Turtle's In Time Re-Shelled Pics: Asshole Turtles Confirmed

Joystiq has five pictures from the remake of arcade classic Turtle In Time, now titled TMNT: Turtles In Time Re-Shelled.

The pictures verify that our worst nightmare has come true: Like their recent CGI movie and Saturday morning counterparts, the Turtles in Re-Shelled looks like complete douche bags.

Gone our the sweet natured good boys from the early 90's, replaced by Red Bull chugging, walking reptilian hard-ons.

SIGH...

Oh well, at least they didn't desaturated the colors by 65%.

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OMG! Turtles In Time Remake Coming To XBLA!

This just made my day.

Okay...Now that I've calmed down from the excitement, It's time for assess the situation.

Who is making this game, and are they any good? I'm guessing it's a joint venture between Ubisoft and Konami, but I'm really interested as to what actual team is working on it. It's difficult to read the graphical quality of the game in these small blurry cellphone pics, but it looks like the game isnt using any kind of toon/cel shaders, which I find suprising. I'm grateful thaty they are remaking Turtles in Time, but I really dont want this game to have ugly, low-polygon graphics that are a step down from the vibrant, humorously crafted 2D sprites from the original.

I'm predicting that Turtles in Time will be the crown jewel of Microsoft's XBLA presentation at next months E3. Expect something along the lines of "The original TMNT: Arcade is our top XBLA seller with thousands of fans worldwide. We are pleased to announce today that the games sequel Turtles in Time is also headed to XBLA but with a shelluva twist. The games original 2D graphics have been replayed with stunning 3D HD graphics and will feature additional stages and characters developed exclusively for the XBLA release. When can we expect these Heroes in a Halfshell to return? How about next week?" THE CROWD GOES WILD!

We here at BH HQ will keep you updated and continue to provide commentary on any news developments in regards to this game. Until then, patrol your cities downtown alleys for muggers and dont forget to grab a slice of pepperoni. You cant fight crime without pizza DUDE!

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Happy Boifday Toitles!

We here at Blast Heroes would like to wish Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael a happy 25th Birthday!

Anyone who grew up in the early 90's surely has fond memories of the various Ninja Turtles video games. Personally speaking, I was absolutely obsessed with the TMNT arcade game. I remember getting chills watching the opening cutscenes, long before the word "cutscene" was even part of a gamers vocab.

Cooperative game play is all the rage these days, but for me, nothing has come close to the experience of beating TMNT arcade inside Aladdin's Castle with 3 with complete strangers. For those 45 minutes, you and these people who you didn't even know were best buddies. I remember older, scarier looking kids giving me tokens when I was out, so that we could beat the game together. Will younger generations of gamers every experience anything like this?

I speak on behalf of a generation when I say that TMNT has touched our lives in ways that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird could have never possibly imagined. The Turtles life lessons have made us into the into the radical dudes and dudettes that we are today and we salute them.

Go out and grab a pizza tonight in honor of the heroes in a half shell!

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