The competition asks players to play the best game of their lives

Jan 10, 2013 22:45 GMT  ·  By

Publisher 2K Sports and developer Visual Concepts announce that they have reached an agreement with Major League Baseball, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and Major League Baseball Advanced Media to release MLB 2K13 on March 5 of this year.

The game will be launched on home consoles from Sony and Microsoft.

Jason Argent, the vice president of marketing for 2K Sports, states, “We’d like to thank our league partners for their support in helping us reach an agreement to bring back MLB 2K. We know fans are extremely passionate about the MLB 2K series and the Perfect Game Challenge.”

MLB 2K13 will also include the Perfect Game Challenge competition, which allows gamers to try and play a perfect virtual match in order to get a chance at winning 1 million dollars (765,000 Euro).

Details for the challenge, which has been launched every year since 2010, will be announced closer to the game's release.