Points of Interest – 2/10/08
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Pics: Design sheets for auction from TransFormers: Animated. Fun to look at, more fun to buy and look at.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Videos: The 10 best LEGO re-enactments ever. And as a bonus, here’s a LEGO re-enactment of the trailer for The Dark Knight.
- Pics: The blister back for the upcoming NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures, and a look at the design for their Foot Soldier figure.
- Blogging: Are you a Turtle? And for once, not speaking of the Teenage Mutant Ninja variety here.
- Pics: Remember those little guys… I think they were called “Mr. Men,” who had a series of kids’ books? Well, someone found them and got out their Photoshop and…
- Video: I, too, hate temperature.
Video Power
- Newsbit: Kids: don’t try Mario Kart in real life.
- Videos: Some guys decided to make their own Nintendo Wii commercials based on the old Ratchet & Clank ones. They made Mario and Metroid Prime 3, and both are kind of silly, but amusing and true to the spirit of the originals.
- Newsbit: Too late for a new calendar? Maybe. Too late for a new Earthbound calendar? Never!
- Article: Today at Racketboy’s Retro Gaming, he checks out the rarest and most valuable Super NES games.
- Newsbit: Apparently, one fellow from Insomniac Games at DICE doesn’t believe in engine licensing.
- Newsbit: Meanwhile, EA warns about the pitfalls of consolidation.
- Video Review: GameTrailers reviews the latest Dragon Ball Z title. Is there any reason to rush out for this one?
- Article: Akira Toriyama: More than just Dragon Ball Z.
- Article: What are Nintendo’s greatest games? Your mileage may vary.
- Video: Thanks to Frash: Old commercials for Street Fighter II products.
- Article: Super Smash Bros. A-Z: 26 reasons Brawl will rock 2008.
And five reasons it may not.
- Articles: Wonder if the guys at Games Radar are lonely? You may just after seeing these two articles that just went up: The Sexiest Game Fan Art and SmashRadar: Brawl’s Sexy, Sexy Ladies. Nothing too bad that I can see, but probably better if you don’t let your mom walk in on you while browsing these.
- Article: Looks like Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games has been caught reusing some art assets, at least on the Mario side. I’m guessing maybe since it was SEGA that made it, they didn’t have quite as free of reign as they did with Sonic.
- Article: CVG has a list of the Top 20 Nintendo cameos.
- Video: Go Nintendo presents: Sonic Undergound, episode 2.
- Video: Korea’s Comboy, their version of the NES, definitely had more star-studded commercials than its other-worldly counterparts.
- Video: Some footage from the The Wizard reunion that took place a few days ago.
- Article: Nintendo Power magazines from around the world.
- Video: For those unaware, Super Smash Bros. Brawl will not be Snake’s first crossover fighting game appearance, as some years ago there was this little gem *cough* in Japan, DreamMix TV World Fighters, which featured not only Snake, but Optimus Prime and Megatron, Simon Belmont, Bomberman, and more. Almost a shame we never got it.
- eBay: Well, it was bound to happen eventually. An NES game I never heard of has been put on eBay in the form of Pro Sport Hockey. My question is, why should I care? And saying that I live in Canada doesn’t count as an answer. I wish GoNintendo would’ve said why this one bore such merit for a post.
Anyone know? Is it rare?
- Pics: Hell of a cool way to play Wii.
- Interview: Another interview with Billy Mitchell, the antagonist of The King of Kong.
- Newsbit: A 10-year old steals Pokemon cards from a 6-year old… at gunpoint!?
That’s just wrong. Even if it’s airsoft, it’s wrong. Very wrong.
- Pics: Some strange, strange Nintendo art by one Jimi Benedict.
- Article: The always-delightful Jenn Frank has assembled a debate of sorts where gamers have assembled to speak out at the withered old Kay Hymowitz’s piece “The Child-Man.”
- Video: Kajetokun’s latest insanity: Jumping Onto White Base.
- Pic: C’mon, Luigi… you know Daisy’s a better fit for you.
- Pics: Pretty cool custom Gordon Freeman figure.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”