Artist Alex Milne has posted his alternate cover for the upcoming IDW Transformers Spotlight: Blaster, now with full colors by Josh Perez! The cover depicts Blaster and his cassette minions (including those infamous Japanese-exclusive dinosaur combiners) doing what they do best: rocking out, and rocking out hard. The comic is due in January 2008.

Visit Alex Milne's DeviantArt page for the full image. Thanks to TFW2005 for the news. 

Want a video game that pits Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Bumblebee against G1 Megatron? How about G1 Prime against Masterpiece Starscream? Now you can! Hasbro will be making a Transformers game for its Net Jet series of games, which lets you select characters from different Transformers universes and have them fight. A poster over at Transformers.net has received a 30 minute demo of the game and has shared some screen captures of game-play!

Click here to check them out! 

**UPDATE** TFW2005 poster Gryph reports the game may have already hit Target stores.  

The one-week sales numbers are in for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on DVD and HD-DVD, and let's just say they're good. Okay, really good. Okay, record-settingly massively colossally awesome. Dreamworks and Paramount issued a press release claiming the 2007 top week one and day one DVD sales (8.3 million and 4.5 million, respectively) and top week one and day one HD-DVD sales (190,000 and 100,000, respectively). That also already makes it the top-selling HD-DVD ever. Check out the press release, or subsequent articles in the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and High-Def Digest.

...And all that for a DVD that Michael Bay told USA Today was "not as good as it could've been."  

A five-page preview from the second installment of IDW's Transformers: Devastation comic has been posted in the IDW Forums. Also included are images of both covers for the issue, which should be out in stores this Wednesday!

You can see the preview here. 

Does your BotCon Bug Bite look lonely on the shelf? Well, now you can give him a little company! A tutorial for changing your spare Classics Mirage into the renegade femme fatale, Crasher, is now online!

You can read the tutorial here. 

Or you can see images of the final custom here. 

According to Hasbro, it has seen an 18% increase in third quarter net sales compared to a year ago--the North American net sales rose by 10%, while the foreign sales grew by 33%. This increase in sales is being attributed to Transformers and Marvel products related to major motion pictures, as well as growth is several other areas!

You can see the press release here. 

They don't air until Tuesday night, but CNN ruined the surprise, so we may as well too. SpikeTV has announced the winners of their annual Scream Awards, which honor the sci-fi, horror, fantasy and comic-book movie genres. On Tuesday, October 23rd, you can tune in to SpikeTV to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen pick up the following honors:

• Best Science Fiction Movie
• Sci-Fi Siren: Megan Fox
• Sci-Fi Star: Shia LaBeouf
• "Jump From Your Seat" Scene Of The Year: Optimus Prime Vs. Megatron
• Best F/X

CNN Money has the full story. The awards air Tuesday, October 23, at 10PM ET/PT on SpikeTV.

More fuel for the Takara vs. Hasbro debate?

TFW2005 is reporting that they have received word from Ages Three and Up on a Takara release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ultimate Bumblebee that will use die-cast and "higher quality" plastic than the Hasbro version. This change is intended to make the figure fit in better with the Masterpiece series of figures that Takara produces.

You can see the original post here. 

On Simon Furman's blog it's been revealed who we can expect in an upcoming Transformers Spotlight issue - Arcee!  Everyone's favorite fem-bot will be making her IDW debut with her own Transformers Spotlight issue.  This is what Simon had to say.

"This is Arcee like you’ve never seen, um, ‘her’ before. Forget pink and fiesty, this Arcee is mad, bad and dangerous to know!"

You can view Simon's blog entry and discuss the news in lonegamer8's thread. 

A reminder for our friends in the UK, Masterforce begins tonight. Tune into Anime Central at 11:30 to watch your favorite Japanese Transformers battle it out! For those that are familiar with the various Transformers dubs, it is said that this will be the StarTV dub of the show. So, those of you in the UK that don't have the DVD, this would be a great way to sample Masterforce series.

You can see Anime Central's comments here, and discuss this news here in BassX10's thread on the Allspark.