Woo-hoo! Happy Thanksgiving to the Canucks, Happy Columbus Day to the Yanks, and happy days because HBK IS BACK!

Yeah, I’m happy.

Even happier is that I’m now a news editor at Advanced Media Network, so keep an eye out for my stuff there, and if you can, Digg, Digg, Digg! (Please?)

Assorted Mushrooms

1. Archie Comics has finally issued a press release regarding the recent death of their President and Co-Publisher, Richard Goldwater.

   And for some reason, no matter when or how many times I try, it won’t open for me. Luck for me, however, Newsarama comes through.

2. In addition, it seems that Steven Massarsky, co-founder of Voyager Communications, passed away Friday.

   Voyager was the parent company of Valiant Comics, whom readers of this page might know best for their Turok: Dinosaur Hunter comics, in addition to the early 90′s Nintendo Comics System.

3. Wow, this is crazy. Warner Bros: “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”.

   Weren’t they working on a Wonder Woman movie? Wonder (no pun intended) if that’s axed as a result. I just hope they don’t try to put a male in the lead (no, not AS Wonder Woman; think more like how humans were the stars of TransFormers). Come to think of it, I think they did that very thing with CardCaptors a few years ago.

   Well, no, not exactly. They just skipped the eps without Lee so they could aim it at boys, for some reason.

4. On a related note, seems some possible tidbits regarding the Justice League movie have leaked out.

Video Power

1. Smash Bros. DOJO!! brings us three updates for the price of two!

   First up is a posting of the Special Moves of Zero Suit Samus from Monday, and Tuesday becomes twos-day as we hear Ashley’s Theme from WarioWare and Kirby dons his chef’s hat for a cookin’ Final Smash.

   Hmm, odd theme for Wario… wouldn’t you say?

2. This week, NeoGeo takes the Virtual Console in full force! Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, World Heroes, and Art of Fighting stand ready to sock it to ya’ for a relatively modest 900 Wii Points each.

   But which are hot, and which are not? The Retro Roundup will tell you what.

3. Seemingly out of nowhere, Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast has launched itself into stores:

   Nintendo has given some rocket-powered barrels to a bunch of apes, and the rest of you had better get out of the way. The high-octane Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast launches today exclusively for Nintendo’s Wii system. It’s a game that anyone can pick up and play, but racing fans will have – dare we say it? – a blast perfecting their moves.

   Up to four players choose a racer from a variety of characters, including multiple members of the Kong family, as well as their friends and enemies. Racing is a snap. Players shake the motion-sensitive Wii Remote and Nunchuk to accelerate and turn, or press a button to jump, attack or use a variety of items to thwart their competitors.

   Each of the 16 racecourses is littered with bananas. Gather 50, perform a Wild Move and watch your Barrel Rocket hit hyperspeed. The game even includes a variety of fun challenges for players to complete to receive special rewards.

   Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast is rated E for Everyone and is poised to rocket into the library of every Wii fan. For more information about Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast, please visit www.Nintendo.com.

   With four players commanding the Kongs and Kremlings, hopefully this will hold some people over until Mario Kart is due.

4. So now it’s definitely, without-a-doubt official: preorder Super Mario Galaxy at a “participating retailer” and you get the collectible Mario coin when you pick up your game.

   No word on just who the “participating retailers” are, though GameStop and Target are usually the ones mentioned, and then there’s this FredMeyer ad, but no word of anyone else.

   And I’m betting Canada is SOL on this one. But, um… *cough* if anyone reading this happens to preorder and doesn’t want their coin…

5. If you’re a Brainy Brit, then Nintendo wants you!
6. I don’t know how I feel about this.

   On the one hand, Tomm denied it ever existed. And even if it did, I doubt Canada would have gotten it (we didn’t for Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin). So no loss there. On the other hand, if I could have gotten it from someone in the US of A, well, that would have been ice cream and rainbows, wouldn’t it?

   So now, all I can do is take solace that everyone will suffer as I will. Let our pain unite us!

7. Say all you want about Nintendo of Australia, but at least they’re apologetic.
8. While nowhere near as noteworthy as last year’s much-hyped XBox games at Burger King, it is worth mentioning that the two parties have teamed up again to bring us Viva Pinata.

   Just think, now when you go to bite into that cheeseburger, you can have a horse looking right back at you as your teeth sink in.

   That’s marketing, people.

9. He came. He saw.

   He kicked ass.

   He took names.

   And now, Reggie Fils-Aime is Brandweek’s Grand Marketer of the Year, thanks to his ass-kicking efforts in making sure that your grandmother knows who Mario is.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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