Points of Interest – 1/20/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Video: The War Within… animated.
- Reviews: BWTF reviews IDW’s Spotlight: Galvatron and Target-exclusive Movie figure G1 deco Starscream.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Video: What would you do if you had a robot arm for the weekend? These guys use one to chuck bowling balls.
- Video: the MacBook Air: Why the hell not?
- Article: One-time Spider-man writer Erik Larsen shares his thoughts on… you know, that story.
- Newsbit: So, how’s that whole teleportation thing coming along?
Video Power
- Video: Not everyone can adjust to working in an office environment. But Solid Snake gives it his best shot.
- Interview: This time out, Capcom talks to Harvey Birdman’s assistant, Peanut. But be warned, it’s a .wav file.
- Newsbit: Unless they’re ratting out every movie, music, etc. contributor to political campaigns, then the PTC strikes me as a bit hypocritical for seeking to do it for video game contributors.PTC is just a bad joke, anyway, with the punchline being the people who count on them for anything.
- Comic: Can’t remember if I posted this before, and I’m too lazy to check, and even if so, it bears repeating as David Willis brings Super Mario Galaxy to Shortpacked!.
- Interview: A new interview at Kombo via N-Europe looks to get to know SUDA-51, creator of No More Heroes, just a little better.
- Interview: Want more? GameSpot got in some time with him, too.
- Newsbit: Looks like the WGA Writer’s Strike is pushing more people towards gaming. I bet Nintendo really wishes they had more Wiis on shelves now.
- Newsbit: Microsoft is stressing the importance of game demos, and I can’t agree enough.
- Interview: Gamasutra spends some time with Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, about the history of his game and the current state of the casual game market which it helped give birth to, as well as his current projects.
- Video: Know Ragnarok Online? That MMORPG? Did you know there’s also an anime based on it? It’s true! And IGN has the first episode available for your perusal.
- Newsbit: After Nintendo’s performance in 2007, President Satoru Iwata is happy.After seeing articles saying that shortages are part of their strategy, President Satoru Iwata is sad.“[When I see those types of articles], I honestly feel sad,” said Iwata. “Game machine production amounts are set about half a year in advance, so they cannot be easily changed. The concept of the Wii is ‘a machine that makes people who play it smile.’ We wouldn’t use a strategy that is at odds with smiling. Getting as many people as possible to show us their smiles when playing a Nintendo game — that’s the energy source that drives us.”
Touching (no DS pun intended), is it not?
- Article: What the…?If you believe in psychics, then you might be interested in the little trip that Games Radar took to a few of these future seers to discover what lies ahead for the game industry in 2008….just the premise alone makes me more interested in this than the regular run-of-the-mill predictions.
- Video: Hmm, looks like Punch-Out!!‘s Sandman could use a Super Mushroom.
- Pic: Awesome Chain Chomp hat.
- Newsbit: One more reason to support No More Heroes: So that third-party developers won’t shy away from Mature game development.
- Newsbit: Ok, so this Wi Vision thing that plays NES games and has a “106 game cartridge” seems legit, but does it work in North America?
- Pics: I’ve not played Gears of War yet, and so I’m not quite familiar with the source material, but this Nerf gun Lancer mod is pretty slick looking, just the same.
- Pics: The Lancer not your bag? Then how about a crocheted Mario, along with some items? It’d go great with the above-mentioned hat.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”