I wish I could brag to you that I’m downloading cool sh*t for my Nintendo 3DS this week, but I can’t. Nintendo hasn’t launched the on the internet services yet. This means that I’m stuck playing crappy old WiiWare and DSiWare, just like you.
Here it is — that Cartoon Network fighting game you always wanted as a kid.
Developed by Papaya Studios, Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion will first hit in Might on 3DS, followed by Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3 releases during the holiday season. (Well, now we know who the target audience is here.)
There will be 18 playable characters and 19 of those cameo-style assist characters. Which shows are we talking about? Here’s some of them: Ben 10 Ultimate Alien, The PowerPuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Codename: Kids Next Door, Chowder, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
Fighting crime, trying to save the world. Here they come just in time, The Powerpuff Girls.
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Actor Charlie Sheen’s live Ustream feed wasn’t anything to write home about. It ended on an interesting note, though, with a reading from a book by Sheen.
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Not content with becoming an overnight Twitter phenomenon, the controversial “Two and a Half Men” actor takes to Ustream in order to present a live show called “Sheen’s Korner”.
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Laptops are falling behind tablet, smartphone in social-networking era. Apple, others will likely address this more aggressively as it becomes clear that old laptop paradigm no longer works.
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Second Boeing-built, unmanned X-37B heads into orbit, after the first craft returned safely to Earth late last year amid speculation of potential military uses.
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Verizon becomes first backbone carrier to deploy the new 100-Gigabit Ethernet standard by setting it up across a 555-mile section of its European IP backbone network.
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In a very sweet parody of the iPad 2 launch video, Conan skewers what he calls Apple’s cockiness.
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Originally developed to explore plant growth on space shuttles, NASA’s far-red/near-infrared LED treatment, using a device called WARP 75, helps reduce pain from chemo and radiation treatments.
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Outside of its 2004 EyeToy: Anti-Grav hoverboard title for Sony, Harmonix hasn’t veered far off its goals to bring music to the people. But looking forward, that could change, CEO Alex Rigopulos told us in a recent interview.
“I see Harmonix potentially evolving past exclusively focusing on music games,” he stated of the studio’s future. “That’s been — for our entire history — our reason for being basically. We’ve been focused on interactive music since the company started; we’ve been focused on music games for over 10 years now.”
While Rigopulos wouldn’t go into details, he does confirm (unsurprisingly) we’re “unlikely” to see Harmonix’s take on the first-person shooter. Motion gaming, however, will likely be the creative catalyst for such projects.
“We’re incredibly creatively motivated by motion gaming,” he states. “Of course, dance games are a special intersection of music games with motion gaming. Harmonix has developed a competency and quite a passion and interest, generally talking, in the area of motion gaming. So I think one of the things that you might see coming out of Harmonix in the future is more activity in the area of motion games.”
For more with Alex Rigopulos, including the potential for future “reinvention” of the Rock Band franchise, check our full interview.
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