Powetcast Episode 28: Down the Digital River

MattyCollector.com curbs your buying habits. Mass Effect 2 curbs your romance options. Are you enthusiastic about the shakeup at DC Entertainment? Is this tease shameless punnery?

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Show notes after the jump!

Panel

• 
  Sean “Missed a Week” Corse
  


• Zac “Lumberjack” Shipley
  


• Crazy “Owlman” Jaco


• aDam “14 Gold Medals” Gardner

News

• Matt Smith’s Doctor Who – Trailer


• Geoff Johns and Jim Lee shakeup at DC! JimLee00 (Twitter)


• IN RELATED NEWS:




• Action Comics #1 sells for (Dr. Evil) ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!


• Then, mere days later, Detective Comics #27 beats it


• DC Movie news:




• Mark Strong is Sinestro (Powet.TV link) 


• David Goyer pens Man of Steel (Amazon.com Link)


• Jonathan Nolan MAY direct Superman, thanks to brother Chris?


• Greg Berlanti to Direct The Flash?


• Nintendo releasing Metroid and Mario in less than 3 months, whats left for E3 and the second half of 2010?  Zelda.




• Other M Impressions (Joystiq)
  


• Monthly MattyCollector Update:




• MattyCollector opens fan forums, not prepared for nerd hissyfits.


• BattleCat/Trap Jaw day perfect storm of mess ups




• Trap Jaw sold out in 22 minutes


• Battle Cat sold out in 33 minutes
  


• Display Stands sold out in 1 hour
  


• Man-At-Arms reissue had a bug and wasn’t available until hours later causing an error and many to miss out on the other two figures
  


• MOTUC Brand Manager’s reaction: You should have gotten a subscription; Trap Jaw/Battle Cat going back to production.


• Matty answers some concerns and tells most to suck it. (Did we cover this in the Toy Fair episode?)




• Addresses changing in sculpt, panthor flocking debate, artbook sale, and massive failure of DR on Battle Cat day.


• ToyGuru: “[Orko] will not be like ‘Gleek’ and only be available at SDCC or something like that.”


• RIP Andrew Koenig




• Batman: Dead End

Roundtable

• Video Game Characterization




• With games (such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age) that allow players to make their own choices, there are still some rules for things players cannot do because of “story” and “characterization”.  Sexuality is increasingly one of those traits.


• I have one take on it, but BioWare disagrees.
  

Pimpin’

• New Videos Every Wednesday (or your money back)
  




• KEEP PLAYING: Rewind – 2010 Preview – (four weeks ago)


• KEEP PLAYING: Mass Effect 2 – Of Great Import (three weeks ago)


• PowetToys: Collectors Edition – Tampography/Pad Printing (two weeks ago)


• Missed! Get your money back! (last week)


• Famicom Dojo: Season 2 – Sega Family Tree Special (this week)


• KEEP PLAYING: Rewind (next week)


• Powet Alphabet




• (F is for Freakazoid, G is for Grails)


• (H is for High Fidelity, I is for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)


• (J is for ?, K is for ?)


• PAX East 2010