Boomtown writes:
"For those readers of a younger age, I should inform you that wrestling never used to be the butt of jokes and endless ridicule. At one time it was a must-see show on a Saturday evening, and when the WWE (or WWF as it was back then) became 'sports entertainment', stars such as Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and Ultimate Warrior were real draws. Of course, it's all gone downhill since the end of the Attitude era, and now even hardened wrestling fans struggle to find enthusiasm for a form of entertainment that's become tired and seems to have run out of ideas."
The HITC Tech team write about what they're playing this weekend, including XCOM: Enemy Unknow, Banished, and L.A. Noire.
Christopher Buffa (Prima Games): News of Ultimate Warrior Jim Hellwig’s death left millions of wrestling fans, including myself, in shock. I never knew the man, but I loved the character. His electric entrance, running to the ring full blast and shaking the ropes, was adrenaline personified, while the outfit (multicolored face paint, neon tassels, different colored straps for his title belts) embodied the 90s. Critics often remark that his promos were illogical, but to kids, they made perfect sense. Fill the spaceship with rocket fuel? Trampled by elephants? Might as well be Shakespeare to a nine-year-old.
Despite what Wee Jimmy Krankie and the agony aunt section of men’s magazines might say to the contrary, size matters loads. Just ask any of these hulking goliaths. While some giants in popular culture are more concerned with shilling you canned sweetcorn than grinding your bones to make a wholemeal loaf, PlayStation’s gargantuan folk just want to trample, scoff or suplex you. Regardless of whether it’s a fallen god scrapping with his football field-sized granddad or a Skyrim beanpole who can mess you up more than any lag, none of these brutes exactly scream BFG.
article is from Feb? How this get posted again? Odd.