This past weekend more than 1,500 people attended the Pokémon Video Game Regional Championships at the Phoenix Convention Center — and East Valley gamers...
May 2010
There’s little doubt that Nintendo’s Wii created — or at least redefined — the genre of fitness gaming as it exists today. So...
Nerdvana, the main blog I write and edit for the East Valley Tribune, has just won second place in the “Best Feature Blogs” category of the Arizona...
Great Scott! Looney Labs, the makers of the ever-changing card game Fluxx, have secured the license to produce a card game based on the Back to the Future...
Not too long ago, in a galaxy not so far, far away, the gadget purveyors at ThinkGeek caused an Internet sensation with its April Fool’s Day prank of an...
Two high school bands from the East Valley — Gilbert’s Braincage and Mesa’s No Big Deal — will perform at the Geek Prom on May 29 at...
Los Angeles has managed to land Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference for next year — a coup for the city and the largest convention in its...
Frank Frazetta, a sci-fi and fantasy artist known for his musclebound heroes and scantily clad damsels on book and record covers who cut his teeth on comic...
Artists John McCall and Matt Stewart have come up with some creative ads to promote Star Wars Weekends this summer at Disney’s Hollywood Studios...
If you didn’t think George Lucas’ dialogue could get any worse, check out this in-depth look at the butchered subtitles on a Chinese DVD of Star...
Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Incredibles) is reportedly in talks to step out of the animated arena to direct Mission Impossible IV, which was announced earlier...
Turn one of your own books into River Song's distinctive TARDIS journal.
Nintendo’s annual profit has dropped for the first time in six years, since before it introduced its Wii home console, after cutting the price of the...
A new company says it has entered an agreement with Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment subsidiary FireSky to assume development and expansion of the...
The creators of the Vietnam War-era zombie comic ’68 are relaunching the title with a limited-edition print at Phoenix Comicon, Memorial Day Weekend at...
Scottsdale-based Go Daddy, the web hosting firm known for its racy Super Bowl ads, is the target of a class-action lawsuit claiming the company is profiting...
Penn & Teller have been making magic for more than 30 years, but they’ll still have plenty of fresh tricks up their sleeves by the time they get to Mesa...
Now that it’s May, and the jubilation of Free Comic Book Day on the first Saturday of the month is behind us, it’s time for a more serious message:...
Nintendo announced Monday that starting May 9, its Wii system will come packaged with Wii Sports Resort as well as the original pack-in disc, Wii Sports. The...
More than 500 fans of science fiction and fantasy are preparing to take over the Phoenix Marriott Mesa on May 14-16 for the 36th annual LepreCon convention...
Where was this when I was a kid? The Cub Scouts now award activity badges for video games. Rather than simply recognizing video game proficiency, however, the...
The makers of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game have released a free PDF version of their game that is described as fast paced, easy to learn and...
My colleague Andrew Long, a multimedia journalist who also teaches at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has posted his recent...
My colleague Andrew Long, a multimedia journalist who also teaches at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has posted his recent...
So, apparently Disney’s casting call for extras in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides specified that only women with real breasts need apply...
