• When your girlfriend leads you to drink, grab your Johnson and ride it home. That's what this new Shadows of the Damned trailer is telling me.

• Transformers: War for Cybertron will have a x5 multiplayer bonus starting Monday 6/27 and lasting forever. Hmm, maybe I'll get to leveling the rest of my characters.

• A Super Mario Bros. 3 beta video featuring early levels and designs was unearthed on the internet.

• The new Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon trailer focuses on the mech you can pilot. Cool, but I just hope the controls are better for the vehicles this time around.

• Tim Drake as Robin will be a pre-order bonus at Best Buy for Batman: Arkham City. You'll be able to use him only in the challenge maps, but some people are hoping he'll be playable somewhere in the campaign. Some people are also outraged by his buzz cut. It's Robin so I don't really care.

• Skyrim pre-orders get a free real "premium quality" world map. Neat.

• It's a Catherine Vs. Katherine trailer for Catherine.

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled will no longer be available on the US PSN or Xbox Live after June 30th. Well, good. That remake was terrible.

• Halo Anniversary will have Kinect support for absolutely no good reason.

• Hot Toys are making figures of Saeko Nogami and Ryo Saeba from the classic 80s anime City Hunter.  As per usual Hot Toys regulations, the 1/6 scale figures will have a ton of accessories, are amazingly detailed, and be super expensive.

• Mattel will have an SDCC pre-sale on 7/11. Those lucky enough to get an order in won't have to stand in the ridiculously long line at SDCC or get trampled when attempting to get a line ticket. The post-SDCC sale will be on 8/1.

• Mystique is next up in Kotobukiya's Bishoujo line.

• I forgot that the Pursuit of Cobra chase Cobra Commander was supposed to be a mail-away and include a mini HISS tank drone. Hasbro scrapped the idea, but has made a limited number for the G.I. Joe Collector's Club. It's just the shiny version of crappy movie Cobra Commander with a mini HISS tank, though, which is so not worth the $60 non-member price or even the $18 member price.

Movies / TV

• Everyone is getting in a tizzy over the first three official Hobbit photos.

• The new Captain America trailer is pretty awesome.

Merch

The Sky-Hook could be a valuable tool in any apocalyptic situation.

• NECA made a BioShock Infinite Sky-Hook prototype that somebody won in a contest. How did I miss this? Man, I hope NECA mass produces these things; they could be valuable during a zombie breakout or some other apocalyptic situation.

• Sega is making some cool Sonic the Hedgehog 20th anniversary figurines. It has a figurine of modern Sonic standing next to a monitor with classic Sonic on the screen. There are only 1,000 being made with two different version: one from the U.S. box art and the other from the box art the rest of the world got. You won't be able to buy them, though, and Sega is keeping silent on just how to get one for now.

• More photos of the Super Mario Bros. Converse have emerged from the pipe. Those Bowser's Castle shoes are great.

• MattyCollector has announced a new Voltron club called Club Lion Force. It will work the same way as their club Eternia and Club Ecto-1 subscription services where you pay for a year's worth of figures. Club Lion Force will focus on figures from the 80's Voltron, which is good, because the new Voltron cartoon looks absolutely terrible. Details of the club will be announced at SDCC 2011.

• Female Shepard will be on the back of the Steelbook case of the Mass Effect 3 Collector's Edition and will even get her own trailer. I'm curious to see what BioWare's official FemShep is going to look like. Speaking of ME3, the game might feature a horde style co-op mode. That'd be cool.

• Why isn't Metal Gear Solid on the upcoming HD collection? It's considered very dated and has a low polygon count. So what? It's still Metal Gear and people will still love it. If they would re-do the game, they would want to make it brand new and tweak the gameplay and story.

• I don't like the new art style in Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax. At least the original and awesome 8-bit style is still in the game.

• Unfortunately, or fortunately if you wanted to buy the games again, there will not be a Legend of Zelda anniversary collection for the series' 25th anniversary.

• There will be a Mortal Kombat season pass for the Xbox 360 that will automatically download all four planned DLC characters when they become available. Basically you pay $15 for $20 of characters. For some reason this isn't currently planned for the PS3 version.

• These are the winners of Insomniac's Ratchet & Clank skin design contest. That skeleton Ratchet is fantastic. So is the Resistance Clank.

• Here's a ton of things and characters that were cut from Super Meat Boy.

• Gears of War 3 apparently has 90 minutes of cut-scenes. Good for them. I thoroughly enjoy the single-player campaign of Gears, so the more the better.

• Lance Henriksen will be voicing Rook, a synthetic, in Aliens: Colonial Marines.

• Some crazy rumor says that TimeSplitters 4 is in development for the next Xbox and PlayStation. So TimeSplitters is just going to skip this generation completely? That sucks.

• There's lots of Portal 2 DLC for the PC, but you can only play it if you buy a $140 controller specifically for it. Lame.

• How about some more E3 trailers: Dragon's Crown, Mass Effect 3, Halo 4, Catherine, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, Armored Core V, Ninja Gaiden III, Resistance 3, OverStrike, Final Fantasy XIII-2, DMC, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Blades of Time, Silent Hill: Downpour, Asura's Wrath, and Tekken: Blood Vengeance.

• The third PixelJunk Shooter game is PixelJunk SideScroller. It looks like it'll continue off from part 2.

• Half of Soul Calibur V's fighters will be new. Well, that's good and it makes sense given the 17-year time span.

• Even though it came out in North America and Europe, Motorstorm: Apocalypse has been completely totally cancelled in Japan.

• Halo Anniversary will have connections to Halo 4 for some reason.

• The Silent Hill HD collection will have new voice actors. What the hell?

Movies

• The Rock might be playing Roadblock in G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes. It will only be acceptable if he rhymes everything.

• The Alamo theater in Texas kicked out a girl for texting during the movie. She left them a nasty voicemail. Now the Alamo is using her voicemail as an ad. Awesome.

• E3 is nearly upon us, so let the downpour of new trailers begin with Batman: Arkham City, Soul Calibur V, Tomb Raider, Darksiders II, Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, The Darkness II, Duke Nukem Forever, Devil's Third, Alice: Madness Returns, and Prey 2.

• There are a bunch of HD collections coming out now: Ico & Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid Collection, Zone of the Enders Collection, Silent Hill Collection, and maybe a Devil May Cry Collection. Man, not only do I have a ton of new games to play, but lots of old ones again.

• The E3 badge holders feature Catherine. Damn, now I really wish I was going to E3 this year.

• Former glitch character Skarlet will be joining Mortal Kombat as DLC. She's very bloody.

• There will be a new Contra.

• Hideo Kojima has revealed the new Fox Engine that will power some unknown game.

• The Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Resurrection DLC will be out on June 7th for Xbox 360 and June 14th for PS3.

• Top Cow's comic Hunter Killer is getting a game on PSN and XBLA. Huh.

• If you're part of the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club, then you get the first DLC for free.

• Castlevania: Harmony of Despair will finally be hitting the PS3 at some point.

• Super Stardust HD is getting a sequel on the NGP or Vita or whatever it'll be called with Super Stardust Delta.

• The NGP's Wipeout 2048 features cross-play with the PS3's Wipeout HD. That's pretty cool.

Movies

• There's a lot of monkey business in the second Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer.

• The first trailer for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake is up and has an awesome cover of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song by Trent Reznor and Karen O.

Cosplay

• You love cosplay, right? Of course you do! You should order the Cosplay for a Cause 2012 Calendar featuring some famous cosplayers. 100% of the proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross.

- Shawn - 6/5/11