Points of Interest – 1/30/08
Assorted Mushrooms
- Pics: You’re probably used to seeing retro… but are you used to seeing UK retro
? - Pic: Marvel: Always what you want. And by you, we mean them.
- Blogging: Made-up obscenities. Sometimes I like them. “Slag” being a favorite. But other times…
- Article: So, where the hell are our Thundercats figures, anyway?
- Video: Of all things to find on Capcom*Unity, a Friends/Superfriends mashup was not one I’d have expected.
- Article: IGN looks back at the history of Captain America’s many looks.
- Article: With systems like the Xbox 360 and PS3, and WWE now in HD, IGN’s guide to HDTV might be handy sooner than later.
Video Power
- Blogging: I wish I could test-run a Capcom game before it’s released. Then maybe I’d get some cool stuff to top off the experience, too.
- Pics: Anagrams are fun.
- Editorial: There are 365 days in a year. Will 2008 be the year that publishers begin to act like it?
- Newsbit: Looks like games are finally art somewhere.
- Video: Wow, look at the time! We’re about 1/12 of the way through 2008. So what better time for ScrewAttack.com to look back at their best moments of 2007?
- Blog: A new developer’s blog from IGN takes us into the world of Ninja Gaiden II.
- Article: GameDaily looks back at Sonic, in anticipation of his Smash Bros. debut.
- Interview: Iwata Asks volume 7, the final part for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, looks at what makes the game a “once in a lifetime experience,” and what it was like creating the original pre-Nintendo character game.
- Pic: Japan’s boxart for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is kind of neat.
- Newsbit: Ok, a wireless nunchuck, that made some sense to me. But this… I don’t know, is it me, or is it starting to get a tad goofy?
- Pic: This model of the Gradius II Vic Viper? Love it.
- Pic: Mario character Kewpie dolls, on the other hand, scare the bejeezus out of me.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”