Mesa-based Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment seems to be seeing better days. The developer of the online roleplaying game Stargate Worlds has reportedly secured...
August 2009
The Walt Disney Co. announced Monday it is buying Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, adding 5,000 beloved comic-book characters to its ranks and gaining an...
Remember when your cereal choice was decided by the shiny toy contained within? DC Comics certainly remembers that marketing trick. After the super popular...
UPDATED here Sept. 3-4. The Phoenix Comicon crew will host a meet-and-greet 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at the Hyatt Regency’s Sundance Room, where...
FCC Mulls Single Rating System for Games, Movies, Mobile (Wired) Kurt Cobain Brought Back To Life As Playable Video Game Character (Gawker) Turbine sues Atari...
Joss Whedon’s sci-fi drama “Dollhouse” is getting a new cast member. Summer Glau will be joining the show in its second season beginning Sept...
Electronic Arts is locked in a trademark dispute with a dead gangster. The video game developer is asking a federal judge to rule that the “Dillinger...
Today marks the end of Reading Rainbow’s 26-year run on public television. Only Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Street have aired on PBS...
The Arizona Ghostbusters will drop by the Mesa Bookmans 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. No, the store isn’t haunted (that I know of). The local costuming fan club...
Last week Sony cut the price of its 80GB PlayStation 3 console by $100 and announced a slimline 120GB version will debut next month at the same price point...
Ah, Colorado. Crisp mountain air, meth-contaminated comics books and armed robbery — meddling kid and Klingon style! Investigators this week announced...
A class-action lawsuit filed in Southern California alleges that Facebook invades its customers’ privacy and misappropriates their images and personal...
Capcom announced today that Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii will be available in North America for $49.99 starting Nov. 17. The...
I know it’s a cheesy name, but I’m sticking with it until something better comes along, OK? • Microsoft has started hiring for its first two retail...
E-book readers like Amazon’s Kindle are going to get some more competition later this year when Dutch company iRex, partnering with Barnes & Noble...
A $15 million aquarium is planned for Arizona Mills mall in Tempe, a global leisure giant announced Monday. Merlin Entertainments, the company that operates...
Mankind’s inevitable overthrow by killer robots just got a little closer. The hand throwing and catching the cellphone is the scariest thing I’ve...
Oh dear. Looks like a gym in Tucson is trying to cash in on the Wii Fit craze — the wrong way. Unless they came up with the name We-Fit all by themselves...
D&D Alumni: Magic Items (Wizards.com) Unusual and Marvelous Maps (Dark Roasted Blend) UFO Sightings in Britain (U.K. Guardian) Sunday Sweets: Doctor Who...
Development studio Chair’s “Shadow Complex” hit X-Box Live Arcade this week and has made quite an impact. This side-scrolling game tells the...
Who needs Rock, Paper, Scissors — or even Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock — when we now have Luke, Vader, Emperor?
NOTE TO READERS: Please welcome the newest member of the Nerdvana crew. Emily Behrendt is a journalist at our sister publication, the Ahwatukee Foothills News...
While the world has been clamoring to get a sneek peek at the highly anticipated sci-fi epic Avatar, director James Cameron has been busy wheeling and dealing...
Our sister publication, The Orange County Register’s Blizzard Blog, reports from BlizzCon on the announcement World of Warcraft fans have been waiting...
Gabe from Penny Arcade (aka Mike Krahulik) has posted a cleaner version of his cover art for the upcoming D&D book Player’s Strategy Guide than has...
Villagers in Cambodia are venerating what may be an advance scout for a race of reptilian bovines from the Far Side of the galaxy. Photo and report: AP I, for...
The World War II flick “Inglourious Basterds” is clearly a product of Quentin Tarantino. His moviemaking DNA is evident throughout. Shocking...
Think you have what it takes to be a Supreme Court clerk? Sandra Day O’Connor says: Bring it, noob. Supreme Decision, a free computer game for teens...
