The Terrordrome brings us new that Hasbro has issued a press release explaining the circumstances of the ill fated SDCC Sgt Slaughter variants on HasbroToyShop.com. Basically, so many people wanted these puppoes that they sold out quickly at both the show and on HasbroToyShop.com. So fast on HTS that most eager fans staking out the site for it go on sale never saw the site update with the product in stock. This caused quite a backlash. Hasbro is apologetic and will try to figure out a way to include the figure in a future multi-pack. Its not clear if its one version or both.

Press release is after the jump. Its a pretty decent read.
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The Behemoth dev blog posted some great news for PSN users. Tuesday, August 31st. They also mentioned that they would be at PAX Prime with a playable 4-player arcade cabinet of Castle Crashers. That is some pure awesome right there. Here’s the update:

Greetings to the Behemoth Development Blog of which we reside!

I’m here today to present you with the gift of a release date. After many months of certification we’ve finally secured an actual day for USA, Canada, and Mexico for Castle Crashers on the PlayStation Network. This gift is Tuesday, August 31st!!!!

We’ve been working on Castle Crashers for PSN for about a year and a half. In that time I’ve had the fortune of meeting everyone at tradeshows and lots of people will ask me, “C’mon what is taking so long?”. I have to say that we’ve felt the same way – our whole team’s goal is to make you all happy so we want to share it right now!! We’re super antsy. But like all of our games we can never rush anything as it’s necessary to make sure that every little piece is airtight. and fun!

We’ve teamed up with some other sites to give you a full list of contests for a chance to win free stuff. Be on the look out for these dates as we inch closer to the release. Perhaps something wonderful will be obtained?

Finally, we’re going to be at PAX (Penny-Arcade Expo) on September 3-5th at Booth #3102 so come on by and check out both Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theater. We are building a 4-player Castle Crashers arcade cabinet which you can use at the show! Look out X-Men/Predator/Simpsons we’re coming after your distant memories!!!!

love,
Dan

Sindra and I have been evangelizing this series. If you are not watching it, you are missing out on some quality story-telling and character development and it looks like Season 3 only kicks that up a notch. Get ready! Season 3 is coming September 17th!
[Via Newsarama]

Have I got some good news for you, poweteers! I was logged in to some multiplayer on War for Cybertron last night and noticed the marquee in the waiting room announcing that this weekend will be a QUADRUPLE XP weekend starting Friday at 6PM PST. Normally this would be great news on its own, but add this to the fact that this weekend will play host to PowetTV’s August game night featuring no game other than Transformers War for Cybertron. For more on game night and who to add to your friends’ list to play, check out the thread in our forum here.

Even though this is a crappy game and it is a maximum letdown, Jaleco’s Robowarrior holds a special place in my heart. It’s one of the first NES games i got. While it had an interesting premise (and the first level’s music was pretty catchy), all i remember about the game was that it was hard. Not in a Ninja Gaiden my-repeated-failures-want-to-make-me -try-harder-if-for-no-other-reason-than-to-see-what-comes-next kind of hard. Nor is it in a SWAT 4 I-have-to-think-very-very-carefully-about-how-to-approach-this-situation-least-the-whole-mission-ends-up-going-to-hell-in-an-instant kind of hard. Not in a Heavy Rain I-have-to-make-my-onscreen-character-do-things-that-should-be-second-nature-to-a-gamer-but-the-characters-and-story-have-made-me-catch-feelings-like-no-other-game-before-it-so-now-I-am-being-forced-to-make-my-characters-make-extremely-difficult-decisions kind of hard. Not even in a Super Columbine Massacre God-help-me-I-have-to-carry-out-what-was-one-of-the-most-horrific-acts-of-middle-class-suburban-violence-in-the-late-1990s kind of hard. No, it’s a there-are-so-many-idiotic-and-stupid-gameplay-mechanics-I’ll-be-lucky-if-I-can-make-it-past-the-first-level kind of hard.
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Show notes after the jump
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I’ve been listening to a lot of Top 40 radio lately, and this is at least as good if not better.

A little background on this video, which is already going viral like mad… Its the creation of Stand up comedian Rachel Bloom, who doesn’t exactly have a lot of credits yet. I have a feeling in about 2 months, she’ll be on TV.

In the mean time, she’s got a twitter and a facebook page.

Stalk away, men of the internet.

(Thanks BZ3!)

You might be reaching a point of unrecoverable fatigue with the deluge of preview footage involving Halo Reach.

But just watch this video once. You’ll recognize that voice, and suddenly this story starts to get pulled in a direction you might not have expected.

Preorder Halo Reach and get a $20 gift credit towards your next Amazon Games purchase!