This is probably a joke. Or maybe a sad reality. But it'd make a great wrestling storyline. » 7/14/14 11:30am 7/14/14 11:30am

Oakland's Hoodslam indie wrestling events, which we've actually covered before, outdid themselves over the weekend with theatrically combative tributes to not just Street Fighter, but Zelda as well. » 7/07/14 10:00pm 7/07/14 10:00pm

Yui Yokoyama is a member of cutesy Japanese idol group AKB48. And she can probably dropkick you silly. » 6/03/14 5:00am 6/03/14 5:00am

In pro wrestling, the moves may be fake choreographed, but the glittering gold-and-leather championship belts are very real. And while most of what happens at the WWE comes out of an enormously wealthy corporate powerhouse, CNN Money shows us the humble origins of those testosterone-cherished waist trophies: Dave… » 5/24/14 5:01pm 5/24/14 5:01pm

The WWE is reporting that The Ultimate Warrior (born James Brian Hellwig), has passed away at the age of 54. Just days ago, he was present at Wrestlemania 30. » 4/09/14 12:02am 4/09/14 12:02am

There's no better way to beat The Rock than with a custom, skinny Conan character. Conan O'Brien is back with "Clueless Gamer" and this time he plays WWE 2K14. I'm glad they've spent time with the game's best feature: character customization. » 3/07/14 9:30am 3/07/14 9:30am

Twenty-five years ago my best friend and I set up a wrestling ring in my basement—four barstools for the turnbuckles, some old mattresses for the canvas. The actual wrestling we did was hesitant, unplanned and uncompelling. But man, the stuff we did out of the ring makes me smile to this day. » 11/04/13 4:48pm 11/04/13 4:48pm

Street Fighter was real. At least, it was for one night earlier this year, as Oakland's wrestling crew at Hoodslam took on Capcom's fighter and put it in the ring. » 10/16/13 3:30am 10/16/13 3:30am

WWE 2K14 will deliver more than 45 all-time great bouts and a roster loaded with Wrestlemania's greatest superstars in a showcase mode that pays tribute to three decades of wrestling's premier spectacle. » 8/12/13 11:00am 8/12/13 11:00am

There's no rule against using ladders as weapons in wrestling, but that's not how you do it! Climbing it might also be problematic, even if it's just WWE '13 and not reality. » 7/16/13 8:30am 7/16/13 8:30am

In February on r/SquaredCircle, Reddit's pro wrestling forum, one poster kicked off a "prediction series," asking users to pick who they expected to win at that week's Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event. The winner was a user named "Dolphins1925," who posted just minutes before the start of the event, and nailed… » 7/15/13 4:25pm 7/15/13 4:25pm

Rumored last week when an ad appeared in WWE magazine, it's now official: The Ultimate Warrior will be making his first-ever appearance in the 13-year run of what is now called WWE 2K14. The catch is he's only being offered—for now one guesses—as a preorder incentive. » 7/15/13 9:40am 7/15/13 9:40am

When it comes to Japanese developers, creating crazy, nice games isn't the only thing they're good at; they also design characters with pumped-to-the-max muscles, half of which don't even exist in real life and have the size of a truck. And they are all really serious about beating the hell out of everyone around them. » 2/13/13 8:00am 2/13/13 8:00am

Wrestle War is a Japanese wrestling game that was released in arcades in 1989 (and on Japanese and PAL Mega Drives a couple of years later).

Despite not carrying a single official license, it decided to rip off a number of high-profile wrestlers of the time, like Hulk Hogan (who was awesomely renamed "Titan Morgan")… » 7/11/12 11:30pm 7/11/12 11:30pm

That amazing place being the Super Mario Bros. Super Show » 2/14/12 12:00am 2/14/12 12:00am

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… » 11/16/11 11:00pm 11/16/11 11:00pm

Regional covers for sports video games are not uncommon, especially for titles like FIFA. (Madden, once upon a time, also had a Spanish edition). I don't know that it's ever been done for THQ's WWE series before now, though. [Update: It has. Several times.] » 10/08/11 6:00pm 10/08/11 6:00pm