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Fight Forever is a simple, unapologetic guilty pleasure

Posted by John Powell | Jun 28, 2023 | Grappling with Gaming

Ever since it was founded in 2018, AEW has presented itself as the alternative to the WWE not only...

AEW: Fight Forever coming June 29th

Posted by John Powell | May 22, 2023 | Grappling with Gaming

AEW’s first console game – Fight Forever – has a release date. AEW: Fight...

Journey of Wrestling puts the power in your hands

Posted by Amos Mina | Feb 1, 2023 | Grappling with Gaming

If there’s one thing I loved fondly about the old Smackdown vs Raw games it was spending hours...

Leave Big Bang Pro Wrestling in the past

Posted by John Powell | Apr 14, 2022 | Grappling with Gaming

Sometimes the past never grows old. Pull up many of the matches, events from the 1980s and the...

WWE 2K22 roster includes some surprising names, doesn’t include some others

Posted by Bob Kapur | Mar 1, 2022 | Grappling with Gaming

It’s (almost) time to play the game! The game, of course, being the newest edition of the...

A release date and more info on WWE 2K22

Posted by John Powell | Jan 20, 2022 | Grappling with Gaming, News

WWE 2K22 has a release date and more information about the next installment in the series has been...

Wrestling Empire is a beautiful disaster

Posted by John Powell | Jan 29, 2021 | Grappling with Gaming

Mat Dickie, also known as MDickie, is back. The rebel and independent video game developer and...

WWE Battlegrounds has the best of both worlds

Posted by John Powell | Sep 22, 2020 | Grappling with Gaming, News

When the news first broke that 2K Sports and Saber Interactive were working on an arcade-like...

WWE 2K20 details revealed

Posted by John Powell | Aug 5, 2019 | Grappling with Gaming

The Four Horsewomen will be taking centre stage in WWE 2K20. Fans will be able to relive the...

New WWE Immortals game amps up the violence

Posted by John Powell | Jan 15, 2015 | Grappling with Gaming

“Finish him!” never seemed more appropriate. Mirroring the DC Comics fighting game...

WWE SuperCard an addictive new game

Posted by John Powell | Aug 21, 2014 | Grappling with Gaming

What’s better than … Gotta catch ’em all? How about … Gotta pin ’em...

Historic rivalries to dominate WWE 2K15

Posted by John Powell | Aug 11, 2014 | Grappling with Gaming

The WWE’s most historic rivalries will be in the spotlight of WWE 2K15’s campaign mode. The feuds...

WWE 2K14 stays on track

Posted by Jon Waldman | Nov 8, 2013 | Grappling with Gaming

When you’ve played a video game series for over a decade, at times you get the feeling of...

Amidst bankruptcy news, THQ brings the Attitude back in WWE ’13

Posted by Jon Waldman | Dec 20, 2012 | Grappling with Gaming

It’s a cruel twist of fate sometimes in the journalism world. The day you launch a...

WWE ’13 full of Attitude and more

Posted by Matthew Asher | Nov 6, 2012 | Grappling with Gaming

Every year when the newest WWE video game is released, the big question is which classic wrestlers...

Yes! Raw GM A.J. is sure enjoying her role

Posted by Pat Laprade | Aug 29, 2012 | Interviews

Raw General Manager AJ Lee is really having a breakout year with the World Wrestling...

WWE ’12 takes gaming to the next level

Posted by Jon Waldman | Dec 3, 2011 | Grappling with Gaming

For a couple weeks now, I’ve had the privilege of playing what I now consider to be my new...

Three shots at WWE All-Stars

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Nov 14, 2011 | Grappling with Gaming

By JON WALDMAN, MARSHALL WARD and COLIN HUNTER – SlamWrestling As we get close to WWE...

A look ahead to ‘WWE ’12’: Bigger, badder, better

Posted by SHAWN MAREK -- DVD/Video Game Reviewer, Monday Night Mayhem | Aug 16, 2011 | Grappling with Gaming

LOS ANGELES — The roster for the annual WWE video game franchise was unveiled this past...