As a promo for their upcoming third season (starting August 25), the stars of the comedy web series “The Guild” have released a music video...
That Geoff Johns certainly is one busy guy. Seriously, how does he find time to sleep at night? Not only is he writing several comic books a month, including...
Entertainment Weekly subscribers in New York and Los Angeles will get a little hipper when they open up their Sept. 18 issues. That’s because...
Diggnation, the weekly tech/web culture show based on the top news stories on the social bookmarking site Digg.com, will record before a live audience 7 p.m...
Sony today announced it is slashing the price of its 80GB PlayStation 3 gaming console from $399 to $299, and introducing a slimmer 120GB model in September...
Can’t afford a real vacation? No problem! As usual, the Internet’s got you covered. Google Maps’ photographers recently took a trip to...
Yeah, right. I said that last year, too. But until that day comes, thanks to magic of the Internet, I can bring you RPG news via the many bloggers who did go...
The second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars has a theme, and it is …
“Rise of the Bounty Hunters.”
If you’d like to get a sneak peek at director James Cameron’s hotly anticipated science fiction flick “Avatar,” now’s your chance...
Researchers in Denmark and London are trying to test the limits of artificial intelligence by seeing if a computer can beat the original Super Mario Bros...
Why am I not surprised that a computer game based on the swine flu pandemic has beat a vaccine for the H1N1 virus to market? You can play The Great Flu online...
Redbox, the company that rents DVD movies for $1 per day through supermarket and drugstore kiosks, is testing the market for video-game rentals for $2 at its...
You may have noticed a new item on the right-hand side of the page: the local convention calendar. Here are the current contents for those reading via RSS...
Do you want to turn your iPhone into a Nintendo DS? There’s an app for that.
Via CNET News
LEGO has already conquered the video game medium. What’s next, a LEGO movie? Block on. Warner Bros. is working with everyone’s favorite Danish...
Judge Gives Key Superman Elements Back To Siegel Family (Airlock Alpha) Cooper: Economy is delaying SG-1, Atlantis movies (GateWorld) NASA’s Trajectory...
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” opened the summer movie season with a lack of critical or fanboy acclaim, it did however make a sizable chunk of money...
Scottsdale-based Taser International is suing the Canadian government over the findings of an official inquiry that resulted in strict limits on how and when...
Jim Ward, a Republican who wants to challenge Democrat Harry Mitchell next year in Arizona’s 5th Congressional District, recently served as an executive...
Twenty years ago today, Nintendo’s grip on the U.S. video game industry was challenged for the first time. (It wouldn’t be the last.) On Aug. 14...
BackStage.com is reporting that Bryan Singer will produce and direct a big-screen re-re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica for Universal. The movie would stand...
Betty or Veronica? Archie Comics is entering dangerous territory with a six-issue story arc that answers that question for carrot-topped everyman Archie...
The Pokémon Company and Nintendo of America used the 2009 Pokémon World Championships in San Diego today to announce two new games coming in spring 2010 for...
Gamers gathered at Gen Con this week in Indianapolis got a sneak peek at the next Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. Wizards of the Coast announced...
A report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science, co-authored by an ASU researcher, reveals that early humans somehow learned the secret of making...
The CEO of Mesa-based Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment has released a statement via the official Stargate Worlds online forum that reveals his company has not...
Television is getting a little more mindless, but in a good way for a change. The Hollywood Reporter writes that AMC has picked up the rights to develop Robert...
“District 9,” which hits theaters on Friday, strikes cinematic pay dirt by taking the standard science-fiction chestnut of “mankind’s...
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a federal judge has ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word products that “that have the capability of...
Apparently, the Rats of NIMH live in Tucson.
After 10 years of partnership, the BBC has renewed Big Finish Productions’ license to create full-cast original audio dramas based on Doctor Who. Long...
Following success with this year’s Doctor Who specials and the Torchwood miniseries “Children of Earth,” BBC America has decided to keep...
