Points of Interest – 4/19/07
- Over Allspark’s way, we’ve got a number of new character bios to check out from the upcoming TransFormers movie.
- Plus, the almighty Megatron returns to store shelves in force. Check out Remy’s gallery of Titanium War Within Megatron and Great Goldran’s review of Nike Free 7.0 Megatron.
- Angry Video Game Nerd as Spider-man.
No, I did NOT need to see that. Thanks for asking.
- From Racketboy, there’s clearly something to be said about remaking Street Fighter II with high-resolution sprites by Udon:
Kick. Ass.
- Evil Avatar raises a good point about the lack of retaliation from the game industry in regards to idiots like Thompson and McGraw.
Granted, in Thompson’s case, nothing short of rocketing him into the sun is sufficient, but still. This sort of reminds me of back when every other word out of SEGA’s mouth was about how lame Nintendo was, and they just took it. That was bad, this is worse.
Of course, in the perspective of history repeating itself, maybe revenge will be extra sweet.
We can hope.
- Wow, the Game Boy Advance had more get-up-and-go than I thought.
Too bad support already got up and went…
- Go Nintendo has a neat link from GameVideos, showing off a neat 2-minute Mario montage.
- So, what would it be like if your first video game console was the GameCube?
Newsweek editor Andrew Cohen finds out, with his son in tow.
- Would this count as taxation without representation?
The mind wobbles.
- Atari and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater founder Nolan Bushnell talks Wii and more with Joystiq.
- Keeping things moving, they also have I Am 8-Bit coverage.
- For the younger crowd: justify your hobby against the pundits with this declaration.
- An interesting piece of mixed-media, “Son of Super Mario.”
–LBD “Nytetrayn”