Points of Interest – 11/16/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Ben Yee has a review/gallery of the stylin’ Decepticon pickup, Dropkick.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Pizza-cutting perfection. What else would you expect from a laser?
- It’s Not The Daily Show, but close enough.
- IGN interviews The Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, about his career and more as WWE Survivor Series looms near and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 heads to stores, with Heartbreak and Triumph going to DVD soon as well.
Video Power
- Capcom has posted the winners of their “Ace Attorney lolcats” contest. Be sure to check the Flickr archive for the whole lot, as that’s where the real jewels are.
Had I thought about it, I’d have entered with this.
- Can’t say I remember Pac-man: The Board Game, but I have an incomplete Donkey Kong somewhere, and I remember wanting the Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda board games. Still do, actually, if only for the old art.
- AMN’s review of The Simpsons Game reveals the typical way of licensed games: more fun for fans than for non-fans.
But it’s hard not to find the Simpsonized Matt Groening at least a little charming.
- Retromags: helping preserve our gaming culture, and what you can do to help.
- ScrewAttack shows themselves as gluttons for punishment as they take a look back at Mortal Kombat for Game Boy. This should be interesting.
- For your viewing pleasure, the opening movie from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.
- IGN whips out Nintendo’s two biggest baddies in Ganondorf, King of Evil and Bowser, King of the Koopa as they ask you to vote for who’s baddest. Be warned, if you’ve not played Twilight Princess yet, then it shows off what the big G looks like here.
While Ganondorf is no doubt the favorite in this, I do have to say that Bowser’s been more impressive to me in recent years than he had been in some time (a pic from Super Smash Bros. Melee or Brawl would’ve been more flattering, however).
“Ganon may have magic, but Bowser’s got cajones.” Too true, but let’s not forget that the Koopa are a tribe renowned for their black magic, which has been more apparent in the likes of New Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Galaxy.
- Three more reasons to hate Japan, courtesy of Club Nintendo.
- Ah, Camy Pro Gear’s “Hero Pack” of attachments for the Wii Remote and Nunchuck, based on The Legend of Zelda‘s Master Sword and Hylian Shield, are finally here. And IGN just so happens to have a look.
$24.99 is a little steep for my tastes for a couple of cheap pieces of plastic and foam, but this is one set I’d probably get if I were to pick up such a thing for the Wii.
Oh, and if you watch the video… make sure to stay past the “hope to be available in stores” bit near the end.
- Turns out, Sony’s actually HAPPY about the Wii shortages. Now, that just doesn’t make any sense, does it?
- EBGames.ca description for the Nintendo DS. Truly a winner, there. With a blurb like that, how can PSP ever hope to compete?
- Game Critics has an interview with Jerry Holkins, one half of the Penny Arcade duo, about PAX and a few other things.
- More photos of Sonic and Mario at a UK event.
- Photos have surfaced of the PlayStation 3 that Sony dubbed “too dusty to fix” under warranty.
Make your own call.
- When is a Wii Remote not a Wii Remote?
When it’s a DS, apparently. Ah, those crazy Rabbids…
- The next time you pass on a Capcom playtesting session, think of what you could be missing.
- N’Gai Croal has a new article that postulates that complex controllers effectively ruined the “pick up and play” mentality, starting with Street Fighter II in arcades and working from there.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”