The Daily ‘Shroom – 1/17/07
- TransFormers World 2005, via The Allspark, has some new, color images of the Fast Action Battlers Ironhide and Optimus Prime from the movie toyline.Looking pretty slick, can’t wait to see the full-size figures in full color.
- …such as the Decepticon, Blackout.
- IGN has some new images showing off Peter Parker’s return to the infamous black Spider-Man costume, starting in February.The implications are that during Civil War, or even its aftermath, something bad happens… but what?
- Rumors have been flying lately about a new Ghostbusters game for the XBox 360 in development, but the question to accompany the videos and screenshots seen has been, “is this for real?”IGN of the UK can happily assure you that it is indeed for real… but also, on hold, due to licensing issues.
In the meantime, however, the team isn’t remaining idle as they are working on TimeO:
The game follows the adventures of two die-hard New Yorkers. They get trapped deep in the shadow world of a parallel New York. The city itself is a war machine threatening to wipe out our world and they have three days to stop it. As soon as the Ghostbusters IP issue is resolved, the whole team will go back to Ghostbusters.”
With any luck, maybe the game will be good enough to send other developers after older movie licenses, perhaps to allow a good licensed game to be made without the issues that deadlines of current movies impose.
Back To The Future, anyone?
- Evil Avatar reports that there is an interest in feedback about XBox Live and its services.Should be interesting. Unless higher than 85% of the feedback involves microtransactions such as EA implements. Then it’s just funny.
- Good news for the Wii-less Canuck… “many” Future Shops are putting new stock out later today.
- And evidently, Best Buy is carrying that same torch for We The People.
- I don’t know whether to earmark this as sad news, or justice served. In any event, Go Nintendo has linked a follow-up story regarding the lady who died from water intoxication while trying to win a radio contest so she could get a Wii for her young’uns.Apparently, 10 people were fired from the station on Tuesday, including 3 DJs.
Despite the tragedy, I can’t help but feel a bit bad for the 10 fired. From where I sit, it looks like an accident born purely of ignorance, but an innocent sort of ignorance. Now (assuming they have families), they have the burden of unemployment on top of perhaps that of guilt from the incident.
Perhaps it’s simply my own currently-unemployed status affecting my opinion, but I can still feel for that.
Here’s hoping that things can work out as well as possible at this point.
- Remember how cool it was to design your own courses in Excitebike? Yeah, most of us did nothing but place one giant ramp after another, but dammit, these were OUR ramps! And they were cool!Well, unknown to Go Nintendo (and myself), the website for Diddy Kong Racing DS has revealed some tantalizing new info, including the following:
* Wish Race mode gives you complete freedom to design, build, and race on the track of your dreams, thanks to excellent use of Touch Screen controls. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection compatibility lets you share your work of genius with everyone. Of course!
NOW we are talking, ladies and gentlemen!
I missed out on the N64 iteration of this game, and there are quite a few changes, but I’d still like to give it a go. Hopefully, the WiFi will be better than the “WTF”-ness of Mario Kart DS.
Pity that Banjo and Conker couldn’t stick around, though.
- Hotel Dusk is a game I’ve spoken very little about, but have a sort of peripheral curiousity about.Fortunately for me, GN reports their website has just seen a major update, so maybe I can look into it a bit more.
- New screens have surfaced for TMNT for the PS2.
- Hmm, so SEGA is going to stop producing the Dreamcast GD-ROM, eh?I wonder if this will have any bearing on that Segagaga translation project I’d heard about…
- “IGN picks PS3 as best new console of 2006.”…
…don’t look to me for comment, I’m just stunned.
- Hmm, I wonder if Jack Thompson’s booked a flight to Germany after hearing about this…
- Iron Man has a major motion picture coming soon… but is it “The End” for him already?
- Bone creator Jeff Smith taking on Shazam? Sounds great to me!
- And finally, the fifth New Avenger is…
–LBD “Nytetrayn”