‘Iron Chef’ Video Game to be Made, But Not the Cool One
If memory serves, the original Japanese Iron Chef TV show is a brilliant masterpiece, of which its (increasingly many) American versions of are pale imitations at best. Well, the cruel bastards/video game makers Destineer have announced an Iron Chef video game for the Wii, which sounds like the greatest news ever, except that it’s of The Next Iron Chef show and thus I don’t care. If I can’t play as or against Iron Chef Japanese Morimoto, using some bizarre fish as the ingredient, I don’t care. If Chairman Kaga doesn’t burst onto the set riding a white stallion and saying some insane shit about the destiny of food, I don’t care. You got that, Destineer?
The Next Iron Chef airs on Food Network (shocker!) and stars chefs you don’t care about. It also stars Mark Dascascos as the Chairman, who was an amazing badass in Brotherhood of the Wolf, but is no Chairman Kaga. Anyway, this cocktease of a game is due out sometime in 2008, according to this.
Also, today’s secret ingredient is…prawn! (Via GoNintendo) ? Rob
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.