Jey Uso holds off legends, Divas to win THQ WrestleMania Superstar Challenge

Posted by Nick Tylwalk | Apr 2, 2011 | Grappling with Gaming, Interviews, WrestleMania

ATLANTA – A small but real bit of WrestleMania history was almost made at Axxess on Friday...

Ex-grappler is Nintendo Model

Posted by Steven Johnson | Feb 16, 2011 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Grappling with Gaming, Interviews

Want to work out with a pro wrestler? If you’re sweating to the popular Nintendo Wii Fit...

New edition of Smackdown vs. Raw divides reviewers

Posted by Jon Waldman | Nov 18, 2010 | Grappling with Gaming

The 2011 version of Smackdown vs. Raw is out, and we thought it appropriate to set two old-school...

Mat Matters: THQ’s No Mercy – a retrospective

Posted by Jon Waldman | Aug 11, 2010 | Grappling with Gaming, Opinion

It seems hard to believe, but it has already been 10 years since wrestling video game perfection...

Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 is great portable fun

Posted by Russ Cohen | Dec 9, 2009 | Grappling with Gaming

I recently had a chance to review Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 for the Nintendo DS and I have to say...

Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 looks to continue THQ hot streak

Posted by Jon Waldman | Oct 20, 2009 | Grappling with Gaming

It’s hard to say, at times, why sports genre gamers will pick up a new edition of their...

PS3’s Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 has plusses and minuses

Posted by Russ Cohen | Nov 27, 2008 | Grappling with Gaming

Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 for Playstation 3 has many more pluses than minuses and at the end of the...

TNA impressive on PS3

Posted by Russ Cohen | Sep 30, 2008 | Grappling with Gaming

TNA, Total Nonstop Action wrestling, has finally gotten a video game and when you get a company...

Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 tops its predecessors

Posted by CHRIS SOKOL | Dec 21, 2006 | Grappling with Gaming

The latest installment in the Raw vs. SmackDown! video game series, Raw vs. SmackDown! 2007, has...

New Smackdown Vs Raw 2007 best sim yet

Posted by John Powell | Nov 30, 2006 | Grappling with Gaming

We’ve all read about the legal troubles between THQ and World Wrestling Entertainment. With...

Smackdown vs. Raw ’06 a success

Posted by Jon Waldman | Dec 15, 2005 | Grappling with Gaming

Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 has hit stores across the world, and, without being too dramatic, this may...

Getting into the SmackDown vs Raw game with THQ’s designer

Posted by Jon Waldman | Nov 24, 2005 | Grappling with Gaming, Interviews

What new gameplay is in the SmackDown vs Raw 2006 game for Playstation 2? What goodies await...

Def Jam rocks despite flaws

Posted by Jon Waldman | Jun 2, 2003 | Grappling with Gaming

Title: Def Jam Vendetta Company: EA Sports BIG Platform reviewed on: Playstation2 One of the most...

‘WWE Crush Hour’ a different take on wrestling gaming

Posted by Jon Waldman | May 8, 2003 | Grappling with Gaming

WWE has decided to put out a non-wrestling game called “WWE Crush Hour”, with the help...

‘Lego Men’ rule Tag Team Wrestling

Posted by Jon Waldman | Mar 7, 2002 | Grappling with Gaming

Tag Team Pro Wrestling 1986 Data East/Namco Since we took a look at the first wrestling game...

Dreamer high on ECW video game

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Feb 16, 2000 | Grappling with Gaming, Interviews

By VINNIE BARTILUCCI — For SLAM! Wrestling Tommy Dreamer, ‘The Innovator of...

WrestleMania 2000 game, the best there is…

Posted by John Powell | Dec 16, 1999 | Grappling with Gaming

WrestleMania 2000 packs more punch than a Stone Cold Stunner. THQ has blended the very best aspects of the finest wrestling games ever designed: WCW / nWo Revenge and the Japanese import, Super Fire Prowrestling X Premium. Take...

Revenge is too sweeeet!

Posted by John Powell | Nov 13, 1998 | Grappling with Gaming

Have you ever wanted to brain Eric Bischoff with a steel chair? I know I have. How about win the WCW tag belts as Bret Hart and Jim Niedhart, the original Hart Foundation? Wouldn’t you just like to pin...

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