Wrecked Magazine have reported a new sponsorship deal between the Hasbro and Paramount and Otto Graven's “Ultimate 86” Formula D team which will see Hasbro become co-title sponsors. The original casting call for Transformers 4 announced that the studio were looking for a "male who will play her (the lead female character) on screen boyfriend who is a Texas race car driver in his early 20s". This character has been confirmed as being played by Jack Reynor with Mark Wahlberg playing the father of the female.  Therefore, it can be deduced that he is likely to be driving for the "Ultimate 86" Formula D team.

"In a huge deal, Otto Graven has announced a co-title sponsorship of his “Ultimate 86” as being split between longtime Scion partner Rogue Status and Hasbro’s “Transformers” brand. This is a great new brand coming to Formula D, one that I’m sure many fans have grown up admiring. Rogue Status is upping their sponsorship from a partner level to a co-title sponsorship as well. For a driver who wasn’t in the series last season, this is a HUGE announcement coming through in a season where many drivers are struggling to find sponsorship dollars. Will this help Otto earn his first FD Podium in 2013?"

Reel Chicago have officially confirmed that Chicago has been choosen as another location for the fourth live-action Transformers movie. Transformers 4 will be the third of three sci-fi movies filming within the city this year, with the other two being Divergent and Jupiter Ascending. It has also been reported that actor Mark Wahlberg is currently looking to rent a property within the area for a four month period over the summer.

Credit to Seibertron.com for the news

IDW have sent out their solicitations for June which you can read below.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise #18
John Barber (w) • Atilio Rojo (a) • Rojo, Casey Coller (c)
SURVIVOR'S GUILT! After the shattering events of the past two issues, we can't tell you who's alive and who's dead. But we will hint that one CYBERTRONIAN has to reconsider her worldview—while she comes face-to-face with some old enemies. We won't mention any names, but she's in for the fight of her life!
*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

• Expected in-store date: 6/5/13
• Variant Covers: Phil Jimenez variant cover!
• T-Minus 4 months to the event that will rock the TRANSFORMERS to their core!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #18
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Milne, Sean Chen (c)
"DON'T LET THEM TAKE SKIDS!" The crew of the Lost Light left CYBERTRON before they could hear those words—part of a message from the future warning of terror and catastrophe and a threat to the entire Cybertronian race. Can the AUTOBOTS do anything to stop the beginning of the end?
*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

• Expected in-store date: 6/26/13
• Variant Covers: Nick Roche variant cover!
• This is the big one—everything since MTMTE #1 has been leading to this story!
  Heroes will fall—and revelations will change your perceptions of everything, ever!

Transformers: Monstrosity #1 (of 4)
Chris Metzen & Flint Dille (w) • Livio Ramondelli (a) • Ramondelli x 3 (c)
MEGATRON'S DESCENT! In the early days of the war on CYBERTRON, OPTIMUS PRIME puts everything on the line to unify the planet—but not everyone agrees that this new Prime should be in charge! Meanwhile, the fallen DECEPTION leader, MEGATRON, begins a journey that will change everything. Plus—what is the terrible secret of the DINOBOTS?
*3 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

• Expected in-store date: 6/5/13
• Exploding from the screen to your comic shop!
• The sequel to the amazing AUTOCRACY!
• Written by Chris Metzen (one of the main creative minds behind Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® universes) and Flint Dille (writer on the original TRANSFORMERS cartoon)!

Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters #2
Mairghread Scott & Mike Johnson (w) • Agustin Padilla (a) • Ken Christiansen (c)
THE WORLD BELOW! Deep beneath the surface of CYBERTRON, the last vestiges of life struggles to survive. Their only protectors: GRIMLOCK and his loyal DINOBOTS—who find themselves at the center of a dark mystery!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

• Expected in-store date: 6/19/13
• Variant Covers: Animation art variant cover!
• Ties in to the smash hit TRANSFORMERS PRIME: BEAST HUNTERS television show as seen on the HUB!
• The creative team from the critically-acclaimed TRANSFORMERS PRIME: RAGE OF THE DINOBOTS is back!

Transformers Regeneration One #92
Simon Furman (w) • Andrew Wildman (a) • Wildman, Guido Guidi (c)
CRISIS ON CYBERTRON! A whole society, wounded and reeling after SCORPONOK's genetic manipulations, teeters on the edge of anarchy and uprising, a situation SOUNDWAVE is only too happy to exploit! When the newly recovered BLASTER uncovers the truth, he finds himself on the endangered species list—courtesy of the all-new, all-deadly MAYHEM ATTACK SQUAD.
*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

• Expected in-store date: 6/19/13
• Variant Covers: Geoff Senior variant cover!
• CYBERTRON: The last line of defense!
  Continuing the story of the original 1980s TRANSFORMERS comic book series!
• Non-stop action in the Furman/Wildman manner!

