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WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008 could bring fun wrestling games back to Nintendo
Remember way back during the days of the N64 when wrestling games were pretty much the most fun thing to play? You would talk so much trash to your friends, about how you could totally own them with Eric Bischoff and his, like, 5 different moves? Tossing your opponent outside the ring, only to rain down on them with chair strikes over and over and over ...Well, those were the days and, based on the embedded video past the post break, they could very well be returning. The video gives us a gameplay demonstration on how the Wiimote and nunchuk will work together and allow you to destroy your opponents in the ring.[via Gaming Age]
Download a demo, get free spam
No, we don't mean that if you download a demo you'll get free Spam, the delicious meat-like product. We mean that you'll get email spam, which is far less appetizing. That Game Blog details the nefarious doings of THQ*, makers of SmackDown Vs. RAW 2007. TGB received an email this morning, advertising the game and pointing them to the official SVR 2007 Myspace page. So, yeah, it was spam. The nefarious part is in small print at the top of the email: "You are receiving this email because you signed up for SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 product updates when you downloaded the game demo from Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace." See? Nefarious, right? Even more diabolical, this info is nowhere to be found on the demo's Marketplace description (we know, because we totally checked). Is Microsoft aware of this activity? Do you unwillingly agree to this kind of thing simply by signing up for Xbox Live? Granted, it's easy enough to unsubscribe from such emails, but we find the lack of disclosure a little alarming. Have any of our readers received this email, or others like it?[Thanks, jake]*Fun fact: THQ doesn't want you to know this -- because it would tarnish their manly image -- but the name of the company originally stood for Toy Headquarters.
BIH content, 9/28: big sweaty men edition
The Bringing It Home content train just keeps a' rollin'. Today we are blessed with another demo, Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007. The full list goes a little something like this:Tony Hawk's Project 8 trailerWheelman trailerFrontlines Fuel of War trailerX06 Game Montage videoCrossfire trailerWWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007Fable 2 theme (150 points)X06 theme (free)Also new today, Europe can finally download all Oblivion content packs (insert obligatory horse armor joke here). Oh, and we missed it last night, but there is now a Halo Wars theme (150 points) and picture pack (80 points) available.
