Jagex Games Studio, one of the largest independent games developers and publishers in the world, today announced the much anticipated name; TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE for the upcoming MMO based on the iconic TRANSFORMERS brand from Hasbro, Inc. as well as plans to attend TRANSFORMERS BotCon 2011, the official TRANSFORMERS fan convention, to unveil their vision for the browser based MMO for the Western World markets. (…more)

Toycollectors.com.au revealed today Hasbro’s version of Masterpiece Rodimus Prime in it’s box. The image confirms Rodimus will come with a Targetmaster partner: Offshoot, rather than having a trailer as the Japanese counterpart did. The image also shows MP Rodimus will be a Toys R Us exclusive release.

TRANSFORMERS Fans From Around the World to Experience “MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE” Brand Exhibition Of The Epic Global Entertainment Franchise

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (May 31, 2011) – Thousands of fans from around the world will celebrate the enduring popularity of the iconic TRANSFORMERS brand from Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), as the 2011 TRANSFORMERS fan convention known as “BOTCON” returns to Pasadena on June 4-5.  Less than a month before the highly anticipated debut of the new Paramount Pictures film TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, Hasbro, in partnership with The TRANSFORMERS Collectors’ Club, will be offering opportunities to engage in and learn about the TRANSFORMERS brand that can only be experienced at BOTCON. (…more)

Hasbro has teamed up with Nickelodeon to bring you TransformersCyberSweeps.com, 16 weeks of online giveaways leading up to the new movie’s release in July. The site incorporates the chroma-shifted 3D from the DOTM Optimus Prime preview figure (there’s an off/on button for the effect, for those who don’t like donning red/blue glasses), and this week’s giveaway is a $200 HasbroToyShop gift card to 5 lucky winners. (…more)

As you probably might have noticed yesterday, TFV’ s domain was down for the first part of the day, and it took a while longer for the proper domain name to propagate to ISPs’ nameservers. This was a one-time issue that has been corrected and steps have been taken to ensure this won’t happen again. So, sorry about that downtime, and thanks for sticking with us.

Now that the fan sites’ votes have been tallied, the final round of voting goes to Transformers fans everywhere to decide which of the 5 top choices will go on to become a Transformers Hall of Fame inductee for 2011. Fans get to decide between Grimlock, Shockwave, Waspinator, Jazz, and Erector, by voting on Transformers.com, one vote per day, until April 22nd.  The winning robot will be revealed at the Transformers Hall of Fame induction ceremony at BotCon in Pasadena, CA, on Saturday, June 4. You can vote by visiting Hasbro’s official voting page.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the legendary Star Trek actor, Leonard Nimoy, will be voicing Sentinel Prime in the upcoming “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” movie. This isn’t the first time Nimoy has lent his voice to the Transformers, as he previously voiced Galvatron in the 1986 animated movie.

TFV has again been invited by Hasbro to participate in this year’s Transformers Hall of Fame. We’re polling our readers to find out which Transformers character should be included in the second TF Hall of Fame alongside Hasbro’s choices of Ironhide, Ratchet, and Soundwave, who will join the 2010 winners of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, and Beast Wars’ Dinobot. Click here to cast your vote!

Directly from IDW editor Andy Schmidt, courtesy of the IDW message boards:

The series does lead into CHAOS, and so do James Robert’s two issues of the ongoing series coming up (did I just say that? WHAT?).

James IS writing TRANSFORMERS #s 22 and 23.

For those who don’t know, James Roberts is half of the writing team (with Nick Roche) of the popular “Last Stand of the Wreckers” mini-series.

The new trailer for Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon can be seen here.

And from the accompanying Yahoo article:

Before this spot aired, director Michael Bay had only released a short and mysterious teaser trailer from his third and reportedly final film in the “Transformers” franchise. The Super Bowl ad, however, dispensed with the subtlety and showed some real action. It shows (…more)