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WWE News: Eugene, Mysterio, Review of Raw vs. Smackdown 2007 for Wii, Baby Controversy Oct 19, 2007 - 2:41:08 PM
-The former Eugene Dinsmore, now wrestling as U-Gene on the indy scene, is booked for a Nov. 9 EWF event in Marion, Ind. For more, visit EWFArena.com.
-The Kansas City Star features a huge pic of Rey Mysterio's face in a brief blurb on WWE coming to town and being the first weeknight event at the new Sprint Center arena. Click Here. [Thanks to PWTorch.com reader Robert Taylor]
-WWE got some bad pub in the UK over more than confiscating all fan signs in Birmingham. The Belfast Telegraph reports that a family was upset they had to buy a full priced ticket for their five month old. They said their baby didn't need a separate seat, and for previous events at the Odyssey Arena, they never had to buy a separate ticket. WWE police, though, is even babies pay full price. Full Story
-The Wiire, which reviews video games for The Wii, has a new review posted yesterday of the Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 game, with mixed thoughts on the graphics. Excerpt: "What really jumps out are the god-awful 3-D characters in the crowd. Imagine a lacking Nintendo 64 game blown up on a large television. Actually, imagine a cheap DS game blown up on a television. Quite possibly the worst designs in the 21st century, crowd models are horribly disfigured and look like something from a Silent Hill movie. Fortunately, the models of the playable wrestlers are wonderful. There's a great deal of detail in every character, but the background severely suffers because of it. Why they bothered to make these people at all, I'll never know. If the final product has no one in the audience, be thankful... They aren't perfect yet - there's a lot of mindless flailing so far. But in the end, the graphical downgrade from the 360 and PS3 is worth the revolutionary new way to fight: with your hands, not your thumbs." Full Review.
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