Thuderous Iron Moose 3000! of the Allspark has shared some scanned in artwork with the community on the Allspark boards. The artwork is designs for Masterpiece Starscream.

 

Mezco Toys has announced their exclusive offerings for the San Diego Comic Con.

From their site:

4/14/2006: 2006 SUMMER EXCLUSIVES REVEALED!
Brace yourselves as we prepare to unleash six new breathtaking exclusive figures this summer:

LDD Presents: Jason Voorhees
Edward Scissorhands: Vincent Price
Family Guy: Herbert
Family Guy: 12″ Evil Monkey
South Park: 12″ Cartman
Hellboy: Comic Hellboy w/Japanese heads

More details, pricing and photos coming soon. Make sure you join our mailing list so you don’t miss out on important pre-order information.

A press release went out a couple weeks ago, ‘announcing’ pretty much what we already know about this exclusive wave that will be hitting Wal-mart in the first days of the upcoming month. However, an update was sent out to make a clarification about just how many figures are needed to get a full Giant-man. For those unaware, recent waves of Marvel Legends have had individual figures packaged with a piece to a much larger figure. This exclusive wave’s build-a-figure is Giant-man.

I wanted to clarify an oversight on the press release that was sent last week. Please note that you must collect 10 figures to build Giant Man (one of these figures is a variant). The variants in this assortment will not be as hard to come by as other Marvel Legends assortments.

As a reminder, the variants will be Sentry with a full beard (regular is clean shaven) and Age Of Apocalypse Wolverine with a disfigured head. I do not know of any other variants for this wave.

[Source: Superhero Times]

As noted earlier today the Playstation 2 is dropping twenty dollars to $129.99.

And we ask, why didn’t they go all the way to $99? I think I know why. The PS3.

Every pundit, analyst, and scholar and predicted the pricetag of Sony’s third home game console to be anywhere between “very expensive” to “EXTREMELY expensive.” Sony knows it will have to east some loss on hardware, especially if they want to stay price competitive with the Xbox 360, or even competitive with a high end gaming PC.

Microsoft was able to afford a consistent loss on the first Xbox because they have a software department that pulls in quite a bit of money. Sony’s portable electronics empire it built in the 80s has been toppled by Apple’s iPod, and their home theater department doesn’t exactly dominate the market either. The most successful arm of the Sony machine is gaming, specifically the PS2.

By still being able to scratch a profit off this 5-year old console, they’re suring up a warchest to keep them stable for the coming Playstation 3 launch. This is not to say Sony will be able to afford to get a new box out the door for $299 or even $399, but it will substantially help them to continue selling the PS2 for the highest price the market will bear. If theres still people out there who don’t own a PS2 and are willing to drop $129 on it, then thats a few more dollars Sony can roll over into padding out a PS3 launch.

Sony really can’t afford to lose the market to Microsoft. And honestly, we all know that that Sony has had some of the best developers working on their systems in the past decade. So the only real deciding factor in the Xbox 360 challenge is price. Every penny will count.

Gamespy’s review of Splinter Cell Essentials is a measly 2 out of 5. So why is Ubisoft running ad saying Gamespy liked it?
VGM has filed gathered up all the fact and the investigations and put them in one big article for your reading pleasure.

According to Joystiq, Sony has announced it will be lowering its price for its Playstation 2 from 149.99 to 129.99.

Sony Computer Entertainment America Lowers the Price of
PlayStation(R)2

Computer Entertainment System to $129.99

FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. today announced that it has made its PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system more affordable than ever throughout North America.

Effective immediately, consumers can purchase the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system for a suggested retail price (SRP) of $129.99/$139.99 CND. The company expects this latest price move to fuel consumer demand even further.

PlayStation 2 is the most popular gaming platform in North America, Europe/PAL territories and Japan/Asia, the only gaming platform to enjoy such widespread global success. To date, more than 101 million PlayStation 2 units and approximately one billion pieces of software for the PlayStation 2 have shipped worldwide, making it the fastest-selling gaming platform in the world.

I was hoping they would cut it to 99.99 like the Gamecube. That was clearly not what they had in mind though.

This internet oddity come straight off Digg.
Its real easy, just go to Jet Blue, then select a destination city. Hold the shift key and type “PBJ” on your keyboard. A little window will pop up.
Why? Who the heck knows. Webmaster must be an FG fan or something.

We’ve all heard about this nasty CDi games. EGM seems obsessed with bringing them up in nearly every issue. Well now some kindly soul has uploaded videos of the introduction and ending cutscenes from both games. Watch if you dare…
Wand Of Gamelon Intro, Ending
Faces Of Evil Intro, Ending
I can’t wait to bomb some Dodongos!