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The Line Drive 4/3
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. •EA Sports has launched a contest for SSX: Deadly Descents with five winners getting the chance to attend the game's community event next month. •Virtua Tennis 4 will have some content exclusive to the PS3. •PETA is upset with EA Sports for including Michael Vick in the Madden NFL 12 cover tournament. Peter Moore is unfazed by all the complaints. ...
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Four Minutes of The Green Lantern
The buzz on The Green Lantern has been weak throughout development and probably hit a low following the teaser trailer's release back in November. Warner Brothers is now saying they had to piece that trailer together due to the FX shots for the majority of the film not being complete and admit that it was a poor representation. Even now work on the FX is taking place at a frantic pace in order to get the movie complete in time. In an effort to start building excitement as its June 17th re...
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2011 Baseball Game Satisfaction Polls
Baseball has become the only major sport that has direct competition and for MLB 11: The Show and MLB 2K11 even that takes place on just one console. As the two still fight for market share consumers have started to show signs of fatigue towards them for very different reasons. In response MLB 11 added analog controls and 2K11 brought back the perfect game contest. Early reports this year indicate sales are down for both games. For a few years now though this hasn't been a competition at ...
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HBO Announces Summer Premiere Schedule
As most network television goes into reruns for the summer HBO will be rolling out new seasons of several of their original series'. It all starts with the fourth season of True Blood which arrives on Sunday June 26th at 9pm for a 12 episode run. Curb Your Enthusiasm returns for season eight as the setting moves to New York for 10 episodes on July 10th at 10pm. The eighth and final season of Entourage starts on Sunday July 24th at 1030pm. It will be a short season too running only eigh...
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Another Update on Week Two Voting for Madden 12 Cover
More insight on upcoming results were dropped by ESPN a few days into the week of voting in the second round of the Madden NFL 12 cover tournament. The first update noted that Patrick Willis was beating Hines Ward, Adrian Peterson held the edge on Philip Rivers, Aaron Rodgers was cruising to another easy victory, and Maurice Jones-Drew was locked up in a virtual dead heat with Jamaal Charles. Other matchups touched on now include Danny Woodhead up on Hakeem Nicks in a battle for the right...
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Forza Motorsport 4 Preview Video
This is probably the worst day for anything legitimate to leak out, but from all accounts the gameplay preview video for Forza Motorsport 4 is the real thing. Features are discussed including the Kinect implementation, graphics, career mode, and online play. Continue on to check out the video and leave any thoughts in the comments! (more…)...
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Theatrical Trailer for The Hangover Part II
Warner Brothers has released another trailer for The Hangover Part II, this time a full theatrical version following the teaser that arrived in February. The sequel to the 2009 smash hit finds the gang in Bangkok for Stu’s wedding and is slated to release on May 26th. While it looks to be quite funny the decision to go with almost the exact same premise for a sequel just in a different setting is a questionable one. In “The Hangover Part II,” Phil (Bradley Cooper), S...
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Third Set of New Plays in NCAA Football 12
EA Sports is continuing to gradually reveal 25 new plays for NCAA Football 12 and here are the latest five. Brief descriptions accompany the play art for each.Ă‚Â (more…)...
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