Hmmm, I'm in the mood for a theme. Do we have any costumes that I can wear?
Hmm, yeah alright, I can make this work.
Oooookay! It's Scoopin' time!
I hope you're ready for some news scoopin' fun! Yeeehaaaw!
Geddit? Like boot scootin', but news scoopin'?
Anyway! First up, the story of an unreleased Mario racing game for the DS.
Revealed at this year's Reboot Develop conference,
the game by the name of Mario Motors was an idea from SimTower designer Yoot Saito.
It was set to allow players to sculpt their own car engine using the DS stylus tool
and possibly even learn about acceleration through blowing into the DS microphone.
But the project eventually fell by the wayside, and Saito declined to reveal why.
So mysterious.
Well, I guess we'll always have Mario Kart.
Next up, the much-anticipated Splatoon 2 free update is here!
Version 3.0 is the latest major update to the game
and includes a whole splattering of new gear, music, fixes and more.
Plus, the very ex-clusive new rank, Rank X.
This will be the highest attainable goal in ranked battle multiplayer.
The much-loved Camp Triggerfish from the original Splatoon will also be added as a playable stage.
No squidding!
In other news, famed film director Steven Spielberg
has baffled gamers by saying he played Mario using Playstation VR?
Spielberg apparently made the claim to a Japanese news outlet, Kyodo,
during a press tour for recent film, Ready Player One.
Of course, Mario is pretty much a Nintendo exclusive character, so this is highly doubtful.
Maybe he was referring to Mario Kart VR in the Bandai Namco VR arcade in Tokyo?
It's possible something might have been lost in translation.
Or maybe Steven Spielberg is just a giant noob! Hah!
And finally, some more cool robot news!
Japanese engineers have created a real. Life. Transformer.
Yep, it's a robot that transforms into a car and can actually carry passengers!
It hasn't yet been tested in the outside world,
but I'd be more than happy to volunteer my services as a transformer tester.
CEO of Brave Robotics, Kenji Ishida,
said he was inspired by his childhood love of the transformers that featured in anime.
Ishida said he hopes this prototype will help to inspire the human imagination.
So maybe all your robot dreams can come true?
This robot is 3.7 metres tall and is called J-deite RIDE.
If it were up to me, I would've called it J-deite RAD.
Or the RAD-otron. Or maybe RAD-imus Prime!
And now it's time for a heapin' helpin' of Extra Scoop!
This week we take a look back in time at an intriguing British kids game show
from the late eighties, early nineties called Knightmare. Spelt with a K.
Before VR or online co-op, this TV show involved a sort of live action RPG adventure.
Teams worked together to direct a teammate through a quest in a dungeon-like fantasy realm
meeting characters, solving riddles and trying not to fall off perilous edges!
Could you and your friends make it through?
And that's it for The Scoop today. If you've found something you think would be a good Extra Scoop,
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