Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello got the scoop that ABC Family has canceled the sci-fi family drama "Kyle XY." The show starred former Valley resident...
January 2009
Each weekend Nerdvana brings you a look back at what we’ve covered in the previous week. Without further ado, the Geek in Review!
Having already delivered fans over 70 rockin’ downloadable tracks for Activision’s Guitar Hero World Tour since the game’s October 2008...
What if someone wrote a Star Wars horror novel? It would probably look something like this: Deathtroopers by Joe Schreiber will be out just before Halloween in...
Atomic Comics’ location at Metrocenter Mall in Phoenix is moving from a rather depressing and lonely spot in the inner circle that surrounds the mall to...
This spring, Guitar Hero Metallica will take music fans through the band’s fabled library of songs, plus the music and musicians who influence them. When...
This week Ubisoft announced that it will launch an all-new, original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) video game -– the first that is not tied to a TMNT...
Electronic Arts today announced BOOM BLOX Bash Party for Wii, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed BOOM BLOX game for Wii from EA and director/producer...
Atlus is pushing back the release date of its Nintendo DS RPG compilation Legacy of Ys: Books I & II two weeks, to Feb. 24 — but the company is...
Cox Communications is testing a new way to manage online traffic jams in Kansas and Arkansas — and if it flies, we here in the Valley could soon be...
As reported here earlier this month, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife, actress Majel Barrett Roddenberry, will blast off into space. Majel, the...
Activision has released a fact sheet on Guitar Hero Metallica, due for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 PlayStation 2 and Wii this spring. Here it is, raw...
More than two decades after its launch, the British sci-fi cult classic comedy Red Dwarf is returning to television with a new adventure. According to the BBC...
Freema Agyeman, who starred as time-traveling heroine Dr. Martha Jones in series three of Doctor Who and made several guest appearances in series four and the...
Sega has announced a new roleplaying adventure, Phantasy Star Ø for the Nintendo DS. (That symbol is, indeed, pronounced “Zero.”) The game, due in...
Six tracks from the Grateful Dead make their way to the Rock Band Music Store today via Xbox LIVE Marketplace and Thursday via PlayStation Store. The...
Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has unveiled a new team-based game mode for its Metal Gear Online title for PlayStation 3. The new mode is available today to...
Nintendo’s Wii Shop Channel has been updated with one new WiiWare game and one Virtual Console classic from the SEGA Master System days. See also: New...
Sorry, Cardinals fans: As reported by Wired, Electronic Arts’ annual tradition of simulating the Super Bowl with the latest edition of Madden...
The coming week’s new video games are nothing much to write home about, but there are some decent-looking options for PlayStation 2 owners. Yes, I said...
On Saturday, I ventured deep into the heart of downtown Mesa to check out this year's Phoenix Comicon. I must admit that I was happy with the results.
Nerdvana co-founder and graphic artist extraordinaire Scott Kirchhofer got to hang out Saturday at Phoenix Comicon 2009 at the Mesa Convention Center, and he...
BioWare has released five exciting new screenshots from its upcoming MMORPG
Star Wars: The Old Republic:
Each weekend Nerdvana brings you a look back at what we’ve covered in the previous week. Without further ado: The week in TV/movies: Top 10 archaeologists in...
The first four episodes of Lucasfilm Animation’s weekly TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be available on DVD March 24. Priced at $19.98, the...
Michelle Ryan, star of the aborted NBC remake Bionic Woman, will guest star in the upcoming Doctor Who Easter special, which began filming this week in Wales...
Capcom has announced that Mega Man Star Force 3 for Nintendo DS will arrive in North America this summer. The series combines the platform combat of the...
Rock Band 2 players on Nintendo’s Wii have access to six new downloadable tracks from the in-game Rock Band 2 Music Store: Nine Inch Nails, “March...
TrekMovie.com has a fascinating look at the status of Star Trek and all its various spinoffs on the cable schedules. Notable is a chunky addition of Next...
Attention Star Trek collectors: Mattel is rolling out four die-cast vehicles in its Hot Wheels line this summer to celebrate the franchise and its return to...
Think you can do better than Barack Obama on issues such as unemployment, the environment, social security, or foreign relations? Here’s your chance...
Phoenix Comicon is just around the corner, but there’s always room for one more guest. Chase Masterson, who played the beautiful Bajoran saloon girl...
