Points of Interest – 10/12/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- If you like TransFormers lineart and like Beast Wars in particular, then Nick Roche has a treat for you, showing off his work from the first issue of the Beast Wars Sourcebook, including some images that didn’t make the cut.
- iF Magazine has interviewed Mark Ryan, the voice of Bumblebee from TransFormers: The Movie, revealing how he auditioned, got the part, and more.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Newsarama wraps up their Q&A with Batman: The Animated Series creator Bruce Timm as he continues to answer a nice ton of fan questions.
But no series based on The Flash? That’s just heartbreaking after Justice League.
- Awwwww, wookit the cute widdle bear!
Video Power
- Perhaps to bring back a little bit of that feeling of community that was lost when they ditched their forums, Nintendo has opened up a site called My Wii Story, a place for players of Wii to gather and tell interesting anecdotes, such as how your granddad who never played a video game in his life beat you at Wii Golf, and other tales of interest.
- GameSpite has a new retro-review up for the Virtual Console release of Ninja Gaiden for the NES.
- Ah, now we’re talking. Racketboy has updated with a new retrogaming list, this time highlighting the best 2D games for the PS2 to kick off his series of features detailing modern 2D games worth playing.
- Over at AMN, an editorial takes a look at how we’re two years into this generation’s hardware cycle, and not very much– if any– of it has proven to be the “revolution” that each company has touted their console as heralding.
- ScrewAttack.com looks back on one of those “out of reach” games I remember from my childhood; advertised on TV and in comic books, but for a system I just didn’t own and probably wasn’t getting any time soon*: Splatterhouse 2.
* Ok, so that all really applies more to the first game than the sequel, but still.
- And now, The Final Fantasy Retrospective part XI, looking at “the franchises that will be eligible for retrospectives of their own someday.”
- Hey, didja hear? Sonic’s in Brawl! Sonic is in Brawl!
- From the creator of Haloid comes a new video full of fanservice, this time pitting the ladies of Dead Or Alive against those from Final Fantasy.
Who shall stand, and who shall fall? And, given how many are built, will they stop moving after they fall?
- One creative use for all those old floppy discs lying around…
- Finally, the link last night didn’t work, so here it is again: Coin Heaven, a Mario blog that seems to have good taste in other sites, and might have some good stuff itself, once I get the chance to sit down and read over it.
AUGH!!! Finally, I’m done. I swear, I always have the worst timing to miss an update…
–LBD “Nytetrayn”