{"id":9245,"date":"2011-01-05T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"thq-grabs-he-man-masters-of-the-universe-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9245-thq-grabs-he-man-masters-of-the-universe-license","title":{"rendered":"THQ grabs He-Man, Masters of the Universe license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THQ has just grabbed a bunch of Mattel licences &ndash; it&rsquo;s mostly rubbish like Barbie, Hot Wheels, and Fisher-Price stuff, and for the moment at least, it seems the company is only committing to these.<\/p>\n<p>However, the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe license is included in the deal, which obviously means the most awesome game in the history of forever could actually happen &#8211; because anything with Skeletor in it would automatically be the most awesome game in the history of forever, of course.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People of Eternia! I stand before the Great Eye of the galaxy,&rdquo; Skeletor announced at a hypothetical press conference earlier this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Chosen by destiny and by the powers of Grayskull! This inevitable moment will transpire before your eyes, even as He-Man himself bears witness to it. Now. I, Skeletor, am Master of the Universe! YES! Yes&#8230; I feel it, the power&#8230; fills me. Yes, I feel the universe within me! I am&#8230; I am a part of the cosmos! The power flows&#8230; Flows through me! Of what consequence are you now? This planet, these people. They are NOTHING to me! The universe is power! Real, unstoppable POWER! And I am that force! I am that power! KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER! Fool! you are no longer my EQUAL! I am more than man! MORE THAN LIFE! I&#8230; am&#8230; a&#8230; GOD! Now. You&#8230; will&#8230; KNEEEEEL! KNEEEEL!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, a sort of third person action adventure type game would suit the brand rather well, although James and I argued about the presentation. I contend (correctly) that the game should be as campy and ridiculous as the original cartoon series, while James reckons (blasphemously) that the entire license should be rebooted in a gritty, contemporary style. We both agree, however, that furry hotpants are totally butch.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the freakin&#8217; awesome He-Man opening theme video below and discuss the potential for a <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10327-Could-a-He-Man-and-the-Masters-of-the-Universe-game-become-reality\" target=\"_self\" title=\"He-Man and the Masters of the Universe game\">He-Man and the Masters of the Universe game<\/a> on the MyGaming forums.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7yeA7a0uS3A&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7yeA7a0uS3A&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IIIIIIIIIIIIII HAAAAAAAVE THE POOOOOOOOOOOOWER!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}