The Transformers Club website revealed the cover to the January issue of the Collector’s Club newsletter featuring the upcoming Universe (Classics 2.0) Onslaught. They also go on to say that five figures will be revealed inside the publication most likely including Onslaught. The publication should make it into club members’ hands soon revealing these promised figures.

Also announced, Nightbeat will be joining the Seacons as the next member exclusive figures available for purchase only to club members.

From the site:

December 2007 – We are pleased to announce that our next Club Exclusive, along with the previously announced SEACONS, is none other than NIGHTBEAT, the galaxy’s most reliable detective! Both the Seacons and Nightbeat are scheduled for a Spring 2008 release. For a quick sneak peak at our all-new exclusives, available for purchase to all club members, be sure to check out the latest issue of the Transformers Collectors’ Club Magazine!

Hope everyone’s had a merry Christmas. Hopefully you digested all that Christmas dinner, because it’s time to hit the squared circle. That’s right, Powet is gonna take you ringside for a look at wrestling gaming. In the first part of our special, we’ll take a look back at some of the best (and worst) that wrestling gaming had to offer up to and including the Playstation and Nintendo 64 years. Part 2, coming this weekend, will feature a look at some of the more recent wrestling games, including WWE Raw vs Smackdown 2008 and Fire Pro Wrestling Returns. So grab a folded-up chair (or whatever other weapon that strikes your fancy), a 6-pack of your favorite alcoholic beverage, a luchador mask, and a homemade cardboard sign, and (in the voice of Michael Buffer) LETS GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEEEEEEEE!

Oh, and watch out for thumbtacks, florescent lights, and exploding barbwire.
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I usually try to stay away from any profanity in news articles, but this was just so well done that I wanted to make an exception. To go along with the holiday sentiment today, I am posting a link to this parody of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This one revolves around comic books. Here’s an excerpt:

Every Fan
Down in Fan-ville
Liked Comics a lot…

But the Bitch,
Who lived just North of Fan-ville,
Did NOT!

The Bitch hated Comics!
The whole Comics scene!
‘Though nobody knows how she turned out so mean.
It could be that her head wasn’t screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, she wore panties too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that her chest was two sizes too small.

You can read the rest of odditycollector’s parody here.

Happy Holidays from the Powet.TV staff!

The world of Resident Evil is getting some high priority in the media world recently. Hot on the heels of the recently released Umbrella Chronicles (see earlier this week for more on that), we also seem to have a CGI movie in the works as well. Despite some videos being removed on YouTube, a perfectly safe teaser trailer has been released to the rabid public who are dying to keep filled up on their zombie-slaying quotas.

You get a basic gist of the plot simply from this small snippet of footage, but plenty is still left open to interpretation. Good to know Claire Redfield still sports the *exact* same look she did 7 years prior during Resident Evil 2 & Code Veronica. I know if I’ve got a good thing going, I stick with it for years on end.

Also as a little treat for the Resident Evil enthusiasts, a “Virtual Legends” line of pre-painted scale statues have also been made available for pre-order through various import toy distributors, and include Umbrella Chronicles variations of Chris Redfield and the T-002 Tyrant among others. Not cheap mind you, but nice additions to any collector’s montage.

It’s not uncommon knowledge that the presumed “last” of the trailers for Devil May Cry 4 was released a few days ago. You can see the trailer below, but do be warned as it does contain a shyte-load of spoilers for the game.

Seeing as DMC4 released on February 5th here in the US, the connotations that this could be the final trailer very well may be true. Even if that was officially announced as such, it wouldn’t be the first time a game’s marketing team has fibbed to the public to create hype. Regardless, if previous trailer for this game haven’t made you want to go out and grab it upon it’s release, then this one will test your resolve even further.

Hell, Dante’s got a rocket-platform of all things! How can that not entice you?

Wired.com has a really great (and reeeally long) interview up with Trent Reznor, lead and mastermind of the band, Nine Inch Nails. He talks at length about the surrounding story for the Year Zero album and how he went about, not only getting the story out to the fans, but getting them involved in it as well. Where each song on the album was just a snapshot of the times set fifteen years into the future, there was a surrounding story that needed to get to fans in a more modern way that didn’t involve marketing and squeezing profits from it. Reznor also talks on Radiohead’s recent ‘pay what you want’ offering for their album and how it went wrong.

There is audio for the interview, but its only 70 minutes long and will cut off toward the end due to the extreme length (about 90 minutes) of the talk.

Read it here.

Weather you wish to admit it or not, the Playstation installments of the Final Fantasy series, particularly VII and VIII, marked a major turning point in console role playing games. Up until then, role playing games were only enjoyed by a niche but dedicated audience. What they lacked in graphics, their epic stories made up for a thousandfold. Final Fantasy VII introduced 3-d polygon models, fully rendered cinematics, and graphics that were as epic in scale as the game’s storyline itself. Squaresoft had clearly outdone itself, and in 1999, it was tasked with having to following it up. Released in America on the same day as the Sega Dreamcast, Final Fantasy VIII managed to not only surpass the scale of FFVII, but it managed to set a new standard for role playing games. Despite its critical acclaim amongst gaming media outlets and fans alike, many purists don’t think too highly of this entry in the series. For the life of me I don’t see why, because next to Final Fantasy Tactics, this is arguably the best PS1 Final Fantasy game. In fact, it stands alongside Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 2 as one of the greatest PS1 games of all time, and it’s also one of the finest console role playing games ever.

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Here we have my second attempt at a game review. I feel I’m gonna be sticking to the voice-over type for a while, so you all will have to deal. I’m a wee bit more camera-shy than the male staff here at Powet.

Umbrella Chronicles was a great game, and makes me wish I actually had a Wii, rather than holding a friend’s Wii hostage for the duration of my playing experience. Needless to say, I did quite fine without the awful Wii Zapper, which despite being made primarily for games such as Umbrella Chronicles, didn’t live up to my expectations. Live and learn.