1. Allspark reports that new images of club-exclusive Astrotrain and Airazor are now available.
2. If you’re interested in seeing what the upcoming movie version of everyone’s favorite Autobot medic, Ratchet, looks like, then look no further.
3. And for those in Sweden who love oldschool robots in disguise, Classics have landed.
4. Latest from NinjaTurtles.com is that the new movie trailer will be available at MTV.com starting next Friday, and it’s also supposed to be showing with two holiday movies, Unaccompanied Minors and, as reported earlier, Eragon.
5. There is also a report there which says you can preorder the first season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward from Amazon for when it becomes available on the 6th of February.
6. New from Busta Toons Productions comes cereal:geek, a new magazine focused on animation from the 80s, and challenging your perceptions with all sorts of articles and materials such as artwork, storyboards, scripts, interviews, and even unseen production materials.

   Check it out, and if you want to be kept up-to-date on the magazine’s preparation, just submit your e-mail at the bottom.

7. GameTrailers, perhaps a bit belated in its timing, has offered up some new gameplay videos of Family Guy: The Game.
8. GT also has some videos of Easter Eggs in Wii’s Photo Channel.
9. If you thought THQ might take care of those nasty load times in their next PSP WWE title, I’m afraid there’s bad news… though not as bad as before.
10. Now this sort of thing is just eerie… a CNET editor has gone missing.
11. IGN has a little chat with ECW’s newest rising superstar, CM Punk.

    …huh, so that’s what they call it, “Straight Edge,” huh? I’m down with that.

12. To sling, or not to sling? That is the question Tobey Maguire addresses on the possibility of further Spider-man movies after the third outing.
13. EA has a lot to say about game costs lately, from crazy rising costs to wanting a cheaper PSP.
14. This makes me glad I don’t live in Michigan… stupid lawmakers…
15. Applause to Sony for dropping Gran Turismo HD in favor of a full-fledged GT5.
16. Ah, this is good. GameDaily presents the top 10 game gifts for people you hate.

    “Why get them a gift at all if you hate them so much?” you may be asking.

    Well, at least in the case of Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis, the product really is just that bad that to make them play it would cause them inspecific harm.

17. GD also looks at EGM’s new look, the PlayStation 3, and the news that Kutaragi may not have been promoted to get him out of the picture, but to groom him to head up all of Sony.

    “Crap. There goes the planet.”

18. It figures.

    Since working there, I’ve lost a lot of respect for Toys R Us. And with practices like this, is it any wonder why?

    Not that I cared for how things went for us there with the Wii launch, either…

19. N-Philes reviews some DS games, specifically Touch Detective and Elite Beat Agents.
20. So someone took that PS3 commercial with the eggs, replaced the PS3 with the Wii, and got this.

    I hate to sound like a shill, but it does make more sense. A lot more.

    Too bad they got the color wrong. Guess in that environment, though, it could not be helped.

    Go Nintendo has a side-by-side comparison.

21. onNintendo reports what this Monday will bring to Virtual Console.

    I might like to check me out some Ristar, I might…

22. Be warned when getting a Wii Points card… it might be empty.

    Makes me glad I just buy mine direct.

23. Go Nintendo asks about the various time of battery drainage in the Wii remote.
24. Reeve just threw this one at me… Jesus Christ almighty, and right in my own backyard at that…

    …and his little dog, too. That’s just so wrong, it’s not even funny.

25. Because Death Note rocks.

    I hope we get this here.

26. Go Nintendo and Gaming Target ask, can the Wii save adventure gaming?
27. To get a little more life out of your Wii pack-in, here are some Wii Sports secrets.

    On a related note, had the in-laws over for dinner tonight, and I got to show them Bowling and Golf, and the whole thing just blew their minds.

28. BC Gaming reviews Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All.
29. This past Friday’s episode of Spike TV’s Game Head with Reggie Fils-Aime is now available for viewing.
30. GN has a new Wario Ware: Smooth Moves video which takes place in the same stage as the “Classics” stage before, but with new footage.

    In the second game, check out Mario’s hand as he hits the block… do you see it? There are other funny nuances throughout as well.

31. MSTing NES games?

    They’re making me hungry…

32. I just love the line they use here:

    “Sony may be confident in their claim that ?next-gen starts when we say so,? but from the looks of it they misspelled Wii.”

33. For those who’ve waited, footage of the GameCube version of Twilight Princess.
34. Slashdot links to a Racketboy story on How Sega Ruined Sonic the Hedgehog.

    Sad to see so many of these kinds of articles on his fifteenth anniversary…

35. Another feature looks into the ideal length of games.
36. …even I wouldn’t wear this. At least, not unless a) you paid me handsomely, or b) I needed the protection.
37. Aww, I’d like a copy.

And sadly, that’s as far as I can go tonight, as work is pending quite soon. I’ll try and finish wrapping-up things later.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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