On Sunday a particularly nasty bug popped up on the PlayStation Network preventing many PS3 owners from using their consoles to play online. If that...
February 2010
The Arizona Renaissance Festival, usually open rain or shine every weekend in February and March in Apache Junction, has had to close today “due to unusual...
Robert McCall, the space artist whose work depicting man’s conquest of the moon covers an entire wall of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, died...
This week’s top pick is The Walking Dead #70 written by Robert Kirkman with art by Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn. Most people are going to point to...
Last week Nintendo held its “media summit” where it announced its plans for the first half of this year. This included Super Mario Galaxy 2’s...
Well that didn’t take long. It has been announced that a copy of Detective Comics #27 was sold for $1,075,500. This sale price just edges out the million...
The Crazies proves the zombie movie craze isn’t quite dead yet. This remake of the identically-named 1973 George Romero picture brings nothing new to the...
Police in Vancouver have identified a body found in a city park as belonging to the missing actor Andrew Koenig, People and CNN are reporting. Koenig, the son...
I’ve often wondered how the Empire managed to maintain a sizable army of storm/sand/snowtroopers in the Star Wars universe. Especially, after the Battle...
The “new era” of Doctor Who for U.S. fans begins Saturday, April 17, on BBC America, nearly two weeks after the season premiere airs in its native...
After nearly 20 years as a part of a duo with Beth McDonald on KEZ 99.9 FM’s morning show, former Valley TV weatherman Bill Austin is calling it quits...
Once thought to be abandoned like a Rebel base on the planet Dantooine, the Mac version of LucasArts’ popular Star Wars title The Force Unleashed has...
Students at the University of Mississippi voted Tuesday to choose a new mascot in place of the deposed antebellum character “Colonel Reb.” Now...
With a couple of successful promotions under their belt, apparently DC Comics has decided to beat the idea into the ground. If you haven’t read Blackest...
Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad won’t be the only ones duking it out in the electronic books war. Eclipsed by the announcement of release...
Nintendo held a “media summit” Wednesday morning in San Francisco, and while it was devoid of bombshells (such as the long-awaited announcement of...
“Atack of the Show” co-host and geek “it” girl Olivia Munn could be making the jump from cable to network television. She’s...
There have been rumblings for quite a while now that Comic-Con might leave San Diego, the city it has called home for over 40 years. With the recent boom in...
In a blow to all those who’ve have their old comics thrown away by an uncaring mother, a copy of Action Comics #1 was sold for $1 million dollars in a...
The old-school RPG movement is growing, with more alternatives to the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons popping up than you can shake a magic wand at. Word...
Michael Jackson’s 1986 sci-fi musical Captain EO, a 3-D 17-minute epic that was a staple at Disneyland until 1994, is reopening at the theme park this...
Syfy’s Beauty and the Beast this weekend kicks off a run of Saturday original movies rooted in the dark fantasy tradition of classic fairy tales (more on...
Actor Andrew Koenig, who played the wacky neighbor “Boner” in the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains — and is the son of the original Star...
What if the D&D Monster Manual's iconic A-Z of fantasy creatures were set to music?
How much would you pay to be able to play Starcraft 2 right now? It seems some enterprising individuals have decided to find out by selling the Starcraft 2...
After a huge push by fans on the Internet, including a Facebook group with over 400,000 members, Betty White may be on her way to hosting Saturday Night Live...
Nominations for the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films’ 36th annual Saturn Awards have been announced. The Doctor Who News Page reports...
We’ve known for a while that CBS is adapting for television a certain profanity-laced Twitter phenomemon created by a boomerang child about the...
The nominees for the 2009 Nebula Awards, honoring excellence in sci-fi and fantasy writing, have been announced. Categories include short story, novelette...
Sheldon Cooper’s archenemy, Wil Wheaton, is poised to make a second appearance on CBS’ nerdy sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. As a child, Wheaton (left...
A new trailer for the fifth season of Doctor Who, featuring new star Matt Smith, has gone live, and it reveals what many expected: that the Time Lord will...
FireSky, the publishing division of Mesa-based video game developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, says their newly released third-person shooter Stargate...
Writer Jonathan Maberry has put the Black Panther through the wringer lately and things aren’t getting any easier for him now in Doomwar #1. Being a king...
Next weekend, Feb. 26-28, is the annual Gallifrey One convention at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel. This year’s convention is the 21st and is...
The Harkins Valley Art theater in downtown Tempe tonight is kicking off a screening of all the short films nominated for Oscars this year. The 82nd annual...
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the Mesa-based developer of the just-released PC shooter Stargate Resistance (pictured), is seeking bankruptcy protection...
Paizo Publishing has announced a line of fantasy novels set in the fantasy world of its Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The series of 300-page mass-market $9.99...
Today DC Comics officially named Jim Lee and Dan Dido Co-Publishers of the comic book giant. They will replace Paul Levitz, who stepped down last fall. The...
Those classy, continental Europeans. What will they think of next? An online strategy game based on the struggles of the homeless has gone live in the U.S...
Atomic Comics has started opening at 7 a.m. on Wednesdays so that early bird collectors can get their fix ASAP. Owner Mike Malve explains on the stores’...
Supplies of Sony’s PlayStation 3 are so tight, and demand apparently so high, that Amazon.com has had to change its policy to limit customers to one...
Because there’s no such thing as too much Papyrus font, we give you “L.A.R.P. Live Avatar Role Playing,” a delightful spoof of what happens...
