Apparently included in the packaging of THS-02 Prime was a promo card for what appears to be the next figure in the Masterpiece line.
The card is covered with design sketches of Starscream that are crossed out haphazardly with a black marker. The english text reads: ‘Coming soon…’. One can only hope we get more information on this soon.

According to action-hq.com the name of the black repaint of the Alternator Optimus Prime figure will be the ever original, ‘Nemesis Prime’.

Their preorder lists the figure as ‘Transformers Alternators Dodge Ram Pick-up Tranemesis Prime (Black Version)’. Available in May ’06.

This is the tagline on a teaser pic posted at the website for IDW publishing. The picture is a shot of cybertron mostly in the dark but a strange red glow emanating from the back side of the planet. The word storm is in italics. Whether this means we’ll be seeing another unicron storyline based on the picture or a return to a Sunstorm story is anyone’s guess. We can only wait and see.

In 2001, the last thing anyone would even think of is Squaresoft collaborating with Disney. A year later however, Square would shatter all of our expectations. This action RPG teams up Disney’s superstars such as Aladdin and Ariel with Final fantasy heroes such as Squall and Cloud in a cross company extravaganza rivaled only by the Marvel vs Capcom games. Playing as a young boy names Sora, you meet Donald, Goofy, and tons of other famous Disney characters in your quest to save your friends from a strange group of creatures called the Heartless. Your journey will take you to worlds based on several different Disney films, such as Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and Alice in Wonderland. The attacks and magic are easy to use, and the Final Fantasy-style summon attacks cleverly make use of Disney characters such as Simba, Dumbo, and Mushu. This game is a hit for RPG fans of all ages, regardless of weather or not you’re a fan of Disney movies. A sequel is due any day now, and it will feature even more Final Fantasy and Disney mash-ups. Also a sequel is out on the Gameboy advance as well. If you haven’t picked this up by now, you need to go do it.

History Channel provides a remarkable special as part of their outer space week of programming, championing Star Trek (indirectly via Shatner) as being responsible with many, many common devices and innovations. Top inventors from JPL to Motorola speak of Trek episodes inspiring their young minds to produce the very things the crew of the Enterprise fictionally used.
Aside from the interesting history lessons, William Shatner hams it up as a tongue-in-cheek host and narrartor making it a pretty enjoyable affair. I don’t know anyone who isn’t at least amused by Shatner and/or technology, so I’ll make this a highly reccomended program.
Keep an eye out for a rerun

According to a post on Ain’t It Cool News of all places, Sony may try to take the fight harder to the DS and other non-gaming devices by releasing a slimmer, high capacity, more functional PSP by Winter 06.
Here’s the relevant quote from the post:

Seems Sony’s current internal plans call for a release of a refitted PSP around Christmas this year. The device will, indeed, be streamlined (thinner), lighter, boast 4 gigs of memory and a camera. Proteus indicated Sony is having a hell of a time with PlayStation 3 on several fronts (between PS3’s Cell processor and its built-in Blu-ray DVD, cost effectiveness has pretty much gone out the window). Seems the ever-phantasmic PS3 may well be delayed until next year, with Sony’s reworked PSP being positioned as a lead-in to its release (in the same way Nintendo’s release of the oh-so-sexy DS Lite heralds the coming of Revolution).

Better PSP revealed at E3 could be just the sort of distraction Sony needs if the PS3 delay ends up being until 07. Its cold comfort, but if Sony does in fact rededicate efforts toward the PSP hardware maybe more software will follow.

A new Reuters article claims the 21st 007 film “Casino Royale” will play closer to an origin than I’d thought. The director’s claims of “no-CG” sound exciting, but taking out Q, Moneypenny, and most of the gadgets makes me wonder if this will be a refreshing change or a colossal mistake. Whatever the case may be, I’m glad they’re going to try something different with the new Bond. I didn’t dislike the last few ones, but they felt closer to sci-fi action movies than any kind of spy game stuff Bond is known for. Driving the invisible car in the castle made of ice wasn’t really a bad, just didn’t seem like a Bond idea…

Oh, and by the way, this new “Casino Royale” is not to be confused with the 1967 “Casino Royale”, which starred Peter Sellers, David Niven, and Woody Allen as variations of James Bond.

Take a classic style Super Mario Bros. game, switch Mario with Peach and what do you get? Super Princess Peach.

In a terribly obvious role reversal we see Mario get kidnapped (by a goomba of all things) and Peach now tasked with the role of saving him. Pretty basic concept that one would expect to produce an inferior style title. But no! This game is solid. It really does play just like a an old school Mario Bros. game. This game is what I was hoping New Mario Bros. would turn out to be like. So why are all the fanboys out there drooling over New Mario Bros. without giving this one a shot? … maybe they just don’t want to look gay like some guys who always choose Peach in Super Mario Bros. 2? I bet they don’t have such reservations about playing Metroid!
So basically you’ve got peach walking around in a world which looks kind of like Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and a bit of Yoshi’s Island tossed into it without having that ugly looks like it was drawn with crayon style Yoshi’s Island had. She doesn’t use standard power ups but instead uses her emotions to fly, cry on enemies, burn things or heal. You can also purchase power ups with the coins you collect in levels to do things like tricks with your super parasol to get through levels. The object of the game is to rescue 3 hidden Toads in each stage and then fight a boss at the end of each world. This plays out pretty well because, through the use of your special abilities, there’s quite a variety of ways in which the Toads can be hidden. While the game starts out as being quite simple it picks up in difficulty soon enough. While not a terribly difficult game the maze like levels do offer a challenge reminiscent of later levels in Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Mario World. The bosses all require little tricks to beat in the style of a Yoshi’s Island or Super Mario Sunshine boss. This keeps things interesting.

Simply put I recommend this game to anyone with an appreciation for side scrolling Mario games who wants to try something new.

Now check out the official site which has tons more content then your average game’s official site. And it’s just bizarre stuff like t-shirt designs and a little app to make a fake magazine. Nintendo.com also has a nice page for the game put together.