Points of Interest – 1/18/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Review: Real Gear robot Hacker X3 has been reviewed on BWTF.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Video: The rubber-band chain gun: A snappy answer to stupid questions.
- Video: Who says amateur wrestling has to be boring? Not this guy!
- Video: This guy gets to read the sports on the news, and yet, I remain out of work. Where’s the justice?
- Review: Another review for Cloverfield. Sounds good to me.
- Article: Dirk Manning is back at Newsarama, and he takes a look at Spider-man’s recent changes, and compares them to… wrestling? How unexpectedly apt.
- Comic: Speaking of which (as even I’m getting tired of at this point), Figures.com’s online toy comic has their own take on recent events. Could use a bit of work in the spelling department, but otherwise a funny read.
Video Power
- Blogging: PS Monger is disappointed that GameTrailers’ Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law game doesn’t quite live up to the Phoenix Wright pedigree.
I think I’ll still give this one a rental, if nothing else.
Also, Capcom has an interview with the men behind the game.
- Article: Figures.com talks to the creator of that custom Samus action figure about the process of making it, complete with some “before” pics.
- Newsbit: Oh, ok, so maybe Cracker Jack doesn’t hate the idea of learning being fun.
- Video: ScrewAttack.com brings out X-Men: Children of the Atom, Capcom’s superpowered Street Fighter-ish fighting game that helped usher in the Marvel vs. Capcom era of arcade fighters.
- Article: No doubt about it, Super Smash Bros. Brawl has a dream roster. But, even dreams can get a little better, can’t they? GameDaily has a list of characters that people would love to see join, but probably never will.
On the other hand… go back about 10-12 years and tell someone that Sonic and Mario would fight in a game… see what they say.
Anyway, the list starts off interestingly enough (Boob smash by the DOA girls? Master Chief vs. Samus?), but then devolves into a schoolyard glee fest over how much more badass Kratos and Big Daddy are than Wario and Kirby.
- Article: GameDaily follows yesterday’s “Best Celebrity Appearances in Gaming” piece with the Best Celebrity Cameos.
- Article: MSNBC poses the question in an excellent article as to whether or not parents gaming with their kids is wasted time or worthwhile.
Totally worthwhile. Even though his tastes have drifted apart from mine, at least it’s one subject I can still converse with my dad about.
It’s pathetic that someone would think that spending time with their kids is “a waste,” even if it’s with video games. And I think that’s where a lot of parents can fail.
- Merch: Some awesome import light-up Mario character/item keychains.
- Quiz: Think you know your video game movies? How about their posters? Why not take the overly-difficult video game movie poster quiz and find out?
I got three.
- Newsbit: Now here’s a fun way to learn piano lessons… with Mario!
- Newsbit: A story that, shamefully, will probably never see the sort of sensationalism that a story about violence involving (if only peripherally) video games would see: An America’s Army player saving peoples’ lives using the experience he gained in the game itself.
- Newsbit: Remember the dusty PS3 that Sony wouldn’t touch? Well, good news is, the gent now has his problem fixed.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”