James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Caprica) is reuniting with fellow Torchwood alum Naoko Mori for a Syfy drama about a trio of...
August 2010
A Hawaii man says he is unable to wake up, bathe or get dressed due to “phenomena of psychological dependence and addiction” brought on by a video...
Microsoft has announced a new version of the Xbox 360 controller that will be on shelves Nov. 9. It features monochrome buttons and a transforming directional...
A social gaming company has shut down what was left of the legendary video game publisher Acclaim just a few months after purchasing it. Playdom, itself...
Starting Nov. 1, the price of a one-year Gold subscription to Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE service will go up by $10, to $59.99. A three-month Gold subscription...
For the Oct. 8 Second Friday event, Evermore Nevermore owner Bob Leeper is planning to fill the south side of Main Street from Robson to MacDonald with as much...
Former Doctor Who star Sylvester McCoy has confirmed that his is in talks for a role in The Hobbit — but it’s not for the titular role of Bilbo...
Nintendo announced Monday that it will drop the suggested retail price of its Nintendo DSi and DSi XL systems by $20. Starting Sept. 12, the DSi will cost $149...
After getting robbed of an Emmy with his first nomination last year, Jim Parsons was finally honored this weekend with the award for best lead actor in a...
Doctor Who will build up to an "Earth-shattering climax" in the middle of its sixth season at Easter, then return after a brief hiatus with another short...
The head of the BBC is talking publicly about plans to introduce the UK media giant's popular online viewer known as iPlayer to international audiences within...
Atomic Comics in Mesa is planning a night full of frightful fun. Against a backdrop of local art, never-ending horror movies and scary-good live local bands...
'The Last Exorcism' plays out brilliantly, infusing an alarming amount of originality, unexpected humor and quality character development into an oft-dismissed...
According to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers nine Western states including Arizona and California, it’s perfectly fine for the government...
Great Scott! Wired reports that Nike has filed a patent for self-lacing sneakers like those seen worn by Marty McFly and his hapless son in Back to the Future...
Shareholders in a Mesa video game developer say the company spent "tens of millions of dollars" to develop games based on MGM's Stargate franchise before...
The era of the space shuttle is drawing to a close, with NASA’s final two shuttle missions scheduled for Nov. 1 and Feb. 26. In honor of the occasion, ...
I really nave no idea who Katy Perry is, but this parody of the pop star's hit collaboration with Snoop Dogg, California Gurls, can't really go wrong with...
The 1996 Fox TV movie Doctor Who, which introduced many Americans to the long-running British sci-fi phenomenon but failed to generate enough interest to...
Stargate Universe: The Complete First Season will come home on Blu-ray and DVD Oct. 5 with five discs containing all 20 episodes, full audio commentary from...
The hunt begins again Oct. 19 -- that's when Predators arrives on DVD and Blu-ray.
Cover artwork and titles have emerged for Doctor Who games on the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms
Miyazaki masterpiece ‘Nausicaa’ free to view online Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli may be in its final days (or not, depending on how its latest film The...
The official trailer for the AMC zombie series The Walking Dead has gone live, along with the date the long-awaited adaptation of Robert Kirkman's black-and...
Symbols from Nintendo's Mario Kart games have appeared in bike lanes in Portland, Ore.
Cryptic Studios, the developers of Star Trek Online, are bringing the fantastical city of Neverwinter from the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms campaign...
The Borrower Arrietty is more than just the latest animated feature film from Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation house that has been compared to Disney at...
World Fantasy Award-winning author Stephen R. Donaldson (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) leads the field of celebrity guests at the 30th annual CopperCon...
The last two days were long but amazing - seeing George Lucas and John Stewart live, riding Star Tours for the last time, getting a 'Star Wars' tattoo, finding...
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston star in The Switch, a modern spin on the romantic-comedy-with-a-cute-kid formula.
The Microsoft Store at Scottsdale Fashion Square is seeking donations of new and gently used clothing for children who are going back to school. The donations...
British sci-fi magazine SFX has published the results of a poll asking readers to name the greatest monsters in science fiction. The results are interesting...
Whatever happened to "Imagine Greater?"
Syfy announced its fall schedule today, and I'm predictably underwhelmed.
Atomic Comics says there’s a rumor going around that the plot of the summer sci-fi mindbender Inception eerily resembles that of an Uncle Scrooge comic...
Here's a clip from David Tennant's pilot for NBC, Rex is Not Your Lawyer, which stars the former Doctor Who lead as a Chicago hotshot lawyer who becomes so...
Saturday at Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, George Lucas announced that the six-volume Star Wars Blu-ray boxed set would drop in 2011 -- complete with...
Star Wars Essential Guides announcements, Seth Green, The Force Unleashed II exclusives, Mark Hamill, Adrianne Curry and so much more! Check out my update on...
This week’s new releases are a rare breed: good movies. While Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will appeal more to the teen/geek crowd, Julia Roberts’...
According to a report in the Phoenix Business Journal, the entertainment software industry added about $60 million to Arizona’s economy in 2009...
Can't make it to Florida this week for Star Wars Celebration V? Fear not!
The American revival of the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood will carry the subtitle “The New World” when it launches on Starz next summer. The...
So what if the live-action Star Wars TV series is on hold. We’ve still got the awesome CGI Clone Wars about to enter its third season on Cartoon Network...
Describing the American education system as “little better than an assembly line with producing diplomas as its only goal,” George Lucas is putting...
Buddy-cop, yes. Comedy, maybe not so much.
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One of my goals has been, and remains, to launch a Nerdvana podcast. It was something I had hoped to kick off with the blog relaunch last month, but I’ve...
