1. Over on the Castlevania: Dracula’s Curse movie blog, they ask the question of “why have movies based on video games been so bad?”
2. Penny Arcade pwnz Sony. Yeah. They pwn them so bad..

   I bet if Sony hired these guys to be their mouthpiece, Nintendo would be clobbered.

   Well, maybe not. All the same, it sounds like pretty basic marketing tact. Shouldn’t Sony guys know this stuff?

3. Daniel Radcliffe talks a bit about the future of Harry Potter.

   Radcliffe was asked during an interview with The Guardian whether he is committed to appearing in the seventh and final film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Producer David Heyman told the paper that the film will be completed by 2010, at which point Radcliffe will be 20 years-old.

   So is Radcliffe going to return for Deathly Hallows? “Um, nnnnot for cer … sure,” the Guardian quotes the actor as saying. “But if I did the sixth one, which I probably will, I think it’ll be really weird not to do the last one. If you’ve come that far you might as well finish them.”

   I know a lot of people will scoff at the notion of a 20-year old playing a high-school aged wizard, but I’ll throw out that Austin St. John, Jason of the original Power Rangers, was the youngest of the group at age 19. So it’s not too surreal. Especially if they use a lot of make-up.

4. IGN has their verdict on PS3′s Sonic the Hedgehog, and it’s–wow!!! A 4.2? That’s—wait, what do you mean, “their scale goes to 10?”

   Oh well. Secret Rings, anyone?

5. IGN PC also takes a look at TransFormers: The Game.
6. At DICE, GameSpy makes nice with Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan in an interview.
7. Ever wonder what it’d be like to live in a country without Nintendo? As it happens, Go Nintendo provides a tale of Singapore, whose Nintendo distribution is handled by a third-party.
8. Poor Yoshi…
9. When Wiis die… uh… stuff happens.

   And the moral of this story is… um… I’m not sure of that, either.

10. Ever wonder what Star Fox 2 would be like?

    Well, wonder no more!

    Given the game is essentially complete, I really, truly hope Nintendo makes a VC release of this at some point.

11. This homemade music video is a real “thriller,” featuring such personalities as Mario, Lara Croft, X, NiGHTS, a blue Spartan and… er… a Bionicle?

    Hate to nitpick, but Mario and X are only three inches different in height.

12. Not that I care much about Final Fantasy, but I do find the localization process interesting, hence why I bring to you why translating Final Fantasy is tough work.
13. Slashdot presents a very thorough script and analysis of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

    Btw, spoilers.

14. Save Boston!

    …wait, why?

15. Segata Sanshiro.

    Never forget.

16. When marketing goes wrong.

    A sad thing, Psychonauts…

17. Now this is one Chinese restaurant I’ve just got to eat at.

    o/~ To be a dragon, you’ve got to eat lots… eat all that you can eat… o/~

    …if any of you remember the Double Dragon cartoon theme, that’s the tune the above goes to. Just so you know.

18. In case you were unaware: Princess Peach is Cortana.

    The MS-Nintendo bond grows…

19. Wii… Zeldafied.
20. I don’t really remember the commercial, but it does make me wish that Capcom would port Street Fighter Alpha Anthology to the Wii.
21. 1up.com’s Jeremy Parish hits reset, and looks at how SEGA can save Sonic.

And that’s it for tonight. Sorry the anchoring wasn’t a little more lively, but I’ll try and make up for it on tomorrow’s update.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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