The Daily ‘Shroom – 4/27/07
- NeoEndGame submits a story that leaves Captain America asking only one question:
“WHERE’S MY BURRITO?! WHERE’S MY BURRITO?!”
Seriously, a doc dresses up as the late Captain and assaults a woman with a burrito… what the hell?
- Ah, I weep.
Seems that some Targets in the US are putting TransFormers Classics on clearance. And I still don’t have a damn one yet…
Other TransFormers news shows off new pics of movie Thundercracker and BotCon exclusive Thrust. Plus, word comes of a movie pillow and comforter set, and Reprolabels has decided to enhance some Classics Minicons with Grave Digger and General Lee stickers for the little guys.
- Raving Toy Maniac reports that Burger King is having a five-week Spider-man 3 promotion, featuring toys and a contest with prizes that range from the cool to the tasty.
The contest itself, wherein you choose between Spider-man’s classic duds or his venomous new attire, sounds like a neat tie-in, though it leads one to wonder how many prizes are to be won by taking the darker path…
- Capcom reports in a press release that Ace Attorney 4, aka Gyakuten Saiban 4, has shipped over 500,000 copies in one week, bringing the series total to over 2 million worldwide.
It has already been selected for the Japan Game Awards 2006 ?Future Award? and has been promoted with the help of the famous lawyer and television personality, Kazuya Maruyama. Both of these have helped Ace Attorney 4 garner a large amount of attention from fans across Japan.
Congratulations to Capcom for the well-deserved success of this franchise.
1up gives their thoughts on an import here.
- So, Ken Kutaragi will be retiring come June 19th.
While I’m not exactly a fan of the Sony brand, I do believe in credit where credit is due, and for that I do carry some begrudging respect for Kutaragi for helping take Sony from floundering in the video game industry (check out their earliest games for SNES and Genesis) to the kings of the mountain.
Of course, if one considers Kutaragi to be the Sony parallel of Nintendo’s Yamauchi, then Nintendo and Microsoft had better be careful; Yamauchi stepped down after the launch of the GameCube, much as Kutaragi is now that PS3 is in the market. If history repeats itself, we could wind up seeing some big things coming out of his successor’s reign, just as Nintendo turned around with the DS and Wii.
Of course, that’s all just speculation at this point.
At Game|Life, Chris Kohler has assembled a timeline of the life of the PlayStation. Well, mostly PS3…
- Game Head is going to air a tribute to Miyamoto, presumably this Friday night at 1am. Should be fun, Game Head is a pretty good show for games anyway, and some of the stuff lined up sounds interesting.
- Nintendo plans to increase Wii production, but the question remains, “will it be enough?”
- Well, that didn’t last long…
- If you have a PlayStation 3, then it may interest you to know that there’s a pretty cool-sounding demo of Ninja Gaiden Sigma available for download, featuring a Rachel mission (which you can see footage of here) and some neat stuff with Ryu, too.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”