GUILLERMO DEL TORO (LEFT) AND PETER JACKSON (RIGHT) ANSWER FANS’ QUESTIONS. The live Internet chat “An Unexpected Party” between The Hobbit...
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Welcome to Geek in Review, a look back at the last seven days or so in the work of all things geeky. This week we had the release of the long-awaited fourth...
IMAGES COURTESY OF NINTENDO AND IGN The Wii Fit hit stores yesterday in Nintendo’s attempt to help us all lose some weight, get fit and have fun. After...
Windows XP holdouts were blinded by a ray of hope with the release of Service Pack 3, a major update consisting of existing patches with a few enhancements...
Grab your +2 holy avenger sword and dust off that old Crown Royal bag stuffed with your hidden polyhedral dice: The fourth edition of the Dungeons &...
Now, this one is a little tricky … To pwn: to wipe the floor with your opposition, usually in a multiplayer PC or next-gen console game. The legends...
IMAGE COURTESY OF WETA It’s called “An Unexpected Party” and we’re all invited. The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro and producer...
My teenage son came home from school yesterday with a lava lamp. Yes, a lava lamp. No, he wasn’t reeking of patchouli. He made it himself. His science...
The Associated Press is reporting that in Wales “A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a...
Last weekend USA Network cracked the whip in anticipation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by showing all three previous films. This...
IMAGES COURTESY OF MARVEL COMICS Marvel fans rejoice! There are more super-hero movies coming our way in the next few years, including Iron Man 2 and the long...
LOSTWINDS IMAGE COURTESY OF NINTENDO Nintendo has launched its new version of Wii Ware, turning the download station for Wii features into an online outlet for...
The trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe is now online: [kml_flashembed movie="" width="433" height="360" wmode="transparent" /] The movie, starring...
BIG DADDY FROM TAKE-TWO’S BIOSHOCK It’s official. Take-Two’s critically acclaimed video game BioShock is being adapted into a live-action...
Go to Toys “R” Us online now through May 17 and you can help choose the Star Wars scene that will be turned into a Toys “R” Us...
The Clone Wars. It’s almost upon us (Aug. 15). And I find myself not really caring anymore. The poster is cool, right? And a new trailer debuted this...
Monday (May 12) you can catch the trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe online. The movie, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as former FBI...
NBC UNIVERSAL PHOTOS Here’s a roundup of the sci-fi offerings on TV Friday (5/9): Doctor Who The Doctor (David Tennant) takes Donna (comedian Catherine...
LUCASFILM It’s an Indy film festival! Indiana Jones, that is. See Indy run. See Indy jump. See Indy find the Ark of the Covenant and Holy Grail and kick Nazi...
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SCOTT KIRCHHOFER/TRIBUNE After tapping comic books for creative ideas with box office success, Hollywood has turned its attention to...
If your Wii was flashing blue yesterday, as mine was, then you should know it’s not your friends leaving you a message or sending you their Mii avatar...
Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro that rules the Dungeons & Dragons universe, is sponsoring a Photoshop contest seeking promotional art by fans...
Fans of science fiction and fantasy will gather this weekend in Casa Grande for three days of panels, art shows, dancing, stargazing and more.
Is this the work of Batman or The Joker or some new threat we haven’t heard of yet? Whatever it is, it’s hitting close to home – literally.
IMAGES COURTESY OF MARVEL STUDIOS I saw Iron Man this morning and it was amazing! After drooling for months over the images and trailers and overall hype...
Want to get in on the ground floor of what may be the next great MMORPG? Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, which is based in Mesa, is currently taking...
For those of us without BBC America, the raucous Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood is now available on the iTunes Store. Excuse me while I hunt down those gift...
If you’re one of the millions of people who bought Grand Theft Auto IV yesterday you already know the truth: The game rocks! The open world of Liberty...
Feel the Force. Feel the burn.
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If you've never had the chance to sample the Star Wars EU, or if you've simply lapsed a bit, the gods of tie-in fiction have granted you a reprieve: Now...
If you weren’t one of the lucky individuals able to participate in the Joker’s latest scavenger hunt (and since there was no love for the Phoenix...
What happens if you take Star Wars and re-imagine it in a Victorian world of steam engines, rivets and corsets?
Time was you had to be a scholar and visit Cambridge University to study Charles Darwin’s manuscripts. Now you can just click your way to them, for free:...
