InFormers: Robots in the News

1. Headed back to school? Show everyone your true colors with Hot Topic’s Barricade-themed backpack, featuring the Decepticon insignia and the slogan of the big bot bad cop, “To Punish and Enslave.”
2. More Masterpiece Skywarp has landed at the Allspark, with a new gallery to show off this sleek sneak’s finer details, among which are included labels featuring such imagery “Decepticon Airforce” logos.
3. Over on DeviantArt, Hombreimaginario has conducted an interview with former Dreamwave and current IDW TransFormers artist Alex Milne, asking a variety of questions and delving into just what happened between himself and the scourge of the fandom, Pat Lee.
4. It’s amazing what a little paint can do.

   Bass X10 at the Allspark found this work of art on display over at TFormers, showing off some added paint applications making the TransFormers: The Movie Protoform Optimus Prime figure into something truly wonderful to behold.

5. Continuing that line of thought, new galleries are available for Target-exclusive “Generation 1″ style Movie Jazz, as well as Best Buy-exclusive metallic Ratchet and Megatron.
6. Ben Yee has some new reviews up at BWTF.com, including: G1-style Movie Jazz, “Dawn of Future’s Past” Tigatron, and the BotCon Games of Deception Huffer, Mirage, Bugbite, Dirge, and Thrust.

   All with lotsa pictures.

7. In addition to toy reviews, he’s also taken a look at the recently-released IDW TransFormers: Spotlight for Optimus Prime, which I haven’t read because I don’t have my copy yet.

   Pity me.

Assorted Mushrooms

1. Polar bears and huskies, playing together in the snow. Doesn’t it just warm your heart?
2. Oh, wow.

   Remember that whole Miss South Carolina thing that’s been going around?

   YouTube makes an interesting observation.

3. With the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, 4Kids.TV has also been airing these humorous (but cheaply-animated) shorts during commercial breaks, and included them on the DVD release as well. Here’s a collection for your viewing enjoyment.
4. Following in the great waste of money that is a police officer arresting a McDonald’s employee for a too-salty burger (to say nothing of the wrong person, IMO), we have this.

   There is no way that they pay these people enough to take this.

Video Power

1. Bitch, bitch, bitch.

   So Capcom employees have to pay a whopping THIRTY-FIVE CENTS for a Coke from their vending machine. Boo-freakin’-hoo. Try finding a can of Coke for less than a dollar around here. Yeah.

   In any case, though, they aren’t forced to subsist on their own bodily fluids, oh no. Since they work at Capcom, who has all these “connections” to other companies like… like the Umbrella Corporation, for instance– they get access to nifty beverages like this: “Revive.”

   With a name like that for a drink, how can you go wrong? That stuff’ll keep you working through the night…

   …turning you into a zombie by morning, I bet.

2. Racketboy and RetroMags have teamed up to bring us a look back at the sixth issue of Nintendo Power.

   Ah, such fond memories. This issue and the one preceding it– the Ninja Gaiden cover issue– are where I first got into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, igniting my curiousity and leading me to rent the first videos of the cartoons, addicting me to their adventures to this day. I still think it’s a good, fun game in spite of its quirks.

   Reading the list of titles is like a trip down memory lane… a preview of Mega Man 2, a feature on Bayou Billy (who, believe it or not, had a comic book under the “Archie Adventure Series” banner that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures was published under)… ah, the good ol’ days.

   Of course, we have the internet now, but still, getting to see a full-blown feature as your first look at an upcoming video game still surpasses the odd leak and trickle that we get today. On the other hand, the new info tends to come at a more rapid clip, so it balances out.

3. ScrewAttack.com takes a look at a MANLY game, Rastan.

   But is it more manly than Contra? Well, verdict is still out on that one.

4. Games Radar remembers the good old days. Side-scrollers, shooters… genres which have generally faded into a relative obscurity in favor of more 3D offerings…

   Herein, they look back at 7 genres that they’d like to see return to the glory they once knew.

   And if sales of games like New Super Mario Bros. and rants about Sonic the Hedgehog are any indication, they aren’t alone, at least on the side-scrollers.

   “Lost innocence” is pretty dead-on, too. I kind of miss the time when there weren’t “adult games” and “kid games.” There were just games.

   And “Hollywood” is a curious notion.

5. Itoi and Iwata are still going.

   Can these men never be sated?!

6. Looks like my hometown paper (one of them, anyway) had a feature up this weekend about the top 5 most overhyped games, with Super Mario Sunshine making the list.

   Thankfully, Super Mario Galaxy seems poised to make us forget all about it. Still, Nintendo, I remember once upon a time, you would actually have more than one Super Mario title per system, and now that seems so far away. If you pull another Sunshine, could you at least try and deliver something a little more promising before the next generation rolls around?

   Please?

7. Cartoon Network/Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken had a good episode on this past Sunday, which you can check out here.

   Among the highlights are Link rescuing a bitchy Zelda, and Skeletor and his minions accidently overstepping their bounds.

8. Wow, 1up is on the Halo-ball today.

   First up, seems they’ve managed to get ahold of a leak of the most recent version of the Halo movie script, and have posted but a sampling on their site.

   In addition, T-Frog looks at the myriad of branches the Halo story has, through this, the games, the books, and more.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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