InFormers: Robots in the News

1. Blogging: Simon Furman looks at the year that was before getting stoked for what’s yet to come.
2. Pics: Many new galleries of TransFormers toys await you at the Allspark. Sorry, not listing them all this time.
3. Merch: Want your very own Nightbird ninja robot or Quintesson Bailiff? Then cast your eyes over at Impossible Toys to see about filling out your collection just a little bit more.
4. Reviews: BWTF.com continues updates with reviews and images of Movie Cliffjumper and Stockade.

Assorted Mushrooms

1. Blogging: The 5th turtle wondered just where in the hell those two wildmen Eastman and Laird got the idea for the original April O’Neil. And by George, he got the answers, too!
2. Video: While its taste in music may be questionable, this bird certainly knows how to get down.
3. Blogging: David Cross apparently had a few things to say about his appearance in Alvin and the Chipmunks.
4. Linkage: Much like Wikipedia, Snopes, or Jump the Shark, TV Tropes is a great, informative timewaster. Though, if you learn new things from it, is it really wasting time?

   The best part is, it even covers video games, anime, comics, and more.

5. Video: Think you’re good with a paper airplane? Then can you top this?
6. Video: Remember the NSFW Angry Grandpa video? Well, he’s back, and as NSFW as ever when he finds out how popular the first video was.
7. Video: Worried your governing body might be corrupt? Here are a few quick ways to tell.
8. Video: What were the top 10 videos of 2007? Let’s find out.
9. Roundtable: A group of folk from Newsarama gather ’round to discuss the final part of Spider-man: One More Day, which I hate to say has effectively tainted the character all across the board for me. Needless to say, they don’t like it much, either.
10. Interview: While over at Comic Book Resources, they continue talking to Joe Quesada himself about it, which is only fueling fans’ ire.

    Also, the science that Joe was going to apply to the retcon of the marriage would have made over 30 years of Spider-Man books worthless, because they never would have had happened. We would have also had a “Crisis” in the Marvel Universe because it would have reset way too many things outside of the Spider-Man titles. We just couldn’t go there and in the end we weren’t expecting that kind of story.

    …and that isn’t what we’re dealing with here?

11. Video: I don’t give much of a damn about beer, but it does produce some funny commercials.

Video Power

1. eBay: Not a dream! Not an imaginary story! Not a hoax!… well, ok, maybe it’s a hoax. I’m not really sure, but if someone DID manage to get Jack Thompson to sign a copy of Grand Theft Auto III to put on eBay, with the profits going to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play, then that’s probably more unbelievable than the dream, story, or whatever.
2. Video: Among many other awards at GameTrailers, one of the most interesting has to be the Most Disappointing Games of ’07, along with the Biggest Surprise award.
3. Articles: Congratulations to Press The Buttons on 1,500 entries! To celebrate, Matt takes a look back at some of his faves of the bunch.
4. Article: And to kick things off this year, he has also put together a Wish List of what he’d like to see come this year.

   And I don’t think I disagree with a single thing there.

5. Video: Thanks to the efforts of Frash, we have found at least one part of the ultra-rare Super Mario Bros. 3 “fairy tale” anime on YouTube.

   Regretably, there seemed to be some sort of subbed version up that’s no longer available.

6. Video: Oh, how can ANYONE expect to get the right thing for Christmas with all these crazy, newfangled terms floating around out there?

   Luckily, some actually know of such things. But just in case, it’s probably best to clarify just what it is you want, rather than just what it’s called.

7. Warning: The news is so nice, I’m saying it twice: if you value your Wii remotes, don’t use a Psyclone charger.
8. Video: ScrewAttack.com may not have liked Virtua Cop 2, but I liked the games, and would like to see those released on the Wii.
9. Video: Another year, another lot of bad games. “Stuttering” Craig and “Handsome” Tom have a look back at the top 10 Angry Video Game Nerd moments of 2007 in which he gave them what for.
10. Editorial: Over at Next Generation, Joe Keiser has a few ideas on how the industry can shape itself up a little in the coming year.
11. Article: Games Radar singles out five things that the MMO genre needs to cut out.

    …the “Depression” one is really alarming. You’d think this is the kind of stuff Jack Thompson and his ilk would be petitioning, the problem is probably far worse than what they’re going on about.

12. Article: On a slightly related note to the two above stories, here are the top 7 gamers’ New Year’s resolutions.
13. Pics: I’ll have a collection like this… someday.
14. Comic: The truth about Contra 4.
15. Article: Not all celebrity-based games suck… just most. Here are some of the worst offenders.
16. Article: It’s been a hell of a year for Microsoft, and a year of hell for their customers. Joystiq takes a look back at 2007 and all the pain they caused.
17. Reviews: And finally, over on 1up, Parish rates every single Final Fantasy game, and even a few non-Final Fantasy games.

    …Super Mario RPG isn’t worth it? I don’t know about that, I think I’d still rather play that than anything else on the list.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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