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NCAA Football 11 Authentic Team Entrances
EA Sports has released a new blog going into detail on the pregame team entrances for NCAA Football 11. The blog goes into detail on how they were built and includes a few screenshots of unique entrances. Some of the schools mentioned to have received custom entrances are Clemson, Notre Dame, Miami, Nebraska, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia Tech, and Florida State. You can check out the blog posting in full here. It was import for us to create a sense of nostalgia and identity with each...
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Trailer for Secret JJ Abrams Project Debuting With Iron Man 2
When the trailer for Cloverfield arrived from out of nowhere while attached to Transformers it created a ton of buzz that ultimately carried all the way to a big opening for a movie which had no big name stars. That trailer didn't even include the eventual name for the movie, instead just throwing up the release date at the end. It was extremely effective as rarely can anything coming from Hollywood surprise audiences in the way that did these days. Cloverfield was created and produced by J...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3D Sequel Coming
Though A Nightmare on Elm Street was universally panned it was able to pull in $32 million its first weekend. That made it the biggest opening for a horror film ever in the April-May months. That was enough to already prompt Warner Bros and New Line to give the go ahead on a sequel. It should be of little surprise by now that of course the sequel will be in 3D. The $32 million is certainly very good, but the film's internal mutliplier suggests that it is going to drop like a rock over the c...
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Poll: Favorite Addition So Far to Madden 11
Recently I posted a poll to gauge what new addition to NCAA Football 11 was the most highly anticipated at the time. Now with a bunch of information having spilled already for Madden 11 it presents a good opportunity to get an early feel for what new element of the game is creating the most excitement. Two of the items on the list, the GameFlow play-calling and locomotion engine, have been extensively detailed by EA Sports. The other two main ones to this point are Gus Johnson as the play-b...
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Tecmo Bowl Throwback Impressions
Tecmo Bowl Throwback is basically a carbon copy of Tecmo Super Bowl with a few notable exceptions. There is now a "3D" mode with updated graphics, online play has been added, and the game lost all elements of the NFL license. (more…)...
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Justified Renewed for Second Season
Today FX announced that they have picked up Justified for a second season. The series stars Timothy Olyphant and is based on the popular character created by Elmore Leonard in the short story "Fire in the Hole" and some of his other novels. Through seven weeks, first-run episodes of Justified are averaging 3.4 million viewers and 1.7 million Adults 18-49.  The weekly multi-run average viewership for the series is 7.5 million total viewers and 3.9 million Adults 18-49 (six episodes)....
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Anchorman 2 and Zoolander 2 May Be Dead
After a period where they both looked likely to happen, sequels for two films that built cult followings on DVD now appear to have their fates in serious question. Both Anchorman 2 and Zoolander 2 are facing trouble due to budgetary concerns. Late last week Anchorman director Adam McKay tweeted an update on the state of the sequel that he and Will Ferrell had been hoping to achieve. Paramount passed on it despite attempts to reduce the budget for the film. Paramount owns the rights to Ancho...
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Padrecast: UFC Demo Edition
The arrival of the demo for UFC 2010 Undisputed was the biggest development of the week and accounted for the majority of the discussion in the Padrecast. Below is just some of what is discussed in the 44 minute running time. Download the podcast directly from here or listen using the player below! Sports Gaming UFC 2010 demo thoughts Madden 11 changes kick meter and removes turbo button Grading the NFL Draft for Madden 11 Entertainment Horror franchises hoping to thrive with 3D ...
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