Points of Interest – 1/6/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Review: EvolvedTwincastconhero at The Allspark has gotten his hands on an early production sample of Animated Megatron in his Cybertronian mode, and has posted pics and a review.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Blogging: The 5th turtle has a few things going on in this post, including a pic of the original NECA Raphael figure sculpt, and that they need to “light a fire” if they want to get the rest of their products approved on schedule. Also: why the Turtles like pizza.
Also, the reason the pics have been few turns out to be because Toy Review has an exclusive deal– and they don’t seem to be too happy that some pics were leaked already.
- Blogging: If you’re into The Price Is Right, then this may interest you.
- Video: Be careful who you choose to move in with… there are some strange people out there.
- Interview: Newarama has a piece with Spider-Man Editor Steve Wacker, who “brings a breath of fresh air” to all the “One More Day” crap with what he knows, and what’s to come.
At least the guy has a pretty good sense of humor about things, all said.
- Website: Marvel has just launched MarvelKids.com, the perfect place to lure your children into the trappings of the devil by showing them all the good that can come of making deals with the lord of Hell.
Video Power
- Newsbit: Press the Buttons, via Racketboy’s Retro Gaming, have revealed what could be the rebirth of the SEGA Neptune, a Genesis/32X hybrid system that didn’t see release.
- Article: Less than two months after its release, Jeremy Parish is looking back at Super Mario Galaxy, and also seems to hit on part of why Galaxy seemed so much more splendid than Sunshine.
- Videos: More curiously time-displaced Virtual Console videos, this time for Chew Man Fu, Three Kingdoms IV, and Sword of Vermillion.
- Videos: GameTrailers has a series of videos that show off what happens when Pandemic has real-life mercenary Jim Holston visit to check out Mercenaries 2.
It’s… kinda funny, up to about the last half of the last video. Then it’s just kind of saddening from there.
- Gallery: GameDaily picks one of my Dead Or Alive favorites, Hitomi, to be their Babe of the Week.
- Article: Games Radar presents their Anti-Awards of 2007, taking all the year’s suckage and cramming it into one piece of writing.
- Article: N=Philes takes a look at why comics and video games don’t always mix.
- Videos: More Earthworm Jim Saturday morning cartoon fun from Go Nintendo.
- Interview: A new interview with Satoru Iwata appears!
- Pic: The Seattle Post (conveniently near Nintendo of America’s HQ) put an interesting image together, combining sports and Mario.
- Blogging: Seems the Director of God of War didn’t like Super Mario Galaxy enough because the storytelling was “vapid.”
Eh, whatever floats his boat. I don’t know, I remember a time when game story was pretty minimal; you played the games because they were fun. I think that when the story is your sole motivation to get through a game, then something is definitely wrong on the “game” end of things. Sadly, I have played some games where the story is what kept me going, though.
- Newsbit: Sigh, some people.
A 7-year old boy had his Wii stolen (no jokes, please). The mother things they were targeted due to the disposed-of packaging, which makes sense. So if you’re going to get rid of that stuff, then take the proper precautions!
- Article: 16 Virtual Console titles you just can’t live without.
I agree with about half of them, anyway. Mostly the top half.
- Video:Conan O’Brien.
Rock Band.
- Merch: Cool custom crochet mushroom scarfs, and they’re made to order. I wonder if I can get that in PMO style?
–LBD “Nytetrayn”