TMNT in Mario Paint! |
- Huge news for Todd Brisket, as the new DuckTales is on the schedule for a
Summer 2017 release! Read more at Entertainment
Weekly, and listen to our show on the vidya game here!
- Cinemassacre (the site of the Angry Video Game Nerd) had a
viral video this week, as Mike Matei recreated the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme in Mario Paint. Check out the cool video here!
- Russ Frushtick and Justin McElroy of Polygon have
a cool video on the tangled history and development of Super Mario Bros. 2. We also covered SMB2 on a past show, by
the way.
- On Polygon
and other sites, Crash Bandicoot is coming back in remastered form, for the
PS4! Check out our past show on ole Crash here.
- Unfortunately, Konami has sent a cease-and-desist to
Dejawolfs, which was developing a remake of Castlevania
in the Unreal engine. You can
read the story on Siliconera here.
And reminder! We covered Castlevania
on a
past show.
- From Variety,
Sega has optioned a bunch of its titles for film and television adaptations,
starting with Altered Beast and Streets of Rage. And speaking of Sega
selling off its merchandising rights, it has also partnered
with Build-A-Bear.
- Nintendo
Everything has a translation of a Japanese book about The Legend of Zelda series, which reveals that a sequel to Wind Waker was canned for Twilight Princess.
- Geeks of Doom has a positive
review of Art of Atari, a cool
book full of Atari art.
ON THIS DAY (OR CLOSE
TO IT!) IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY…
- On December 9, 1997, Quake II came out for the
PC. It was the online standard for a couple years of deathmatching, until Unreal Tournament and eventually Half-Life came out.
- Persona 4 came out for the PS2 on
December 9, 2008. It’s a hella good RPG by Atlus, and the fifth installment is due
out on April 4, if it’s not delayed again.
Video game history
information comes from GameFAQs and Moby Games. And as always, if you’d like to support the show, do so via our Amazon link.
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