NerdSalad tells of a Lord of the Rings fan who has spent her entire life savings and a year of her life directing and producing a full-length feature film...
The BBC have released a new promotional image of Matt Smith as the titular Time Lord in Doctor Who. It shows Smith floating against the celestial background of...
The Boston Herald is blaming a deadly shooting spree at the University of Alabama last week on the suspect’s love of Dungeons & Dragons. The report...
Ah, flashmobs. You never know what they’re going to do next. The Force is strong with this one:
Via Geekosystem
By equipping one of its buses with wireless Internet access, a southern Arizona school district has reduced road rowdiness and even encouraged productivity and...
Filmmaker/author/comic book writer/all-around funny guy Kevin Smith will be coming to Phoenix as part of his spring speaking tour. He’ll take the stage 7...
If you aren’t getting enough iron in your cultural diet, even with Mesa clothing and collectible shop Evermore Nevermore’s recent “Steampunk...
Visitors to the Arizona Science Center next weekend can take part in a LEGO building contest, learn from a master model creator and catch a sneak peek at...
Hasbro is honoring the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back with many of its Star Wars toy releases this year, and making good on a promise Kenner made...
The fans have spoken. The next Barbie shall be a nerd — complete with specs, laptop, smartphone, Bluetooth headset and binary-code print tee. Oh, and a...
Strange Maps recently posted excerpts from the Jan. 29, 1934, edition of the Los Angeles Times, in which a reporter told the story of a mining engineer who...
Chris Columbus is the man who brought Harry Potter to the big screen before turning the film franchise over to a diverse cabal of talented directors. With...
Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, aka Tycho and Gabe from Penny Arcade, are going on tour to celebrate the release of their new book The Splendid Magic of Penny...
A few months back, LEGO announced it was ending its Bionicle line of buildable action figures. In its place we were promised a “new, more flexible buildable...
The Victorian Era is alive and well in Mesa. So are zombies, rayguns and superheroes. Evermore Nevermore is all that, and more. An eclectic clothing and...
The new LEGO massively multi-player online game LEGO Universe has opened up applications for beta testers. Just head on over, sign up, answer a couple of...
You’d think that theater owners prosperous enough to have IMAX and 3-D screens in their movie houses would be delighted with the upcoming March 5 opening...
Who could have predicted the Muppet Renaissance that has blossomed from the chaos of YouTube? A few months ago, a Muppety version of Queen’s Bohemian...
Are you willing to cut all social ties and spend a month evading relentless pursuit? Have you ever felt the desire to be hounded day and night? How about for a...
Paramount Pictures today announced that Mission Impossible IV will be produced by Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions for a Memorial Day weekend...
Angered by Amazon’s removal of one publisher’s books from its online store in a recent e-book pricing dispute, the Science Fiction and Fantasy...
Reversing earlier denials, and delighting fanboys and girls everywhere, Neil Gaiman confirmed to SFX magazine Saturday that he is writing an episode of Doctor...
Now that FarmVille has completely overrun Facebook, with an estimated 75 million players, the casual game is expanding to Microsoft’s gaming page, MSN...
Big Finish Productions is filling up the TARDIS again for its latest batch of Doctor Who audio dramas. The company, which was producing original, full-cast...
A nonprofit museum dedicated to pop culture paraphernalia is finally opening in the Valley after years of preparation. The Arizona Popular Culture Museum is...
A friend posted this on Facebook: Open a Firefox window and type “about:robots” (no quotes) in the address bar. What you’ll get is a...
Bethesda Softworks, the company behind the incredible Fallout 3 and its expansion packs, has put out a teaser trailer for the next game in the series, Fallout...
A New York fourth-grader was nearly suspended from school after his principal saw him playing with a LEGO police officer Minifig that was holding a tiny...
It’s a bit of a lull for comics this week, but that doesn’t mean there’s no reason to hit the local comic book store. It’s worth a trip...
Syfy, famous for showing schlock-tastic direct-to-TV or -DVD fare on Saturday nights with ridiculous names like Mansquito, Frankenfish and KAW, is looking to...
Warner Bros. has pushed back Clash of the Titans’ release from March 26 to April 2, but it will now debut in 3-D simultaneously with the standard version...
Stargate Resistance, the third-person action shooter set in the universe of the Stargate science fiction franchise, is now available for pre-order. As...
The Hubble Space Telescope last month photographed an X-shaped object traveling at 11,000 mph, reports Gizmodo. NASA, helpfully trying to allay any fears the...
Rupert Murdoch has a message for Avatar fans who want a sequel: “Don’t hold your breath.” The News. Corp. chairman and CEO said in a...
Today the nominations for the Oscars were announced, and it was the first time in nearly 70 years that 10 movies were nominated for best picture, instead of...
That was fast. Apple’s iPad won’t be out until March, but that’s not stopping entrepreneurs from rolling out the accessories now. Skooba...
Always a hot topic this time of year, the ads for Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIV seem to be pushing more — and different — buttons than ever before...
Filed under “domestic gigs” on the New York Craigslist: WANTED: One Rabbi versed in the Dark Talmudic Arts to create one Golem for household of...
Someone’s got the wrong end of the joystick. Last week news emerged that Star Wars creator George Lucas is cooking up a CGI animated fantasy musical at...
Amazon.com has yielded to pressure from publishers who sought higher prices for electronic book downloads, ending a standoff that culminated over the weekend...
