More Jobbers For Your 2K25 Game

Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/tyrese-haliburton-coming-to-wwe-2k25-as-part-of-dunk-destruction-dlc-pack/

So the big, delayed announcement for the WWE 2k25 video game that rarely gets mentioned around here involves a basketball player of some kind. One I’m sure is fairly popular and someone I should be familiar with if I were following sports… but I don’t, so I guess it’s another celebrity jobber.

Although to make the non-sportsball fans not feel like they’re wasting money on some sportsball guy, they’re tossing in The Great Khali and Abyss.

I’m sorry, but there’s only one guy you could have included that would have made me want to buy your overpriced game. And no, I’m not going to say his name…

The Braun Strowman Eating Show Debuts This Fall…

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/everything-on-the-menu-with-braun-strowman-set-to-premiere-on-usa-network-this-fall/

So Braun Strowman was recently released by WWE and no doubt is currently waiting his 90-day no-compete period. However, he will be featured in a new program on USA Network this fall, in which he ventures across America and consume copious amounts of food.

I’m not sure how much culinary experience Braun Strowman actually possesses. The most I got was this Bon Appetit video where he’s making a lobster roll and he’s competent enough to cook that, at least. So him having a show about eating food at different restaurants… hey, look, good on him. He’s got a good gig. I’d wish him success on this venture and hopefully, it turns into a nice side hustle for him… but they just recently released him and now I’m wondering if maybe this isn’t better off as a tax write-off… unless you plan on giving the guy a nostalgia deal or something.

Anyway, it airs on USA this fall. Probably not airing around my neck of the woods, but if it did… maybe I’d give it a shot if it popped up on my TV… anyway, all the best to Braun Strowman in whatever he does going forward.

Big (Super Mario) Brother Is Watching You

Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/05/nintendo-may-record-video-and-audio-from-gamechat-sessions-on-switch-2

Hey, remember when Xbox One was supposed to include their Kinect motion capture gimmick as part of the package and everyone threw a fit because they didn’t want a “spy camera” as part of their video game console? Well, Nintendo is taking it a step further and may possibly record your video and audio chatting sessions.

But I guess everyone is okay with that because it’s Nintendo…

And then people wonder why the gaming industry has gone to shit.

In Hindsight…

I wish that Atari had bought Activision…

Sure, they probably couldn’t handle Call of Duty…

But think of all those wonderful 2600 games they could have brought back to the fold.

Pitfall, River Raid, Keystone Kapers, Enduro…

Yes, even Dragster deserves another chance to shine…

But no, let’s give it to Microsoft so that Nintendo can get back Battletoads or something.

Fuck off.

Bye.

WWF Backlash 2002

“Hulkamania is alive! Well, so is communism in China and crotch rot,
and no one’s real thrilled about them, either.”
Scott Keith, 2002

Someone had sent a question via the question box gimmick on the blog’s side bar thing about how I had felt when Hulk Hogan had won the WWF Championship in 2002.

For those who need context, WWF Wrestlemania X-8 featured the marquee match of The Rock facing off against Hollywood Hulk Hogan, where the heel Hogan was cheered by the Toronto crowd while the normally babyface Rock was booed heavily. This resulted in a resurgence of popularity that saw Hogan break away from the WWF version of the nWo (another story for another time), bring back Jimi Hendrix as an entrance theme (before it got redubbed with Real American in the replays), and go back to the ol’ red and yellow… while keeping the Hollywood Hogan five o’clock shadow. This nostalgia run, as it were, somehow resulted in a PPV main event that saw Hogan challenge for the Undisputed WWF Championship, which was being held by McSon-In-Law, who won the title at Mania from Chris Jericho in what can be generously described as an anemic main event.

The thought then occurred to me that it’s been years since I’ve seen the Backlash show in which that match took place. And while the WWE Network is kaput, the show is on Netflix… but I also have my old DVD recording of the PPV from back in the day and since I prefer Voodoo Child over Real American as a Hogan theme – hell, I’d take American Made over Real American – I went with that instead.

And yes, I will get this out of the way. Backlash 2002 is a largely terrible show because WWF in 2002 was the drizzling shits that wouldn’t get better… but at the very least, it gives me stuff to talk about. Granted, I could have watched the Backlash show that took place last weekend, but really, other than the 738,909,251,831,862,583,019th match between John Cena and Randy Orton,  there was nothing on that show that made me go, “Yes, I want to watch this.” So you get this, instead.

See? We both suffer… that’s how life works around here. Anyway, moving right along…

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