Our intrepid toy hunting friends over atTomopopdug up this littleBayonettanumber from a posting on2chan. It’s sexy sauce. This garage kit (I say like I know what that means) is 1/6 scale and most likely being done by sculpture Jigoku no Inu fromCerberus Project. It should be showing up at this year’s Wonder Festival in Japan next week where I’m sure it will be oggled non-stop. I must say that this is my favoriteBayonettafigure that I’ve seen....

I was totally unaware that the BBC got owned in the face when it was revealed that a number of its phone-in competitions were fakes. That’s hilarious, especially as the good old British Broadcasting Corporation is a huge pile of rubbish that’s put out about two worthy shows in the past five years. Fresh off the heels of its thievery scandal, however, the BBC is due to attempt gaming of a different sort as itplans to make a large forayinto the realm of computer games....

In a chat withOfficial Nintendo Magazine, Arc System Works’ Toshimichi Mori made a jab at Capcom for mapping attacks inSuper Street Fighter IV 3Dto the touch screenfor easy access. “Super Street Fighter IV 3Dhas easy special move buttons. As hardcore fighting fans we don’t think that’s right, so we chose to display a list of combos [forBlazBlue: Continuum Shift II] instead of easy attack buttons.” Touch-screen attacks are a matter of accessibility, which is exactly whatBlazBlue‘s list of combos is about as well....

I don’t mean to be such a dick tonight, but what is up with these images of the upcomingBonk: Brink of Extinction? Now, I’ll grant you, these aren’t screenshots of the final product but it does not look good. I loveBonk. When I was a kid and the TurboGrafx-16 came out, it was the game I wanted for it so badly I could taste the on-bone meat power-up. For years, I pined for the game knowing that I would never have the console that it ran on (I still don’t, much to my chagrin) and was ecstatic when the games started coming out for the Wii’s Virtual Console service....

Holmesand I have had our peepers locked onto this Japanese 3DS game for a while, sucking up any and all info lactated from the teat of games JOURNALISM. In all honesty, I don’t know why Holmes is so interested. He doesn’t even like boobs! I’ve always pegged him as an ass man. What was I talking about? Oh yeah!Senran Kagurahas a new trailer, as you may clearly see. The first 37 seconds are such a chore — just scrolling moonspeak over environmental backgrounds....

Dr. Henry Jenkins of M.I.T is probably a very clever man and he has a great beard. I consider this enough of a qualification for me to take everything he says asgospel, andhis message on this dayis that piracy is an “equalizer” between consumers and videogame publishers. Jenkins… noted that piracy is a contentious issue but defends it as a necessity for consumers who have no access to many materials that would have been otherwise made available to them…...

July 7th isBungie Dayand just like years past, Bungie is giving away some free stuff! Starting next Monday, Cold Storage, the remake of theHalo 1map Chill Out, will be available for download for free. The ViDOC above shows some of the Bungie team exploring the new map and detail some of the tweaks they’ve made to the map. That’s not all! Bungie Day also brings with it seven new gamer pics and an Xbox 360 dashboard theme, all for free....

Good news, North America: for a change it looks highly likely that something very cool that came out in Japan will come our way too. Japanese Wii owners can downloadBubble Bobble Wiias of February 10th, which comes with the original maps plus 100 for arrange mode. You can also play with up to four people, which is not too shabby for the $10 you spend on the game. Tatio will also offer two expert map packs, each for $2, that include 50 stages and a boss to fight....

You can never quench the need for good racing car porn. While many “don’t get it,” the ones that do are always looking for a quick fix, andGran Turismo 5really delivered.Gran Turismo 5was worth the wait. It wassooonaughty. GT5‘s sales figures were already impressive right after launch this past December with over 5 million copies shipped, but some new totals prove that I’m right about the car porn thing. As of now, the PS3 racer has shipped 6....

Yeah, so, aFablegame is coming for Windows Phone 7 and it’s a golf game.Fable Coin Golf, as it’s called, will tie-in withFable IIIfor the Xbox 360 and the money you earn in the golf game will go to your character in the console version. There you go. AFablegolf game is coming for Windows Phone 7. Neato.

Sony’s Santa Monica studio isauctioning off a chancefor someone to become a videogame designer for the day. The winner of the auction will be able to bring along one guest and they will get a tour of the studio. The winners will also get a first hand look at the next game the Santa Monica studio is making for the PlayStation 3 (God of War III?!). All of the proceeds from the auction will be going toBig Brothers Big Sisters....

Konami has partnered with MLG to hold aMetal Gear Onlinetournament at this year’s Comic-Con. If that sounds like something you would like to be a part of, head on over to the Konami booth (#5213) in the exhibitors hall to register for the event. Whether you win some killer prizes (1st place:MGS4PS3 bundle, poster, $1000) or not, it’s okay. Hideo Kojima will be signing autographs in the tourny room until the competition starts up....

Namco Bandai delivered unto us video ofWe Cheer 2. Actually, they sent us three videos. They show the game’s multiplayer mode, Cheer-Off, which can be played with two to four players. Since there are three possible combinations of players there, they sent us three videos so that we could see the game in each configuration. Generous! I have really fond memories of seeingWe Cheer 2at E3. I stood and watched booth babes play it over and over again....