The Daily ‘Shroom – 9/7/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- A six-page sample of issue #3 of IDW’s Megatron: Origin has been posted on artist Alex Milne’s DeviantArt account.
I do like how Soundwave has the “rubsign” on his chest, among other details throughout. And maybe we’ll get to see what the hell Megatron was thinking by letting Starscream in.
- Universe Swerve, now with more lemony goodness.
Bet Walky goes nuts for this one. Me, I prefer the red.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Hmm, never noticed this before. Maybe someone reading this hasn’t, either.
But if you use LiveJournal and go to Userinfo, and click the number next to your list of Friends, you get a nice posting of everyone’s default LJ icons.
Kinda neat. Still doesn’t solve my problem of wanting to remove dead journals, though. Guess they’re here to stay.
- Woohoo! Blogs count as media!
Though I do have to wonder just where precisely the line is drawn between “blog” and “news site” or whatever.
- So Warner Bros. is starting a new project called T-Works, which will bring their massive library of cartoon characters (including DC and Hanna-Barbera) online in original and classic cartoons.
An interesting idea, though you have to wonder if it’d be a more Timm-styled Batman, or more like the one on Kids’ WB? Will classic Looney Tunes be cut up as they so often are now?
And will new ones be as impossibly bad as they’ve become over the years?
Video Power
- Triple-up!
Sakurai updates Smash Bros. DOJO!! to the third power with a triple-update, looking at the music side of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
There’s a new system in place called My Music which allows players to help customize which pieces of music they’re likely to hear during a given stage. In addition, there are now collectable CDs which add to the available music selection.
The other two updates show off two pieces of music from the game, Pok?mon Stadium/Evolution and the Super Smash Bros. Brawl Main Theme.
- Remember the kid who saved his dad’s life and wanted a PS3?
Looks like wishes do come true.
Nice one, Sony.
…no, I’m not being sarcastic.
- This is just too funny for words.
So some geniuses decided to get some illegal copies of Halo 3 somehow, and proceeded to play them online.
They’ve now been banned for over 7000 years. No, I’m not kidding.
What’s more, they even had the grapefruits to go onto the XBox forums and complain.
- On the bright side, if you want to play Halo 3 before it comes out, there IS a way, and better still, it won’t get you and your far-flung cyborg descendants banned from XBox Live. Just thank Pontiac and IMAX.
- Re: Wii Mario Kart story from yesterday.
This is why I generally don’t care to report rumors and idle speculation. If I knew that’s what this essentially was, I probably wouldn’t have said anything.
- GameSpot offers some more EA gameplay footage today, from both The Simpsons and Burnout Paradise.
Two to look forward to, I’m sure… or at least, I’m hoping. I’ve more faith in Burnout than I do in The Simpsons, which is simply being awaited with cautious optimism.
- So Metroid Prime 3 harbors a secret hint that the long-lost Metroid: Dread is nearing completion, or at least is still in the cards.
Sadly, that appears not to be the case.
What compounds the “damn!” factor here is the fact that with Prime 3 out and Retro taking a break, there isn’t any more Metroid for the foreseeable future.
But, on the other hand…
- Sony to PSP homebrewers: “STFU!”
I’m with GR on this one. Sony should take whatever interest in their system they can get.
- More new screens and more new info just make the wait for Super Mario Galaxy all the more difficult.
Wait, I thought the plot was that Peach is kidnapped? So wouldn’t she have to be in there?
November cannot arrive quickly enough.
- Squeenix to Sony: Get your crap together!
What the hell IS the PS3? That’s what they want to know.
Apparently, it’s a game machine. Finally.
- Why play games on your PC when there are plenty of consoles out there to do the job?
–LBD “Nytetrayn”