2K Sports scrubs MLB 2K from existence

2K Sports has quietly invoked the mercy rule on itself, eliminating any signs of the MLB 2K series from existence, leaving MLB: The Show as the last Major League Baseball series standing.

Ozzie Mejia

January 6, 2014 2:30 PM

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2K Sports' run with the Major League Baseball license has come to a rather unceremonious end. After last year's abysmally-rated foul ball known as MLB 2K13, the publisher's license expired and all connections between the two parties have been severed completely.

The MLB license had previously expired for 2K Sports around this time a year ago before an abrupt agreement was reached for one final Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game. There appears to be no such final hour agreement on the horizon this time, as sports blog PastaPadre (via Kotaku) points out that all references to MLB have been completely scrubbed from the 2K Sports database and the MLB 2K Facebook page has been deleted without a trace. All MLB 2K Steam entries have been similarly deleted.

This leave's Sony's MLB: The Show as the last baseball franchise standing. And while nobody's denying its high quality, it's kind of sad to see an entire sport become exclusive to a console family, leaving Xbox fans with nothing new to play in the new year.

Speaking to Polygon, a 2K Sports rep added: "We have decided not to renew our MLB 2K series for 2014. We are very proud of the achievements made by the MLB 2K team and look forward to their contributions to our future titles, including NBA 2K--our industry's #1 rated and #1 selling basketball franchise."

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?