Points of Interest – 12/21/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Review: BWTF.com takes a look at Spotlight: Ramjet.
“A lot of eyebrows were raised when it was announced Ramjet of all characters would get a Spotlight story.”
Very true here. And likewise, having Classics Skywarp, I was indifferent to having Ramjet. But after reading this, well, I’d sort of like to have the guy.
Also: Mini-Constructicons rock.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Merch: For the Power Rangers fans, some new products have been added to the store at Jungle Fury NET.
- Blogging: The 5th turtle continues his tale about what happened with Archie involving the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic, and its final story, “The Forever War.”
- Blogging: Dilbert creator Scott Adams discusses a story wherein a man was fired for posting a Dilbert comic.
I haven’t checked the comments, but I bet there’s at least one that says something about “free speech.”
- Interview: Newsarama has a discussion with April Stewart, the voice actor who provides the voices for nearly all the females in South Park.
- Article: IGN takes a look back at one of the craziest years in comics, 2007.
And movies.
And anime.
And DVD.
…and a bunch more, including games.
Video Power
- Video: Following yesterday’s mention of the Street Fighter merchandise feature posted at 1up, does anyone remember this commercial for the GI Joe/Street Fighter II action figures? It was really something… NOT!
Man, how far can Duke fall? Just the same, something deep down inside wants to giggle at the mere thought of M. Bison and his flunkies working for Cobra…
- Pic: Over at The Mega Man Network, Tabby has created a lovely Christmas-themed banner for us, if you’d like to check it out.
- Article: While Racketboy’s Retro Gaming has assembled a strong list of multiplayer Dreamcast games, I feel that it is remiss in discluding Capcom’s Cannon Spike.
- Article: Following on the news earlier about the girl murdered by a pair of Moron Kombatants, Ripten games looks at why people link violence to video games.
Joystiq also makes some good observations.
- Video: ScrewAttack.com looks back at Hydro Thunder, a motorboat racing game which I simply do not remember.
- Video: GameTrailers does a little sizing-up, comparing the Xbox 360 version of The Orange Box to its late-arrival PS3 counterpart.
- Article: Geeze, GameDaily is STILL doing Mario features? This time, it’s the Facts on Mario.
Good to see some further confirmation on Mario’s height, however, but I think Mario and Luigi are still twins in some sense of the term.
- Interview: GameDaily sits down with Adam Sessler of X-Play, and they discuss the show’s changes, as well as that of “gaming network” G4.
- Pics: Game journalists have gotten a lot of swag over the past year (not me, though, ha ha. Sigh), and GameDaily is no exception. Here, they look back at all the “crap” they got.
Hey, if you guys don’t want the Super Mario Galaxy Flight Team patch…
- Article: Super Smash Bros. Brawl is adding a lot of new features into the game we know and love. GameDaily picks their ten favorite so far.
- Pics: Yesterday, we got to see what Rare was sending everyone for a Christmas card. Today, Games Radar shows us that, and what everyone else had sent, too.
- Video: Super Mario Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros., two great tastes that taste great together!
…yeah, I don’t know, either. It’s an interesting bit of cross-promotion, that’s for sure.
- Article: On a related note, GameDaily talks to Nintendo about how well Super Mario Galaxy is doing.
- Pics: I can empathize with this Games Radar editor, whose car has apparently been broken into three times.
People who do stuff like this just make me sick.
- Article: And, the winners of the Game|Life Vaporware Games of 2007 are…
- Articles: Yep, that’s right, articles. Game|Life has been running a series about Futurama and gaming, and it seems now was a good time to link to the most recent, which contains a video of cutscenes from the game, and links to the other four articles. Now you can check it all out in one go.
Unless there’s another part tomorrow.
At any rate, it’s encouraged that fans check it out so that the “73rd episode” might be properly restored to its original glory.
- Pic: Great Christmas stocking, or greatest Christmas stocking?
–LBD “Nytetrayn”