Here’sa a trio of official packshots for Hasbro’s Transformers Generations Fall of Cybertron line, with Optimus Prime, Shockwave, and Jazz sporting the sexy Cybertronian forms they’ll be wearing in Activision’s next big bot game.
Toy giant Hasbro, for reasons known only to Hasbro, do not like the fact that Australian Martyn Yang runs a blog about Nerf Guns. What they’re doing about it will make you wonder what’s come of this world.
I’ve been waiting for years to put a link at the bottom of a Kotaku story to the fabulous What Would Tyler Durden Do. Today, I get that chance.
Just as the money for World of Warcraft Monopoly replaces those boring old numbers with the faces of Azeroth’s most influential, the Chance and Community Chest cards replace the stale old man in a top hat with the freshest seafood Azeroth has to offer.
Last year it was announced that Hasbro was going to sue Asus over the branding of the Transformer Prime; apparently, people all over the planet were confusing a tablet with shape-shifting robots. Now the case has been settled — Hasbro lost — but the court ruling is quite hilarious.
Monopoly gets a World of Warcraft makeover this spring, and when the biggest name in board games meets the biggest name in massively multiplayer PC games, no simple reskinning will suffice. Blizzard has worked closely with Hasbro’s USAopoly artists to create a true Azerothian real estate adventure, and it shows in the colourful numbered pieces of paper players will be hoarding in May.
Battleship was once a strategic board game in which players had to guess where their opponents had placed their war ships. This summer, it will be an action-packed movie in which ships blow each other up. And this May, publisher Activision said today, it will be a video game in which you shoot people.
Scrabble fans might want to sit down before reading this news. During EA’s live summer preview event, EA Mobile demonstrated a live round of Scrabble played across four different platforms: iPad, iPhone, Android and Facebook. You’re probably floored right now. Catch your breath and read on.