Transformers: Movie Collection, Vol. 1
Simon Furman, Chris Ryall, Kris Oprisko, & Chris Mowry (w) • Don Figueroa & Alex Milne (a) • John Nizzi (c)
From CYBERTRON, to Earth, and back again… the quest for the Allspark begins here! Volume 1 contains the TRANSFORMERS Movie Prequel, the TRANSFORMERS Movie Adaptation, and the comic sequel TRANSFORMERS: Reign of Starscream.
TPB • FC • $29.99 • 324 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-692-6

• Expected in-store date: 6/5/13
• Now available in paperback!

Transformers 30th Anniversary Collection
Jim Sorenson, Bob Budiansky, Simon Furman, Mike Costa, James Roberts & More (w) • Andrew Wildman, Geoff Senior, Pat Lee, Don Figueroa, EJ Su, Alex Milne, Nick Roche, & More (a) • Alex Milne (c)
It's a celebration 30 years in the making! Relive the landmark comics that helped define the legacy of TRANSFORMERS and read along with the creators that made these great comics as Jim Sorenson provides insight from a range of writers and artists that breathed life into the denizens of CYBERTRON. From Marvel to Dreamwave to IDW and other iterations in-between, this book is a must have for TF collectors!
HC • FC • $49.99 • 320 pages • 7" x 11" • ISBN 978-1-61377-662-9

• Expected in-store date: 6/19/13
• Celebrating 30 Years of TRANSFORMERS comics!

TransformersAsia have announced a special promotional item that will accompany the upcoming Transformers Encore #23 Fortress Maximus if you purchase the item from certain Asian retailers.  The item is a cover for your tablet which comes with a diecast head of Fortress maximus that can plug into the earphone jack to transform the device into a bust of the Autobot Headmaster.  You can view an image below

Now that the first three episode's of Transformers Prime have aired in Singapore as a back-to-back 1 hour special, videos are already popping up on YouTube of the entire broadcast, one such video can be viewed below.

Zap2it have updated their Transformers Prime Beast Hunters episode guide with the title and description for the fourth episode 4 within the series.  The episode, titled "Rebellion", is due to air within the US on the 12th April 2013 and has the brief synopsis of "Team Prime wages war against the Decepticon citadel."

To help promote the UK DVD only release of Transformers Prime: Dangerous Ground within the UK, Hasbro UK have launched as new Transformers themed website www.transformersprimesoundboard.co.uk which contains free downloadable audio snippets from the show

Hasbro have launched a free TF: Prime soundboard with downloadable clips to coincide with the home-release of Transformers Prime: Dangerous Ground in the UK

A new preview silhouette image of TFC Ares' combiner figure has been posted, which can be viewed below.  The image shows the outline of all five figures.  The figures still remain somewhat of a mystery especially as two of the figures look very similar from their outilnes,

Some major news is on the horizon for Europe's largest Transformers convention Auto Assembly and to tease us all as to what the announcement will be the crew have posted the following message onto their Facebook page.

MAJOR Auto Assembly 2013 News coming very soon... details of our first ever Exclusive Toy plus full reveal of the 2013 Kitbash Workshop Toy Add-On Kit. If you haven't already booked for the convention, hurry so you don't miss your chance of getting this!

Limited supplies of both will be available for Non-Attendees as well when packs go on sale! Book NOW at www.autoassembly.org.uk

Fun Publications have now announced that registration for this years Botcon is now available.  To register for this event simply visit http://www.botcon.com/BotCon2013/registernow.cfm.

Hasbro have released some new official stock images of the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters figures for both Optimus Prime and Predaking. You can view the new images along with the previous ones after the jump.

Aaron Archer has annouced his new role of VP Toy And Brand design IP creation  at Hasbro.  We'd like to pass on our congratulations to Aaron in his new role.

Thanks to a Singaporean website, more details on the Transformers Go! figures have been released.

G04 Gaidora is revealed to be a use of the Beast Hunters Deluxe Lazerback mould. Additionally, G01 Kenzan Samurai is stated to be larger than his Samurai brethren and features lights and sounds.

Some nice detailed images of the Transformers Alternity GTR Megarton toy have been posted, so we thought we'd share them with you.

More images of Transformers Masterpiece Prowl and Streak (Bluestreak) have appeared showing the size of the toys next to MP10 Convoy and Sideswipe