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.
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.
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.
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.
Rumored last week when an ad appeared in WWE magazine
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…
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") and …
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…
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.]
It began, as so many things do, with sweaty men in tight underpants. And they wore masks. Let's not forget the masks. Lucha Libre masks. Those masks might have started in Mexican professional wrestling, but they live on in Japan, whether that be in fashion, manga, pornos and, yes, video games.
Back in May, one rasslin' fan from Spokane brought a 3DS to the WWE.
Yuzuki Aikawa made her name as a pin-up model, appearing in glossies. The curvy bikini model also worked as a race queen, before joining an idol group and releasing a CD. Then she did something unexpected. She got her ass kicked.
Gymnasium/ballroom/armory pro wrestling is a beautiful thing. A beautifully cheesy thing. This combatant from Hawaii, "Kenryu Takadoki", has shed all pretense of trying to become noticed and promoted to a bigger circuit because, hey, they're way out in Hawaii. So why not go with a repertoire based on Street Fighter…
Jerry "The King" Lawler and WWE superstar "The Miz" will in a couple of hours reveal the full roster of legends and superstars for WWE 12, live from Summerslam Fan Axxess at 4 p.m. EDT. You can follow it though this live streaming link.
Friday, Totilo noticed someone sitting ringside with a 3DS
On Smackdown last night, WWE rasslers Christian and Sheamus finally adjudicated matters inside the ring, and one fan captured the magic moment with an Aqua Blue 3DS, seen here. I bet this does indeed look lovely in 3D.
Being a successful professional wrestler takes more than having the right moves in the ring, and no one knows that better than the legendary Hulk Hogan. That's why the Kinect-powered Hulk Hogan's Main Event focuses as much on winning the crowd as it does winning the match.
At a little over five feet and weighing a mere 110 pounds, twenty-six year-old Moeka Haruhi (above, boot to face) is a star in Japanese women's pro wrestling. Her anime and game-themed ring gear have made her a fan favorite. But one fan took things too far.
Everything is now digital. This sentence, for example, doesn't exist in tangible space. But there was a time when you could reach out and touch everything. There was a time when paper was king.
One could forgive a child of 1991 if he were to look at a photo of Captain Lou Albano and say, "That's Super Mario," or a teenager from 1986 if he were to say, "That's Cyndi Lauper's dad." [Deadspin
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.
The Rock's been a bad boy this year and Saint Nick's gonna give him a big lump of coal. From THQ and its arcade wrestling title, WWE All-Stars, due next year.
A classic Lex Luger skin (pictured), and The Nexus stable's Wade Barrett, David Otunga and Justin Gabriel are included in the latest DLC extension for WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, available now on the PS3 and Xbox 360's download services.
Calling pro wrestling "fake" is neither accurate nor informed. The term is "kayfabe."
Performing a body slam from the top ropes onto the back of the bandwagon, THQ is readying their own game-specific control accessory, to be added to the pile in 2010.
Another publisher is throwing its hat in the wrestling game ring, thanks to newbie Slang's AAA: El Videojuego, an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 grappler based on the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración license.
A NeoGAFfer working from lists of previously confirmed characters, plus images he says will be released by IGN and WWE, has come up with at least 42 playable characters in Legends of Wrestlemania.
Hiding from your enemies in a cardboard box doesn't work too spectacularly in the real world, or even in Metal Gear Solid, but it works in the squared circle, as proven by Akiba Pro Wrestling.
