1. By the Matrix!

   The Allspark brings word of a neat lil’ somethin’-somethin’ out of BotCon, as the BotCon.com website has a special preview up of the art from the comic for Timelines, the official prequel to the much-loved, much-controversial saga of Beast Wars.

   And if you’re not going to BotCon, don’t fret: if you have a comic book store near you, they can order it through Diamond Distributors for its November release.

2. If you like foreign newscasts that relate to your interests, this might be for you, as Go Nintendo posts a piece from Australia about the Wii.

   Funny enough, it sounds like they pronounce it “way,” or maybe “way-ee.”

3. IGN gives an entertaining piece of coverage of the Euro-Nintendo Wii conference.

   Evidently, “the Mii Channel was an idea that came about after the E3 Wii Tennis demo where everyone wanted to know if they’d be able to put their own faces into the game, as with Iwata’s character.”

4. Oh, #@&%. There are going to be riots.

   Remember when Lucas decided to touch-up Star Wars? And the fans went absolutely ape-slag over the… ah, “desecration” of the beloved tomes?

   Well, there must have been some benefit that Paramount saw, because now they’re doing the same thing to Star Trek, according to Wired.

   “Nothing really has changed except for the fact that it’s just prettier to look at,” said John Nogawski, president of CBS Paramount Domestic Television, in a recent conference call with reporters. “Right down to placement of stars, it is being resimulated to be exactly what was there in the first place.”

   Hmm, that doesn’t sound as bad as Greedo shooting first, which is too bad, as my “Han” shirt has started to get worn out and could use replacing(kidding).

   Still, I know fans. You can NOT please them. Just watch. Hell WILL be raised.

   
5. Go Nintendo is wanting people to sign a petition to bring Tingle’s RPG to the US.

   Now, I of all people of course know that an internet petition CAN be effective, but I’m also against the idea of essentially splitting the resources up(i.e. 3 million people all creating different petitions for the same thing).

   I wanted to tell them that instead of directing them to the petition, they ought to direct them right to Nintendo’s own survey on the matter.

   But the damn thing wouldn’t send me a password, so. Maybe someone there will read this?

6. Wow, this is pretty cool; a clip from Ellen DeGeneres’ talk-show in which she gives a fellow named Ben Underwood a DS Lite, a Wii, and Zelda: Twilight Princess.

   What makes him so special to get all this stuff? Well, fact is, he can’t see.

   Is this some kind of sick joke? Or is there something more to this? Click the link and see for yourself.

7. Joystiq looks at a call for fewer game reviews, and more game critiques. The critic in question is one Ryan Stancl, who has already begun examining Katamari Damacy through 2 of 8 different schools of critical theory.
8. 

   …oops. My mistake.

9. Kotaku, after digesting all the tidbits Nintendo gave out, has some thoughts on the Wii.

LBD “Nytetrayn”

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