The Daily ‘Shroom – 10/5/07
Bleh, tired. But duty calls. So as I’m using a can of Coke to help me get through this, it may be a little more concise than usual. My apologies to those of you who are such fans of my charm and personality.
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Confirmed writers for the second TransFormers movie are Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the writers from the original, who will team up with Ehren Kruger, writer of the Ring movies and Reindeer Games.
Something tells me we might be in for more human military action. After all, it may be their war, but it’s still our world, right? Sigh.
In regards to choosing Ehren Kruger for writing duties on the Transformers Sequel, Michael Bay and Hasbro president Brian Goldner were impressed with Kruger’s knowledge of Transformers mythology.
Okay, so hopefully it won’t be as bad as one might be lead to think. Hopefully.
- New official pics of the “Allspark Power” figures from the movie toyline are now available, including Cliffjumper, Camshaft, Landmine, Stockade and Night Watch Optimus Prime, who should all be showing up in early 2008.
Assorted Mushrooms
- The 5th turtle has a new peek at the prototype NECA Ninja Turtle figure sculpt. It does look just like the original comics…
- The other day, we brought news of the end of Kids’ WB, to be taken over officially by 4Kids. Today, Newsarama brings more details on that story.
Video Power
- Hitting Toys R Us aisles now are Mortal Kombat action figures by Jazwares, makers of the semi-recent non-NT Warrior Mega Man figures and toys.
The lineup consists of three fan favorites: Goro, Reptile, and Noob Saibot.
- A better look at the prizes for Capcom’s “What REALLY Happened To Harvey?” comic contest.
- Smash Bros. DOJO!! brings us another double-dip of an update as Sakurai explains Shielding and Dodging, as well as giving us a look at Fox’s Final Smash.
Whoa, slow down there, guy. You want to have some updates for later, right?
Tonight’s brings more good news, too: Co-op play in Subspace Emissary!
- Ah, the freedom of speech. The right to essentially say what you want, provided it doesn’t infringe upon the rights of others. And perhaps sometimes even if it does.
It’s something you would expect to be highly valued in this day and age of video games, and that would include parody. So when you think of the first amendment in gaming, who’s the first company you’re likely to think of?
If you’re thinking of the same guys I am, then surely you’ll recognize the bitter irony as that company has asked for a parody of their product to be removed from The Simpsons Game.
Granted, it does say there was more than one company, but for them to be among them? What can you say to that?
- Capcom is turning their Sony development towards the PS3.
Trust me, it was a miracle to wring an article out of that. I’m just lucky that the company in question was Capcom.
- Woo-hoo, more Super Mario Galaxy videos! Bullet Bill Destruction, Spin-Attack, Movement, Two-Player co-op, and the menu.
- Rayman Raving Rabbids playing Rugby.
Too good.
- FINALLY, boxart and a release date for Contra 4!
November 13th, woo!
- “For ze gentleman, one can of worms, served a la carte’.”
So seems to be the Daily Special at Cafe Microsoft, where they want you to tell them what they’re doing wrong.
Hoo-boy, where to start, huh?
To their credit, they are doing a lot right… but the specifics of the stuff that’s wrong, i.e. hardware and equipment failures, really makes the rest of it moot.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”