Points of Interest – 11/27/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Ben Yee has a review and gallery of Robot Heroes Bumblebee and Barricade from the movie available now.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Aww, the poor kitty got pinned by a pillow.
- Speaking of cats, did you ever see one that’s so happy in water?
- Take a little time to learn about that little city to the north, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- PriceGrabber.com, via Raving Toy Maniac, has a list of the Top 5 Things You Didn’t Expect To See On Black Friday.
- IGN gives us the rundown on all of the teaser sites seen so far for The Dark Knight.
Video Power
- Good news! Capcom reports that IGN’s Anoop Gantayat got to go to the Rockman/Mega Man 20th Anniversary party, and has written up a report about it!
Bad news! They fail to mention that it’s for IGN Insiders only. If someone can get the gist of the report and submit it, that’d be grand.
- Continuing the series of articles by David Sirlin which detail the behind-the-scenes changes and re-balancing for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is a new entry that takes a look at the monstrous Native American known as T. Hawk.
- Here’s a neat one (and long, too) from Racketboy’s Retro Gaming: The Best Pac-Man Clones and Spin-Offs.
- Rare talks a little more about Viva Pinata on the Nintendo DS.
- Ubisoft says that Assassin’s Creed is proof that original properties can thrive in a sequel and license-driven marketplace.
- Word is that the video game industry is poised to crush all previous sales records this year.
- The creator of Katamari Damacy laments that today’s games aren’t creative enough. I’m sure he means as a collective, rather than any specific title on its own.
Incidently, that’s one thing I miss about the NES era. Seems like back then, EVERYTHING was new.
- ScrewAttack looks back at a game I really wish they’d revisit now with the new Wii Zapper, Hogan’s Alley.
…”shirtless guy?” I thought he was wearing a trenchcoat…
- GameTrailers finishes up their interviews with the Ratchet & Clank team as they conduct the Post Mortem Interview.
- They also give the Street Fighter IV trailer a thorough analysis, in the hopes of finding… something.
“There are clues everywhere, if you know where to look…” Fascinating.
- Looks like Ganondorf beats Bowser, at least in IGN’s poll.
- GameDaily has a new Retro Rewind that looks back on the game that made “Fatality” a household word, Mortal Kombat.
Still need to try Armageddon, personally.
- Games Radar looks at seven games that should have sucked, but didn’t, and why.
- They also add more gaming trivia to your brain with over 80 gaming firsts.
- Chris Taylor, head of Gas Powered Games, has an interesting outlook on what gaming should be like…
…like mowing lawns.
- And now, for more mature readers, Street Fighter: The Later Years, part 6.
- Wow, it took Go Nintendo’s headline to make me think about this… maybe it’s NOT the PS3′s launch pricetag that was choking them, since people are spending that much on Wiis now. It would certainly bear study…
- First “Mega Man Water,” and now Mario on a plumbing van. Madness, I say.
- It’s not the Virtual Console, or even NES Classics, but if you have some old Famicom games around, this is a neat way to play them on the go.
- Belgian police have no sense of humor. And that just pisses me off.
- I’ve seen this problem with returned TransFormers, and the people working at Wal-Mart didn’t care.
Now, someone returned a gutted 360 and walked away with cash.
Too far? You be the judge. Meanwhile, I’m wondering how many imitators this may spawn, especially among those who might have wound up with now-worthless red-ringed 360s MS refused to cover.
- Patrick Warburton, aka Joe Swanson from Family Guy among other characters, explains why he thinks that humor is harder to pull off in video games. Admittedly, he’s right to some degree.
- Finally, 1up’s Scott Sharkey lays it all out on the line for game developers: five ways to improve games and the scores they receive. Hard points to argue with, too.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”