Mark your calendars, He-Man fans! The New Adventures of He-man are coming to DVD December 26, 2006.

He-man.org brings us details about the set. It will be a 6 disc set and will feature 33 episodes.
The set will be Volume 1 of 2.
The bonus features include

• Two all-new half hour documentaries; one featuring interviews with members of the New Adventures of He-Man production team, and the other featuring the history of Masters of the Universe comics (both classic and 2002) and interviews with their creators
• 50 Detailed Characters and Location Profiles with Bios, Images and Clips
• Trivia Fun Facts
• Art Gallery
• Easter Eggs
• DVD-ROM features including scripts for multiple episodes and the series bible (PDF format, PC/Mac readable)
• Ink & Paint trailers for many other cool animated releases

While this is far from the most beloved series of the Masters Of The Universe franchise, it definitely has its place. I remember watching it everyday before leaving for school. Also, the spine of this set adds on to the spine art picture of the previous sets and the She-Ra sets. See the picture below for a picture!

Also, don’t forget Volume 1 of She-Ra, Princess of Power comes out November 7th.

One of our forum regulars Spooie has given INTER-NET a glimpse into what game news was like before INTER-NET.
Basically its a local news report on the Consumer Electronics Show from 1990 featuring some hype on Moonwalker for Genesis, forthcoming Turbo Grafix 16 use of CD technology, and of course Super Mario 3…
Also keep an eye out for Nintendo hero Howard Phillips!

Fellow geeks it’s time to celebrate the 3rd greatest holiday of the year in style. Carve up your pumpkins in a way that only us geeks can truly appreciate. Characters from movies, tv, comics, games or whatever you geek out on are welcome. Come Halloween night we’ll showcase them all with a post here on the front page.

Post your submissions in this thread in the forums.

There is a much rumored, not confirmed, and not denied new series in the works for Transformers that has been referred to as Transformers: Heroes. A number of other sites have reported on it, but thats about all they reported because nothing else was known really. Voicecasting is happening in LA. TFW2005 brings us news the David Kaye has confirmed he has been cast as Optimus Prime.

For those who don’t know who David Kaye is, he voiced Megatron in Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron. It seems like a curious choice as Optimus Prime, considering his past with Megatron.

YouTube has removed 29549 Japanese videos from it’s site following a complaint by Japanese rights holders. I was a bit confused by this statement at first until I remembered the tons of anime that’s on the site.

Some people are blamming google for this move but that’s hardly relevant. This has happened before as it has always been YouTube’s policy to remove videos when the copyright holders complain about it. This removal is just very large in scope.

YouTube’s policy on copyrighted material is simple. They make it very clear that users shouldn’t upload something they don’t have the copyright to and even restrict video length to a maximum of 10 minutes. That being said they can no more stop a person from putting something copyrighted up there than the post office can stop someone from sending a copyrighted game to their friend by mail. Copyright holders want YouTube to start policing the content themselves and be held accountable for any copyrighted material that makes it’s way onto the site. This doesn’t work with their current functionality due to the sheer volume of videos that go up on the site. That doesn’t change the simple fact that it’s better to have the multi million dollar company accountable than some 12 year old with a paper route who’s uploading Naruto episodes.

No worries about powet.tv’s videos. Any use of copyrighted characters or clips are covered by fair use as portions are used for review purposes and never used in a way that would cause a loss of profit to the copyright holder. We’re part of that small chunk of users who use YouTube for legitimate purposes along with all these girls who like to tape themselves shaking their booties to their favourite music. God bless every last one of them.

The future of YouTube is always a bit unknown due to it’s nature. Let’s hope the restriction of copyrighted material causes as little hinderance to legitimate users as possible. And if you’re part of that majority of people who go to YouTube solely for the copyrighted content you can cross your fingers all you want but there’s not much legal protection for what you want to do.

Dustin Diamond, known to all as Samuel “Screech” Powers from TV’s Saved by the Bell, is no longer trying to stop his sex tape from seeing the light of day according to imdb news. Instead he will try to profit from it.

This comes as no real surprise as the whole move seems like a blatant but terribly effective publicity stunt. Diamond claims that the threesome sex tape, in which he gives a girl a dirty sanchez, was something he did as a joke 4 years ago and never intended to get released to the public. Of course we’d expect him to say that.

In an interview with US Weekly Dustin added “Let’s just say, if I were a small man, it would be worse.” suggesting that he has a good sized penis. We’ll all be able to see if what he boasts is true next month when the 40 minute video will no doubt spread across the Internet like wild fire or at the very least like an unwanted case of herpes.

The long awaited convention video.

We travel to Botcon, accomplish nothing, leave satisfied.

In a follow up to Thursday’s early reports of the series cancelation Spike TV has confirmed that Blade: The Series will not be renewed for a second season.

As is fully expected for any series of any popularity or quality getting canceled before or after it’s prime the hordes of fans are launching a futile campain to save the show.

There is also mention that there will be a DVD release though no details were announced to that extent.