No foolin’: Sony has announced that the PlayStation 2 will be available for $99.99 starting April 1. The aging system will also continue to receive...
March 2009
Make it so, Number One. J.J. Abrams’ efforts to revive the Star Trek movie franchise appear to have paid off: More than a month before his...
Newly available on the Virtual Console is Super Punch Out!!, the classic boxing title that pits players against tough pugilist rivals such as Bald Bull...
>> Guitar Hero Metallica by Activision (Xbox 369, Wii and PlayStation 3, $49.99-$59.99, rated T for teen) >> Dance Dance Revolution Disney Grooves...
Here’s a smattering of interesting things found around the Web this week: Raise a glass to Doctor Who with the Sonic Screwdriver cocktail (Doctor Who News...
In these trying economic times, any deal is a good deal. But — GameCube coupons? Really, GameStop? Really?
After seeing Watchmen, several of my non-comic book reading friends have expressed to me their surprise that a comic book could have a story like that. They...
CBS has teamed up with Canadian developer Ludia to turn the Emmy-winning show The Amazing Race into a video game for multiple platforms. Like the show, the...
Capcom has announced Mega Man and Street Fighter themes for iGoogle. Fans can now create even more personalized iGoogle pages with Capcom themes celebrating...
There’s a new gaming convention on the horizon: RandomCon, May 8-10 at The Grace Inn at Ahwatukee, 10831 S. 51st St., Phoenix. Organizers are looking for...
Now that Nintendo is giving Wii owners a “storage solution” to cope with game downloads … PRESS RELEASE SQUARE ENIX ANNOUNCES NEW...
There’s a lot of Nintendo news today out of this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, including a new Zelda game for the DS and the...
Various news agencies are reporting the story of a firefighter who went above and beyond normal heroics into superheroics. An 11 year-old autistic boy...
Former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling may be retiring from baseball, but he won’t be idle. As the Boston Herald reports, the Red Sox retiree...
Get ready to swing. Capcom has confirmed that the highly anticipated Bionic Commando will ship to retailers in North America on Tuesday, May 19, 2009, for both...
Airlock Alpha’s man in Scotland reports that police there want to bring back the blue call boxes immortalized in the long-running British sci-fi series...
Actress Alyssa Milano (Charmed, Who’s the Boss?) has joined the voice cast of Ghostbusters: The Video Game as Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn, an archeologist and...
The weekly Wii download news from Nintendo: Are you immune to this season’s rampant basketball fever? If so, the Wii Shop Channel invites you and your...
>> Pokémon Platinum by Nintendo (Nintendo DS, $34.99, rated E for everyone) >> Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time by Square Enix...
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence have released UFO reports covering the years 1987-93, including the strange tale of a woman who met a...
People magazine online is reporting that Han Solo and Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford, has popped the question to longtime girlfriend Calista Flockhart...
With just under a month and a half until this year’s Free Comic Book Day on May 2, FCBD has a new website here. You can see what all the fuss is about...
Frak! Battlestar Galactica’s much-hyped final episode airs tonight. To mark this bittersweet occasion, I give you a list of 10 fake swear words that have...
Here are the nominees for the 2009 Hugo Awards, science fiction’s most prestigious honor. The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the annual...
The Sci Fi Channel — soon to be known simply as Syfy — is teaming up with Acclaim Games and ZooKazoo to develop a series of online games and other...
Who created TSR? Not Lorraine Williams ...
Capcom’s headquarters in Osaka, Japan, announced Monday that the initial worldwide shipment of Resident Evil 5 surpassed more than 4 million units...
Have you seen Jack in the Box‘s new logo? The fast-food chain, with many Valley locations, has rolled out a new look along with a slick, interactive Web...
Speaking of SyFy Portal Airlock Alpha founder Michael Hinman, the journalist has a scoop on further woes for Mesa developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment.
Recently NBC Universal announced that in July the Sci Fi Channel will change its name to Syfy. The reasons: “Syfy — unlike the generic entertainment...
BioWare today announced a sequel to their award-winning epic RPG Mass Effect. Mass Effect 2 will come to Xbox 360 and PC in early 2010. You can see a teaser...
Today’s download news from Nintendo:
Old-school action is the main attraction at the Wii Shop Channel this week.
Syfy IS SCI FI CHANNEL’S NEW BRAND IDENTITY LAUNCHING ON AIR AND ON LINE JULY 7TH Published: March 16, 2009 BRAND EVOLUTION REFLECTS BROADER RANGE OF...
>> Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS, $34.99, rated M for mature) >> Wheelman (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows, $49.99-$59.99...
Is the Sci Fi Channel about to rebrand itself in an attempt to reach a broader audience?
Here’s a smattering of interesting things found around the Web this week: New Star Wars novel title revealed: Holostar – TheForce.Net Keep a career...
Airlock Alpha (formerly SyFy Portal) today reposted an interview SFX Magazine did with Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies about the upcoming transition...
I suppose it was only a matter of time before all the success and profit that has come from video gaming’s downloadable content market brought out the...
New details and images are emerging from the latest Doctor Who spinoff, K9. They reveal a sleek new look (above right) and a new focus on children’s...
Marvel is again tweaking its schedule of big-screen comic book adaptations: The Avengers: May 4, 2012 — nearly a year after the previous launch date of...
The Web site Cheap Ass Gamer has a good breakdown of how Toys “R” Us and Amazon’s trade-in mechanisms will compare with GameStop’s as...
Here’s a look at NBC’s summer schedule, which has some interesting offerings in the realms of science fiction and fantasy: Merlin is a new 13-part...
Wii gamers may be left out of the flesh feeding frenzy when Resident Evil 5 launches Friday the 13th on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 — but they’ll...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer isn’t the only recent cult hit to be resurrected as a comic book following its TV finale: Devil’s Due Publishing will...
As reported by GamePolitics via our sister blog in Orange County: “Wrath of the Lich King” is being held up again in China — apparently, a second iteration of...
MTV has the first scoop in ages on the long-promised live-action Star Wars television series.
Starting today, PlayStation 3 and PSP owners can buy movies from Universal Studios and TV shows from NBC Universal. Examples of content available for download...
New from Harmonix and MTV Games: Four new tracks from alternative rockers R.E.M. and The Offspring join the Rock Band Music Store catalogue of downloadable...
It’s rumored that young British actress Hannah Murray will join Matt Smith in the TARDIS when he takes over for David Tennant next year as the star of...
News from Nintendo: The new side-scrolling shooter Gradius ReBirth from Konami and the classic Sega platformer Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars are now available from...
If someone in your household or social circle owns an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and drops out of sight at some point this week, don’t worry too much:...
The creators of Penny Arcade, Tycho and Gabe (A.K.A Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik) , the widely accepted kings of web comics were recently honored by the...
The folks who worked with Watchmen director Zack Snyder to design the film’s gorgeous opening title sequence have graciously put the entire thing online...
What if … Watchmen was a 1980s Saturday morning cartoon?
Video game retailer Game Crazy is giving five customers who buy Resident Evil 5 at one of their stores a trip to “one the most terrifying places in the...
Volunteers cleaning up a U.K. pond get quite a surprise when they dredge up the head of the distinctive TV monster known as a Dalek.
When Dragon and Dungeon magazines shed their physical forms to go to an online model, who knew so many publications for tabletop RPG players would burst onto...
One year ago today the original dungeon master, Gary Gygax, passed away at the age of 69. Gygax, along with Dave Arneson, created the original Dungeons &...
U.K. publisher Majesco today announced a Wii remake ofthe 1989 NES platformer a boy and his bob. Sorry, Majesco, I don’t go for all-lowercase titles. So...
>> Halo Wars by Microsoft (Xbox 360, $59.99, rated T for teen) >> Sonic and the Black Knight by Sega Of America (Nintendo Wii, $49.99, rated E10+...
The debut album from late electric blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble will be added to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable...
The world of reality TV collides with the world of superheroes this weekend when the cast of Celebrity Apprentice must create and costume a comic book...
London’s Daily Mirror is reporting that the rickety old TARDIS will be redesigned in time for Matt Smith to take its helm as the star of Doctor Who in...
As reported by both CheapAssGamer and Wired’s Game | Life blog, Toys ‘R’ Us is dipping its feet into the business of buying and selling used...
It was March 2, 1904, that Theodore Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Mass. Today Wired’s GeekDad blog pays tribute to Dr. Seuss’ 105th...
No need to pay outrageous prices on eBay if you want to play the classic Super NES and PlayStation strategy game Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen. The...
Even though the live action Green Lantern movie appears to be spinning its wheels as it searches for a cast, there is some positive news on the Lantern front...
Does a despot hold the keys to the TARDIS? Many early episodes of the cult British sci-fi series Doctor Who were destroyed by BBC personnel in a misguided...
