The Daily ‘Shroom – 12/6/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- New images of the upcoming Revoltech Rodimus and Starscream figures have emerged.
- Damn, Don’s off of TransFormers for now? That sucks. Guido’d better not leave, too, or else that’ll be a lot of people really upset– including me!
Assorted Mushrooms
- The Official TMNT Web Site reports that the “Tales of the TMNT Volume 1 Series Treasury Edition” was delivered to Diamond Comic Distributors yesterday, and ought to be hitting shelves over the next couple of weeks. Tales #41 is still in production, but ought to see daylight by the end of the month as well.
- Another sneak peek at the 2K8 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series reveals a new character, but who is he?
- Disney’s website has an interesting new trailer for Power Rangers Jungle Fury, featuring several clips from beast-themed Rangers past. Curious among these is Wild Force, which while logical, defies the notion presented that Disney is trying to distance themselves from the Saban iterations as much as possible.
- If you dig Chuck Norris, then these stories from Newsweek and Yahoo might interest you as The Bearded One lends his power to Mike Huckabee’s campaign.
Video Power
- Finally… Street Fighter IV revealed!
Very impressive art direction.
- Ok, so there are a lot of DVDs of old video game cartoons out there I’d love to get my hands on. Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Captain N: The Game Master, The Legend of Zelda, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Captain N and the New Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, among others.
I actually have the first part of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show as a Christmas gift from last year (the Shout! Factory stuff isn’t really sold here in Canada), alongside Mega Man and Street Fighter.
But Sonic Underground‘s impending release this month doesn’t exactly titillate my desire for video game cartoons. Though the first US cartoon appearance of Knuckles would be something of a draw, having heard his voice sort of negates it.
I don’t know. If I got it as a gift of something, I’d probably give it a fair shake, but it’s not something I’d be eager to throw money at to import, you know?
- Clearly, the negative press must have been too great a burden to bear, as GameSpot has finally begun to open up a little about the firing of Jeff Gerstmann.
Elsewhere, Gerstmann has shared his thoughts via e-mail with MTV’s Stephen Totilo.
And amidst all this, GameSpot’s taken a little editing liberty with the review in question.
- Really need to get the Xbox 360 online, so I can download games and demos and stuff, like this new Burnout Paradise demo hitting on December 13th.
- There’s a new game in town… and it’s called, “Can You Top This?”
Ok, so it’s not really a NEW game, per se, but the way it’s being played is, as apparently EA still wants to be the biggest.
- Evil Avatar reports that Amazon.com is having a pretty cool video game sale. Don’t have Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for GameCube yet? Now’s the time, at $10.
- The Smash Bros. DOJO!! update of the night is King Dedede’s Final Smash.
- No More Heroes: Travis Clothes and Death Metal, aka “fun with sharp objects.”
Plus, IGN has a look at the various jobs you do to earn money.
- Should the government regulate games? Apparently, 60% of adults, or in simpler terms “way too f#@$ing many” would seem to believe so.
Curse you, you shoulder-shrugging sheep! You’ll damn the entire lot of us!
The ESA, meanwhile, feels that the poll was “unethical.”
- On a related note, new blacklist today. One that seems a little more relevant than yesterday’s. Game|Life counters with their own “are recommended” list.
- Congratulations to Tomonobu Itagaki for his not guilty verdict of his alleged sexual harassment suit. Now, when can we expect the next DOA?
- A new Final Fantasy IV trailer appears!
- So, the DS version of Ghostbusters will allow you to run the business? Interesting… reminds me a little of how you’d have to save and spend money on things like gas in the old NES game.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”