Note to readers: It’s a holiday, so today I bring you the unfiltered announcement of the newest releases on the Rock Band Music Store. Look for more...
Note to readers: It’s a holiday, so today I bring you Nintendo’s unfiltered announcement of its weekly Wii Shop Channel releases, straight from the...
Well, not every week can be a stellar time for new releases.
Nintendo sold more systems last than any other video game manufacturer, according to an independent report, moving more than 10 million Wiis and just under...
The cast of the upcoming Sci Fi Channel series Stargate Universe is quickly shaping up, and the series’ premiere has been pushed back to the fall from...
They poke about in places where no one has trod for thousands of years, sticking their noses in where they are least welcome. Often they cause more problems...
Each weekend Nerdvana brings you a look back at what we’ve covered (or should have covered) in the previous week. Without further ado: Obituaries: Patrick...
Capcom has revealed the U.S. version of its Resident Evil 5 Collectors Edition, which includes a messenger bag, steel disc wallet, manual, Chris Redfield...
Electronic Arts will distribute a line of video games based on The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series. The games “for all major...
According to IF Magazine, a movie based on the canceled but insanely popular CBS drama Jericho is on the way.
Cryptic Studios, developer of the upcoming MMORPG Star Trek Online, has launched a “planet exploration contest” to get fans creatively involved in...
What a cute little Cyberman and Dalek! I’m sure they don’t have any interest in Cyber-converting or exterminating you. The new Time Squad line from...
A settlement has been reached in the nearly yearlong dispute between Fox and Warner Bros. over rights to the film adaptation of Watchmen. This means the movie...
Last summer, comic book fans shared a simultaneous nerdgasm when Samuel L. Jackson appeared briefly at the end of Iron Man as Marvel’s Nick Fury...
The movie adaptation of Kick-Ass, a comic book under Marvel’s Icon imprint, is filming now with stars Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Aaron...
Smallville is back tonight for its first new episode of 2009, and things look pretty grim. When last we left the idyllic Kansas farm town, an brutal attack had...
The Associated Press is reporting that Ricardo Montalban, the star of ABC’s Fantasy Island who was Capt. Kirk’s nemesis Khan in an episode of the...
Patrick McGoohan, who starred in and helped to create the cult classic television series The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80.
Jolt Online Gaming is preparing Legends of Zork, a casual MMO update of one of the first interactive fiction computer games that will be played from a Web...
Xbox 360 owners will be gunning down virus-infected crazies before their PlayStation 3 brethren when Capcom unleashes a free demo for Resident Evil 5 online...
Fox is kicking off a yearlong 20th anniversary celebration of The Simpsons starting today with a poster contest. Fans can “unleash their yellow”...
Feeling lucky, punks? Ubisoft has announced Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, a prequel to the action shooter Call of Juarez. The game will be available for the...
NBC Universal wants you to know that their new sci-fi news blog Sci Fi Wire is a rousing success. The standalone site is an outgrowth of a daily entertainment...
Warning: If you are planning on watching the Jan. 16 return of Battlestar Galactica on DVR delay, you should know that the episode runs 3.5 minutes long. So...
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO IGN is reporting that Nintendo’s DSi, an evolution of the popular DS with a camera and memory card slot in place of a Game...
Two songs from rocker Bruce Springsteen will be up for download Jan. 27 for Guitar Hero World Tour. The career-defining 1975 hit “Born to Run” and...
I’ve always wanted to say that! Medieval Games, a four-player party game for the Wii from Vir2L Studios, will feature such activities as battling...
Songs by rocker Lenny Kravitz will be available at the Rock Band Music Store starting today for Xbox LIVE Marketplace users and Thursday for PlayStation Store...
If you can call something as complex as as a title in the Nobunaga’s Ambition series a “game.” KOEI is releasing the PS2 game...
With last week’s series finale of Stargate Atlantis bringing the show full circle and dropping the Ancient city right off the coast of California...
Not content to ruin our holidays with marathons of Mork & Mindy and force-feed us low-budget professional wrestling in ECW, Sci Fi Channel is preparing to...
The company behind one of the largest gaming conventions in North America has fended off a hostile takeover and is set to emerge from bankruptcy under a plan...
D&D Insider, the online service that has replaced the print magazines Dragon and Dungeon, is turning out to be harder to escape from than the Tomb or...
