WWE ‘Monday Night Raw’ Recap – [3/26/12]
This week was the go-home show to ‘WrestleMania XXVIII,’ but with all the matches set and the stakes already escalated, ‘Monday Night Raw,’ felt mostly like bookkeeping and plate spinning.
This week was the go-home show to ‘WrestleMania XXVIII,’ but with all the matches set and the stakes already escalated, ‘Monday Night Raw,’ felt mostly like bookkeeping and plate spinning.
Developer Rovio has spared no expense promoting the latest iteration of their billion dollar franchise since announcing Angry Birds Space last month. An aggressive marketing campaign, involving big names you don’t usually associate with video games (such as NASA and National Geographic), promises an epic new space adventure for the Birds to embark on. But, does it live up to the hype?
It’s no stretch to say that 2012 has some of the best video games of all time. While we still suffer from a glut of video games before the holidays and right at the end of every year, game publishers are finally starting to learn to spread the releases out a bit. Thanks to stiff competition the first quarter of the year is starting to become a haven for gamers, with a ton of AAA titles released for all platforms.
I’m about halfway through a dark subway tunnel when I realize I’ve been here before. I had ended up back in the dark, dirty depths after nearly being asphyxiated in the dust storm currently raging outside, one of the many dangerous things in this new, post-apocalyptic world. I haven’t been in the city for a year since the disaster and the streets are still very familiar to me, but I never expected the subways to trigger a memory. But this one was more recent- I had been here only hours before. In fact, I realized that I had helped a starving woman at the end of the tunnel, giving her the food cans that she so desperately needed.
Less than two weeks out from WrestleMania XXVIII, and WWE finally appears to be turning up the gas on all its simmering storylines. This week’s Monday Night Raw was a solid two hours of entertainment, with some good wrestling, interesting story developments and not a single Divas match to suffer through! Keep reading as we run down the most important moments from this week’s show.
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In the likely event you’re not like us and don’t have the time to invest hours (and we mean solid hours) of your life into killing as many aliens as you can muster in ‘Mass Effect 3’, you might want to take a gander at ‘Mass Effect Infiltrator.’
All of this has happened before, and will happen again.
Like a grizzled veteran who rocks a shelf full of MVP trophies and is unthreatened by any up-and-comers on the farm system, ‘MLB 12: The Show‘ no longer has the eye of the tiger. Instead, it just coasts, does the awesome things you expect it to do and calls it a day.
The first taste of Marilyn Manson‘s ‘Born Villain’ is upon us in the form of the album’s debut single ‘No Reflection.’
All those ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books you read as a child have prepared you for ‘Mass Effect 3.’
‘Journey’ is a downloadable game, so it doesn’t have a box or manual. But if it did, all it would say is “Don’t stop believin’.”
The new trend is for game publishers with just-crazy-enough-to-work sequel ideas to release the games as bite-sized, stand-alone downloads that look and feel just like the disc-based games. That’s how ‘Red Dead Redemption’s’ straight-shooting cowboy John Marston ended up tangling with zombies in ‘Undead Nightmare’ and superhuman rail-surfer Cole Phelps of Infamous infamy ended up becoming a vampire in Festival of Blood