The Daily ‘Shroom – 1/27/08
Ok, so a hectic schedule put me off-sides here for a couple of days, but we’re back!
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Pics: Out-of-box images of Movie Jetstorm and Wingblade
have surfaced. - Newsbit: Botcon.com has updated with a PDF of their new brochure for BotCon 2008, featuring a theme of “Shattered Glass” which has the potential to be pretty cool.
- Newsbit: For $70, you can get a Movie 2-pack from Wal-Mart.com, featuring Megatron and Nightwatch Optimus Prime.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Newsbit: As Jessica Alba prepares to become a mother in real life, it seems she’s interested in expanding that role into the third Fantastic Four movie as well. Lucky for her, there’s already an established precedent, and so the move would be rather natural.
- Newsbit: Want to work for a toy company? Well, from the sounds of things, you could do a lot worse than Mattel, who’s named in the Top 100 Best Places to Work.
Video Power
- Newsbit: Rumor, maybe? I’m not sure exactly how to mark this, but it doesn’t sound good, anyway. The Mega Man ZX series may just be shy of a third title. Worst part is the whole “ignoring America” part that seems to come natural to them in these situations.
I ever mention how surprised I am we’re getting Bionic Commando, considering?
- Newsbit: Word from the Smash Bros. DOJO!! is that we’re finally getting Virtual Console demos, albeit in a rather strange, roundabout, and perhaps limited way.
Interesting to note that Earthbound/Mother 2, a game without a VC release, is featured on the Japanese site, alongside a SFC version of Fire Emblem.
Elsewhere, Japan has Wii demo kiosks now, and they’re loaded with Brawl. You can see some videos of these early encounters here
.Plus, GameTrailers has the second part of their look at the New Challengers
to appear in Brawl.And presumably to prevent spoilers (let’s all have a laugh at that one), the Brawl Player’s Guide has been delayed
as well. - Newsbit: In other Virtual Console news, it sounds like the SEGA Master System is joining the fun.
- Newsbit: It happened in Japan already, and seems to be poised to happen in total: The Wii is ready to eclipse the number of GameCubes sold through the latter’s lifespan.
- Newsbit: After falsifying testimonies of the content of Mass Effect, Fox claims to have attempted to invite EA onto their programming, only to be denied by EA– or at least ignored.
EA says they just aren’t interested
. And for good reason. - Newsbit: The DS is getting a new color: Cobalt Blue/Black.
I still need to get a Crimson/Black, myself…
- Newsbit: Good to hear that No More Heroes seems to be selling well on this side of the ocean.
- Deal: Ok, now I really need to make my move to get Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations… wait, that’s probably just in the US.
Sigh.
- Newsbit: Strange… I wonder why No More Heroes gets not only a later release date in Canada, but different boxart, too.
- Newsbit: Bad news, Pokefans: The Pokemon Center is closing at the end of the month.
- Newsbit: Oh, good, the new Turok game is going to have a patch so you’re not rewarded for killing your teammates any more.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”