The Daily ‘Shroom – 1/4/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Pics: Some new high-res imagery is available of TransFormers: Animated‘s Starscream figure.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Interview: Captain America is back!! …sort of.
Video Power
- Pics: Updated images of the Halo Master Chief mini-busts (coming in red, blue, and green) are now available.
- Newsbit: Wanna be a star? Well, this may not have you walking the red carpet alongside Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan (wait, that’d be a good thing then, right?), but a fan movie is being put together by a gent named Eddie Lebron based on Mega Man, and he is taking auditions.
Even if I could get out there, though, looks like I’m in between the two desired age brackets. Not that it would stop me, but it’s too far for me to go right now. Dang.
- Newsbit: If you’re a paying Gold member of Xbox Live, then there’s good news for you, after all this downtime and service issues that the service has had over the past week.
Even though the service was never completely down, Microsoft is still taking the incident to heart, and as a result, will be offering Gold members a free Xbox Live Arcade game for their troubles.
Not too shabby, but we’ll wait and see what these upcoming “details” entail before judging. As for me, well, I’d probably be among them, but as it turns out, the Gold membership we got as a gift from a friend in America doesn’t work here.
- Video: GameTrailers has the opening cinema from Harvey Birdman.
- Preview: Speaking of which, 1up also has a mini-preview of Birdman’s courtroom escapades.
- Newsbit: Nintendo may not be interested in creating a sequel to Wii Sports (pity that, I suppose), but that doesn’t mean that Hudson isn’t interested in filling the gap with Deca Sports, a similar compilation disc of games that seems more suited to complement the Wii pack-in, rather than usurp it. The games included, which of course will use the Wii’s motion controls, are beach volleyball, snowboard cross, badminton, basketball, curling, figure skating, archery, supercross, soccer, and kart racing. Deca Sports ought to hit the field in summer.
- Newsbit: Now, my recollection might be a tad fuzzy here, but it seems like the local news somewhere was chasing ghosts by saying the Nintendo DS was a top target for predators to stalk children. Yet, I don’t seem to recall them ever saying anything about Xbox Live, which I imagine is now painted as a more viable threat.
Go figure. This seems to go beyond the game service, anyway.
- Newsbit: The Smash Bros. DOJO!! may not be updating this week, but luckily, there’s some new info anyway.
- Newsbit: Hope you didn’t like the Metroid Prime 3: Corruption preview channel TOO much… it’s gone now.
I think it’s all archived at GameTrailers, anyway, so not a tremendous loss…
- Newsbit: Mega Man ZX Advent has finally been dated for a European release of… February 29th? *shrugs* Ok then.
Word of advice, though: play on EASY. You’ll thank me when you reach the end.
- Newsbit: Pre-registration for your Wii Guitar Hero III replacement disc is now open.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”