Points of Interest – 10/9/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- More DVD reviews keep pouring in.
- Plus, IGN has a feature on the movie’s special effects.
- And to help promote the whole shebang, maybe I’ll have Optimus phone a few friends.
- Ben Yee has two new reviews up, one being the Target-exclusive Elita-One, and the other being a three-in-one as the Classics Decepticon Demolition Team get their due.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Ever wonder just what Nickelodeon slime really is? Find out this among other weirdness as people try to determine why two guys would buy out a grocery store’s chocolate supply.
- I had no idea that Beetle Bailey and Snuffy Smith had their own animated cartoons, but it turns out that it’s true. From Mark Evanier’s blog, here’s Beetle Bailey and Snuffy Smith‘s openings.
…Snuffy’s makes my ears hurt.
Video Power
- New ad for Nintendo DS’ Flash Focus.
- And now… the Amazing GameJew with his new hit sensation (better than Britney’s, apparently, Please don’t hurt me, Mr. Crocker) We Didn’t Push The Pixels!
- Cool = a Mega Man/Quake 2 Deathmatch Mod.
Cooler = Capcom seems ok with it, at least on some level.
- Downloading games is sort of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it seems to really be opening the floodgates to a number of games that haven’t seen release in years, and who knows when or if they ever would be in stores again?
On the other hand, it seems to have signaled all but a final death knell for classic compilation discs, which are usually a pretty good value, such as Racketboy’s picks for XBox.
I remain of the opinion that Konami could have made bank with such compilations of Contra, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Gradius, and maybe even something like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But now? Who knows if they’ll ever try?
- Spider-man: Friend or Foe. I haven’t paid much attention to how the game is, but regardless, I do like these ads with Venom and… Sandman. Hmm.
Gee, I wonder why they picked THOSE two particular villains.
- God of War II ads from Japan. That’s right, Krato-kun goes to the Far East.
- Mario gets jacked! Well, Jack-O-Lanterned that is, if that can even be used as a verb.
Grammatical fallacies aside, that is one pumpkin that’s playing with power.
- Uwe Boll talks about how to say “Uwe Boll.”
I can’t see the video, but I think I’ve heard how it goes anyway. But in spite of all of that, I think I’ll pronounce it in a way that rhymes with “cue ball” and blame MTV if I ever meet the man.
- A very nice Pikmin diorama. (I’m a bit tired now, but pressing on, so cut me some slack, please.)
- Games.net has compiles a list of ten disturbingly sexual game characters, many of which originate from- surprise, surprise- Nintendo or thereabouts.
Interestingly enough, Birdo’s NOT on there for the reason you’d think.
- Over at Game|Life, Mr. Kohler has an interview with the Bungie Boys about the split with Big Bill.
- I really do want to try Portal. I’ve never seen anything like it before, and am doubtful of seeing anything like it ever again.
But we can hope.
- If Nintendo ever gets on me about my logo, I guess I can always switch to this little fella.
- What greater way to show your love of games than to have their imagery adorn your body, be they body ink or cloth?
Or, you can just air your grievances.
- WwwwwTF?
- And to close, we have a Resident Evil haunted house. In Japan, of course.
Despite geographical hurdles, you won’t catch me going in there. And not because I’m scared.
Ok, so it’s because I’m scared, but for a different reason than you might think. Last time I went into a haunted house, I tripped/slipped, blowing out my knee and falling to the floor. The people who came up didn’t know who/what I was as I tried to get some help, and wound up getting pulverized and had to be carried out of the place.
That’s why you won’t catch me going anywhere near anything haunted that doesn’t have cars and a track ever again. And especially not one where they give the patrons guns, fake or not.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”