Nascar 2011’s Free DLC is Only $2 on 360; Patch May Actually Arrive This Year
Nascar 2011: The Game released in disastrous condition back at the end of March. The game was not ready to release and was pushed out by Activision at the end of Q4 in order to keep it from sliding into the new financial year. Numerous severe bugs and broken online play dominated discussion around release and has ever since amongst the crowd that bought it and the few who didn't abandon it soon after.
It has now been nearly four months and the patch for Nascar 2011 still hasn't arrived. D...
Madden NFL 12: Players Rated 99 Overall
EA Sports is beginning to release some player ratings for Madden NFL 12 and is expected to stretch the process out over the next month. That has started by identifying the 99 overall rated players. Patriots QB Tom Brady, Chargers TE Antonio Gates, Steelers SS Troy Polamalu, and Jets CB Darrelle Revis are the four that will begin the 2011-2012 season with the coveted 99.
Missing from the group is Peyton Manning who finally lost his 99 rating in a roster update last season and doesn't get i...
Teaser Trailer for The Dark Knight Rises
Being attached to screens of Harry Potter brought the debut of the first teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. Warner Bros. has now released the trailer online. Starring Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Gary Oldman and directed by Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight Rises is slated to hit theaters on July 20th 2012.
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NCAA Football 12 Dynasty Problems Surface
With NCAA Football 12 having now been out for nearly a week reports are starting to come in on issues discovered within Dynasty mode. Outside of the exception of the absurd wait time for advancing Online Dynasty each 'week' and some problems progressing when utilizing Teambuilder squads the mode looked to be relatively clean on the surface with good sim stats and the Custom Conferences and Coaching Carousel working properly. (more…)...
The Line Drive 7/17
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings.
•Madden NFL 12 player traits for Terrelle Pryor. If you somehow happened to miss it check out the 225 trait screens grabbed at E3 (AFC, NFC).
•A bunch of new shots from NHL 12 in the gallery or FB album.
•THQ is working on a bizarre new WWE-branded fighting franchise with some footage here.
•2K has dropped the price on its upcoming...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Breaks Pretty Much Every Box Office Record
The opening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 shattered just about every record it possibly could at the box office this weekend. It crushed the midnight record topping Twilight: Eclipse, it had no problem at all taking the first day record from Twilight: New Moon, had the highest grossing Friday ever, and sailed past The Dark Knight for the most coveted domestic record - largest opening weekend in history.
Tallies amounted to $43.5 million for midnight showings, $92.1 milli...
Sales of NBA 2K11 Reach Ninth Straight Month Charting in Top Ten
Official sales numbers for June have been released and NBA 2K11 came in 7th place for the month and was the only sports title to appear. Its consistency has been startling, topping the charts when released in October and floating between 4th and 10th ever since. With the NBA season complete, the lockout on, and the release of NCAA Football 12 it seems likely to finally fall out of the top ten in July but that won't at all diminish what it has accomplished. (more…)...
Trailer for The Thing
Universal has released the first trailer for The Thing. A prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 film of the same name the movie stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton and has a release date set for October 14th.
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists.
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