Today marks the kick off of New York Toy Fair 2010 and I am just as eager as everyone else to talk about what is being revealed at the show.
Press releases and sneak peak photos were all over the web starting last night. All the info is after the break.
This post will be kept at the top of the page today since I will be adding updates and news as I find it throughout the day.
by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Powetcast on Sep.22, 2009
Following suit with Marvel, DC is bought out (again) by Warner Bros. Following suit with Siegel/Shuster (against DC), Jack Kirby’s heirs decide to sue Marvel. Kanye West makes a jackass out of himself. Sonic Team wants to make a GOOD Sonic game for a change. And Famicom Dojo Season 2 news! What’s going on in the world??
Disney acquires Marvel, and a photoshopper’s wet dream ensues. Thomas “John Conner” Dekker tells a n00b to STFU. On YouTube. Shirtless. We chat about the dethroning of Kings, aDam almost spoils “K”, and Powet picks up the torch for Reading Rainbow!
Take this news with a grain of salt since I haven’t seen it up anywhere else, but according to this article over at marketwatch.com, it looks like Disney is going to acquire Marvel Entertainment and all its characters including Spider-Man, The Hulk, The Avengers, and the X-Men. As a result it looks like Marvel’s stock price has shot up 25%, while Disney’s is actually down 1.5 %.
Not all games based on movies or cartoons are bad, and when the licenses expire the games disappear too! This is the Powet Top 5 Lost Licensed Games, presented by Keep Playing!
Think I missed a game? Leave a comment and let me know!
A number of Powet.tv members have been attending Otakon for a few years. What follows was at some point intended to be some kind of comprehensive overview of the con, but it should be immediately obvious that we weren’t able to follow through with such an ambitious goal.
Enjoy the trannies, furrie, LARPers, and some even seedier perversions that plague the geek community attending a standard convention. All things considered, the simple act of Cosplaying really isn’t that weird at all.
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