The Daily ‘Shroom – 9/15/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Not much today, just word of a new Canadian Best Buy exclusive version of the TransFormers: The Movie DVD, which includes an exclusive book and figurine. No word of a possible US version, however.
But, there is rumor that Trans World Entertainment will have the Canadian Future Shop metal boxes for US sale.
- The other news today is that IDW has new solicitations up, including The TransFormers: Devastation #3, The TransFormers Spotlight: Ramjet, Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending #4, and The Transformers: Best of the UK: Dinobots #3.
Incidently, there are some light promotional spoilers, so beware.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Good news for oldschool Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans. Now, I’m just a little bit late to the party on this one, but it turns out that Mirage has seemingly signed a deal that allows them to use the characters from the old cartoon that they hadn’t had access to, such as Bebop and Rocksteady, for example.
As a result of this deal, we could see some new toys and products based on them, including a toy of the old Mighty Mutanimal Jagwar.
Now, while I much prefer the new toon over the old, it did have its moments, but more to my interest is the fact that the Archie TMNT Adventures series shared a number of characters with the cartoon, had better versions of some, and others, such as Jagwar, were unique to it.
So it’s a good deal all around, I’d say.
- In other TMNT news, from the official website comes this info:
NECA, National Entertainment Collectible Association, has signed a license to produce and distribute collector’s market TMNT action figures, statues, busts, weapon prop replicas and bobbleheads based on the TMNT comic books from Mirage Studios. These items will be avaialble to small independent retailers, independent toy stores, comic and hobby shops, and specialty chains. The design and development process has just gotten started, so prduct won’t be available for awhile. We’ll post news from the folks at NECA as soon as possible!
It seems that Playmates will still handle the “mainstream” Turtles line, based on the cartoons and movies (such as these upcoming figures and vehicles), while the NECA offerings will be similar to DC Direct, offering “other” characters and versions tailored more towards diehard fans and collectors. To see a glimpse of the process in action, check this out.
Video Power
- Want to have a say in what achievements make it into the XBox Live Arcade version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix? Capcom is giving you your chance! The options to vote on are as follows:
* Beat Akuma (Arcade Mode)
* Win with every character in an Online Ranked Match
* 5 Perfect Rounds in Ranked Online Matches
* 5 Perfect Rounds in Story Mode (Any difficulty level)
* Defeat an opponent in under 15 seconds, Arcade Mode
* Perform a 7-hit combo or higher (any mode, including training
* Defeat Sagat with Ryu’s Fierce Dragon Punch (any mode)Voting ends October 1st, so make sure your voice is heard! The author of the winning submission also gets his name in the game’s credits, so that’s a cool deal as well.
- Atomic Fire has found some new information about the Tribes System and more from Ryuusei no Rockman 2, the sequel to what we know as MegaMan Star Force.
- GameTrailers brings us the thrills of the Tokyo Game Show with a new trailer for Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword for the DS.
- New footage of Capcom’s Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law game shows off the title’s investigative gameplay and courtroom drama, handled in a way that only a professional such as Harvey Birdman can manage.
- Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has recently said that no Wii Sports 2 is in the works, not for the time being at least, as Nintendo isn’t interested in doing things “the easy way,” and since Wii Sports is such a key component to many Wii sales, well, making a sequel would sort of be the easy way out, wouldn’t it?
Of course, this seems to open the door for third parties to fill the gap as well, though how many are likely to take advantage of the simplistic nature and Mii-stylings that Wii Sports brought to the table?
- Two words that one might think they’d never say, yet are becoming a little more common when it comes to gamers: “lucky Europeans.”
So in addition to an pre-North American release of Mario Strikers: Charged and a release of Tingle’s Rupeeland (still no US announcement), they get to celebrate the anniversary of Super Mario Bros. in style with limited-time VC download of Super Mario Bros. 2: For Super Players (aka The Lost Levels) for the NES, as well as Mario’s Super Picross for Super NES.
That and some Star Points will get a little bit of envy from those of us across the pond. You can see an ad for these and other Hanabi Festival releases here.
- If you’re looking towards finding a Wii this holiday season, there’s some good news from Reggie Fils-Aime, President of Nintendo of America.
The good news is that Nintendo should have more product flowing into the marketplace, but on the downside, it’ll still be hard to find due to high demand. But at least it should be easier now.
You can see a video of Reggie talking up the Wii and more right here.
- Here’s one rumor that made me perk up, given the recent woes inflicted due to the seeming cancellation of Project H.A.M.M.E.R. Some new info on Disaster: Day of Crisis:
- Storyline: terrorists steal nuclear weapons from the US while we are dealing with devastating natural disasters. The terrorists hold the US hostage with the threat of nuclear attacks. The player?s job is to stop these terrorists all while dealing with the natural disasters.
- Lots of voice work
- due out Q1-Q2 2008
Glad to hear that it may still be on track.
- Want to do your good deed for the year? Then how about donating anything you have handy to GamerDad, a proponent of gaming, to help overcome his heart attack and corrective surgeries.
Come on, you know you’d want someone to help if it were you. To you, Andrew, we wish you the best of luck. Jump for that 5000!
- Nintendo’s stock continues to do well.
I continue to hate myself because before E3 of last year, I desperately and unsuccessfully tried to get some Nintendo stock. Sadly, it seems to require finances I just do not have to start up in such a business.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”