Points of Interest – 12/16/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Pics/Info: Some official pictures, as well as bios, are now available for Allspark Power Incinerator, Offroad Ironhide, and First Strike Optimus Prime.
- Pics/Info: Unicron.com got ahold of a press packet for TransFormers: Animated, showing off lots of pictures and bios for the characters, including some slight spoilers and plenty of wallpaper fodder.
And yes, this was posted in news as well, but I felt it had enough “general” appeal to be posted here, too.
- Site Subsection: Looks like BWTF got some of that stuff as well, and has arranged a whole section of the site for the upcoming toon.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Pics: The battle of the century: Jughead Jones vs. Raphael and Leonardo. It’s no sequel to The Punisher Meets Archie, but it’s something.
- Musing: Ever wonder where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird came up with the name/character of Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
- Blogism: The Ultimate Response for social situations.
- Video: God, I hate hotel room card keys. They’re cool… but only when they work.
- Article: First, Forbes covered their top 15 richesst fictional characters, and now, they’re doing the same for the 25 largest fictional companies.
Video Power
- Blogging: New blog I’m keeping my eyes on… but then, it’s my wife’s. All the same, it may interest fans of Sony and their hard/software, as it’s the PlayStation Monger blog. Give it a look, it doesn’t really pander or anything.
- Video: Blaze Hedgehog has gathered but a few moments of glitch buggery from the infamous 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog title.
- Bloggery: The boys at Nyko visited the boys at Capcom with their new Perfect Shot lightgun attachment for the Wii remote, and it seems that the Capcom lot find it a better fit for such Zapper-oriented games as Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. Wonder what Nintendo thinks of that…
- Interview: Capcom found an interview by the website, Street Fighter Devotion, wherein they speak to Sam Reich, director of original content at CollegeHumor.com, including the Street Fighter: The Later Years series of videos.
- Articles: Toastyfrog has wheeled out the latest issue of his online webzine, and among other articles within are a couple of pieces that look back at Kid Icarus, exploring its innovations and appeal while noting what can turn off a modern gamer, and Gunstar Heroes, which helps show a little of why people love Treasure so much.
- Newsbit: Not too long ago, Ryan Shneider, Insomiac?s marketing director for Ratchet & Clank were flattered that Miyamoto decided to emulate their “spherical world” idea… except, as Miyamoto more or less points out, they didn’t do that at all.
But, are people reading too much into what Miyamoto said? Or, perhaps they are not reading far enough? Maybe he’s trying to give Insomniac a helpful hint…
- Video: GameTrailers gives us a comparison of how Midway’s classic Cruis’n games, both then and now, compare to one another.
I dunno… the Wii game is a little bit of an improvement, but I don’t think it’s a really huge one… seems more about animation than anything.
- Comic Strip: Poor Suda51…
- Editorial: It’s been covered now and again, and IGN’s Matt Cassamassina brings it into a head-on form, asking Nintendo when are we going to get more storage space?
- Article Games Radar asks a question many a gamer ask themselves: Are developers listening, or are we just talking to ourselves?
- Article: Another feature looks at characters that we care about.
For the record, only the last really applies to me in my experiences.
- Article: And finally, they also look into a history of video game babes.
- Papercraft: For the geek in all of us: Francis, from Super Paper Mario.
- Merch News: Weighted Companion Cubes, now on sale through a portal near you.
- …oops, never mind.
- Pics: I love classic arcade fliers, such as this Japanese Punch-Out!! flier.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”