Points of Interest – 1/10/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Videos: Just missed this yesterday. Ever wonder how the Beast Wars got started? I mean, before the first episode? Now is your chance to find out, with part 1 and part 2 of Theft of the Golden Disc.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Video: Hey, something about Spider-man that isn’t One More Day! Rather, someone decided to give their interpretation of how the third movie should have ended.
- Interview: And so as not to disappoint, yet more from Spider-man Editor Steve Wacker on Brand New Day.
- Blogging: Mark Evanier talks about one hot topic off of the WGA strike: residuals, why writers get them, and more.
- Newsbit: Self-proclaimed “meanest mom on the planet” puts her son’s car up for sale after finding booze inside.
- Article: Do you remember the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons toyline? Figures.com does.
Me? Not so much. All I’ve ever really wanted from it after laying eyes upon it is the Fortress of Fangs, and I’d still like to know who I might need to slay to get one. I don’t even really want it as a AD&D thing; I want it as a Koopa fort for my Mario figures.
…don’t suppose anyone out there has the hook-up for me?
- Reviews: Yesterday was the backlog of holiday anime releases, and today IGN goes after the manga.
- Article: Randy Marsh, Stan’s dad on South Park, has to be one of the biggest idiots the world has ever known. But let’s face it, South Park just wouldn’t be as interesting without him. And so, IGN picks their ten favorite moments with the Guitar Zero.
Video Power
- Blogging: At first, I thought that a Cattlesnake was just some Pokemon I’d never heard of before…
- Article: An editorial over at AMN suggests some resolutions that the Big 3 ought to take a serious look at this year.
- Newsbit: Did you know that the DS touchscreen has pressure sensitivity? Me neither!
- Video Review: GameTrailers tells us what they think of Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles.
- Video: More Virtual Console video footage, featuring Gain Ground, and… that’s it. Huh.
- Article: Classic video game ninjas duke it out as Ninja Gaiden‘s Ryu Hayabusa takes on Shinobi‘s Joe Musashi in this week’s Hero Showdown.
- On a side note, not small secret that the NES Ninja Gaiden trilogy took more than a little bit after Castlevania. Makes me wonder what it’d be like today if that continued, with handheld 2D Ninja Gaiden games made with a Metroid aesthetic.
Conversely, what would the 3D Castlevania titles be like if they took after the Xbox version of Ninja Gaiden?
- Article: Game Daily names what they believe to be the 21 most influential video games.
- Article: Games Radar takes a look a the gimmicks of 2008′s games that developers are hoping will draw you in.
- Article: Ever wonder what “Katamari Damacy” really means? Games Radar investigates that, and many more.
- Article: And some people think I analyze Mario too much. Games Radar takes a quirky look at The Sexual Politics Of The Mushroom Kingdom: “Who’s sleeping with who, why Peach is a slut, and why Mario really needs better self-esteem.”
Wow.
- Article: Is it possible to play as a pacifist in a MMORPG? Apparently…
Definitely one of the more interesting ways to play.
- Video: Yahtzee, fan of Silent Hill, apparently does not care quite so much for Silent Hill: Origins.
- Merch: Remember the “boomerang” PS3 controller? I liked that one. Maybe not at first site, but I was definitely feeling a little disappointment that their finalized design was the same-old, same-old.
Interestingly enough, however, it seems the manufacturer of a Chinese PS3 controller felt the same way.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”