Still not quite as cheap as the Nintendo DS, Sony’s handheld is coming to a more reasonable price at $169.99. That $200 you had socked away can now get not only the PSP Core pack, but a game as well! Before taxes of course.

It’s become far too easy to rag on Sony’s powetful little handheld, so hopefully this will give it a shot in the arm. At over 24 million sold, it’s the highest selling non-Nintendo handheld ever made, and that’s a pretty good success story in itself.

Official announcement should be here in the morning, but GameStop signage has already leaked to confirm.

Powet’s own TheOrange grabbed the newly released Masterpiece Megatron figure yesterday. This was the last Megatron in stock.

I have to say he’s big. The robot mode is appropriately big enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with the similar Masterpiece Convoy (released in the US as 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime). That gun mode though… the original Megatron was a little too small to be a real gun and this one quite a bit too big. Whatever you do though, don’t transform him in a moving car because giant hand guns frighten other motorists and attract law enforcement.

This past Saturday, March 31st 2007, Doctor Who’s 3rd series premiere, “Smith and Jones”, aired on BBC One. This marks an important turning point in the series, as the Doctor — no longer with Rose, his counterpart for the past 2 seasons — has now found a new companion in Martha Jones.

Please note: the following episode summary contains spoilers. Those who wish to see the show for themselves need to either put on an eye patch and get online, or wait until their local affiliates air this series.

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The latest Lying In The Gutters article (the popular comics-related rumor column that’s right far more often than not) has a little segment, all the way near the end, titled “ROBOTS IN DIS GUISE” where Rich Johnston has this to report:

“Transformers 2” is being prepped for 2009, as is a new cartoon series to spin off the upcoming movie.

The reason given to licensors as to why the robots look so different in the film is so that hardcore fans will stay loyal and keep buying the old toys, which they’re relaunching, even if they hate the new movie.

Licensing has explicitly stated that companies doing merchandising have to avoid doing anything too similar to the original Transformers line, so as not to mix the two separate and profitable properties.

That last comment is interesting, in that the Transformers Movie and original Transformers are being viewed as separate lines.

Also, gotta love the second statement about “hardcore fans.” Partly because of the businesslike flippancy, partly because of the accuracy.

Legendary Superman director Richard Donner recently teamed up with Geoff Johns to write a Superman story in Action comics – a story that came is still coming out at a glacial Civil War-like pace. This summer, Donner and Johns are teaming up again, to put out a 5-issue sequel to another nostalgia-ridden film property that Donner directed – The Goonies. The story picks up only a few years later for the characters, with the story centering on Sloth’s disappearance … on the exact same day those evil genius Fratelli brothers escaped from prison. Expect the book to be finished sometime around spring, 2012. (I kid, I kid.)

Wizard has the full story here.