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Optimus? Is that you?

• Some concept art for Transformers: Dark of the Moon reveals a lot of crazy-ass ideas of what Optimus Prime's trailer would transform into. There's a flight suit, a Minigun with a spike gauntlet, two giant Covenant swords, double missile launchers, a weird shield and an awkward claw that's a big as Optimus, a battle mode that turns Optimus into a semi-tank, and a shoulder-mounted launcher with super chainsaw. Yes, a super chainsaw. If Optimus wasn't so blood thirsty in the movie already, the triple-bladed super chainsaw most certainly would have.

• A shaky cam version of The Dark Knight Rises trailer leaked online, but was swiftly taken away. That's okay, it was hard to understand what Gordon was saying anyways.

• Final Fantasy Versus XIII is very slowly making its way towards full development schedule. At this rate it'll be done in, oh, 5 years maybe? There are also new screenshots, but we won't be able to see them for a long time.

• This mini Space Invaders cabinet is amazing.

• The next game from Space Invaders Infinity Gene creator Reisuke Ishida is Groove Coaster. Is this a Space Invaders rhythm game?

• Saints Row: The Third's collector's edition includes a custom headset with a vocorder option, the soundtrack, and Professor Genki's Hyper Ordinary Pre-order pack. Prof. Genki looks too insanely awesome to not become DLC at some point.

• After gratuitously battling in space, Positech's next game is Gratuitous Tank Battles.

• Two Worlds II is getting a Velvet Game of the Year Edition in a velvet case. It looks nice, but who the hell voted Two Worlds II as game of the year?

• Conspiracies abound in this new trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

• There's a gameplay trailer for King of Fighters XIII. It looks good, but then so did KoFXII and that turned out kind of crappy.

• ModernWarfare3.com is all about how Battlefield 3 is better. That's some nice trollin' right there.

• The next Fallout: New Vegas DLC is Old World Blues. It looks corny, but in a good way.

• The Warner Bros. booth at SDCC will have a contest to win a replica Sword of Omens. There will also be foam Swords of Omens given away on Friday and Sunday. Looks like I have to get to the WB booth.

• BioShock Infinite's protagonist, Booker DeWitt, has been revealed on the cover of EGM[i] Issue 250.01. He's quite the dashing fellow, no wonder he has such a bountiful girlfriend. The cover is a an homage to Uncanny X-Men #141. Also, here's a video of the full 15-minute E3 demo if you want to watch everything before you play it yourself.

• There are two new trailers for the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection. One for Ico, the other for Shadow.

• The Lord of the Rings: War in the North will have a Collector's Edition featuring an artbook and a ranger quiver case. Can you actually put arrows in the case or is it just shaped like a quiver?

• Catherine will get an artbook called Catherine Visual & Scenario Collection ♀VENUS☆MODE♂. The artbook will be available in Japan August 10th.

• Halo Anniversary's score is being re-orchestrated by the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra. Not only are the visuals getting an upgrade, but the music too.

• Castlevania: Harmony of Despair will be on PSN sometime this Summer.

• Japan will be getting a huge Resident Evil 15th Anniversary box set that contains all the main RE games (but not 5), a spacer for your RE5 case, two soundtracks, pins, and stickers. I'm pretty sure North America will not be getting this.

• So this is what Burnout Crash is like. It's different than I, and probably a lot of people, expected.

• This Street Fighter X Tekken character teaser is not quite as easy to figure out as the previous ones. I'm saying Eddie Gordo.

• There's going to be a Final Fantasy rhythm game. So, there's that.

• The Japanese Shadow of the Colossus Guidebook has been around for years, so it's a little weird that we're just now seeing a mountain of scanned images from it. A ton of these scans have been translated at GlitterBerri and show us unused Colossi, concept art, and insight on possible alternate endings. Well, it's better that we see all this awesome late than never. There is some amazing stuff in those pages.

• CVG has an interview with BioWare's Casey Hudson about Mass Effect 3 where he says that them unmasking Tali is still up in the air. They might not do it because no matter what they decide what she looks like, a lot of people will be disappointed.

• Star Fox: Space Oddity is a Star Fox version of Bowie's "Space Oddity." Fantastic.

• Gearbox was going to make a Blade Runner game, but it would have cost way too much money, which would have destroyed Gearbox.

• This Garrus cosplay is impressive. I wonder if he'll be at SDCC this year.

• It looks like Limbo is finally heading to the PS3.

• Kenshi is the next DLC kharacter koming to Mortal Kombat July 5th.

• Here's a brief look at the past, present, and future of Naughty Dog.

• Metal Gear Office is mildly entertaining.

• Here's a look at Roll's re-design in Mega Man Legends 3. Hey, is this game green-lit yet?