Points of Interest – 11/18/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Cougar has himself some cool cover art for his upcoming comic.
Assorted Mushrooms
- The Official TMNT Web Site has posted images of several of the recent action figures, including the mail-order promotional Bigfoot, a Foot Ninja, Master Splinter, and movie-style updates of the old “Mutations” figures for Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
- Furry beer?
- Ever seen those hilarious newspaper Spider-man comics that are completely rewritten into NSFW hilarity? A poster on
scans_daily alerted me to their origin, and seems there’s more where that came from, too. - Would you hire this man? Ways to Ruin a Job Interview.
- Interested in becoming a part of the comic book industry? This man might be able to help you out.
- Death Note hits DVD next Tuesday, and IGN takes a look at the anime lives up to the manga.
- Director Colin Brady gives us an idea of what to expect from his upcoming Astroboy CG-animated film.
…”his creator, Dr. Tanner”? The hell?
Video Power
- A clip from the recent South Park episode, “Guitar Queer-o,” showing Stan screwing up. Bet it was the orange button what did him in.
- Capcom seems happy that GameSpot is digging Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. And I am, too, though I wonder if a remote-nunchuck combo for the Wii version was REALLY necessary…
And as much as I like Ace Attorney, I think I like Mentok the Mindtaker just that much more than Phoenix’s Judge.
- Everyone’s been writing various Mario features in celebration of Super Mario Galaxy‘s release. Trust me, I know… and Press The Buttons? Doesn’t even need to, as there’s plenty of past articles to choose from.
- Nintendo’s starting to get just a little tired of half-baked third-party Wii games. And who can blame them?
And rather than complain that Nintendo’s own software outsells damn near everything else, maybe they should try to focus on outdoing Nintendo…
- Sick of all the crap that’s been going around lately surrounding video game review scores, Joe Keiser at Next Generation gives his thoughts on when they matter.
- Ah, now here’s a subject not touched upon as often as you might think: old video game print ads, these from the SNES-era.
Just a shame the fine print isn’t easily legible here.
- Games Radar makes a bold statement (ok, not really, I’m sure many would agree with them), saying that Super Mario Galaxy is damn near perfect, and developers need to take a hint.
- Two decades after the release of the original Ghostbusters movie, GR asks if there’s any point to making a game based on the franchise now.
Of course we know, the answers are “yes” and “hell yes.” Hell, we still get new Star Wars games, and The Warriors on top of that. To not do Ghostbusters would be borderline criminal.
Sort of like not taking advantage of what we have now to finally do a good Back To The Future game.
- The Toronto Star has a review of Super Mario Galaxy, plus an amusing pic of Mario whomping the competition paired with a piece about Wii’s innovation catapulting it to the top, and you can check it all out here.
- The New York Times talks to Reggie about being Reggie.
- The reason why Mario hasn’t married Peach.
- Looks like Super Mario Galaxy has just become the best reviewed game ever, knocking longtime champ The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time off its lofty throne.
Found out at Go Nintendo, but linking to Joystiq as well just due to the total appropriateness of their chosen pic.
- Mario is a man of the ladies.
- WiiWii has a video interview with Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario, Luigi, and more.
You gotta admire how the man loves his work.
- Hey, lucky London– they got Luigi at their Super Mario Galaxy launch! And who’s that guy in the middle…?
- A video of a most awesome Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 mini-game: Rabbids in school!
–LBD “Nytetrayn”