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The Line Drive 5/15
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. •Operation Sports has a balanced preview of Madden 12's gameplay. •Golfers have been using the Tiger Woods series to prepare for tournaments. •A long awaited patch for MLB 2K11 could be out as early as this week. News and content that may have been missed from the last week around the site. •Trailer for Fright Night. Remake of the 1985 horror...
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Trailer for Fright Night
The first trailer for the upcoming remake of the 1985 film Fright Night has arrived. The story centers on a teenager (Anton Yelchin) who figures out his neighbor (Colin Farrell) is a vampire but no one will believe him. Fright Night is slated to release on August 19th. Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all—he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the hottest girl in high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend Ed...
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NCAA Football 12 Demo Outlined
EA Sports held a developer chat yesterday and The Gaming Tailgate noted some of the news to come out of that with discussion having taken place regarding the upcoming demo for NCAA Football 12. There will be two separate matchups to choose from and five Nike Pro Combat uniforms available to unlock through play. The structure would be similar to last year which instead had four matchups and offered all of the Pro Combat uniforms. The demo for the two previous iterations arrived mid-June an...
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ABC Cancels Six Shows; Picks up Charlie’s Angels Remake
ABC has joined NBC and Fox in making official cancellations and pick-ups for the fall television season. Low rated shows V, No Ordinary Family, Brothers and Sisters, Off the Map, Detroit 1-8-7 and Mr. Sunshine have all gotten the ax while Happy Endings and Shark Tank were spared with renewals. The network will be bringing to series the highly anticipated remake of Charlie's Angels (starring Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor, Annie Ilonzeh, and Robert Wagner) and also have six other ...
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Madden 12 Franchise Mode Details
IGN has released the first details on Franchise mode in Madden NFL 12 which will introduce new elements in Dynamic Player Performance and Player Roles. Unfortunately as a whole it appears nothing like the complete overhaul of the mode that was said would take more than a development cycle to complete, which was the reasoning given why Madden 11's franchise was left practically untouched. What Dynamic Player Performance will deliver is variation in player ratings from week to week that wil...
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NBC Makes Their Programming Moves
NBC is the next in line following Fox in their announcement of plans for the upcoming broadcast season. Of note are the cancellations of The Event and Law & Order: Los Angeles, along with the renewals of Harry's Law, Parenthood, and Chuck - which will get a fifth and final season with a 13 episode run. Word still hasn't come down on the comedy Outsourced which is considered to be on the bubble and more likely to be canceled than not (update: its cancelled).Ă‚Â The Office, Parks and Recre...
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Trial Set in NCAA Player Likeness Lawsuit
Though EA Sports was recently dismissed as a defendant from the player likeness lawsuit originally filed in 2009 it will proceed against the NCAA and Collegiate Licensing Company after surviving another attempt to dismiss by those two parties. The outcome could have significant influence on NCAA licensed sports games in the future so the case remains of high interest. It will be a long wait however for that decision to come down as the trial has been set to begin on March 11th 2013. The l...
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Tiger Woods 12 Top Sports Game in April
Having topped the sales charts amongst sports games in four of its first six months of release NBA 2K11 was unseated in April by Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters. The release of Tiger Woods 12 in late March meant the first five days of sales were recorded in that month's NPD where it did not place in the top 10 despite performing well. It clearly got a boost from The Masters (April 7th-10th) along with positive word of mouth and mainstream exposure that had been absent the last few years...
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