Points of Interest – 10/28/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Ever want to learn more about the Cybertronian martial arts? Now’s your chance!
Thanks to Frash for the link.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Loading.Ready.Run. presents: Trick or DOOM, featuring Canada Man!
One double-double of asskicking, coming right up!
- And to think that there are those who would say that G4 isn’t entertaining any more.
Seriously, what IS with abbreviations lately? Have people just gotten lazy?
- This is just wrong. Is it me, or does customer service these days seem either completely indecent, ignorant of policy, or simply require on-air, widely-publicized “uh-oh” moments before they’ll do the right thing?
Video Power
- Racketboy’s Retrogaming takes another look at how to maximize your game room, this time with chairs, sofas, and beanbags.
- AMN has a neat feature that looks back at the early goings of the Nintendo/SEGA war of the 80s and 90s. Given the state of affairs today, it’s interesting to look back at how things once were.
- An interesting piece on Team Ninja’s Tomonobu Itagaki, wherein he has nothing but praise for the ratings boards, of which he says he does not feel censored by.
- Will Wright recently had an interview wherein he says that Wii is the only next generation system he sees.
The full interview contains more from him, but in the end, he still favors the PC mouse over all other input.
- For making Bungie laugh, they’ve decided to award some fans some exclusive Recon armor.
But is it traffic cone proof?
Both lucky players will now find that Recon is a useable armor perm next time they log into Halo 3 and for the rest of you don’t bother asking us for it. We’ll give it out based on good deeds and valuable community service and occasionally because they make us laugh, as seen above. There will be plenty of occasions and reasons to get it. PM-ing and emailing us will not make any difference. But play nice and be a good sport and who knows?
Pretty cool of them.
- ScrewAttack.com looks back at Skeleton Warriors, while GameTrailers continues their Final Fantasy Retrospective.
- IGN is featuring cosplay now, and you can be a part!
- Now that Death Note has begun airing in America and Canada, it’s only fitting that those who need help figuring out what’s what check out IGN’s Reader’s Guide. And for those who haven’t seen it yet, a trailer is included, too.
- GameDaily looks at ten reasons Mario games never get old.
The first reason is one I’ve always dug.
- A plus Xbox 360? Who could resist?
–LBD “Nytetrayn”