Points of Interest – 1/4/08
Assorted Mushrooms
- Video: From Mark Evanier’s blog comes this piece about one of the last interviews given by William M. Gaines, the publisher of MAD Magazine, before his death.
- Article: Apparently, Joe Q missed a few points in explaining his take on how Spider-man‘s story “One More Day” played out. Luckily, the story’s original writer, J. Michael Straczynski, is here to straighten things out.
This, you have to read to believe.
- Interview: Speaking of reading to believe, let’s see how much further Joe Quesada can bury himself in part 4 of Comic Book Resources’ series.
Video Power
- Newsbit: Once upon a time, as memory serves, the Guiness Book of World Records used to record video game records. Then, I believe it was the sheer abundance of video game releases and high scores attained that made continuing such a listing unfeasible.
However, with video game back on the rise, it seems that the Guiness folks have reconsidered somewhat, as those World Record types are now planning a gaming edition of the publication.
- Article: Figure.com looks back at 2007 to pick the year’s best video game action figures.
- Video: ScrewAttack’s Video Game Vault opens up with a look back at Konami’s Cybernator for the Super NES and Virtual Console.
- Videos: For some reason, there’s a big list of old Virtual Console games sitting on GameTrailers’ front page. And since I’m a sucker for oldschool, let’s toss ‘em here: Kirby’s Adventure, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dragon’s Curse, and Bravoman.
- Pics: Not every video game hero is a 100% certifiable Grade-A badass like Solid Snake, Bill and Lance, Master Chief, or Samus Aran. GameDaily checks out some of gaming’s… ah, “more introverted” heroes.
- Video(s): Well, this is convenient. Someone’s gathered up all the cutscenes from The Simpsons Game.
- Video: Wow, hard to tell where to put this. But I guess since it came from a game site, here is best.
Anyway, it seems that Canadian officials don’t take kindly to video game parodies of their blunders, such as tasing a guy to death in an airport.
- Article: Lots of crappy Wii games? Apparently, it’s not the fault of developers.
I don’t know. Just tells me they have no pride in what they put out. But I guess that’s been a truth for a lot of the industry for some time now, hasn’t it?
The upside? No need for fans of the Angry Video Game Nerd (and his imitators) to worry about forced retirement any time soon.
- Interview: Violence in games… do we really need it? Metal Gear maestro Hideo Kojima gives Assassin’s Creed overseer Jade Raymond his thoughts on the matter.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”