futuregamez writes: "I was sitting back a couple of evenings ago wondering what to watch and remembered that as of 8.00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time one of the fiercest of sporting rivalries was about to play out through five, five-day Test Matches - it's Ashes time folks where England and Australia do battle for, well, the Ashes. Last night, as I finished off this preview England scraped a cheeky draw after a couple of delaying tactics were employed. As they say, it's just not cricket. But this is so get ready for Ashes Cricket 2009...
Ashes Cricket 2009 is fully licensed by Cricket Australia, the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) and the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club, the world's most famous cricket club and owner of the Ashes urn), providing the game with all the official players, kit, stadia – including Lords and The Brit Oval – and equipment from this year's Ashes Series."
It’s fair to say that Cricket has been embarrassingly under represented in the history of gaming. A sport that is followed and loved by many millions around the world. In fact given the fanaticism of the Indian public the number could be approaching half a billion. In this article we explore the reasons for Cricket’s diabolical gaming history and the possibility of a turn around.
I'd love a well made cricket game, I can sit down and watch cricket for hours, looking forward to the Australians 5 - 0 the English.
Cricket games are dead and buried IMO. A series of average games plus a niche market equals a disaster.
But at least we have the memories. Shane Warne '99 on PS1, those were the days.
I'm sure (hope) a good indie game will come along eventually, just because AAA studios don't find it profitable enough doesn't mean indies will.
Stick cricket is a simple flash game and that's lots of fun.
Cricket? Isn't that the British game that combines bowling and baseball? Lol that's one wacky game you have there but way too boring for video game. You couldn't give that game away.
As a Brit I've no idea who Lebron James is, I've vaguely heard of the name before but that's about it. I think if you asked most non Americans to name a famous basketball player they would all say Michael Jordan and that's primarily because of Hollywood.
NFL, NBA, MLB are only really popular in the USA but that's a big enough market by itself as far as publishers are concerned.
Cricket is a complicated game not weird, which is perhaps one of the reason video games of it have always been a challenge. Baseball/Rounders are both extremely simplistic by comparison.
Rugby is also more popular worldwide than the NFL.
Pocket Gamer - Were The Ashes still a case of Australia turning up and taking home the title in all but name before a ball has even been thrown, one suspects Codemasters might not have been quite so keen to pick up the license.
However, with England seemingly making the series something of a contest again, interest on this side of the globe is renewed and, it has to be said, Ashes Cricket is the perfect game to complement this fresh faced fever.
CricketGaming: Codemasters' financial situation not much stable even after an investment from undisclosed investor. This was the reason that made Codies cancel their title Heist as they wanted to avoid another flop after Damnation.