1. A little TransFormers to start your day.

   Looks like Oscar Meyer/Kraft have launched their TransFormers The Movie Lunchables web site, and surprisingly, it’s worth a look.

   IDW has a randomized preview of the upcoming TransFormers Spotlight: Galvatron comic, which marks the first time since the original toy’s bio that Galvatron is not an upgraded Megatron, but a unique character in his own right.

   In what one can only hope to be a sign of things to come, Hasbro is releasing a transforming GI Joe toy. We’ve already got Star Wars TransFormers, and numerous comic crossovers between the Robots in Disguise and A Real American Hero, perhaps it’s an idea whose time has finally come? If it means we get Rolling Thunder Optimus Prime and Megatron as Destro’s Dominator, then I welcome them.

   (And thanks to Robogeek28 for the images.)

   Coming June 2nd, TransFormers The Movie wristwatches, perfect for counting the minutes until the movie hits theaters.

   Barricade and Bumblebee may not be the only movie TransFormers getting the 2-pack treatment, as an image has surfaced of Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok in a two-pack of their own, but details on where it would be sold remain unknown.

   Few things in TransFormers sound funnier to me than “Bumblebee Unleashed,” a statue-esque figure of the movie version of the Autobot in a dramatic pose.

   Less humorous is Optimus Prime Unleashed, showing the Autobot Commander in a battle-ready pose on one side, and Evel Kneiveling off of Dead Man’s Curve on the other.

2. Press the Buttons has some new info surrounding Electronic Arts’ upcoming The Simpsons game, which will be featuring some spoofs of other popular titles.

   Wouldn’t it be cool if the Wii version featured a game of Homer throwing trash cans at Mario?

   GameTrailers has some videos of the game’s impressive visuals in action.

   Who knows? This might even be fun to play. Heck, the past few weren’t that bad, and Games Radar seems impressed.

3. Seems some fake info has been spreading about a “SEGA Vintage Collection” for XBox Live Arcade, but alas, SEGA says no deal.
4. Looks like The Sci-Fi Channel is looking to compete with Adult Swim by offering anime.
5. I still need to see the third, so I have no idea if this is good or bad. And even then, the franchise is in new hands. But regardless, three new Terminators seem to be on the way.
6. Napoleon Dynamite.

   On PSP.

   And it’s not the movie, either.

   I hope it’s interesting. Or at least, if it’s bad, make it an oldschool kind of bad, with a 2-D platformer featuring all manner of elements that make you say “WTF” and wonder what any of it has to do with the movie.

   Whoops, it’s on DS, too.

7. Namco has announced Soul Calibur Legends for the Wii, which will not be a fighter, but an action-adventure title that uses the Wii remote for sword-based combat.

   And Go Nintendo has some artwork as well.

   Me, I still need to get a copy of Soul Calibur 2.

8. Damn, Nintendo. Mortal Kombat Armageddon won’t have online?

   This can’t be helping that notion that third parties have a harder time competing against Nintendo’s homegrown wares…

9. Finally, something to show for DK: King of Swing 2.

   Glad to see K. Rool is back.

10. DOA movie thankfully still DOA.
11. Some club-joining today.

    First, UK joins the “it could only happen in America” club with a teen being shot for a game system.

    Simultaneously, XBox 360 joins the club for “systems people get shot for.”

12. And Nintendo of Europe joins the “things you should think but probably not say” club, of which Sony is so often a crown member. And I guess which Microsoft joined yesterday with Peter Moore’s bit on defective system stats.

    What does this mean? They’re all screw-ups, I guess. Doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy what they get right, though.

13. Fourteen thousand dollars raised for a crippled classmate by a video game fundraiser at a Wisconsin High School.

    Maybe Cracker Jack ought to read about this. You know, so he can go on Fox and demonize them before the nation.

    In all seriousness, this rocks; it’s very impressive, and is a good note to end the day on.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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