Points of Interest – 9/12/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Not much to see today, just new images of Star Wars TransFormers wave 4, metallic Ratchet and Megatron, and battle-damaged Voyager Optimus Prime.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Name the greatest Simpsons guest-stars you can think of. Bet Stephen Hawking was on there. And if not, well, it wasn’t a real bet anyway.
Just the same, the smartest man in the world talks a bit about his appearance alongside Springfield’s favorite family.
Video Power
- Racketboy has a guide up that’s just perfect for guys like me, who essentially wound up waiting for the PlayStation 3 to come out before really getting on the PS2 bandwagon: The Cheapest PS2 Games Worth Your Time.
- GameTrailers is simply tops. Top 5′s and Top 10′s, that is.
With ScrewAttack.com, they take a look at the top 10 2-D shooters of all-time, and from there they have their top 5 reasons they can’t wait to play Halo 3.
While never my favorite genre (I was never quite that good at it), shooters are still fun to pick up and play, and I really like what they’ve done with them graphically over the years.
And I really do need to try and play a Halo game one of these days. Custom kills and custom maps seem pretty cool.
- Anagrams are fun. But who bothers to make them out of the titles of video games?
IGN does, apparently, as they’ve sat down and come up with the ten most fitting anagrams of video game titles.
- While I’m not very familiar with Richard Garriott (made some game, “Ultima” or “Ultimate” or something, who knows?), I must say the guy has quite a nice house.
Someday, I’d like to have something like that going on. Probably be geekier, though. But the grounds and the secret passages are a must!
- Yet another Top 10 list. Sort of.
Game Daily’s looking at a checklist (with ten items) of things to do to prepare for Halo 3.
My favorite part is the “Did You Know?” about Master Chief’s name.
And I still need to try Game Fuel.
- Games Radar has assembled an interesting feature, “Around the World in 80 Games,” which looks at a number of titles which span the globe in their settings.
Wow, Canada really got shafted. NASCAR? How about Excite Truck, at least?
- I’ve still yet to play Wii Play, but apparently that doesn’t hold true for this guy, who claims to hold the world record for the shooting range portion of the title.
I have to admit, I’m impressed with his marksmanship.
- Following up that impressive display is one perhaps even moreso, as this player proceeds to master Tetris at the speed of light. In about the last minute or so, you can’t even see anything…
I think I’d stand a better chance on Wii Play.
- The bar has closed, the kitchen staff has cleaned up, and yet Iwata and Itoi are still at it.
- WE WANT WART!
Come on now, say it with me! Bowser is awesome and all, but he’s in danger of getting just a bit overplayed. Since Mario RPGs seem to arrive with greater frequency than sidescrollers, maybe that would be a good platform for his return (and I see RMC had the same idea).
Though, Super Mario Galaxy? We’ve seen Bowser, but if anyone else, Tatanga all the way.
On a side note to RMC: Ninji were prominent in Paper Mario and also appeared in Super Mario World‘s final level.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”