Okay, this is one of those internet rumors that’s been kicking around forever, but it appears like it’s finally coming true: Mortal Kombat vs. DC...
IMAGE COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES Besides starting a new viral campaign on www.whysoserious.com and showing off a new trailer at the New York Comic Con...
As has long been rumored, Hellboy II: The Golden Army director Guillermo del Toro has signed on to direct Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh’s two-part...
“Does this pic make my head look big?” StarWars.com is at it again with its feature of all things Japanese and Star Wars, in advance of the Star...
Sitting in my inbox this morning was the latest edition of the StarWars.com newsletter, Homing Beacon. It’s a roundup of articles from the official Web...
IMAGES COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS While all the hype for quality summer comic book movies is focused on Iron Man and The Dark Knight, Guillermo del...
Comic books began as a way for publishers to make money from idle printing presses by reprinting newspaper comic strips, but they have clearly taken on a life...
Every April 22 is Earth Day, a global observance of our terrestrial home. And at such a time, let us not wonder why so many forces across the galaxy have...
Orson Scott Card’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel Ender’s Game and its follow-up Ender’s Shadow will be visualized in another medium for...
Looking forward to the July 25 theatrical release of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, but still craving an episodic dose of Mulder and Scully? You’re in...
Summer Glau is the friendly robot Cameron in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (FOX IMAGE) TV Guide’s Ausiello reports that Terminator: The Sarah...
This is the second in a new series of irregular entries defining words from geek culture. If you have suggestions or requests, shoot me an e-mail or leave a...
David Tennant and Kylie Minogue in Doctor Who (SCI FI CHANNEL PHOTO) British sci-fi sensation Doctor Who returns to our shores tonight, and for the season...
IMAGE COURTESY OF MARVEL COMICS The first movie poster for The Incredible Hulk not only gives us a juicy visual but also reflects how the movie is being...
According to his blog WWdN, former Star Trek: The Next Generation wunderkind Wil Wheaton is one of the voices behind Cartoon Network’s upcoming series...
The second X-Files movie finally has a title: The X-Files: I Want to Believe. (via The Associated Press) The name comes from a poster (pictured above) that...
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The Wii Balance Board, the next peripheral for the Wii, will hit stores May 21 when Wii Fit debuts with a retail price of $89.99.
In my never ending quest to find cool ways to waste time on the internet, I came across Crayon Physics. Like all of the best games, the object is simple: move...
Today a new feature debuts: the NerdWord. On a semi-regular basis you’ll see words from geek culture defined, explained and sometimes even illustrated...
SCI FI PHOTOS Journalist. Investigator. Adventurer. Feminist. And so much more. Sarah Jane Smith is a character Elizabeth Sladen has played since 1973, when...
(Don’t) Click through if you (don’t) want to know possible spoilers about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull from the track list on...
What do gamers have to look forward to after Tax Day? April 27 is the release date for Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii. This latest installment in the popular...
The Wii is getting a lot of use around my house, and never more since we discovered Link’s Crossbow Training. The game, which comes bundled with the Wii...
All you need to be the envy of your cubiclemates is a printer, a sheet of letter-size paper and this URL: . You can print out Cubeecraft paper toy versions of...
I won’t go into much detail about the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica — my colleague Albert Ching has already done that over at Channel...
George Lucas is trying to downplay the chances of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ever living up to the inevitable hype. He probably...
Clear your schedules: George Lucas’ CGI Star Wars epic The Clone Wars will air on Friday nights along with Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which will...
Many gamers got excited about three days ago when gaming supersite IGN debuted a trailer for a movie based on Nintendo’s classic adventure RPG franchise...
IMAGE COURTESY OF MARVEL COMICS Hot off the press, Marvel launched its summer blockbuster Secret Invasion yesterday with an epic, jaw-dropping first issue. The...
The Peacock network this week unveiled its new fall lineup for the 2008-09 television season, the earliest its ever done so. Does the early bird get the worm...
What does a diehard Star Wars fanatic do when he’s not watching the Trilogies or blogging about the upcoming television series (plural) set in a galaxy...
Geek in Review picks up a month later with a roundup of news from the far corners of the science fiction and fantasy universe we like to call Nerdvana: 1...
Zack Snider, director of 300, Dawn of the Dead and next year’s Watchmen, has posted photos of some of the main characters on the Watchmen movie blog...
