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New Japan Pro Wrestling's new owner says he wants to surpass WWE in popularity
Last week was a major game changer for the Japanese wrestling industry. The owners of Japan's largest wrestling company New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Yuke's, the developers of THQ's WWE videogames for over a decade, shockingly sold the promotion for just over $6.5 million to Bushiroad Group...
WWE '12 revamp turns around THQ's flagging game franchise
After seven years of the increasingly played out and irrelevant Smackdown vs. Raw concept and an aging game engine, THQ's WWE video game franchise was starting to look a bit old in the tooth and sales were beginning to flag. Perhaps a few years too late, THQ decided to massively overhaul their...
Is Chris Jericho working the boys over his WWE falling out?
In remarkably coincidental timing, as soon as the news leaked that supposedly Chris Jericho's contract negotiations to return to WWE had broken down, WWE started a viral marketing campaign, somewhat reminiscent of how they hyped Y2J's debut in 1999 and his first return to the company in 2007, to...
Brock Lesnar to appear in WWE '12 video game as hidden playable character
We knew there were reasons beyond what was explained when UFC President Dana White met with WWE head honcho Vince McMahon in the not to distant past. White claimed he was just picking the entertainment mogul's brain but did allude to the two doing a bit of business together without actually going...
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