Joining the lineup of Virtual Console titles on the Wii this week is Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, a game that pushed the limits of what the old...
Nerdvana’s Pick of the Week: >> Lord of the Rings: Conquest by Electronic Arts (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS and Windows Vista/XP, $19.99...
For sci-fi fans, heaven can be a place on Earth. Here are 10 out-of-this-world sites right out of the databanks of your favorite science-fiction movie or...
Every weekend Nerdvana brings you the Geek in Review, a look back at what we’ve covered (or should have covered) in the previous week. Without further...
Atari has dated Ghostbusters: The Video Game, a 25th-anniversary celebration of the movie’s original release with a story written by two of its writers...
Are you ready to explore Knothole Island? The first downloadable content expansion for the Xbox 360 RPG Fable 2 will be available Jan. 13 for 800 points from...
Electronic Arts today has unveiled the EA Sports Complex, a social gaming network that will be part of Sony’s PlayStation Home Beta. Visitors will be...
Missing that copy of Watchmen or Batman: The Long Halloween you should have picked up ages ago? Or is yours maybe in less-than-collectible condition due to...
Cryptic Studios has released two new screenshots — the first since November — from its upcoming MMORPG, Star Trek Online.
With disposable income pretty much a thing of the past for many of us, it’s a tough time to be a gamer. That’s why this deal from BioShock...
Phoenix Comicon is right around the corner — Jan. 23-25 at the Mesa Convention Center. Programming schedules have been announced and new guests have been...
Wolverine is headed back to theaters this year, and he and the X-Men are headed back in cartoon form as well. As Jake Bell over at Atomic Comics’ Atomic...
Just ahead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mad Catz has announced a full range of licensed Street Fighter IV paraphernalia to go...
Do we really need a video game based on Grey’s Anatomy? Ubisoft thinks we do, and they’re bringing ABC’s primetime medical drama to the Wii...
This character from MySims Racing is named “Sir Charles” — seen shortly before his arrest by Scottsdale police on his way to a hot date:...
Confirming reports from earlier this evening, an internal Ziff Davis memo leaked to gaming news site Gamasutra reveals that this month’s issue of...
Ziff Davis Media’s 1UP Network is getting gobbled up like its little green mushroomy Super Mario namesake at a convention of Italian plumbers. Hearst...
Microsoft is (again) declaring victory in the console wars against rival Sony’s PlayStation 3, saying 2008 was “the biggest year in Xbox...
Star Trek has always been about peace and exploration — but that doesn’t always translate into fun computer games. Perhaps that’s why the...
The third direct-to-DVD movie based on the defunct Sci Fi series Stargate SG-1 will film this summer for a 2010 release, and it will return to the show’s...
A lovelorn aspiring super villain will headline the first episode of Saturday Night Live for the new year. Neil Patrick Harris, star of How I Met Your Mother...
Sci Fi Wire, the news service of the Sci Fi Channel, has moved off the cable network’s server and adopted more of a blog format at scifiwire.com...
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and the only actor to appear in all incarnations of the landmark sci-fi series, was...
Rock Band 2 players can download six of Roy Orbison’s hits, including “Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Ooby Dooby.” Full press release...
Nintendo has released the first downloadable games of 2009 at their Wii Shop Channel: the Super NES game Kirby’s Dream Land 3 for $8 and the WiiWare...
Capcom today sketched out a robust game lineup for the first half of the year. The company’s first downloadable game of the year, FLOCK!, will be...
An EastValleyTribune.com reader points out that Jericho, the much-beloved but much-canceled CBS drama about life in a post-apocalyptic America, has been posted...
LEGO doesn’t do guns. That’s obvious. The closest they get to providing firearm accessories for its minifigs is a megaphone that kind of looks like...
There’s a new Doctor in the house! David Tennant’s replacement on Doctor Who was named Saturday, and the choice was a bit of a shocker for fans...
Biography courtesy of the BBC Press Office:
BBC photos Surprising everyone, the BBC announced Saturday that 26-year-old actor Matt Smith will inherit the starring role in its hit series Doctor Who. He...
Paramount has released its 2009 press preview kit, and it includes four ultra-high-resolution images from J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek as well as an...
As announced in late October, David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who — but that doesn’t mean it’s the end for the time- and space-hopping...
Here’s a look at another game I’m playing via Nintendo’s WiiWare: The Incredible Maze (500 points or $5). I’m not so impressed with...
