Galactic Hunter has posted a new Q&A column this week! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

Waiting a very, very long time after the holidays, the big red dot finally marked down a number of software titles. Prices and selection vary by store, but PS3 and Xbox 360 titles may include (from what we've seen) Fracture, LEGO Batman, and Mercenaries. Prices are generally around 30% off right now, we'll be holding off to get Batman on the cheap.

Voted on by fans in early 2007, this new G.I. Joe Hall of Heroes Collection proves that fans have terrible, terrible taste. This new assortment features premium deco and packaging, which is a nice way of saying "this is going to be a lot more expensive than the version you bought last year." Each figure seems to be improved over previous releases, with retooled hands and a chrome face on the Cobra Viper, bare shoulders on Storm Shadow, and two shotguns with the revised Flint. Basically, the figures are just enough better to make you mad. Click the pic to pre-order at our sponsor, or click here for hi-res shots elsewhere.

Also, there are some new Wolverine toys. Click here to see figures, vehicles, and other items from the new movie (3 3/4-inch) and the cartoon line (???).

Figure of the Day has updated once again! The daily feature on figures you might have but might not-- either way, here's what you've been missing! Spanning from the original Power of the Force series of 1995 to the latest of The Legacy Collection, it's almost like a history lesson!

The astonishingly difficult R-Type Dimensions is expensive, insanely difficult, and rather neat. Given the going rate of most disc-based games, 1200 points (US $15) seems too expensive for the game, but we will say we enjoy playing it. It's quite difficult, and it includes ports of the first two R-Type games with fancy graphical face lifts. The button layout is obnoxious, but it's extremely fun. Just prepare yourself for lots of yelling.

Chinese site TF08.net has a gallery of Universe Hot Shot, which should be shipping very soon. It's looking to be even better than expected, plus it still has the "JAAM" license plate.

Galactic Hunter has posted a new Q&A column this week! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

If you grew up in the post-Star Wars era, odds are you have more than a passing interest in the Ghostbusters franchise. There have never, ever been movie-based toys of the four main heroes, but it seems Mattel will be righting this wrong this year with a direct-to-consumer line of 12- and 6-inch figures. Since we aren't going to be in New York until later, we're going to send you to Dread Central to check out their three pages of pictures of prototypes. Figures shown include Slimer, Egon, and Ray. We're all very pleased with what we see so far.

We forgot to mention that Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 14 was released last week. It includes such winners as Soultaker and Final Justice. The best price we've been able to find locally is $44.99 at a Best Buy. This set does not have a special edition tin set with lobby cards and a figure.

52toys posted a gallery, but their server isn't working so we're going to send you to TFW2005 for their mirrored gallery of Hot Shot (2002) vs. Hot Shot (2009). Feel old yet? The new one is a little bit smaller.

Figure of the Day has updated once again! The daily feature on figures you might have but might not-- either way, here's what you've been missing! Spanning from the original Power of the Force series of 1995 to the latest of The Legacy Collection, it's almost like a history lesson!

Wii Ware this week has LIT. Apparently evil creatures have invaded a high school. Oh, and you have to rescue some girlfriend. This used to be more than enough to drive a video game, but for some reason, we're not feeling it.

In the wake of the whole Pirates of the Caribbean movie series, we saw a whole mess of pirate toys based on the film and on general, license-free pirates. Playmobil in particular has been doing great business in pirates for years now, and just recently LEGO returned to the line after a nearly 10-year absence. However, what's most interesting are these (supposedly) new figures from Dragon Models which you can see at Hobby Bunker. These aren't licensed products, but damned if "John" doesn't look exactly like Captain Jack Sparrow. They've also got lookalikes for Will Turner and Captain Barbossa, leaving us to wonder just how close one can skirt to a licensed property with it still being A-OK. There's no master license on the very concept of swashbuckling pirates, but wow... you need to see these.

While the buzz has been going around for a while, it appears The GeekDad Blog got the first shots of many new Joe vehicles from the new movie. We use that loosely, as some won't be in the movie from what we hear, and one is obviously a repaint of a Valor vs. Venom-era mold (that's 2005). The figures are a mix of new parts and 25th anniversary bits and pieces, but the main point of interest is a new, movie-stylized Cobra Night Raven. Do check them out.

Figure of the Day has updated once again! The daily feature on figures you might have but might not-- either way, here's what you've been missing! Spanning from the original Power of the Force series of 1995 to the latest of The Legacy Collection, it's almost like a history lesson!

Two this week. NHL 3 on 3 Arcade is a hockey game. Minesweeper Flags, well, if you can't guess, take away the word "flags" and we think you'll figure it out.

Spoilers be damned, this is the Internet in 2009. There's no escaping complaining, and that's why we're here-- to show you this Robot Heroes Cobra Commander. While we don't know if this is a transitional disguise, one of many outfits, or what, there's no reason we can't say we already hate it. Granted, it's no more or less goofy than several other figures, but the guy resembles Star Wars alien Pote Snitkin more than a little.

Galactic Hunter has posted a new Q&A column this week! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

We uploaded 978 photos from the various booths we hit in New York City last week, and you can see them all here. There's a lot of toys here, and we're going to go through our favorites and insist you go look at them.

Last week, Capcom released Street Fighter IV in the USA for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 game consoles-- it's about $60, give or take $5. It's also a supreme pain in the butt to play without an arcade stick, which is what we're doing right now in our cluttered offices. Hori, Mad Catz, and other manufacturer's arcade sticks are in very short supply, and while we've been able to find a few for the PS3, Xbox ones are basically not available at any price. Boo, hiss.

Figure of the Day has updated once again! The daily feature on figures you might have but might not-- either way, here's what you've been missing! Spanning from the original Power of the Force series of 1995 to the latest of The Legacy Collection, it's almost like a history lesson!

We uploaded 978 photos from the various booths we hit in New York City last week, and you can see them all here. There's a lot of toys here, and we're going to go through our favorites and insist you go look at them.

There are going to be 5 figures in the Botcon boxed set this year, including the first-ever new Kup in years. The good news is that he has an original head sculpt. The bad news? It's on Cybertron Red Alert's body. Other figures in the set include Landshark, Flak, Thunderclash, and Scourge.

The sequel for the nifty (if poor selling, at least on the PSP) Exit is now available for about US $10. Exit 2 has over 240 levels and, we're sure, lots of annoying screaming which you're sure to love.

Wii Ware this week has Onslaught. It's a $10 first-person-shooter, which means it's a lot like other games you can get at Toys "R" Us which offer more and cost about the same. Reviews are mixed.

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