One week after offering free admission to hordes of bargain-hunting Valley residents, the Arizona Science Center is opening its Dorrance Planetarium from...
April 2009
While J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek opening May 8 in theaters is getting a lot of attention, this weekend will see another treat for fans: the classic sci-fi...
Less than a month after ending all online sales of digital current and out-of-print Dungeons & Dragons products — and launching a firestorm of nerd...
Here’s another peppy press release from Nintendo about their weekly releases for the Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop: Poker, Planes and Platform Games Fuel...
Hugh Jackman arrives at Tempe Marketplace for the premiere of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” on Monday. Thomas Boggan, Tribune. After defeating over...
Check out a slideshow of photos by East Valley Tribune photographer Thomas Boggan from the red-carpet premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine on Monday at the...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine ($29.99-$59.99 by Activision/Blizzard, multiple systems, ratings vary) Party Pigs Farmyard Games ($19.99 by Destineer, Nintendo Wii...
I’m still reading Laurie R. King’s Language of Bees, a gripping Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes story that should be available in stores Tuesday...
It has been announced that director Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Sin City) has been selected to restart the ‘Predator’ franchise with a new movie...
Variety reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger will appear in the upcoming Terminator Salvation — or at least his likeness will. The California governor has...
According to a complaint obtained by Massively, a Web site that covers online multiplayer roleplaying games, Scottsdale-based Taser International is suing the...
If, like me, you are less than thrilled with the idea of Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing Cobra Commander in the upcoming summer blockbuster "G.I. Joe: The Rise of...
The first Nintendo DSiWare game starring superstar Mario enters the fold this week with the launch of Dr. Mario Express. Here are today’s additions to...
A report on USAToday.com says Tempe has snagged the red-carpet premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in a heated online popularity contest. Read more in Mandy...
I’ve just finished one exciting read dived right into another. The first is Outcast, the opening volume of the new Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series by...
It was a rough week for pirates, both on the high seas and the electronic frontier. On Friday, the people behind the online piracy enabler site, The Pirate...
To help tide us over until Green Lantern hits the big-screen, we’ve got the animated version, Green Lantern: First Flight. It’s scheduled to hit...
Latest news: Tempe wins ‘Wolverine’ premiere
The SCI FI Channel on Sunday will premiere a two-part fantasy adventure starring JAG’s David James Elliott, Elektra’s Natassia Malthe and Back to...
As of Thursday morning, Tempe ZIP code 85281 has received the most votes in the U.S. to host a star-studded world premiere for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Voting...
Who’d have thought all it took to shut up smug old Simon Cowell was an unemployed Scot spinster? Last week 47-year-old “never been kissed”...
Konami will release an multiplayer racing game this July on Nintendo’s WiiWare online service. Driift is a fast-paced racer that allows up to eight...
Nintendo has announced that the new Wii MotionPlus accessory, which enhances the precision of the Wii’s control, will be available in the U.S. on June 8...
Activision this week becomes the first third-party publisher to provide a downloadable game for the new Nintendo DSi handheld system with the release of Mixed...
After more than 33 years of covering science fiction movies and television and 374 issues, Starlog magazine is folding its print operation and continuing...
Resident Evil 5’s new Versus modes, Slayer & Survivor Just when the furor over Resident Evil’s downloadable Versus mode was beginning to die...
There’s nothing this week that will compare to last week’s release of the Nintendo DSi, but here goes: >> Escape the Museum (Nintendo Wii,)...
The Sci Fi Channel — soon to be knowns simply as Syfy — announced these casting updates recently:
1975’s Giant-Size X-Men #1 and 1974’s Incredible Hulk #181 Len Wein, long-time comic book writer and editor, recently suffered a fire at his home...
Konami’s classic survival horror title is coming to the Wii this fall. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will also be available for PlayStation 2 and PSP...
NBC recently announced the following changes to its summer scheduling: Meteor now will be telecast on Sunday, July 12, and Sunday, July 19 (9-11 p.m. ET both...
“Planet of the Dead,” the second of four Doctor Who specials planned for 2009, airs today on BBC One in the U.K. Who knows when it will air here in...
Last week Hugh Jackman announced on YouTube that he wants to reward fans by bringing a Hollywood-style premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to their town...
From Telltale Games: Telltale Games has announced that WiiWare sales of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, the first monthly episodic series...
Star Trek: The Exhibition is beaming out of Phoenix a week early, just days ahead of the premiere of the new film in the series. The exhibit of costumes, props...
Dave Arneson, who created the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game with Gary Gygax in 1974, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 61. The blog...
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the Mesa-based software developer currently working on the MMORPG Stargate Worlds, says that despite funding problems the game...
Harmonix and MTV Games announced this week 11 new tracks coming today to the Rock Band Music Store catalogue of downloadable content for Nintendo Wii...
Today the game company Wizards of the Coast filed three lawsuits targeting eight people accused of distributing pirated copies of its new Dungeons &...
Hold onto your credit cards, Nintendoids. Not only are there new titles available this week in the Wii Shop Channel’s WiiWare and Virtual Console lines...
The wait for new Resident Evil 5 content is over. The new online multiplayer Versus mode became available to download on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network on...
Here’s a smattering of interesting things found around the Web this week: Die long and prosper with Star Trek urns and caskets (Wired’s blog Underwire)...
I usually publish this on Mondays, but the biggest gaming news of the week is easily the release of Nintendo’s DSi handheld system. Available today in...
This year’s summer movie season is starting even earlier than the movie industry had planned. Almost a month before the official release date, a mostly...
Is the second attempt to field a computer game based on the hugely successful Stargate saga about to fall flat? In an interview with the unofficial fansite...
You know the hype for the new Star Trek movie is approaching warp speed when AMC Theatres is releasing gift cards featuring Uhura, Kirk, Spock and the villain...
Nintendo’s newest handheld system, the DSi, launches Sunday, and with it the online DSi Shop and the DSiWare line of original game titles. Gamers who buy...
Sci Fi, Syfy, Schmi-Fi. Whatever the heck they’re calling themselves these days, the cable home of Battlestar Galactica, Ghost Hunters and all things...
