1. This just in… the latest-breaking stories, brought to you LIVE by the Nintendo News Network.

   Good, hard-hitting stuff. I’m glad I’m well invested in bananas. Also, be sure to keep an eye on the news ticker…

2. Posted this and the above in my LiveJournal after an update the other night. Then I realized I forgot to tell people here about them.

   This, I like.

   The vocals aren’t the best. One might call them bad, but almost in a good way. HUGE thanks to shortpacked for bringing this to my attention.

   I think I like this better than either of the themes heard thus far, AND more than any trailer we’ve seen.

   Now, I’m just totally stoked. I might need to dig up 89 cents just for appreciation.

3. Another review vouching for Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer not sucking so much.
4. Also at Newsarama, they talk it up with Mark Bagley about his awesomely historic run on Ultimate Spider-man, spanning well over 100 issues, which is simply unheard of in this day and age. It’s a bit of a shame he couldn’t stay on for longer, as it is nice when a comic retains a consistent feel from issue to issue.
5. Believe it or not, I have never, ever played a Bubsy game. Guess I had enough “mascots” occupying my time, alongside Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

   But over at Press The Buttons, Matt reminisces about the time he got the game.

6. So, you have yourself a Wii, and have tried out this “TurboGrafx-16″ thing that just came out of nowhere with new games for the Virtual Console. But lo and behold, you find out that this isn’t some newfangled cash-in creation, but something of a lost system from days long past.

   Well, while games come to the VC at a steady trickle, it’s still a trickle. And it’s still the VC, prices and all. Maybe you want more than that. Or maybe you’re a collector. Maybe you want the genuine experience, and everything it entails.

   That is why, good friends, Racketboy has put together a beginner’s guide to Hudson and NEC’s pet project from days gone by. Granted, this is more a look back at the system itself, rather than any sort of buyer’s guide, but it’s a good place to start your research into the new old.

7. The newest ScrewAttack.com Video Game Vault unexpectedly takes a look back at one of my old-time NES favorites from my earliest days on the system, Urban Champion.

   It certainly has a unique charm, though I’m not sure it’s worth five Virtual Console dollars, either. I mean, to get the original NES game, in box and with instructions, no doubt. But for just an official ROM? Maybe three, or four at best.

   I do love the narrator’s interpretation of the “story” for the game.

8. GameDaily tackles an issue that concerned many of us growing up, and continues yet still to this day: movies that deserved better games.

   Speaking of which, I hope to finish getting a special related piece up this weekend, with a nice little bit of news to go with…

9. Once, in the long, long ago… people played games to attain a high score; that is, a score that was higher than anyone else’s.

   Those days are all but gone.

   However! Over at Games Radar, Retrobot turns back the clock and takes a look at some of history’s best score attack games.

   Plus, with the likes of XBox Live Arcade allowing people from all over the world to compete head-to-head, maybe high scores will make a comeback.

10. Skate or Die needs to make a comeback. With all the Tony Hawk’s and stuff, I’m sure there’s something they could do…
11. Ten things to love about the PS3.

    Not saying it’s bad or anything of the sort, but I’m still just not even remotely inclined to drop $800 on the thing…

12. With Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Tecmo seems convinced that they’ve turned Rachel into the world’s greatest female action character.

    I wonder how the likes of Samus, Lara, or even Princess Peach might respond. Can’t speak for the first two, but I bet that Peach is touching her “angry” face as we speak…

13. We all know how bad video game marketing can be; in their own eyes, there is no room for modesty, and if you give an inch, you loseWeight Exercise a sale.

    But what are some of the worst, the most overblown things they’ve said over the years? That’s what 1up’s Brandon Teel has set off to find out.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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