May 14
- Upcoming EA Games For Current Generation Consoles Can Be Upgraded Free For Next Generation
- Session: Skateboarding Simulation on Sale For $9.99 on Steam, Until May 12
- 7 Seconds of Madden NFL 21 Footage on the Xbox Series X, Purchase the Game on Xbox One & Upgrade to Xbox Series X Free
- DIRT 5 Announced – Trailer, Screenshots & Some Details Revealed – Nolan North and Troy Baker Featured in Career Mode
- NASCAR Heat 5 Screenshots
- F1 2020 Gameplay Video Featuring Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
- Lonely Mountains: Downhill Available Now on the Nintendo Switch
- The Golf Club Featuring PGA TOUR is Free to Play Until May 13 on Xbox One, May 14 on Steam
- Super Mega Baseball 3 Reveals New Online Custom Pennant Race Mode – New Trailer and Details
- Hoop League Tactics Update Adds Hall of Fame, Finals MVP, Championship Celebrations, Improved Simulations, Better AI & More
- The Golf Club 2019 Virtual Challenge Between PGA TOUR Pros Matthew Fitzpatrick and Carlos Ortiz Starts at Noon EST
- MLB The Show 20: 3rd Inning Program Updated With Keith Hernandez
- MLB The Show 20: Players League Program Adds 8 Diamonds, Including 95 Overall Blake Snell
- MLB The Show 20: Future Stars Spencer Howard in Headliners Set 17
- NBA 2K20 Simulates Conference Finals with the Lakers & Bucks Advancing to the NBA 2K Sim Finals
- Wreckfest Patch 1.43 Available – Patch Notes Here
- DRIFT21 Available on Steam Early Access, Save 10% Until May 14
- Some More Details For NASCAR Heat 5 Revealed, Along with Pre-Order Bonuses & Content Included with the Gold Edition
- If You’re Awake, the Rocket League European Spring Series Begins Now
- Sonic at the Olympic Games – Tokyo 2020 Available For iOS and Android Devices
- Perfect Swing – Golf Available on Mobile Devices
- SnowRunner Video – Master Off-Road Driving with 8 Useful Tips
Operation Sports Videos
Prince from OverBro Media breaks down characters and special abilities from Super Buckyball Tournament in his latest video for us. Super Buckeyball Tournament is a 3-on-3 sports game that combines handball, robots and a couple other elements into a potpourri of carnage. There are special abilities, and what’s here so far looks promising.
In Run The Triple episode 2, The Red Scourge discusses how his team is built and how the offense is coming together with Army in NCAA Football 14. He then jumps into gameplay with his squad.
In the latest Coach’s Corner, CoachEB goes on a four verticals deep dive for Madden NFL 20. In the video, he takes a look at how to attack the more common defensive coverages with the concept (Cover 2, 3, 1 and 4), and a few simple adjustments that can make it effective in just about any game situation.
In this tutorial from Books Nelson, the man at AtMeBro shows us how to pull off the NBA 2K20 advanced dunks assigned to your characters in MyTeam, Play Now Online, MyGM, MyLeague, PARK, and Pro-Am.
There’s a common refrain that “it used to be better” mentioned by some sports gamers, and this usually comes back to features that have vanished over the years from our beloved sports games. Developers have introduced cool features in the past, then removed them, then sometimes brought them back and acted like they’re new again. It’s really its own cycle in a way. With that in mind, Matt Ederer hits us up with the top 5 features removed from Madden over the years.
Operation Sports Featured Articles
Attention MyTeam Players: DO NOT Open “Super Packs”. They’re really not very super. I got suckered in with a “bonus VC” offer on the home screen of MyTeam, and went for it to open a 10-pack box. Two Nicolas Batum cards (and eight other pieces of garbage) later, I literally thought to myself, “Wow that sucked, now I have to open another 10 pack box to try and make this worth it.”
Matt10 and the OS FIFA community have been hard at work all year trying to perfect and tweak sliders that work for a majority of folks in FIFA 20. Version 3 came out a couple days ago, and it also came with two other sets of sliders that you can use to help modify your experience. To put it another way, think of version 3 as the base sliders, and then the other two sets are there to help you tweak the game if you want it a little harder or want to tweak the game to work better with shorter halves.
Michael Kramer originally put together a tutorial on how to update your schedule to 2020 on the Xbox 360, and now here is the tutorial for how to do it on the PS3.
The newest event series has gone up and it’s the Live Series events. The Live Series 1 event goes up to 100 wins, and the big gets are at 35 and 50 wins. At 35 wins you get the infamous Kenny Lofton — most notably infamous from MLB The Show 19 — and diamond Fred McGriff at 50 wins. This event will run for about a week, and we may or may not get a new Live Series event right after it. Regardless of whether SDS does events back to back for the Live Series, just know your win totals will carryover to Live Series Event 2 whenever that happens. In other words, don’t feel like you need to get 100 wins in a week.
If there is anything else you would like to see in the OS weekly wrap-up, feel free to let us know in this post. Otherwise, enjoy getting caught up and we will see you next Sunday.