Here’s my first attempt at a video game-related jack-o’-lantern. I’m no pumpkin artist, so in case it’s just so bad that you...
October 2009
Not bad for a vacation week … Weekend Reading A handful of links that didn’t get their own posts. Netflix streaming announced for PlayStation 3 No...
Actor John Rhys-Davies recently told Empire Online that he will not be joining the cast of The Hobbit to play the father of his character from The Lord of the...
The next Doctor Who special in this year of no regular-season episodes will air Dec. 19 on BBC America, just over a month after it debuts in its native Britain...
The trailer for James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar will screen Sunday on the world’s largest high-def video display at Cowboys Stadium...
If you’ve somehow made it this far without purchasing the Valve classic “Team Fortress 2”, now’s your chance. And I mean RIGHT NOW! For...
Is the new Nintendo DSi already about to get a makeover? (UPDATE: Yes it is.) If rumors in the Japanese press are true (UPDATE: And they are), a version with a...
Capcom announced today that the Wii-exclusive Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero will ship on Dec. 1. Priced at $29.99, the game is described as a...
In a Mexican food restaurant … in Iowa???
Man called a zombie, punched twice (Des Moines Register, via LA Weekly)
Get ready to squee, Firefly fanatics! Your favorite “space cowboy,” Serenity Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, showed up briefly on a Halloween episode of...
The twisted souls over at io9 posit that this animated Klingon propaganda film may be a viral promotion for the sequel to J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. But...
Starting next month, PlayStation 3 owners with Netflix subscriptions will be able to stream movies right to their consoles, according to Sony. To make it work...
Microsoft Surface Becomes the Ultimate Interactive Gaming Table (Robot Viking) New Twists on Old-School Halloween Candy — Some Tastier Than Others (New...
Yesterday’s grand opening of Microsoft’s first retail store at Scottsdale Fashion Square, and the accompanying release of the new operating system...
If you were one of the unlucky masses who paid 500 Wii Points, or $5, for the Wii Internet Channel only to later regret that choice when the application was...
Amazon announced today that it will release a free software application for Windows PCs that will read the same e-books as its $259 Kindle device. The...
What the hell, BBC? Do you have an inferiority complex or something? The British comedy troupe Monty Python is alive and well these days (except for Graham...
Publisher Crucible 7 has released a seven-page preview and sample character sheet from its upcoming Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space roleplaying game...
Chad, we hardly knew you. As Tribune reporter Ed Taylor writes today, Verizon Wireless has completed its assimilation of Alltel’s stores and billing...
Production of Warner Bros.’ Green Lantern has pulled up stakes from Australia, part of an overall decision by the movie studio to reassess its overseas...
2 settle lawsuits over pirated D&D handbook (Seattle Times) Background here and here Free-to-Play Dungeons & Dragons Online Sees “Hundreds of...
The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival is now under way through the weekend at MADCAP Theaters in Tempe. In addition to more than 50 films, the...
Is the future itself protecting mankind from its own hubris? I’m no physicist, so I have no idea if this is true or even possible, but I REALLY want it...
The widow of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax is working to have a memorial erected to the game designer in his adopted hometown of Lake Geneva...
Comic book heroes and villians aren’t the only thing rising from the grave in DC Comics’ “Blackest Night” storyline. The publisher...
Stargate Worlds may be in limbo as developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment struggles with financing, but that didn’t stop the roleplaying game from...
Six shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be six. Seven shalt thou not count, neither count thou five, excepting that thou...
Playboy has announced that their cover model for the November issue will be Marge Simpson. Not only will she grace the cover, she’ll also have a two-page...
Amazon has lowered the price of its Kindle e-book reader to $259 and unveiled an international model, according to PC World … but Canada is still Kindle...
Just in time for your holiday shopping, ThinkGeek has delivered on its promise to try and make its April Fools’ prank of a Star Wars Tauntaun sleeping...
Most of us have just recently finished recovering from this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con. Next year’s event is scheduled for July 21-25, 2010, well...
If knowledge is power in the real world, imagine its worth in a fantasy roleplaying game like Dungeons & Dragons. What paladin, wizard, cleric or rogue...
Neutrinos … quarks … giant magnetoresistance. The Nobel Prize in physics is often awarded — rightfully so — for work that few of us can...
After the recent shake-ups in DC Comics, rumors of even more changes are in the wind. Bleeding Cool and other news sites are reporting that DC may be vacating...
Paranormal Activity, the little horror movie that got three preview showings last weekend in Tempe, will expand to more Valley screens this Friday. The movie...
Doctor Who is getting a new logo to go with its new leading man — and it’s TARDIS-riffic! The new design, inspired by the Doctor’s police box...
PlayStation 3 owners say a mandatory firmware update has ruined their systems, and they’ve launched a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation and...
Oh, David Prowse — it’s just not a good week for you, is it? The actor and former bodybuilder who wore the Sith suit in the original Star Wars...
Giant Mechanical Dolls Roam German Streets (MyFox Phoenix) Nintendo’s ‘Wii Fit Plus’ adds pet support (KTAR) Monster list of fall and...
Joystiq recently reported that Game Crazy, the video game retailer and reseller owned by Movie Gallery, is closing 200 stores and this weekend began...
Conventioneers are gathering this weekend at the Phoenix Mesa Marriott for LepreCon 35, which this year is being billed as a “relaxacon” or smaller...
Everybody needs a little help sometime. Even the Dark Lord of the Sith. David Prowse, who wore the black cape and helmet of Darth Vader in the original Star...
Mesa-based Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and its founder and principal owner are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by investors who claim he took and...
Despite the abundance of gore and cannibalistic undead, “Zombieland” isn’t a horror movie. While there are a few scares and tense moments, on...
Anthony Daniels, who was the voice of C-3PO in all six Star Wars films and is now traveling the country with “Star Wars in Concert,” has added...
