Funny

Nintendo Wii Fanboy has a link up today to a pretty awesome, albeit long, animated movie featuring the ballooning cast of characters in Smash Bros. Brawl. If you have five minutes or so to spare today, check it out. On more than one occasion the various scenes had me laughing out loud. And I agree with NWFB — Snake steals the show.

Astute gamer and comic diarist, James Kochalka, hit us with the following story: Yesterday we got the Gamestop phone call from the voice of Mario telling us that our Super Mario Galaxy pre-order would be available to pick up today.  That was great, very silly and entertaining.  We picked the game up this morning.  This evening, I just got another automated call from Gamestop.  This one said Su...

The differences between Assasin’s Creed on the PS3 and what it will eventually look like on the DS sometime in 2008 are legion, I’m sure. Graphics? Take whatever comparisons and trash talking were made between the PS3 and Wii in 2006 and add a healthy dose of HGH. The sound? The DS might as well be a Game & Watch in this situation, no offense to the great Gunpei Yokoi. Controls? Hm...

Mario, made of cans, for a charity event. That’s pretty much all I have to say about that. … Cans. Heh.

Wii Sports Boxing is apparently a Caveman’s best friend.

Anyone object to this fan-made Smash Bros. addition? [Thanks, Alucard!]

Ingenius. Brilliant. Hilarious.

Now this is some finger lickin’ good information. Apparently PETA is using the likeness of the New Super Mario Bros. to fight KFC. They’re a cute couple of chicks, but I don’t know if they’re going to be enough to discourage people from eating the headless, artificial chickens they breed at KFC these days. Anyway, Nintendo lawyers … attack!

One of my favorite local comic strips has gone national. Secret Asian Man by Tak Toyoshima may be in your local paper now, but it’s also available online. This week’s Sunday edition featured a nice Wii joke. Click here to read it.

During the height of Nintendo dominance back in the 1990s, the company believed it could do anything. Cereal, bed sheets, crime fighting (weekends only) — all were not ruled out as possible money makers. So it seemed only natural that the wild success of The Wizard be followed up by a Mario Bros. movie starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper as a humanoid Bowser. Trouble was, ...

From America’s Finest News Source: “In the wake of Guitar Hero‘s success, we thought the public was more than ready for additional popular American musical genres in a simulated-performance format, but people don’t seem to be responding to marches as well as we had hoped,” said Activision spokeswoman Melissa Hendleman, whose company spent an estimated $25 million deve...