The Line Drive 10/17
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The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings.
- The next Madden 11 patch, slated for November, will include a fix for online disconnects that have been occurring at an increased rate since the last patch.
- Peter Moore sees a future where FIFA wouldn’t be disc based but rather a persistently updated online world. That is still a ways off from happening but the direction many sports games could go.
- Redbox is starting to roll out video game rentals for $2 a night. Much of this year’s crop of sports titles are amongst the initial games to be available.
News and content that may have been missed from the last week around the site.
- Review: RED. Great cast but doesn’t pay off.
- Drive Angry 3D trailer. Nicolas Cage action film releases 2/11.
- Wrecked Trailer. Adrien Brody thriller coming in 2011.
- MIB 3 Casting. Alec Baldwin, Gemma Arterton, Shartlo Copley join.
- The Lizard as Spider-Man villain. Played by Rhys Ifans.
- Tom Hardy in Batman 3. With an unknown lead role.
- Animated Napoleon Dynamite. Fox orders new series.