WWE ’12 is a game that theoretically should have been awesome. Between throwing someone through a table or a totally sweet cage match, this should be a great party/fighting game. Unfortunately, the controls keep amateurs out of the ring and given the way WWE ’12 is designed, you will be explaining what every button does each time you play with someone new. More »
The latest playable version of THQ’s grapple-happy sports entertainment franchise packs in more legends, ladders and leg drops than ever before. Not happy with the storylines on Monday Night Raw? Wish the some up-and-comer was getting a bigger push? You can make it happen for yourself when the game hits stores next week.
Randy “Macho Man” Savage died in a car wreck in May, two months after ending an estrangement with the WWE/F by appearing in THQ’s WWE Superstars. Savage, one of the greatest superstars in professional wrestling history, will also appear in the series’ flagship video game WWE 12 when it releases its Legends stable of wrestlers in January. More »
The video website Vimeo is a good place to find video game trailers, clips of people flying Wii Remote-powered drones and people having Kinect mishaps. It’s a place where folks upload their create-a-wrestler for WWE video games. That brings us today’s random finding: the work of one Tommy Else, who used WWE Raw 2 a 2003 Xbox game that had Bill Goldberg on the cover, to create some celebrity wrestlers. More »
Back in May, one rasslin’ fan from Spokane brought a 3DS to the WWE. In November, THQ will bring the WWE to the 3DS. More »
I often wonder just how much of my interest in wrestling games is directly proportionate to how I feel about wrestling itself – surely there must be a connection. I’ve drifted in and out of wrestling fandom, but have always enjoyed the games most when I’m actually engaged in what’s going on in the show itself. More »
In 1994, the WWF and an emotional Vince McMahon bid farewell to hall-of-fame wrestler Randy Savage. On March 29, the Macho Man ends a 16-year estrangement from the wrestling circuit with his appearance in THQ’s WWE All-Stars. More »
