Points of Interest – 12/27/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Newsbit: Seems there’s one lady who doesn’t cotton to the use of that “Bee-otch” air freshener seen in Bumblebee in the movie, but not for the reason you might think.
- Info: TFormers.com has just launched a new database for the TransFormers: Animated series.
- Review/Gallery: BWTF.com brings us another review today, this time for the Movie line figure of Recon Barricade.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Blogging: The 5th turtle has taken the opportunity to answer some questions about the upcoming “Forever War” trade.
- Article: Ever wonder why so many world-renowned super heroes were created by Jewish folk? The answers await you.
Video Power
- Article: Next Generation looks back, this time on the top 10 blunders of 2007. Some really great moments lie within; even if you remember the stories, give it another look.
- Article: Games Radar has come up with ten things they want to see in online shooters. And really, who wouldn’t?
- Merch: Available now, exclusively at Zeller’s in Canada, it’s… the Wiisaber!!
- Newsbit: Best Buy in Baltimore took a peculiar approach to handling Wii sales recently.
- Pics: This Wii made of Legos is pretty cool, but even cooler is that it literally has a game of Wii Tennis going on inside!
What could be better?
Maybe this Lego Portal.
- Newsbit/Video: Now this is a seriously raw deal on Christmas morning. Thank goodness the kid had a good sense of humor about it.
You can see the news report video right here.
- Video: These kids, on the other hand, had their surprise go a little bit better.
- Video: So Yahtzee’s on vacation this week for some reason (seriously, didn’t he just have one?), so in his place, The Escapist provides a World of Warcraft machinima music video by some guys calling themselves the Dingrats.
- Video: If you’re going to kill yourself in Halo 3, remember to do it with style.
- Article: Ever wonder what sort of lasting effect that Blade Runner, the Ridley Scott movie starring Harrison Ford, has had on video games?
Well, I sort of wonder whenever I play Mega Man X, but I get the feeling that inspiration has started coming from elsewhere.
Anyway, the wonderful team of Jenn Frank and Scott Sharkey have sought out those answers for us, which they present in this finely-tuned article.
Sadly, though, I didn’t see any mention of Mega Man X in there at all.
- Article: Interestingly enough, Associated Press (of all publications) have produced a list of their worst games of 2K7.
- Pics: A full-blown home theater? That’s pretty cool, and I’d love to have one someday.
A full-blown home theater that’s also the Batcave? THAT is what I really want.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”