DrVenkman PhD

I'm quite hyped for the game. It's too bad they didn't give Steiner the Screwdriver as a special like they did Raw 2 (from what I hear) and WM19, eliminating all need for me to ever control him. I find the total lack of info about story mode puzzling as well. IGN supposedly has a 90% or so build in front of them, do they not? If they're not going to say anything about it, at least tease us with a photo of text. Edit: Well I found this on EBGames, who in turn took it from Gamespot. Enjoy!

A release date is for big money games that have big money ad campaigns and have the release date mentioned in the commercial (ex. Vice City last year kept saying the release date at the end of the commercials - I believe the 29th of October - and was shipped in advance to make sure it was out that day. SmackDown: Shut Your Mouth, though, was just "Coming Soon" in commercials (followed by "Now Available"). IT has no set release date and stores can sell it when ever it arrives to them.

But.. this game doesn't have a release date. See, games like Vice City or Mario Sunshine or what have you have a specific release date, where the game will arrive at the store and sit in the back, and be on shelves when the store opens the release day morning. From what I can tell, HCTP falls into the "Shipping Date" catergory, where it's shipped on the 28th and can arrive at stores any day between that day and the 30th. The past 2 SD! titles have always arrived at the EB here in Windsor, Ont 2 days past the shipping date, and I expect nothing less this year.

The game is scheduled to ship on the 28th so it should be available at my local EB here in Canada on the 30th, 31st at the latest (and for once I hope it IS a day late... the 31st is a pay day.. but I suppose if I go pre-order it I can pay for it now). However, I think we're a few days from THQ's annual "SmackDown is delayed 2 weeks" announcement. Hopefully we won't have one of those this year.

The commercial that aired between the new episode and the encore episode seemingly hinted it was the last episode, but we'll see in a week, but some sort of "After the Show" show episode would be cool.

Well then you KNOW it's happening for sure...

I don't why I just noticed this now, but it seems they removed ring announcing and commentary. They could never get commentary quite right (although SYM was a big improvement over JBI), but I always was a fan of the ring intodructions.

In my world, people listen to what the boss asks them to do.

I've determined Orton will actually win the title while HHH is away, beating Goldberg and accusing HHH of dropping the ball, setting up HHH vs Orton at Mania.

Oh shit I just figured it out... After Orton Legend Kills Flair and cuts an anti-HHH promo, he ends up winning the damn title by beating Goldberg. Meanwhile, HHH wins the RUmble, setting up Orton vs Trips for the title at Mania. Wow.

Disregarding Big Show, Steve Austin in 1997. Michaels would be the last heel to win it cleanly in 1995, though. Taking time off, to me, seems to be the time they'll bust out the New Evolution, with The Ort accusing Trips ofdropping the ball, kicking out Flair (Flair is a Legend, after all), and teaming up with Team Charisma, Maven, and possibly Batista.

The way this news should be good: Vince might realize people are not caring for him or Stephanie being in major angles or wrestling, and No Mercy will be the last big match for either of them in awhile (well, they'll probably still do Vince vs Taker.. but Stephanie stuff would be lessened). It also shows people aren't inerested in Undertaker main eventing. The way this news will be taken by Vince McMahon: Eddie Guerrero storylines shouldn't be show running, thus he should not ever main event. Brock Lesnar is a terrible champion, and Undertaker should go over at No Mercy. People don't like Cena, he shouldn't be in main events. A-Train didn't wrestle, so people tuned out. Edit: In my spin doctoring and defending of all things WWE, I've decided to blame this rating on the Baseball play-offs happening the same night as brand new episodes of Friends, Survivor, CSI, and whatever other popular garbage people watch on Thursday. No one is at fault!

Well, yesterday I noticed Rock stuff was under Edge stuff, but there was no entrance video. Sometimes I notice when I hit refresh or come back from watching one video, the whole list shuffles around, things get added or removed... I really don't understand how that page works at times.

Someone on IRC told me that, in shock of shocks, IGN actually posted the Wrestler of the Day DURING THE DAY instead of waiting until almsot 7pm when I'm gone to work. I'll have to check and see if I can access it, or if, as usual, I'll get a media page telling me about Edge and Booker T.

Eddie and Cena seem like good choices, although in a perfect world Benoit would be the guy to dethrone Lesnar at the Royal Rumble... the same night, Angle wins the Rumble, and we have our face vs. face ***** WMXX main event.

Good article. I never understood why Danny Davis went back to being knocked out in an instant after being able to wrestle.

I'm leaning towards the HHH stuff being in-character comments, or at the very least, comments me means but will get away with by saying they were in character.

Hooray! Anyway, anyone all psyched for today's WOD.. RODNEY MACK?!

Anyone going to post The Rock stuff? As usual, IGN's media page is telling me the most recent stuff posted involves Edge and Booker T, so I am a slave to IBM's updating of this thread with direct links.

Even WWE has acknowleged Flair wrestling before 1976 with that Confidential piece about the 1975 plane crash... something is up there, either a screw up in the date by WWE, misinformation from 1w (perish the thought), or the 'debut' in question refers to something else. Edit: "They mean his WWF/MSG debut, which is the earliest match they have the rights to".. ah yes, I recall WWE.com posting a story about Flair's short WWF (WWWF?) run in the 70s awhile back.

Shouldn't someone be ranting and raving about Angle doing the job about now? And where the hell is Keith, another "date"?

I'd like to suggest writing things for WrestlingDB.com in the User Article section, then plugging the hell out of it wherever you can to get people to read it.

Good work, Leonard. Now I have a question for you for the next one... Recently, I watched the movie "Piranha". The Moviepix website (the channel that shows older movies in Canada) claimed it was both a parody of Jaws and a comedy, but in watching the movie, it seemed to be a straight up horror movie about deadly fish that just happened to be unintentionally funny. A comment about it on IMDb also notes many people mistake it for a parody. Do you have any thoughts on the film and what it was trying to do? And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Joe Dante was involved with the movie, the same Joe Dante who changed the Gremlins from fearsome horror monsters into hilarious muppets. Could this be why people think it's supposed to be a parody? If you've never actually seen or heard of the movie, that's cool too. Your old GWP Wrestling pal, Steve.

I hear ya, but the Armageddon 2002 PPV was not split-branded, and it's supposed to be that set. I think it looks really great, myself.

The big news out of all of this is Haas's WGTT tights.