The Daily ‘Shroom – 8/7/07
And it’s a brand new week, hope your weekend was well, and– what the? Huh, the Wii is glowing. Wonder what’s up…
- Ok, just a basic Wii firmware update. Looks like they’re adding a new Search function for the Wii Shop Channel, a digital clock on the main screen, and some other features for the News and Weather Channels, which you need to update if you want to keep using.
Vooks goes more in-depth with all the changes and what they may mean. Oh, and if you’ve got a modded Wii, then this could screw the whole thing up. Just so you know.
- When shopping for TransFormers, buyers beware, as there are some very good bootlegs out there.
Though, if the price is right and you’re fully aware of what you’re getting, there are some neat knock-offs to be found.
In terms of legitimate merchandise, looks like KB has some new stuff, including a pinball machine and an… arcade jet?
Didn’t know they made stuff like that for the home… the pinball machine, yeah, but the jet?
Finally, Remy adds to his galleries once more with the Movie toy known as the Decepticon Payload, appearing straight from TransFormers: The Game, based on the recent film.
- Smash Bros. Dojo continues to surprise us, now with Ike’s special moves as well as a new item that will soon be banned at a tournament near you, the Smoke Ball.
On a related note, I wonder if this falls under the pretense for false advertising? Seems Best Buy in Canada had a similar idea.
If anyone falls for it, I do hope there are fireworks.
GameDaily has more info about the experience, and their own “what if” speculation. But for now, rest assured that it’s definitely a fake box (thanks to LutherJW in Go Nintendo’s comments).
- The Virtual Console has been updated once again, this week bringing us Wave Race 64 for the N64 (with a few slight changes), Adventures of Lolo for the NES (whose star you might recognize from some of the Kirby games and cartoons), and Galaga ’90 from the TG16.
And as per the norm, Toastyfrog gives the Retro lowdown on what’s hot and what’s not.
- Ok, so now the XBox 360 price drop is official: $449.99 for the Elite, $349.99 for the 20GB, and $279.99 for the Core.
Plus, the Halo version will be $399.99.
Overall, I suppose those prices aren’t too bad.
- Games in school now, to help kids learn? I wonder if this will be something more than just a new version of The Oregon Trail (works better in non-Firefox browsers).
- If you’re going on an airline trip soon, and looking to take a game console with you, maybe you should make sure you can put it in/take it out of your luggage easily. Seems they’re falling alongside DVD players and laptops as a potential “security risk” that needs to be scanned on its own now.
Portables don’t count, and for some reason, neither does the Wii. Maybe Nintendo is about clear skies as well as blue oceans…
- Congratulations and a job well done to the folks over at GayGamer.net, who were forced to weather quite the storm over the weekend, as the bigots decided to come out and play.
- Remember The Animatrix, a series of animated shorts that sort of helped expand the world seen in the two Matrix movies?
Seems that Warner Bros. hasn’t forgotten, as they are working on “Batman Anime”, a companion piece coming to DVD that will help bridge the gap between Batman Begins and its coming sequel, The Dark Knight.
Nothing against the guys working on it, but I’m always disappointed when something like this comes along and I don’t see Bruce Timm or Paul Dini’s name on it.
- The Jack is Back, Man.
Well, Hugh Jackman, anyway, for the Wolverine movie that will begin production in November, hopefully for a 2008 release.
The Aussie actor dropped a few hints about the upcoming performance with IGN, which will detail Wolvie’s history with Weapon-X and Sabertooth, along with other pieces of Logan’s past.
- Still want a Wii? CostCo in the US has a nice bundle for $329.99, including the system, an extra Wii remote, and Mario Party 8. Act fast, or be last.
- Now this is how you do cross-promotion.
Remember the episode of South Park where everyone is playing World of Warcraft?
Well, that ep (and its whole season of a family) are coming to DVD, with a free trial for WoW.
Check it out on August 21st, and please: try not to get sucked in.
- So coming out this week are Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars for the PSP, and MegaMan Star Force for DS. Says that Dragon is GameStop AND EB Games-exclusive, rather than just the former (yes, I know they’re owned by the same company, but that doesn’t guarantee anything here), so maybe there’s still a shot I might get it… someday.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
August 7th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
3. Oh boy. Where to start on this one?
I know that GameStops make their own box mock-ups, in order to have something tangible to push preorders (I saw one for Pokemon Colosseum spelled, “Pokemon Colluseum” or some other hideous mangling), so at first I wondered, “Was the person making this box clueless? Or was he actually trying to play with his customers, or worse yet, deliberately make people think Sonic would be in the game?”
Then someone pointed out they just stole someone else’s work from that fake game box website… That is beyond sad, GameStop…
And the Canadian Best Buy flyer… I love it how people are saying, “They must know something we don’t!” when most likely it’s just sheer cluelessness on their part. Best-case scenario, they researched the game to find out what characters would be in it, and mistook the rumors about Sonic for truth, then hunted down a picture of him to use for the ad. But perhaps most likely is they just popped up first in Google Image Search. “Blue, that’s a cool color!”