The Powetcast: Episode 5

This week on the Powetcast: Street Fighter, Street Fighter, the Wisconsin Intangible Goods Tax, Botcon 2009, the Rebirth of the PSP, Street Fighter, and so much more! WHY AREN’T YOU LISTENING RIGHT NOW!?!

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Show notes after the jump.

Show Notes

NEWS.
Movies

* Street Fighter Holding A Mighty 0% On Rotten Tomatoes –

* Wisconsin Passes 5% sales tax on downloadable goods:
* Terminator Salvation: Warner Bros Wants PG-13 Edits, McG is Fighting For His R-Rated Vision

* No TF:RotF cross promotion from GM
* Green Lantern: First Flight – July 28th (http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=10&itemid=14161 )

TV

* Andy Richter joining the Tonight Show as announcer with Conan O’Brien (Sean)
(Also, Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon starts Monday )

Toys

* Transformers Botcon Registration (60% sold out of sets as of Feb. 27th)
* Kup revealed, Decepticon Scourge coming this week

* Animated Voyager Blackout figure announced in latest issue of club magazine.

* Master Replica cancels Ghostbuster props
* Four Horsemen alter FanEx release schedule. Push Scarabus (FanEx2008) back in favor of 7th Kingdom Queen

Games

* LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm, Assassin’s Creed, Rock Band announced for PSP (Destination Playstation 2/24/2009) (Logan)
* LA Times requests California not appeal Violent Video Game law to the Supreme Court (Game Politics, )
* Virtual On: OT coming to XBLA
* Classic Controller Pro announced for Wii (Nintendo Japan)
* Excite Truck sequel/Excite Bots announced, Punch Out dated, Starfy coming ( )
* King Diamond officially in Guitar Hero: Metallica (Lemmy and King Diamond Gameplay Trailers

COOL BEANS

!games!

* Street Fighter IV (Zac)
* Burnout Paradise – Legendary Cars (Zac)
* The Space Game http://www.casualcollective.com/games/The_Space_Game (Zac)
* Megaman 9 (Logan)
* Rock Band 2 (Jimmy Eat World, playing “Teenage Riot” for big points)
(Mad Catz Bass) (Sean)

!movies & tv!

* Animated Season 3 Premiers March 14th with 90 minute episode
* Are you watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? (Sean)
* Live Action Street Fighter: Blu-Ray release (aDam)

etc.

* GADGETS BLOG (Logan)

Plugs

* Powet Toys (B-Rad)
* Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (aDam)
* MarsCon (Sean)
* Midwest classic March 25