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The Line Drive for April 8
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. •Current deals: SSX at $30, Tiger 13 at $50 or $60 for CE, FIFA Street PS3 for $40. •EA Sports has released a trailer for the UEFA EURO 2012 DLC. •95 Perfect Games were pitched on the first two days of the MLB 2K12 contest. •THQ has put out another survey for UFC Undisputed 3 this time for combat feedback. •If interested ...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of April 10
The bleakest weak of DVD/Blu-ray releases in recent memory arrives with only two films of note with neither of which have been particularly well received. Meryl Streep did however win an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Iron Lady. •The Iron Lady (Buy at Amazon: DVD or Blu-ray/DVD Combo) The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's m...
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Trailer for Savages
The first trailer for Oliver Stone's Savages has arrived. The film is based on the novel of the same name and stars Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, and a number of big names in smaller parts. Savages is slated to release on July 6. Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Johnson), a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon (Kitsch), a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry—raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. ...
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Trailer for High School
The first trailer for the stoner comedy High School has arrived. The film, which has been in the can since 2010 and was screened at Sundance to largely positive reaction, stars Adrien Brody. High School is set to release on June 1. A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail. ...
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MLB 12: The Show Patch Support Tracking Well Behind Past Years
Now into April with the baseball season fully underway many consumers have begun to ask why the first patch for MLB 12: The Show has yet to arrive. It's an understandable question considering the rate at which patches have been delivered for The Show in recent years. SCEA has yet to comment on plans for post-release support and have been careful to avoid even stating that a patch is being worked on. There shouldn't be reason for concern at this stage however.Ă‚Â Undoubtedly one is in the pip...
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Four More Teams Spotlighted With Their Nike Uniforms in Madden NFL 13
Yesterday EA Sports rolled out the first images from Madden NFL 13 - the early focus is centered on the new Nike uniforms which were revealed earlier this week as the company takes over as the exclusive supplier of on-field apparel.Ă‚Â Nike brings a complete redesign for the Seahawks, new materials and a tighter fit for the jerseys and pants, new accessories with the gloves and team colored shoes, and a number of various minor alterations with a change to the collar being the one adopted by ...
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Another Run at MLB Today Season in MLB 2K12 Yields More Distressing Results
It wasn't completely unexpected that MLB Today Season mode in MLB 2K12 wouldn't be running properly right off the bat. The MLB 2K series has a history of poorly implemented or completely non-functioning features. So there was little surprise when last week MLB Today Season wasn't working when the season openedĂ‚Â with the Mariners vs A's series in Japan.Ă‚Â (more…)...
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The Mummy Being Rebooted
Universal plans to reboot The Mummy with screenwriter Jon Spaihts helming the project. The Mummy as a franchise began way back in 1932 and had four sequels - the studio then brought it back with the 1999 update that starred Brendan Fraser. Altogether the recent Mummy series - which includes the first in 1999, sequel in 2001, and third entry in 2008 - made over $1.2 billion worldwide at the box office. That doesn't even include the spin-off that came with The Scorpion King which h...
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