Midway has announced that MLB Slugfest: Loaded, the upcoming Xbox and PlayStation 2 arcade action baseball game, has gone gold and is expected to hit retailers on June 21, 2004.

The Xbox version of the game will contain a tournament mode, which is the first title to utilize the new Xbox Live 3.0 (also known as Tsunami) features, and will allow gamers to create custom tournaments for four, eight, or 16 players. These player-created tournaments can then be left open to the public or kept private for a particular group by inviting users on friends lists to join the competition.

Although MLB Slugfest: Loaded will also be available for the PlayStation 2, players on Sony's system will not be able to compete in their own custom tournaments. Midway is however, running the game's online mode as a massive public tournament featuring stat-keeping and ladders to recognize the game's best players.

MLB Slugfest: Loaded is rated "T" for Teen and carries an MSRP of $39.99.