The Daily ‘Shroom – 11/22/07
…no turkey TV dinner for me Thanksgiving night then, eh?
InFormers: Robots in the News
- The TransFormers The Movie “Rifftrax,” aka MSTing, is now available.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Looks like Toys R Us is planning to have “one outstanding deal each day” from Black Friday throught… Cyber Monday? What the hell is that?
Here’s a summary of their Black Friday deals. I’m still weeping over the Galaxy Force Optimus Prime… and select DS and PSP games are half off, too.
Video Power
- Capcom is having a holiday sale on their website, with some pretty good games at pretty good prices. Alas, no Mega Man Anniversary Collection for PS2 or MegaMan Star Force: Dragon… but, Mega Man ZX Advent is there.
- Guitar Hero III on Xbox 360 now has a free Halo 3 theme download, which I’d imagine is exclusive. And to which I’d give major applause to Microsoft if it wasn’t.
And if you’re interested, here’s the pic they asked me to do for the story on the front page.
- Since the PSP is clearly doing so well as a multifunctional gaming device, it only makes sense that they would be enticed by the thought of a PlayStation phone.
- Nintendo expects that Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii will keep their momentum going next year.
Really, who’s going to seriously argue?
- Meanwhile, over at Camp Sony, they expect that the PS3 will match the success of the PS2.
- Yet another Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 teaser. Not as good as some of the others, but still worth a laugh.
Plus, gameplay footage of Electrocution and Live Action Antics.
And the official website has even more craziness built right in.
- Smash Bros. DOJO!! brings a surprising addition today in the form of Saki Amamiya from Sin & Punishment, recently released on Virtual Console.
- 1 year of Wii is celebrated, and now 3 of DS.
- Dammit all. Super Mario Galaxy has fallen back to #2 behind The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as GameRankings’ #1 game of all time.
I suppose it’s no big deal in the grand scheme of things, but I enjoyed Galaxy FAR more than I did Ocarina.
- The Orange Box gets an Xbox 360 demo today.
- Rise of the Video Games began on Discovery Channel last night, and I forgot all about it. Thank God they’re doing reruns. If only I could get a TiVo…
- Though not doing so hot abroad for some reason (hey Europe, now you wonder why you get the short end on games?), Super Mario Galaxy is the fastest selling Mario game in the US.
Given Mario’s history as a launch and pack-in title, plus Super Mario Bros. 3, that’s really quite incredible.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”