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.

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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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]

1up previews the Family Guy game
Say, what are the odds this game is going to be… terrible?
The absolute best they can do is retread jokes from the show and not turn in an unplayable mess. Think I’m wrong? Try digging out some South Park and Simpsons games from a bargain bin. The Simpsons arcade game is argueably the only good game to be based on a comedy show, and it just aped the sidescrolling beat-em-up style of TMNT, Final Fight, Double Dragon et al. Do I even bother mentioning Friends?

Diamond Select Toys has announced that Stargate figure collectors will soon have the opportunity to redeem the UPC’s from their figures for a free ‘Elite Serpent Guard’. Also randomly inserted one into each case will be an unpainted test shot figure.

From the site:

Stargate Promos Ready to Launch!

With the first series of Stargate SG-1 action figures nearing their Spring release, DST is excited to announce plans for several promotional figures to compliment the core assortment!

By purchasing any four of our Stargate SG-1 figures, customers will be able to redeem their UPC’s for a free exclusive Elite Serpent Guard action figure featuring a repainted armor design as part of a promotional mail-in program! Now in addition to building their own figure-sized Stargate, fans will also be able to build Apophis’ army! The details surrounding how fans can get this free figure will be available inside each packaged figure.

Also available with the first wave of figures will be a series of test-shot unpainted figures! Select cases sold to retailers each contain one of these limited figures, with four different versions released: Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, General Jack O’Neill and a Jaffa Serpent Guard! These pre-production unpainted figures will be limited and will only be available in select cases for the specialty market, so be sure to contact your local comic book store and ask them to take advantage of this unprecedented offer!

From what I understand there are already quite a few variants for these figures as it is, so it looks like this line will be hard on the collectors out there. Good Luck!

Everyone’s favorite japanese animation house has released a trailer for their next movie.
The Legend Of Earthsea
Its a film based on the fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin. Theres not a lick of english in the trailer, but you can at least watch it. Probably be another year before we see it in the states.

Sideshow has announced their exclusive for the San Diego Comic Con. The exclusive will be a 12 inch Darth Vader just after he turns to the dark side. He features ‘Sith eyes’ (they’re yellow!), a ‘unique lava droid base’, and exclusive packaging. Supplies will be limited to 6000.

Preorders for convention attendees begins April 27th at 10AM, while preorders for non-attendees starts at 10AM the next day.

He-man.org has finally announced the summer convention exclusives from NECA and the Four Horsemen. I’ll just cut to the chase because I’ve been pretty eager to know what they were.

First up features a return of the mini-bust line. An exclusive 3-pack of brand new mini-busts will be offered. The set includes Mekanek, Man-at-Arms, and Teela.

  

The second exclusive (and the one I’m far more stoked about) is a mini-statue (staction) of Evil-Lyn in her classic colors of yellow and blue. It should be noted that this isn’t just a statue of the action figure that came out quite a while (and was short packed so it costs a fortune to find one now! >_< ), but instead a new sculpt. It features a shard of the Crystal of Darkness hanging around her neck as seen in the first volume of the modern comic from MVCreations.