Points of Interest
- The new Nintendo Power(Volume 210) will be due out soon, and it’ll have a cover story on the Wii, as well as coverage of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Pokemon Ranger, Elite Beat Agents, Children of Mana, Magical Starsign, and a little something called Yoshi’s Island DS.
You can take a glimpse for yourself at Nintendo Power’s website.
- Tformers has an interview with Stan Bush(“The Touch,” “Dare”), and speaks up about some TransFormers things, as well as a new album coming out.
- Comic Book Resource has an interview with TransFormers scribe Simon Furman, wherein he talks about plans for the next story arc “Escalation,” as well as the upcoming one-shot starring Hot Rod.
From The Allspark: When asked how he’ll approach Hot Rod in the one-shot, Furman said, “The joy of these spotlights, in the context of our new G1 universe, is that I don’t necessarily have to (and, in fact, am taking pains not to) do the characters as they’ve been down before. So, while I try and stay true to the essence of Hot Rod, I’ve kind of taken the bits I liked (brash, daredevil, rather hot-heated) and discarded those I didn’t (whiny, etc). Funnily enough, there’s still an element of him ‘screwing up’ in the story, but it’s more the making of him (as well as his Achilles Heel!).
- The official TMNT website has updated with a few things, perhaps most interesting(to some) being a MP3 of the Fast Forward theme song, as well as the lyrics.
It’s… weird. Kinda cheesey, jarring. At least at first… it’s got a weird catchiness to it after you hear it a few times.
I do wish they’d have posted the song just before the Fast Forward started, even if the change was minor…
- GameTrailers has part two of their Zelda retrospective leading up to Twilight Princess available. It focuses on A Link To The Past and Link’s Awakening, the former of which I consider to be the best in the series.
Incidently, I really need to get my hands on Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages one of these days.
- “In the interests of gaming science,” GameSpot decides to go “under the hood” of the Sony PSP and investigate the system’s sometimes-controversial load times.
With the few games I own for the system, the load times haven’t been particularly unbearable, but don’t take my word for it, check out the stats for yourself.
- GameSpy reviews Justice League of America, giving it three and a half stars, out of five. Overall, it sounds like it may be worth a look.
Joystiq offers their own metareview as well.
- IGN goes hands-on with Final Fantasy V for the Nintendo DS.
- Go Nintendo has a picture of the Wii countdown clock from GameStop. I wonder if it’s possible to get one of those…
- GN links to a Gamebrink import review of Custom Robo Arena for the DS:
Pros
* Lots of Robo battles.
* Plenty of customisation parts.
* Some fairly good story and character development giving them a bit more depth.
* Wi-Fi battles against friends and strangers.
* Good 3D models and Holosseum arenas.Cons
* 2D artwork needs a little more work.
Overall, Custom Robo Arena is a fun, fast paced action game to play and lives up to its name with a large variety of part combinations that you can try out. If you feel like customising your own Japanese Anime mechas then using them in battles then this maybe the game for you!
I want to give this one a try.
- I do so wish we had Target stores up here…
- Jack Tretton of Sony speaks to Wired on subjects such as “why only include composite cables for an HD system in the box?”
- Wow, that is one hell of a video game tatoo. It even has Mr. Game-and-Watch! For the instant-win, of course.
- Nick Bennett of N-Europe pays his respects to the “comeback kings” known as Nintendo.
Premature? Maybe just a little, but not entirely unwarranted.
- The one and only Jeremy “Toastyfrog” Parish previews the game that’s poised to be one of the best Castlevania games to date.
Also, check out the picture of the killer 20th Anniversary preorder package… that I still want, but seem to be unable to get. Damn Canada.
- 1UP sits down with the great Tomonobu Itagaki to speak on some things, such as whether or not the appearance of Ninja Gaiden Sigma on the PlayStation 3 is a sign of Team Ninja things to come.
Itagaki over the years has been known to dismiss interviewers if he feels their questions aren’t up to snuff, or if the line of questioning bores him, with reports of some conversations with journalists lasting less than five minutes. During this candid interview, in which he reveals the level of his commitment to the Xbox platform (and lasted much longer than five minutes), we pressed him harder than we ever have before, ruffling his feathers a bit in the process. But he weathered the storm just fine, and Xbox 360 fans in particular will be relieved to hear some of the things Itagaki had to say.
Reading this, I still feel he’s one of the best interviews in the business. He also talks a bit about Kojima, which is interesting, but I kind of wonder how he and Koji Igarashi might get along.
- Seanbaby steps back and examines the Saga of Uwe.
Uwe, learning that he wasn’t fighting a midget, asked for my age, height, Weight, and fighting experience. I e-mailed this information, along with the reassurance that the Holocaust survivors got together and agreed he was the worst thing to come out of Germany.
Wow. Now THAT is an insult. This piece is probably the best thing out of Seanbaby in some time.
LBD “Nytetrayn”