InFormers: Robots in the News

1. Pic/Newsbit: The next issue of the TransFormers Collector’s Club magazine is going to show off the next wave of Classics, and we already get a sneak peek at a S.W.A.T.-themed Onslaught from the cover!
2. Pics: Plus, some pics of two Movie recolors have come up, those being a red Dropkick-recolor thought to be named Salvage, and a black version of the ’09 Concept Camaro Bumblebee toy, sporting some gold highlights. THAT, I want. Bad. It was nice of Hasbro to make the toy in my colors, but I just hope I can afford it when it reaches shelves.

Assorted Mushrooms

1. Blogging: Sounds like the same interim agreement that Dave Letterman’s Worldwide Pants company agreed to are the very same terms which the media conglomerates walked out of on December 7th. That’s gotta sting, for someone. But it could be beneficial to the WGA in the long run.
2. Birthday Greetings: A day late here, but just the same, Happy Birthday to Stan Lee, of Marvel Comics fame.
3. Poll: And speaking of Marvel Comics, Newsarama is running a poll to gauge fans’ reactions to the Spider-man “One More Day” storyline.

   Let’s just say that people aren’t exactly full of support. By a wide margin.

Video Power

1. Pics: For those who like Halo action figures (and really, who wouldn’t?), here are the first pics at McFarlane’s version of the Arbiter.
2. Video: Great news! The first footage of Street Fighter IV is now available!

   Awful news! Your only way to see it (presently) is to sit through The 1up Show to see it!

   Talk about a ploy to get people to watch…

   Whoops, back to good news! They eventually uploaded some seperate videos of it in action!

   Ken seems to look ok, but what the hell’s with Ryu?

3. Newsbit: So Banjo 3 finally has a name– I think. It’ll apparently be called Banjo-Threeie, but is that what they were calling it before? It just sounds so danged familiar.

   The game will also have a new form of multiplayer, and be more “play-oriented,” meaning less time spent watching cutscenes. There will also be new game mechanics, classic settings brought back, and “a change to the collecting aspect of the title,” which I’ve long heard to be a chief complaint with the originals.

   More questions and answers are yet to come, and hopefully the game will be one to look forward to.

4. Newsbit: If you missed out on a Wii for Christmas, and are still searching, try your local CostCo.
5. Newsbit: Guess this would explain why I can’t even shop the damn Xbox Live Marketplace for demos, now that I finally have the thing hooked online. Way to prep, Microsoft.
6. Newsbit: If you’re in the market for an HDTV, then shop smart, and you could get a PS3 with it.
7. Newsbit: What on Earth could be causing the wires and analog sticks on Wii Nunchucks to turn pink?
8. Pics/Videos: Some new screenshots for Endless Ocean. I haven’t followed this one very closely, but it looks like it might be kind of interesting.

   There are also some videos of the game, too.

9. Newsbit: Go Nintendo says that the Virtual Console releases for this Monday will be Bubble Bobble for the NES, Light Crusader for the Genesis, and Top Hunter for the NeoGeo.
10. Newsbit: Ghost Squad, for ten dollars? Sigh, now if only I had a Target near me…
11. Newsbit: Oh, this is rich:

    In a press release sent out yesterday, controversial attorney Jack Thompson claims he has found a correlation between the gaming industry and the US Department of Defense, who, he adds, are using videogames to teach “an entire generation of kids that war is glamorous, cool, desirable, and consequence-free.”

    Read on for more, at your own risk. PMO is not responsible for fits of laughter nor injuries sustained by eye-rolling.

12. Newsbit: I’ve been hesitant to follow Destructoid, ever since they put a spoiler in one of their headlines, but by chance I got to glimpse a couple of stories from them today, one being that Sony is surprisingly quite ok with replacing your hard drive on your PS3. We’ll see how long that lasts, though.
13. Newsbit: …but what really got my attention was this piece, which we’ll close out with today.

    Remember that story awhile back, where the developers of Halo at Bungie were giving away Recon armor to users who made cool videos, such as this suicide shot?

    Turns out that one of those winners had their account hacked somehow, and Microsoft won’t do anything about it, even going so far as to hang up on the guy, and adding to the numerous complaints that Microsoft’s customer service is, in a (NSFW) word, absolute shit.

    With this, telling people to go back to England, and numerous other discrepancies reported far and wide across the net, I’m imagining I’d get no help from them regarding the Xbox Live cards I got from people who live in the US but won’t work in Canada (anyone interested in buying?).

    The whole lot of it disgusts me, makes me sick, quite frankly. Question is, what can anyone do about it?

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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