Four action figures based on the Spike TV show Afro Samurai were released this week. Created by DC Direct, the characters Afro Samurai, Kuma, Ninja Ninja and...
LUCASFILM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Star Wars fans may be eagerly anticipating a new Clone Wars animated epic and even a live-action TV series set in the galaxy...
Image from GameSpot I thought the Star Wars video games set in the Lego universe were as cool as it could get, but I was wrong! Lego Indiana Jones AND Lego...
IMAGE COURTESY OF DC COMICS The Joker got a fresh coat of paint this week and reminded us why we love his brand of psychotic villainy in the 20th anniversary...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, passed away today at the age of 90. He had post-polio syndrome since the...
Welcome Japan’s answer to Beowulf. While American audiences were blown away by last year’s epic CG gem Beowulf, Japanese animators have created...
As previously reported in Nerdvana, Scottsdale was the site of Harvey Dent campaign rallies on Saturday. The first rally of the day was to take place at...
The latest internet viral marketing campaign for The Dark Knight has switched gears from it’s focus on the Joker and is now asking fans to show their...
According to SCI FI Wire, the cast of Battlestar Galactica will present the Top 10 list on the March 19 edition of The Late Show With David Letterman on CBS...
Hulk fans rejoice. We finally get to see some action from our green friend in the first trailer for The Incredible Hulk movie. The film, starring Edward Norton...
Digital Tattoo Interface! At this year’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition, Jim Mielke demonstrated a Bluetooth cell phone, complete with video display...
If you’ve been watching Smallville from way back, you remember the very first person to learn Clark Kent’s (Tom Welling) Super secret: faithful...
Marvel just keeps cranking out the Iron Man posters, which is fine with me because they look so cool. On the flip side we haven’t seen hardly any images...
The Internet is aflame with word that Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the latest release for the Wii and probably one of the most anticipated console...
A fandom phenomenon that’s near and dear to my heart is the collecting of Star Wars posters and book covers – specifically, when possible, the...
StarWars.com has released a new annotated sketch of Yoda as he appears in The Clone Wars. It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, really … but...
Gamers everywhere should pause their endeavors for a moment of silence: AP is reporting that Gary Gygax, the co-creator (with Dave Arneson) of the Dungeons...
Can’t wait for The Dark Knight July 18 release? Wanting more Batman in your life? Do you like anime? If so, you and I are in for a real treat. Two of my...
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A new Iron Man movie poster was unveiled at last weekend’s WonderCon in San Francisco. If you missed the Con, check out the image above which shows...
The first issue of ‘Dark Tower: The Long Road Home’, the next chapter in Marvel’s graphic novel expansion of Stephen King’s Dark Tower...
First, the latest news: There’s trouble in Middle-earth – again! The Tolkien estate is suing New Line Cinema for profits from the Lord of the Rings...
Apparently, there really is such as thing as a born gamer. It’s called a man. Gaming is hardwired into the male gender. So it would seem after reading...
Variety reports that Paramount is pushing the release date of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek back from Christmas 2008 to May 8, 2009, saying it will have greater...
Keith piloting Black Lion (TIME WARNER/BOOMERANG) Starting Monday (Feb. 18), Boomerang will air the 1984 giant robot cartoon Voltron: Defender of the Universe...
One of this week’s new Nintendo DS releases is destined to become the portable gaming sensation of the year. Professor Layton and the Curious Village...
If you can’t until Friday to see the new Indy trailer playing before The Spiderwick Chronicles, you’re in luck! If you’re an early riser, the...
Lucasfilm The new CGI Star Wars adventure Clone Wars will hit theaters Aug. 15, then continue on Cartoon Network in the fall with reruns on TNT. “I felt...
WoW! The ubiquitous MMORPG is getting physical. Upper Deck (take that, jocks!) will produce a miniatures game based on World of Warcraft. It’s due out in...
Did you know … that Darth Vader had an apprentice? It’s you! In the upcoming video game The Force Unleashed, you assume the role of the Sith...
No sooner than she had joined the cast of Sci Fi Channel’s Stargate Atlantis, veteran Stargate SG-1 star Amanda Tapping (Col. Samantha Carter, seen left)...
It’s official: The Hollywood Reporter reports that Guillermo del Toro will direct The Hobbit, the long-awaited prequel to Peter Jackson’s epic Lord...
Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures Finally, a good reason for comic book geeks to watch the Super Bowl. In addition to seeing dozens of new and expensive...
