Former Dreamcast and current Xbox 360 pitchman Peter Moore has a seat on the couch with various 1up.com editors in this set of videos.
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If you’ve got 20 minutes, a broadband connection, and a hankerin’ to see what Moore has to say its worth watching. He doesn’t stay on message as much as the infamous EGM interview. If you don’t have the time, I’ll bulletpoint some of the important bits…
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The Battlestar Gallactica merchandise is finally starting to make its way to the consumers. Figures.com is reporting that Majestic Studios will be releasing the first two figures in a series. This first wave will include Captain Lee Adama aka Apollo and the Cylon Centurion. They will make their debut at the San Diego Comic Con and will make their way to stores shortly thereafter. Apollo will stand 12 inches tall while the Centurion will be 13 1/2 inches tall to keep in scale.

Apollo will be sporting his flight fatigues including helmet and interchangeable hands (one set with gloves on) and a blaster. Creative packaging is said to be happening in addition to the decision for the next figure being decided based on fan response. It will either be the sultry Number Six or Number 8 aka Boomer.

An announcement about a San Diego Comic Con exlusive is also said to be coming soon.

[2006.04.09 10:48 EST]Its a bit annoying how MasterCollector trickles information to the fans about convention exclusives. I understand the reason is to build up the hype, but it makes it hard to keep track with news posts about prior exclusives from the set being months ago and most likely in archives on most sites. I thought I would take this opportunity to do an overview of what has been announced thus far for the 3.75″ Exclusive Convention Set. The theme for the set is: “Cobra’s Most Wanted: Mercenaries!”

First announced March 24, 2006 is the Skull Squad Trooper. Six Skull Squad Troopers will be included in the set. Each features a removeable helmet emblazoned with the SKull Squad logo, along with weapons and I assume a stand.

Announced on March 29, 2006, the Skull Squad will be led into battle by none other than Major Bludd (which wasn’t much of a surprise considering the Skull Squad logo features an eyepatch). The Major comes with a rifle and submachine gun. The rifle has a folding bi-pod where the sub-machine gun has a folding stock. The figure’s color scheme will also compliment that of the Skull Squad Troopers.

April 4th, 2006 brought us the Coil Trooper. Six Coil Troopers will be included in the set, similar to the Skull Squad Troopers. Each Coil Trooper appears to come with a rifle, machine gun and stand.

Overlord, leader of the Coil Troopers, was revealed April 7th, 2006. He is an entirely new tooling due to the absence of the original mold. An original head was used though for the new tooling in order to maintain that ‘vintage look’. He appears to come with a removeable helmet with the Coil Trooper logo on it, an uzi and removeable claws on his forearms.

There is still at least one more announcement to be made for the set, so when that is made, which should be soon, I will update this post so everything is all in one place.

[UDPATE – 2006.04.11]
MasterCollector has updated their site with the boxart for the Exclusive Convention Set. The last figure, however, is just a sillouette for now. There is a contest to see who can guess the identity of the last figure for all the Collectors’ Club Members. They are really trying to hype up whoever this last figure is. Whoever it is, they seem to be an excellent marksman. More as it comes…

[UPDATE – 2006.04.17]

The final figure has been revealed! Cobra Mortal will be the last figure to be added to the collectors’ set. He features vac-metallized armor, his special crossbow and a rifle. You can view his tech spec here.

We’ve also been given the bonus of seeing the full box art showing the revealed Cobra Mortal.

Major Leage Gaming has landed a major deal with the USA Network to broadcast its 2006 Championship Season in 7 hour-long installments.
See the MLG coverage blitz in action.
Two games definitely on the roster this year are long-time favorites Super Smash Brothers Melee on Gamecube and Halo 2 on Xbox. New games may be added later, but these 2 titles will be present at every event.
This should be a heck of a show. I don’t know how well it will play to non-gamers, but Halo and SSBM players shouldn’t miss this.

In late 2004, Squaresoft released this 1-cart compiliation of the orgins of it’s flagship FInal fantasy series, complete with new graphical upgrades to update the look to the 16-bit games in the series. These match the similarily packed Final fantsy origins, released for the original Playstation a few years back. Even though there are no prerendered sequences in this version (obviously) the new features such as 4 new random dungeons in FF 1 (featuring familiar bosses from other titles in the Final Fantasy series), and an all new subchapter in Final fantasy 2 (featuring the characters who have died during the main game) more than make up for it. Both titles allow you to save anywhere,making them perfect for long trips. Although they are difficult and as old school as they come (complete with random encounters), they are the perfect trip back in time for old school RPG fans.

This is a couple weeks old, but Viz Media has been named the master licensor for Shonen Jump’s Bleach. This means the popular series will be making an American debut in the not so far flung future.

See the press release after the jump.

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I hope this is everything we’ve all come to expect.
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At long last, the Four Horsemen have given He-man.org the long awaited pictures of the Leech and Webstor stactions. I uploaded a picture of each for you to see. To see more detailed pictures go to the He-man.org site here.

  

[EDIT: I have added a picture of Snake Face. Wave 4 includes Leech, Webstor and Snake Face. Snake Face’s pictures have been online since October 23, 2005, but its better to see the whole line up at once. Also for those not keeping count, you may notice that each wave features three figures. One figure from three of the four factions; The Masters, Skeletor’s Council of Evil, The Snakemen and The Horde. This is the first wave not featuring any Masters. – Crazy]