IGN Says: Grab your steel chair, elbow pads, and Magic Marker-laden poster board -- the SmackDown Countdown is finally here.

For eight years IGN's been teaming with THQ to bring you videos, screens, and information for every playable character in the latest WWE video game, and this year is no different -- except for the fact that it's very different. Rather than hand you the entire roster at the onset of this feature and then profiling the people on it day by day, we're going to give you the roster one person at a time.
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Sep 3, 2008

The SmackDown Countdown: Finlay

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PS3 - WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2009 - The SmackDown Countdown: Finlay

Grab your steel chair, elbow pads, and Magic Marker-laden poster board -- the SmackDown Countdown is finally here.

For eight years IGN's been teaming with THQ to bring you videos, screens, and information for every playable character in the latest WWE video game, and this year is no different -- except for the fact that it's very different. Rather than hand you the entire roster at the onset of this feature and then profiling the people on it day by day, we're going to give you the roster one person at a time.

That's right; every day we'll be announcing a new character in the game.
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Sep 1, 2008

The SmackDown Countdown: Santino Marella; The Intercontinental Champion starts the day-by-day reveal of the SVR 09 roster.

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PS3 - WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2009 - The SmackDown Countdown: Santino Marella; The Intercontinental Champion starts the day-by-day reveal of the SVR 09 roster.

Aug 9, 2008

WWE star wants "more violence" in games

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PS3 - WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2009 - WWE star wants "more violence" in games

WWE man-mountain Randy Orton last night became an unlikely defender of the industry's creative freedoms, urging developers to fight back against critics with a rallying cry for "more violence" in videogames.
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Jul 4, 2008

Triple H and Shawn Michaels named as WWE cover stars

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PS3 - WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2009 - Triple H and Shawn Michaels named as WWE cover stars

Videogamer reports that the WWE headliners will be appearing on the cover art for WWE SmackDown vs RAW 2009.

THQ and Jakks Pacific have today announced that WWE superstars Tripple H and Shawn Michaels will be featured on the cover of WWE SmackDown vs RAW 2009. This is the fifth time Triple H has appeared on a cover for a WWE video game, while Shawn Michaels will make his cover debut.
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Apr 21, 2008

WWE SmackDown! vs Clinton vs Obama

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Because the Democrats have taken so long to nominate their bid for the presidency (of the United States), THQ and the WWE have taken it upon themselves to settle the battle once and for all. Tonight on USA’s Monday Night RAW, it has been hinted that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will meet... in a wrestling ring. To demonstrate what the two might look like, THQ has rendered wrestling entrances for both political figures ... » Read More

Apr 10, 2008

THQ responds to "trash talking" Kurt Angle

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PS3 - WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2009 - THQ responds to

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 publisher THQ has dismissed comments from TNA wrestling star Kurt Angle that its game "is going to look like all the other games in the past", labelling it "trash talk".
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Apr 3, 2008

THQ confirms fiscal 2009 video game line-up

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PS3 - WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2009 - THQ confirms fiscal 2009 video game line-up

THQ has today unveiled the key titles that will form the publisher's fiscal 2009 video game line-up. Scheduled for release in the 12-month period ending March 31, 2009 are a range of new editions to existing franchises, new original games and social and party titles.

Gamers can look forward to new editions of multi-million unit franchises, including Saints Row 2, Red Faction: Geurrilla and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009. All new video game titles on the way include Darksiders: Wrath of War, Deadly Creatures and de Blob. Additionally THQ plans to release new social and party games for the Wii, including Battle of the Bands and Big Beach Sports.
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Mar 28, 2008

IGN-First Interview: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009

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PS3 - WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2009 - IGN-First Interview: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009

From IGN- "Cory Ledesma is the Vince McMahon of THQ's SmackDown vs. Raw franchise. No -- to our knowledge -- he doesn't make a public spectacle out of firing his underlings, fighting his coworkers in steel cages or having a bizarre relationship with Hornswoggle, but if you wanted to know exactly what was happening with the WWE, you'd ask Vince, and if you wanted to know exactly what's up with THQ's annual grappler, you'd ask Cory, the title's senior creative manager."
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