Botcon.com has posted official images of the next exclusive for this year’s official Transformers convention. We have seen many pictures of this figure on ebay and elsewhere surface for the past couple months, but here it is finally in official paint scheme.

 

You might remember the previously announced figures, but if not here’s whats official so far:

• Optimus Primal
• Dinobot
• Cheetor
• Rhinox

Unofficially we’ve also seen:

• A repainted Cybertron Defense Red Alert with remolded head as Megatron
• A repainted RID Windshear with remolded head as Waspinator
• A repainted energon divebomb that could be Terrorsaur

From this it seems pretty obvious we’re not just getting a maximal set of figures, but we can only speculate on that for the time being until things play themselves out.

Also, I was pretty disappointed that news of Rattrap’s revealing was not trickled through the email list of the Collector’s Club first. If I’m paying an annual US$40-60 membership, I expect news like this to be given to the members first and not have to find out via another news site, especially where the club and convention are so tightly coordinated.

Activision just sent out an email:

“Kurt Wagner, a.k.a. the whip-tailed blue mutant Nightcrawler, will be appearing as an NPC alongside more than 140 Super Heroes in the upcoming next-gen super-game, Marvel™: Ultimate Alliance, and Super Hero Newsletter subbers are the first to know!”

Wow, a whole email dedicated to announcing a non-playabled character. Way to keep me informed, Activision. Wasn’t Nightcrawler playable in X-Men Legends?

In other news, Marvel Ultimate Alliace is a video game that will be distributed on a digital versatile disc that can be interfaced with by way of an electronic gaming console or personal computer.

Here’s a wallpaper.

Who would win in a fight between Batman and Wolverine? What if Wolverine didn’t have mutant powers? What if Batman was a magician instead of a detective?

Well, this post is about a stupid as I’ve ever written within the first line, but what I’m getting as is Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale are starring in a movie by Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan called “The Prestige” and it looks pretty solid. They play a pair of magicians at the turn of the century who each seek to create tricks that dumbfound the other, which boils into a bitter rivalry.

The movie also stars David Bowie as famed scientist Nikola Tesla. Amazingly, I’m not making that up. Thats really David Bowie in a fake mustache playing Tesla. Michael Caine and Scarlette Johansson round out the cast.

The Prestige trailer is available online in the usualy small, medium, and large varieties as well as iPod and HD versions. Of course I’ll reccomend you just click the 720p or 1080p one and wait for it to load. This movie looks like fun, and its due out October 27th, just in time for Halloween.

Sony Pictures has released a new back-lit lenticular teaser movie poster for Spider-Man 3 to theaters. SuperHeroHype got their hands on an image of this poster and have posted it for our viewing pleasure.

Terrible.

Please drink responsibly and treat all women with respect.

Ain’t It Cool News comes through with another spoiler picture from the set of Michael Bay’s Transformers movie.

Seeing Brawl, the Decepticon police cruiser was cool. Seeing part of Bumblebee’s robot mode was cooler still.

But we all want to see Optimus Prime. Theres a picture of the truck after the jump. Prepare yourself. Just take a deep breath before clicking, and clear your thoughts of anything you might have thought Optimus Prime would look like.

If you want to take your time, look at some footage from the always vapid E! channel’s set visit.

[Update on 7/13/06 with more info after the jump]
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Grab your gravity gun, Half Life 2 is making a second pass at consoles.
After a positive, but decidedly lukewarm, reception for the bare-bones Xbox release last year, the top rated PC game of 2004 will arrive on PS3 and Xbox360 at the same time the second episode for the PC is released.
Valve’s Gabe Newell spoke at an EA Press event today and said not only would the full Episode 1 and 2 be packed in with Half Life 2, but they’re also throwing in Team Fortress 2 and a new title called “Portal”
This could not come at a better time for me personally. I just finished Half Life 2 on Xbox tonight, and I’m itching to get my hands on Episode 1 (I’m in the Mac camp, so Valve’s games have been off-limits to me unless they get ported).
The Xbox release also lacked any multiplayer at all, which was a big difference from the PC version where you’d get Counter Strike Source and Half Life 2: Deathmatch. Still, the game by itself is glorious achievement to even get running a standard Xbox, I was happy to play, even with PS1 style load times and downgraded graphics (from the PC, compared to other Xbox titles, Half life looks fantastic)
For all its acclaim, this will be the first chance for many console players to try Half Life for the first time. And even though the game will be 2 years old by then, I anticipate a smashing success.
Wake up, Dr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the consoles!