Out of the Park Baseball 17 was officially named Metacritic's 2016 PC Game of The Year! In addition, for the first time ever, an Out of the Park Baseball title has surpassed 100,000 units sold with Out of the Park Baseball 17. This caps an extraordinary year for Out of the Park Developments, a small, independent developer that has been making sports strategy games for nearly twenty years. Help us celebrate by participating in our Holiday Sale!

Are you a baseball fan avidly following this winter's hot stove news and eagerly waiting for spring? Are you a hockey fan rooting for your team to make a run at the Stanley Cup® this year?

Maybe you're a fan of both!

Regardless of your loyalties, you're in for a holiday treat this month because the 11-day OOTP Developments Holiday Sale starts today!

In addition to being officially licensed by the NHL, which includes real logos and uniforms, Franchise Hockey Manager 3 features real 2016-17 team rosters for over 300 teams in 22 playable leagues, including the National Hockey League and leagues in Canada and Europe. You'll also enjoy a new career mode, international play, and much more!

Gaming Trend said that FHM 3 is "a top shelf title amongst the very best in the genre."

OOTP 17 features awesome new 3D in-game animations, a revolutionary Historical Exhibition mode, MLBPA licensing enabling FaceGen images for MLB players, accurate historical MiLB rosters with 150,000+ real players, auto-generated game recaps, and so much more.

Get the highest rated PC game of the year now for only $9.99!

Have any burning questions about OOTP 18 for lead developer Markus Heinsohn? You're in luck: He's jumping on the Reddit AMA bandwagon with a chat of his own next month. We'll give you all the details in our January newsletter.

In the meantime, you can send questions to reddit@ootpdevelopments.com if you want to get a head start on the festivities.

If you want to see OOTP 17 and/or FHM 3 in action, stop by our Twitch channel, where Community Manager TJ Lauerman plays OOTP 17 on Wednesday nights at 9 PM Eastern time.

Adam Burnett, who's the Community Manager for FHM 3, is joined by fellow hockey buff and FHM 3 producer Jeff Riddolls on Wednesday nights at 10 PM Eastern time. They play FHM 3 and chat about the sport.

You can catch up on past broadcasts on our YouTube channel.

If you want to try something new, give FHM 3's international competition a whirl sometime. When you start a game in the 2016-17 season, the 2016 World Cup of Hockey is on the schedule, followed by other major championship events. FHM 3 features 46 national teams taking part in 11 different competitions and qualifying tournaments.

Think you have what it takes to manage a national team? Check out our latest FHM 3 blog post to learn more.

Sure, their league logo has a turkey in it, but the participants in the GAF Online Baseball League (GOBL), which came together on the NeoGAF forums, are anything but turkeys. "There's a lot more intrigue when you know you're competing against other people and not just the CPU," says GOBL commissioner Brent Long.

Read all about GOBL and find out which American League team won the World Series in 2022, after seven straight seasons of National League dominance, in our latest OOTP 17 blog post.