Video Blips: SmackDown vs. Raw 2011, Combat Arms, Super Scribblenauts, and More

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Halloween is shambling around the corner, so you know what that means: an increasing supply of spooky videos ranging from excitingly monstrous to downright creepy. And yes, WWE's Bret "Hit Man" Hart falls squarely in the latter category.

Video Blips:

• Those who purchase WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 can add Bret Hart to their roster. I guarantee you won't find a better showman than someone who regularly sports polarized sunglasses indoors and wears pink spandex.

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Continue after the break for a ghoulish Combat Arms map, a look at Super Scribblenauts' improved controls, and some seriously pumpkin-hating Angry Birds.

 

• Shoot through legions of undead as you escape the dank mines of Combat Arms' new "Black Lung" map. Things would've gone differently for those trapped Chilean miners if they were loaded for bear and had gobs of zombies to occupy their time.

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• Super Sribblenauts Creative Director Jeremiah Slaczka promotes the game's refined controls. This trailer's charm vanished the moment I realized that the mouth of Slaczka's avatar had been horribly glued shut somehow.

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• A flock of rotund Angry Birds wants to knock down a bunch of Halloween-themed buildings for some reason. Obviously they're heeding the ancient Jedi mantra of "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hurling your mortal self against assorted structures."

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