Points of Interest – 1/16/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Interview: TransFans.net has an interview with Brazilian TransFormers artist Marcelo Matere, which includes some never-before-seen images for characters and the unreleased fourth issue of Dreamwave’s War Within: Age of Wrath.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Video: Now this is how you throw a party.
- Video: From The Tim Allen School of Opening Beer Bottles. Overkill much?
- Reviews: IGN checks out the latest manga releases, and– surprise, surprise– reviews them.
Video Power
- Blogging: The PS Monger briefly recaps the raw deal dragons have had in gaming. Nevermind the ones who are simply there to be slain.
- Video: Thanks to Lyra for pointing me at this awesome guitar version of Boomer Kuwanger’s theme from Mega Man X, among many others.
- Video: The Switcher has another compilation of silly clips from the American Street Fighter cartoon, in a piece called Street Fighter Stupidity Exhibition Vol 2: Headbite Harder!
I still like the toon, though.
- Article: Today’s piece from Racketboy’s Retro Gaming looks at the rarest and most valuable Nintendo 64 games of all.
- Video: ScrewAttack.com looks back at the best and worst of Sonic’s games.
- Article: IGN Retro decides to follow up with some of their old chums, and see what they’ve been up to lately.
- Article: GameDaily checks out who some of the biggest stars to voice video games are.
- Article: GameDaily takes a look at Apple, and notes how the Big 3 could follow their example.
- Newsbit: CVG, via Games Radar, digs and finds how Star Wars got mixed up in Soul Calibur.
?When we thought about what guest characters would fit in the Soulcalibur universe, we naturally ended up with Vader and Yoda.”
Oh… of course. What rational person WOULDN’T connect the two?
- Article: Who says glasses are just for nerds? Games Radar has picked out ten famous pairs that could not be done without.
- Article: GamePro takes a look at the industry’s tendency to create what has become known in some circles as bullshots, or doctored-up screenshots.
- Article: Who are the greatest horses in video game history? MTV Multiplayer makes a list. Dunno if they checked it twice, though.
- Newsbit: A dirty Wii deal goes bad.
- Interview: Square-Enix Prez clarifies the “Wii is a toy” comment, and gives his thoughts on a “one console” future.
- Article: Tried to post this yesterday, but the link wasn’t working. Gamasutra has a new article up that looks at “20 mysterious games,” games with plenty of secrets to discover.
- Article: With the recent delay of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, what better time for the folks at 1up to take a look at why some of the hottest games slipped into 2008.
- Article: Someone at Gawker feels that gaming journalism should stop treating women like meat. And I agree; I like cheesecake as much as anyone, but it really does get overdone sometimes.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”