The Daily ‘Shroom – 1/2/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Newsbit: Good news for lovers of pink femmebots and beaten women, as Hasbro seems to be releasing Battle Damage Arcee from the Movie line all by her lonesome.
- Newsbit: The latest on the second movie seems to indicate that we might see more robots in disguise, but it might take a little longer. Maybe.
- Newsbit: Still can’t find Masterpiece Starscream at a Wal-Mart near you? Then worry not, for he is now in stock at Wal-Mart.com!
- Newsbit: Latest word on the black Soundblaster bust featuring Ratbat is that it’ll be available this May for $60. He’ll be 6″ tall and limited to one thousand pieces.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Newsbit: From WebbAlert: Walmart’s online video service is gone. It was six days before anyone noticed.
- Newsbit: For fans of Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix and Black Jack, Organic Hobby has something special coming for you.
- Newsbit: Coming soon: the six-armed Spider-man mini-bust. Buy three so he’ll be perfectly capable of enacting dirty deeds for the devil!
Video Power
- Newsbit: These system-bricking updates are getting out of hand. I’m starting to miss the days when games were made around a system’s limits, not by trying to change them. It seems to do more harm than good.
- Newsbit: Good to know Microsoft has finally decided to at least look into Skyllus’ unfortunate situation of being hacked out of his Halo 3 Recon armor. And all it took was some bad publicity!
Remind us to find a creative way to kill ourselves in a popular game the next time we need help from Microsoft.
- Newsbit: Rare has stepped forth and given a little more info surrounding the upcoming Banjo Threeie.
- Newsbit: It’s not much, but Reggie Fils-Aime shared a little tease of what to expect of the DS in the coming future.
- Newsbit: Oh, great. The Wavebird wireless GameCube controller? Nintendo’s stopped shipping them. But if you want wired, you’re still good.
Dammit, I still need to get one or two.
- Newsbit: To ring in the New Year, the Virtual Console has brought forth yet another three games: Light Crusader for the Genesis, Top Hunter for the NEOGEO, and Bubble Bobble for the NES.
- Newsbit: Hmm, I think the title says it all here:
Pepsi Develops New Videogame To Combat Mexican Fatness
Maybe it’s time for another Pepsi-Nintendo partnership?
- Newsbit: If you have $700 handy, but not a Wii, then Toys R Us may just have a deal for you!
- Warning: It’s probably best that, out of the different Wii remote chargers that are on the market, you don’t get Psyclone’s.
- Newsbit: Seems some Wii Fire Emblem discs have run afoul of problems, and Nintendo is making good to repair the discs.
- Newsbit: Apparently, gamers aren’t the only ones miffed by the problematic Xbox Live service as of late; Major Nelson finds it unacceptable as well.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”