What you don’t know can’t hurt you, right? Is that why the Japanese game industry has been slipping lately? Even prominent Japanese creators are seeing the writing on the wall, saying that they must innovate, “or die”. As if to prove their point, we talk about a mess of games we’ve been playing that were not made in the land of the rising sun.

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(Name your dream team comic merger! AT&T still doesn’t own a company. How about Dark Horse? Leave your comments below!)

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Bandai has announced that it has chosen the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers as the next theme for the Power Rangers series. Since Transformers knocked the Power Rangers from the top spot in the young boys’ toys category, Bandai seems to have chosen a strategy to get back to the roots of their franchise in order to appeal to older fans and bring in more new fans, as well.

The toyline will feature both classic and new interpretations of the characters, zords, and more. This will be accompanied by an all new Saturday morning series debuting in January 2010 on ABC kids. The toys are scheduled to hit retail before the end of the year.

I remember tuning in Saturday mornings for the Fox Kids X-Men animated series and sticking around after to catch the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. I lost interest around the first time they changed the theme of the show. I think it became Power Rangers Zeo or something like that. I felt it was around then that it had jumped the ‘zord’, so to speak. Looking forward to see where this goes, especially if there are new zord toys.

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It’s me, the Gargoyle, with yet another Gargoyles comic review!

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If you kids miss basking in my awesomeness please follow me on Twitter. I saw on the news that it was a big deal.

Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.

In the fall of 2004, amidst a general lackluster lineup of programming on TV, my brothers pulled me aside to watch this new show everyone had been buzzing about. After watching just the first episode, I knew there was something great about this show with a simple concept about a plane crashing on a deserted island, but that obviously was up to much more. For me right off the bat the show keyed into something I’ve always been into, which is a kind of survival show idea, but then as it goes on the show kept me hooked with great drama, intriguing mysteries and original ways of tackling sci-fi and fantasy elements.

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Noted for Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Roadhouse, and the above SNL clip, Patrick Swayze finally succumbed to Pancreatic Cancer today, at the age of 57. He was given only weeks to live, but toughed it out for over a year and a half.

Source: ‘Dirty Dancing’ star Patrick Swayze dies at 57 [AP]

Disney acquires Marvel, and a photoshopper’s wet dream ensues. Thomas “John Conner” Dekker tells a n00b to STFU. On YouTube. Shirtless. We chat about the dethroning of Kings, aDam almost spoils “K”, and Powet picks up the torch for Reading Rainbow!

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More and more, the games Powet plays are $10-$15 add-ons and episodic content. Is this trend wide-spread? Is the era of expensive, disc-based gaming over?

Also, news of the video game world at GamesCom and BlizzCon, reviews of Ponyo, District 9, the new Professor Layton (out today), and more! Also introducing special guest Shaun Hatton of Toronto Thumbs and the 4 Color Rebellion network!

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Thanks to Mike Xfactor on our forums for alerting me this has been posted online. Brock’s gone, Hatred’s off the deep end, Dean loves Hitler, 21 is Larping, Doc comes back from the future, and Hank needs a haircut. Also, David Bowie returns.

The foruth season begins in November with 8 episodes, and will continue summer 2010 with 8 more. Yes, its terrible to split the season into 2 parts, but we’re getting 3 more episodes than we got from previous seasons, and not nearly the wait there was from season 2 to 3