Voltron: Defender of the Universe Message Board

Jeff, form feet and legs! Brad, form arms and body! And I'll form the head!

You've got to feel bad for Voltron fans. There's been no shortage of Transformers games released on a semi-regular basis over the past couple of decades on almost every console known to man, yet Voltron has been adapted into precisely one videogame thus far: a 2010 iPhone game which has subsequently been removed from the Appstore. Ouch...

All right, so publisher THQ might have been lion about the October release date for the new Voltron XBLA/PSN game, but the wait is almost over for the latest exercise in robo-combinatorics.

The downloadable game based on the beloved cartoon (and more beloved die-cast toy) will be released today on PSN, and tomorrow on XBLA. In Voltron: Defender of the Universe, players each control one robot lion, choosing their preferred vehicle based on speed, range, and other unique stats. They then use their color-coded robocat to battle Robeasts in an isometric view.

Then, when it's time to combine, players each control their own lion as a component of Voltron. We're looking forward to finding out if we have the skill to do anything but fall over.

Now that New York Comic-Con has faded into the nerdy recesses of our collective memory, we have more time to take in some of the content that arrived during the show. Some of that content includes brand new videos for Voltron: Defender of the Universe, a PSN and XBLA downloadable due to launch this November...

From days of long ago comes a legend: the legend of Voltron!