Posts Tagged ‘latest news’
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Weekend Box Office Predictions 3/12
After last weekend was dominated by the one release, as Alice in Wonderland raked in $116 million, this weekend there are four new films hitting theaters. Green Zone goes for the action crowd, Remember Me targets the teen females, and She's Out of My League provides the mainstream comedy while Our Family Wedding aimed at an urban crowd. None are expected to contend for the top spot as Alice should carry the weekend yet again. (more…)...
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Marcus Stephenson Moves To THQ For SvR
Some of you may already be familiar with Marcus Stephenson. He has been around for quite some time driving community initiatives or just being accessible within the community. After running a Madden fan site for years he took a position as a Community Manager at the EA Canada studio before moving between a few different projects, most notably as a Producer on NBA Live 10. He has now left the EA Sports studio and holds the position of Game Designer for WWE Smackdown vs Raw at THQ. I had the opp...
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Robert De Niro To Play Vince Lombardi
News has made its way out that Robert De Niro has signed on for the role of Vince Lombardi in the story about the legendary NFL coach. Lombardi is now in development with backing from ESPN and the NFL. The script is being written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, who has a stellar history which includes Benjamin Button, Munich, Ali, The Insider, and Forrest Gump. The movie is expected to cover the career of Vince Lombardi from the time he took over the Green Bay Packers through the events ...
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First Round NFL Mock Draft #3
This mock draft version follows the early days of free agency which resulted in some signings and trades that are likely to have altered draft strategies for multiple teams. This also continues to include thoughts coming out of the combine, though most of those notes were cited in the previous mock. Continue on for the "early in free agency" mock draft and leave your thoughts in the comments! (more…)...
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MLB 2K10 Patch Completed For 360
While MLB 10: The Show gamers lament the fact that a patch won't even start being worked on until the end of the month, 2K Sports has announced that they have completed a patch for MLB 2K10 and have submitted it to Microsoft for certification. That means it should be arriving within the next two weeks barring complications in the certification process. Details on what the patch entails have not been provided. Hopefully it includes toned down fielder arm strength, will fix the issue preventi...
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Wall Street 2 Release Pushed Back
Fox today announced a release date change for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Previously slated to come out on April 23rd it will now make its way into theaters on September 24th. It used to be that a delay of this nature was a sign of problems but that is no longer necessarily the case. Most recently Shutter Island was moved back over four months in order to better position itself in the marketplace. It went on to open with over $40 million and has made nearly $100 million through its fir...
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Madden 11 To Be “Simpler, Quicker, Deeper”
Coming out of a media event held yesterday are some hints towards the focus for Madden 11. While we now know that NCAA Football 11 is centered on "core experience, authenticity, and innovation" Madden is being described as "simpler, quicker, and deeper". Citing different statistics collected through Madden 10, including one that put the average game length at 63 minutes, EA Sports is hoping to compact that or provide options to ease the strain on gamers. An hour long is understandably just ...
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NHL 11 Coming to the Wii?
When it was finally confirmed last week that the NHL 2K series would be halted on the 360/PS3 it was stated that NHL 2K11 would in fact be released on the Wii. At the time it made sense considering the lesser development costs and having no competition on the casual heavy console. Now though it looks like that competition has arrived as a Walmart blog posting has revealed that EA Sports will be bringing NHL 11 to the Wii. EA is going to be bringing their NHL game to the Wii system this year f...
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