The Daily ‘Shroom – 1/9/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Preview: Simon Furman gives us a glimpse at the final chapter of Beast Wars: The Ascending.
- Pics: Images have surfaced, showing off the Premium Movie figures of ’09 Bumblebee, Jazz, and Barricade.
- Newsbit: Bay and Co. hope to start filming TransFormers 2 on June 2nd, but with the Writer’s Strike…
Assorted Mushrooms
- Preview: It’s almost upon us… Spider-man‘s “Brand New Day” hits stores today, and Newsarama offers a look.
- Newsbit: An update from the Producer of G.I. Joe tells a bit about what’s going on with Destro, Hawk, and Zartan.
- Newsbit: Much to Michael Bay’s chagrin, I’m sure, Paramount has decided to continue backing HD-DVD.
Video Power
- Newsbit: So Sony is finally looking to go after the casual crowd. Can the PS3 compete in that market? Probably not. Even Xbox 360 is finding it challenging. But the PS2, on the other hand…
- Newsbit: Hey, remember Xbox Live Diamond?
Yeah, neither did I, until earlier when I found out that they’re going to start charging for it. So that’s one perk lost for Gold subscribers, and apparently it wasn’t handled terribly well anyway.
But! It all matters little to me, since I’m in Canada. Of course, with a look at the deals, I might have been willing to drop 7 bucks for discounts at some of those places.
Did any of you sign up for Diamond? Did you ever get it?
- Newsbit: Whup, looks like that crazy Nintendo has won itself another Emmy. I guess they’ll just toss that one in the pile with the rest of their awards.
- Newsbit: Smash Bros. DOJO!! updates with word of a NEW CHALLENGER!!
Make way for the Pikmin and Captain Olimar!!
And as a bonus, they’ve included a glimpse of the track for the Pikmin World Map.
On top of all that, it seems to now officially render the icon theory a bust, as Pikmin could only fit in spot 19, but is instead 22.
- Newsbit: Ouch, it looks like some developers are deciding to play hardball, and Electronic Gaming Monthly isn’t going to stand for it. They’ve outted three companies who are no longer supplying them with games due to poor review scores received in the past:
Ubisoft
Sony (sports division)
Midway?s (Mortal Kombat team)Much like RMC, I too would like to hear their side of things. Most interesting to me is that it’s no single part of Ubisoft, while the other two are specific divisions or teams.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”