Play.com, as they've made their Fall of Cybertron preorders live for both X-Box 360 and PS3. If you preorder from Play.com now, you will get an exclusive Dinobot unlock in the form of Swoop! No word just yet if the Dinobot will be available as a preorder bonus for a store such as Best Buy. Will the remaining Dinbots be revealed as playable characters?

Amazon.com has been updated with an art book to go along with High Moon Studios Transformers Fall of Cybertron game.

You can see the Amazon sale page here.

An update to the website has seen the unlocking of six character bios. Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Megatron, Shockwave, and Starscream get the treatment. Included are interactive models of their robot and alternate modes and brief descriptions and a mention of each one's special ability.

Head over to Transformers: Fall of Cybertron to check them out for yourself!

More video footage from E3 2012 has been posted on the video sharing website YouTube including new footage from the highly anticipated Transformers: Fall of Cybertron from High Moon Studios.  You can watch these new gamplay trailers using the plugins below.

Hasbro Inc have published some official stock images of this years SDCC exclusive figures, which you can view below. On a Transformers side the figures include the G.I.Joe - Transformers crossover H.I.S.S Tank Shockwave as well as the Fall of Cybertron Bruticus giftset.

Full Metal Hero user foxdie has scanned a magazine article showing off an image of Transformers Fall of Cybertron Metroplex

The official Transformers community page on Facebook posted a image of Insecticon Hardshell from the upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron video game last night.  The image has been mirrored below and you may well recognise him as Bombshell.

The promotion drive for High Moon Studios pcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron video game continues in the form of an interview their president, Peter Della Penna, and Marketing Manager, Greg Agiu, have held with TheAlistDaily.com in which they discuss Transformers both at a brand level as well as specifically regarding Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. Some of the highlights include how they obtained the license to make a Transformers game in the first place, how they were tapping up the veteran voice actors to wokr on the products and how they managed to get the Dinobots into the new game. Check it out by following the link within this story.

Hasbro have now published several official images of the toys for the upcoming video game Transformers Fall of Cybertron.  The toys are Fireflight, Kickback, Ultra Magnus, Sideswipe and Starscream and can be seen below.

The Autobots

The Deceptions

A massive article titled Transforming Grimlock: How High Moon saved the Dinobots has been posted by theverge.com's Russ Pitts. In this extensive article you get to hear from game director Matt Tieger what it takes to create Dinobot's in the current game story arc. There a lot of great new pictures of Grimlock Slag, Snarl and Swoop.

Also included in this article is the origins of the Dinobots in Fall of Cybertron.

Matt Tieger has decided that what he wants in his next game is a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex from outer space who fights with a sword and a shield and breaths fire. And is a robot.

What he wants, in other words, is Grimlock, the Dinobot. All that stands in his way is the company who owns the Transformers, Hasbro, and they've decided that Grimlock (and the rest of the Dinobots) are being retired.

According to Hasbro, the Dinobots will not be in any Transformers movies. They will not be in any Transformers games. They will not be in any Transformers anything. They are finished.

The people at Hasbro, in other words, tell Tieger that Grimlock will be done away with.

This is the story of how he tried to change their mind.

Matt Tieger wanted to be a paleontologist when he grew up. And a marine biologist. And an artist. But mainly: Paleontologist. He loved dinosaurs. Knew all of their names. He wanted to dig their bones out of the Earth and tell their stories.

By the time he went to college, he'd changed his mind. He wanted to be a marine biologist again. He studied marine biology. Then, just shy of a Ph.D from Rutgers, he changed his mind yet again and left to make videogames.

Now Tieger works as Game Director for High Moon Studios, the company behind 2010's Transformers: War for Cybertron. For Matt, it is the best job in the world. Particularly because he is now in charge.

His new game is the sequel to War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and what Tieger wants more than anything is to let players be the leader of the Dinobots.

"As a fan of Transformers," Tieger told Polygon, by phone. "Grimlock is, if not my favorite, in my top three favorite Transformers of all time.

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As Tieger explains it, it goes like this: "It's all about loyalty in the Decepticon.

"Megatron is obviously in charge of the Decepticons, [and has] three lieutenants: Shockwave, Soundwave and Starscream (which by the way is very confusing to people who are not big Transformers fans because they're all Ss), but it's all about loyalty.

"Soundwave is loyal to Megatron above all things.

"Starscream is loyal to Starscream above all things.

"Shockwave is loyal to Cybertron above all things.

"So Shockwave's plan is:

"'We're not going to leave Cybertron. I'm going to save it. I'm going to search the cosmos, find a world that is teeming with what I can covert into Energon (the Transformers energy source). And I'm going to suck that planet dry and ... use it to reboot my home.'"

The Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Facebook page has been updated with robot and dinosaur mode images of Transformers Fall of Cybertron Sludge

Gamespot has published the official trailer for Transformers Fall of Cybertron

Gamesradar has posted an article titled 15 things you need to know about Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. The 15 "need to know" points are listed below, but the article expands on each of them. Click here to read the article over on gamesradar. A couple of the more interesting points, Vortex can also transform into a jet and Gregg Berger will be voicing Grimlock!

1. The plot begins immediately after War for Cybertron
2. It has one campaign with different characters
3. At least one Transformer has more than two forms
4. Every Transformer has a unique ability
5. Like Jazz's a grappling hook...
6. Or Optimus Prime's control of the massive Metroplex...
7. Or the Combaticons' ability to turn into Bruticus...
8. Grimlock is in the game
9. ...and he can transform into a fire-breathing robotic T-Rex
10. You can buy and upgrade gear
11. Cybertron is no longer flat
12. Nolan North voices an archeologist
13. There's more ammo this time
14. There's no campaign co-op
15. Character creation is insane

The Allspark member Corgsopalposted news that the current issue of Game Informer magazine, issue 227, has pictures of the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Brawl, Swindle AND Bruticus!!!  According to Corgsopa, Bruticus is made up of all 5 members of the Combaticons who will be deluxe scale figures.  You can view the initial post along with the images on their forum here.  Expect more images of these toys, along with the other members, to come out after the US Toy Fair.

Spike.tv have updated their website with a brand new trailer of the upcoming High Moon Studios, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron video game. The game, which is a sequel to Transformers: War for Cybertron, including many characters from the previous game as well as new characters including Bruticus!. You can watch the trailer below, if your country is allowed.