InFormers: Robots in the News

1. Show everyone you know that giant transforming robots can be art with these awesome battle-damaged Optimus Prime and Soundblaster with Ratbat busts.
2. If you’re in the US, then Cartoon Network is ready to treat you to a TransFormers: Animated preview bonanza, including a video clip, episode guide, and character bios.

   For those outside the US (or on Macs) who can’t view the clip for no good reason (it’s a PREVIEW, for God’s sake), then cast your eyes here.

Assorted Mushrooms

1. I don’t know what’s more “WTF,” the new look Betty & Veronica received recently, or Jughead’s.

   Maybe this’ll grow on me, but for the moment, I liked theirs better.

2. New week, new releases in anime, games, and DVD.
3. Death Note may be over, but luckily, it’s not finished.

Video Power

1. UDON has released their plans for 2008, which naturally include plenty of Street Fighter. Plus, Joe Ng has a preview for Street Fighter III right here, and Capcom has an interview with Jim Zub.
2. Wow. Now, I’m usually pretty credible with some of these Smash Bros. DOJO!! updates, but they’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. I have no idea how they’re going to stretch this out until February.

   Yesterday, we get a Pokemon named Bonsly. Today, Rotation.

   Maybe a month or two back, or whenever they knew the delay would be, they should have started making updates a weekly affair.

3. New to the Virtual Console today are: Pok?mon Snap on the N64, which now allows swapping of pictures online; the original Ghosts ‘n Goblins for the NES, and BASEBALL STARS 2 on the NeoGeo.
4. Plus, the Gifting feature has begun for VC:

   If some people on your gift list have visions of classic video games dancing in their heads, you’re in luck. Starting this week, Wii Shop Channel patrons can use a new Gifting feature to send games to other Wii owners with whom they’ve traded Friend Codes. It’s an easy and inexpensive way to give your fellow Nintendo buffs the gift of a classic game?no wrapping paper required. And don’t worry about duplication. If your friend already has the game you’re trying to give, you’ll get a simple message and be bumped back into the catalog to continue shopping.

   But the downside? YOU CAN’T GIVE GIFTS TO SOMEONE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. Thanks a f@#$in’ lot, Nintendo, everyone I know is in another country!!!

   That was my initial reaction, but reading further, it seems to simply refer to region coding. Close call. I hope. Anyone wanna send me a game and we’ll find out?

5. Press The Buttons has word that a new Metroid statue is on the way, very likely Samus’ spaceship. Though, at this point, it begs the question “which one?”

   I’ve become fond of the Metroid Prime 3 craft, myself.

6. Burnout Paradise is coming in January, but the demo is coming in two days.
7. At the Spike VGAs, a trailer for the Iron Man game debuted.

   I’m playing “cautiously optimistic” on this one, being SEGA and all.

8. Hmm, seems that reports of Atari’s demise may have been exagerated.
9. Looks like CompUSA is going bye-bye, and from most accounts I’ve heard, it won’t be missed.
10. I don’t get this. The creators of No More Heroes had their launch party, and no one shows up? What the hell?

    This just breaks my heart for those two creators, while I wonder what the hell happened to gaming in Japan.

    I want that game more than ever now.

    And it seems I’m not alone in my thoughts, as this shows.

11. And while we’re at it, let’s add stealing a family’s Christmas to things that make me sick.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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