The Daily ‘Shroom – 1/30/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Pics: The first official pictures of the latest Robot Heroes are now available, including the greatest Movie character of them all, Dispensor
! - Pics: Making the day even better, the first images of Classics 2.0 are now on Hasbro’s website. Uncolored, but still cool.
- Pics And on top of all that, some new pics of the G1-colored Music Label Convoy, aka Optimus Prime.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Newsbit: Never big into Nightmare on Elm Street, to be frank (except with that one “Power Glove” bit as a kid). But Freddy’s got a new movie coming, and I thought someone reading this might be interested.
- Newsbit: On the GI Joe movie front, we now know who will be playing General Hawk and Destro.
Video Power
- Newsbit: Nintendo offers up some encouragement to their third-parties regarding their concerns of sales of their games vs. those first-party offerings of Nintendo.
- Newsbit: That Mario Kart Wii stuff reported yesterday? Yeah, fuhgeddaboudit.
- Newsbit: Wii60 lives on, as Microsoft wants gamers to graduate to an Xbox 360 after breaking in with a Wii.
- Spoilers: How ironic that I should be one of the first to fall in the line of fire. Such as it is reporting news, and with the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Japan, it fell to me to cover what was revealed.
Fortunately, very little in the way of Subspace Emissary is revealed there; it’s pretty much just revealed characters (maybe not even all of them) and new stages. If you prod further in the links at the bottom therein, however, you’ll find much more in the way of images and videos and such. Plus, a ton of screens that seem to be for Subspace Emissary (and thus, largely ignored by me… gotta save something) can be seen here
, courtesy VG Cats.Suffice to say, I think many will be pleased. If you’re into finding out more, then keep checking back, as likely more will be added.
As for the just-updated Smash Bros. DOJO!!
update, it’s big but predictably underwhelming (insofar as, what can really compare to the leaked stuff?) as Sakurai goes over the basics of starting a match in Brawl mode. On the upside, choosing who you start a match as with Pokemon Trainer and Zelda/Sheik is more natural. - Newsbit: On a related note, a number of people (myself included) were unhappy at how Japan’s delay of Super Smash Bros. Brawl was only a week, vs. a month or so for the US.
As it happens, we may yet still have the last laugh
. - Also, I am such a geek. Leave it to me to notice that in the video intro where Mario hits the block in Mushroomy Kingdom and gets a Mushroom, that it’s the WRONG BLOCK.
- Newsbit: Is Fox letting Cooper Lawrence take the fall for the entire Mass Effect controversy? She may have been wrong, but this ain’t right.
- Newsbit: Some nice* Wii bundles are coming to GameStop.
*”Nice” does not include the price vs. value for the package, but merely the contents.
- Newsbit: At least No More Heroes is selling well at the Ubishop. Wonder how it’s doing elsewhere…
- Newsbit: That DS/Disney World guide thing reported not too long ago? Looks like the guests are really digging it.
Me, I’m such a geek. That one of the draws of visiting Disney World for me is the thought of pulling up my own mapscreen and stuff in real life… I am such a geek.
On the other hand, a $300 deposit and inability to just use my own DS? Eh…
–LBD “Nytetrayn”