Update: SailorMoonWorld.it reports that this is a commercial for reruns of the old Sailor Moon anime from 1992. This information is confirmed by a Chinese fan who offers a translation of the commercial.

I wish this was a joke. At this point, I’m not sure what to believe, but basically this trailer for a new Sailor Moon show in Hong Kong popped up on YouTube today. I had not heard anything about this show until then. In an attempt to verify this was real I went to the web site listed at the end of the commercial to check out their schedule. Checking every day at 6 I found that Friday, August 13th, at 6pm is listed “?????” or, as that translates to English, Sailor Moon. The show is not listed as having played this past Friday, so it looks like this Friday will be the premiere!

It just looks so horrible. The girl playing Sailor Mars is completely obese. The actresses appear to change when transforming. I wonder is this even an official show or some kind of cheap knockoff? The music in the video is from the Sailor Moon anime, but that doesn’t mean much. After such an amazing live action Japanese show a few years a back a show would have to be pretty amazing to top it, and this show does not appear to be at any risk of doing that.

Powet.tv will be keeping you posted on more information about this horrible looking show as it becomes available. Leave a comment and let us know if you think this show will be bad, horrible or downright unwatchable.

Sailor Moon Transforming

Worst Rei Ever

This Dashing Fellow is Tuxedo Mask

Source: Moonie Addict via Senshi from the Genvid Forums

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In 2002, it all started out so innocently. Takara was reissuing some of the original line of Transformers. As an E-Hobby exclusive, special variants were made of brand new characters that never appeared in the original show. The result was Road Rage and Crosscut. After that, what followed could only be described as a wave of repainted G1 molds as new characters with new stories inserted into the Generation 1 canon. This is what we may call a ‘retcon’ since the books were more or less closed on new stories from the original canon up to that point. Repaints of Hound, Sideswipe, Starscream, Grapple and more would follow with new color schemes, names and bios. If a mold had been part of the Diaclone or Microchange line, that original paint scheme would be used as an option as well.

Read on to learn about Flipsides!
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The world’s best zombie tower defense game is coming to Xbox 360 on September 8, 2010. Its been available on PC and iPhone for some time but will now join its Popcap brethren Peggle as a Live Arcade download.

New in this version will be 2 player VS and Co-Op, as well as leaderboard and the the minigames from the original PC release.

Its been almost 8 months since we first found out it was coming, but the sequel to the amazing hit game Batman: Arkham Asylum finally has a title.

The official site ArkhamHasMoved.com was updated today with the new logo and the official title Arkham City.

The teaser trailer on the site has been updated to reflect the addition of the title, but its the same footage we saw last year.

The Joker is sure to continue to play a large role in this game, which is welcome since actor Mark Hamill says this will be his last time in the role.

Batman: Arkham City will release fall 2011.

Not an inch of footage has been shot yet, so this is a teaser in the strictest sense of the word. You will however get an ominous voice-over!

Soundgarden announced their intent to reunite some time ago (the group split back in 97) and they’ll take the stage for the first time since then at Lollapalooza this weekend. Coincidentally, it was at Lollapalooza in 1996 that I saw Soundgarden while touring in support of their last studio album.
Anyway, their next release is Telephantasm, which is much like their last release A-Sides, a greatest hits album with one new song. What a value to those of us who supported Soundgarden and already own the albums!

Its not all doom and gloom though, since the first million copies of the next Guitar Hero title, Warriors Of Rock, will include the single CD version that album. The unreleased song “Black Rain” will be on the CD and will be available for play in the game. The game releases September 28, and the standalone release of Telephantasm will not release until October 5, so you can get a limited Soundgarden fix a week early!

Hit the jump for the full track listings to the CD and the limited edition CD/DVD combo.

A word to the wise: just because something comes from the Far East, makes no sense, and flops commercially, does not make it a cult classic, a good game, or even an above average game for that matter. (Oh, and before you hit us up with any hate mail, I should let you know that I count Madworld amongst my top 10 games from last year, enjoyed No More Heroes, got a good laugh out of Katamari Damancy, and even loved Killer 7 enough to try to make sense out of its plot, and I even featured 3 of those 4 games as previous $20 GOTWs). Crap is crap, regardless of which side of the Pacific Ocean it comes from. Such is the case of this clunker, produced by Taiwanese company Joy Van and released in the United States by our friends at Color Dreams.
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Like Audiosurf, Beat Hazard’s gameplay is driven by music. You can load a song, or go through a whole album in survival mode, and the gameplay syncs up to your music. You can use any MP3 in your sound collection, but PC gamers have to download an $1 update that allows them to play with non-protected Itunes tracks, AAC files, and MP4s. You pilot your ship while avoiding enemy fire and asteroids. You gain powerups that upgrade your weaponry, and volume powerups that turn up the volume. While the track isn’t very loud at first, the volume powerups make it louder. However, as the track gets louder, the action gets more intense. Its gameplay is familiar to anyone who has played Geometry Wars. The left analog stick controls movement, the second stick controls the weapons, and the right trigger activates bombs. PC gamers can use a mouse and keyboard, but you’ll definitely want to use an Xbox 360 control pad. Although there isn’t much variety in game modes or enemy types, you can rank up and compete on online leaderboards. If you or someone you know is epileptic, you may want to keep as far away from this game as possible, as the flashing strobe effects get intense. Even if Beat Hazard doesn’t break much new ground, It’s fun and addictive, and it’s a great new way to experience your music collection.