LucasArts is unleashing its vast library of Star Wars video games for the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console online platform, starting today with...
If you thought a musical based on your friendly neighborhood web-slinger was too good to be true — you may yet be right. “Spider-Man, Turn Off the...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is joining Amazon in the digital textbook business. CourseSmart, which provides e-book subscriptions for...
The winners of the 2009 Hugo Awards, which celebrate the best in the field of science fiction and fantasy, have been announced. (A full list of the nominees...
An author who has worked extensively in the Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU), fleshing out bounty hunter Boba Fett and the clones that make up the Grand Army...
G.I. Joe 45th Anniversary Timeline — Hasbro Will There Be A Doctor Who Movie? — io9 NORAD’s alternate command center illustrated – CNET...
The demo for Eidos’ ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’ is out this week and it’s well worth giving a try. I’ve played through it twice and...
The Associated Press has a report this morning on Champions Online, the other online roleplaying game in development from Cryptic Studios and published by...
Writer and director John Hughes has died at age 59. He died in New York of a heart attack according to his publicist. He was behind many of the films that...
Famed director Ridley Scott is going to be a busy man in the future. Not only is he returning to direct (and hopefully salvage) the next movie in the...
Whew. That was close. Activision’s attorneys have told a Los Angeles Superior Court judge that they have reached a settlement with Double Fine...
Adam West, who played the Caped Crusader in the campy 1960s television series Batman, is returning to the franchise in the next season of Cartoon...
Apparently, snarky pseudoscience doesn’t pay the bills. That’s what the owners of a young-Earth creationist theme park in Pensacola, Fla., have...
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, who play a telepathic waitress and her vampire lover on the HBO series True Blood, are engaged, according to People magazine...
First Starcraft fans learn there will be no LAN support for Blizzard’s upcoming Starcraft II so the company can instead push its own Battle.net service...
The pointy-hatted folks at Gnome Stew brew up a great little blog about tabletop roleplaying games — you know, Dungeons & Dragons and its ilk. Ultra...
Just over a week ago word emerged that the Arizona publisher of Stargate Worlds had until Aug. 1 to secure funding to finish the delayed game or MGM would yank...
Just days before the launch of their much-anticipated Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Paizo Publishing announced that the first print run had sold...
If you like puzzle games, you’ll want to give Red Remover a shot. It’s a free web-based game at . Like most great puzzlers, the objective is simple. All you...
In a clear indication of just how bad G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is likely to be, Paramount has declined to let critics see it before it opens Friday, The...
Think of it as a little shakedown cruise. Star Trek Online will enter the perilous wormhole that is closed beta testing in late 2009, but the only way to...
Not to beat a dead horse, but … Remember when this looked promising? The looks of utter despair on the faces of Liam Neeson and Natalie Portman, and that...
Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield is working on a new collectible card game that incorporates collectible figures. Ku-Mighty, which will be aimed...
While Marvel Comics’ Tony Stark still holds the advantage with his Iron Man suit, citizens of Japan are getting closer. Cyberdyne, Inc., a Japanese...
Confused by the mega-ness of the Mega Man series? Who isn’t? This handy but ginormous visual aid produced by a Capcom community blogger should help: Via...
After years of selling people’s unwanted stuff, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange is adding something new. Literally. The Arizona chain of used bookstores...
Starting today, gamers can upload photos directly to their Facebook account from their Nintendo DSi handheld game system. A free download available after 5 p.m...
The Associated Press is reporting that outgoing Doctor Who star David Tennant, whose love for the Bard led to a shortened schedule of sci-fi specials instead...
Torchwood, the racy Doctor Who spinoff that just completed an epic 5-night miniseries titled “Children of Earth” that comprised its third season...
Legal battle puts Skype’s future in jeopardy | CNN Krakatoa Reawakens, And The World Shall Tremble | Gawker/io9 Game Downloads Boom as Packaged Sales...
