InFormers: Robots in the News

1. Blogging: Simon Furman pulls back the wrapping paper for us this year as he gives us a peek at the original Beast Wars mini-series he drafted for Dreamwave, before the company tanked. And it sounds like it might have been more different from IDW’s Beast Wars: The Gathering than I’d thought.
2. Info: Optimus Prime. Jazz. Starscream. Megatron.

   …Sourball?

   Apparently, not all TransFormer names were works of art, as The Allspark has a post which reveals some of the rejected titles which some unfortunate Autobots and Decepticons might have had to deal with, had fate (and in some cases, good sense) not intervened.

3. Info: Plus, some unused bios from the Marvel TransFormers Universe series have surfaced, highlighting the Omnibots.
4. Reviews/Galleries: BWTF.com brings us a whole bagfull of reviews, including: Cyber-Slammers Cliffjumper, Robot Heroes Ratchet and Megatron two-pack, G1 Pretender Iguanus, Robot Heroes Optimus Prime and Blackout two-pack, and Final Battle Jazz.
5. Pic: And then there’s the cover for the 2008 calendar from Cartoon Network, featuring their upcoming Robots in Disguise.

Assorted Mushrooms

1. Video: Who says that Amish don’t know how to have fun?
2. Video: A favorite Christmas song of mine. Hint: the musician’s name rhymes with “Beard Gal.”
3. Video: CineMassacre (aka The Angry Video Game Nerd) takes a look at a holiday cult classic in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
4. Pics/Blogging: Two more updates to the 5th turtle’s series of blogs about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures‘ final chapter, The Forever War, with the last one giving us a six-page preview of the first part as a sort of holiday gift.
5. Pics:It really sucks that I can’t link to individual posts on He-Man.Org, as the latest one for December 25th has a ton of cool wallpapers, using art based on the various Masters of the Universe mini-statues which have come out.

Video Power

1. Blogging: This just in: movie-based games still have a penchant for sucking.
2. Pic: Ever wonder what the Bible would be like if Mary and Joseph were Reploids from the Mega Man games?
3. Video: Racketboy’s Retro Gaming has a series of videos which will make you feel like a total chump when it comes to Tetris.
4. Video: ScrewAttack.com takes a fond look back at the game which shows what happens when you cross Miyamoto’s star with Metroid‘s developers: you get Super Mario Land.
5. Video: The Angry Video Game Nerd’s NSFW Christmas Carol continues.
6. Pics: Next Generation takes a look, in pictures, back at the year that was 2007.
7. Video: And believe it or not, on a related note, the hell?

   Is this parody?

8. Article: Now here’s a doozy: Every Christmas Top 10 from the past 20 years.
9. Article: Still not enough? Then how about the Top 7 Christmas moments?
10. Video: Ladies and gentlemen; get ready to ROCK. THE. HALLS!
11. Video: Anyone remember that ridiculously-made game someone made based on Mega Man, designed to kill you in every way possible?

    No, not Mega Man Zero.

    Anyway, here’s a version that plays on Mario instead.

    …it… it gets amusing, after awhile. You really wonder just what they can do next.

12. Video: On another end of the spectrum, here we have Mariotroid, which appears to be a hack of some sort.
13. Article: For all the good stuff we got this year, there are still bound to be a few disappointments lingering in the minds of some.
14. Interview: Cool, it looks like Mr. KENNEDY… Kennedy is a Nintendo fan, too!
15. eBay: I really need to get a Virtual Boy on the cheap one of these days, mainly so I can play Virtual Boy Wario Land. But while I’ve heard the best way to play is to lay back and let the visor rest over your eyes, it’d be very tempting to have this display stand to keep it on, too.
16. Pic: Remember kids: besides smoking not being cool, it can pose a hazard to your DS. NSFW naughty word within.
17. Pic: When Bowser gets smarter, that’s when games get too long. If they aren’t already.
18. Article: According to The New York Times, Super Mario Galaxy is actually not that ambitious.

    Um, ok. Hell, let’s run with that. If it were as ambitious as they seem to want, then it probably wouldn’t be much of a Mario game, would it? Or we’d end up with another Sunshine…

19. Interview: 1up gets some time with Street Fighter IV art director Daigo Ikeno to discuss the direction the game is taking.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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