Tuesday news and notes
- Madden 08 is being re-released in a spanish language version for the Playstation 2 and Xbox 360. It sounds like a really cool idea, as they’ve managed to get the Spanish announcer for MNF to do the commentary. The bad news is that they have another cover athlete, Luis Castillo, to subject to the cover jinx.
- A demo for WWE Smackdown versus Raw 2008 is out on Xbox Live this morning. The last console wrestling games that I played were the WCW games for the N64, which were a ton of fun to play. Any reason to look at them again?
The last handheld wrestling game that I played was the Fire Pro series for the Gameboy Advance and those were great. It’s nice to see that there is going to be a new Fire Pro game released on the Playstation 2 later this year and at a budget price as well.
- Disney is doing a buy 1 get 1 free promotion for all of their Blu-Ray titles this week (probably to combat Transformers being released today.) From what I’ve seen Amazon has the best pricing on them this week and I was able to pick up Chicken Little for my daughter as well as a movie for myself for less than $25. Not bad for High Def pricing.
Also, people have had a lot of luck picking up HD DVD’s at Circuit City, getting buy 1 get 1 pricing on those as well. If you’re looking to build up your HD movie collection, it’s looking like a decent week to do just that.
Edit: Picked up Transformers and V for Vendetta in HD for $27.50. That’s a great deal.
- Has there ever been a team as hot as the Colorado Rockies in the MLB playoffs? They’ve lost 1 game in their last 22… that’s just plain crazy.