Team Phoenix to host ‘Avengers’ fundraiser May 4 bit.ly/KmRiAI via @AhwatukeeFN
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April 2012
This weekend GateWorld reported on some developments that could move the defunct Stargate SG-1 franchise forward. It sounds like there is an app-based game in...
“When Dr. Donald Blake strikes his wooden walking-stick upon the ground, it becomes the mystic hammer MJOLNIR – and the lame physician is...
If you have been to a comic convention west of the Mississippi in the past 5 years then you have probably seen Daniel and Dawna Davis of Steam Crow and Monster...
For this coming Christmas, Life of Pi will finally be coming to theaters – and now there is another very good reason to hope the world doesn’t end in a...
AZ ASSIST, a Tempe-based nonprofit organization that helps teens and young adults with autism, will host a Gaming Day event this Saturday in connection with...
In the new action movie Safe, the Chinese mob doesn’t use child labor to make computers and electronic devices; they just use a child as the actual...
In the United Kingdom the new stop-motion animated movie The Pirates! Band of Misfits is called “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists.” Apparently...
A new episode of ThunderCats Saturday morning on Cartoon Network: Lion-O and company come upon a Dog City where they unexpectedly find a cat: Pumyra. This...
New Super Mario Bros. 2 will be available as a digital download go.ign.com/IVutoV
— IGN (@IGN) April 27, 2012
Good news: ‘Fringe’ renewed. Bad news: The fifth season will be its last. bit.ly/Icvz3g
— Nerdvana (@nerdvana) April 26, 2012
Nintendo sinks into loss on weak sales bit.ly/ITVXLq
— Nerdvana (@nerdvana) April 26, 2012
Syfy makes pass at saying it cares about scripted TV. Results might be OK. All will be axed as they attain popularity. blastr.com/2012/04/syfy-a… — Nerdvana...
Security breach for Cryptic Studios’ Star Trek Online and Champions online: bit.ly/IoZX50
— Nerdvana (@nerdvana) April 25, 2012
For roleplaying enthusiasts dreading yet another makeover for the venerable tabletop fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons, one of the saving graces has been that a...
Heather Martin (AKA H.L. Martin) is the talented writer/artist behind Fallen, Inc., an independently published comic about a demonic turf-war where demons pose...
“Caught in the heart of a nuclear explosion, victim of gamma radiation gone wild, Doctor Robert Bruce Banner now finds himself transformed in times of stress...
Russ Kazmierczak Jr. is a modern renaissance man, he is the creative force behind the ultra-popular Amazing Arizona Comics and he’s an incredible author, poet...
Everyone knows the old axiom, “monkey see, monkey do,” so maybe it was because of my primate proclivities that, while watching chimps sleep, nap and wearily...
Recenty G4 TV personalities took a stroll down memory-card lane and looked at the origins and impact of Sony’s PlayStation — the original, one and...
Warner Bros. has released a new teaser promo video, artwork and synopsis for the latest animated take on the Batman franchise: Beware the Batman. It will air...
Well, this is pretty much the sweetest thing ever: Texas-based nonprofit A Wish With Wings let 7-year-old Kye, who is battling leukemia, don the utility belt...
The scarlet Soviet seductress/spy has covered a lot of ground in the Marvel Universe.
The unholy alliance of Johnny Depp, Tim Burton and Danny Elfman continues with the long-awaited big-screen adaptation of the classic gothic soap opera "Dark...
Now that the Maricopa County Fair is over, it can be revealed why the weather seemed a bit colder than usual on Saturday — June Monsoon and Sam Brero...
Just like last year, it looks like most Arizona hobby retailers are giving Free RPG Day a pass — or, depending on whom you ask, were left out in the cold...
While The Hunger Games, a movie about a future society where children who live in severe poverty are forced to battle to the death in order to win food for...
This exclusive digital comic, seen only here on Nerdvana, reveals what REALLY happened in downtown Phoenix last month, as groups gathered to protest at...
There are two kinds of people in this world, those that hate The Three Stooges and those that love their timeless cartoonish live-action antics. If you are a...
If you’ve ever seen John Carpenter’s 1981 film Escape from New York, then you’ve already seen the original and much better film that the new movie Lockout...
The Cabin in the Woods is a riddle shrouded in a mystery and wrapped inside an enigma, and I’m not just describing the movie, I’m also talking about the puzzle...
The U.S. Department of Justice and 15 states — including Arizona — are suing Apple and major book publishers, claiming a conspiracy to inflate the...
The second Thursday of each month is Lo-Fi Forums night at the Lo-Fi Coffeehouse in downtown Mesa, when community movers and shakers get the floor to discuss...
According to io9, HBO has wisely decided to renew Game of Thrones for a third season. The lavish series, which debuted its second season April 1, is based on...
Friday the 13th is notoriously a day of bad luck that strikes fear in the hearts of the phobia prone, but with two new and unique fright affairs opening...
dont mean to make you wait a bit longer, but we just got a ridiculously good release date for #EndersGame.Nov 1st, 2013 – thanks 4 input! — roberto orci...
Turner’s Boomerang network will mark Earth Day with a commercial-free, 14-hour marathon of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, the early-’90s...
Interview: The Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard makes the ‘ultimate date movie’ horror flick
Horror movie fans are in for a huge treat on this April’s Friday the 13th, with the opening of The Cabin in the Woods, a pulse-pounding paradoxical film that...
Today the 2012 nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards were announced simultaneously at several Easter weekend sci-fi and fantasy conventions in the U.S...
Friend of Nerdvana, Anabel Martinez: "This past winter, I was one of the many The Lord of the Rings movie fans who got to visit New Zealand's rebuilt Hobbiton...
This Monday, April 9, Ken Rolston will give the final lecture in the series “Video Games as a Force and Art Form: Teaching, Learning, and the Creative Economy”...
The other cats remain trapped in Mumm-Ra's Pyramid and, believing Lion-O is dead, attempt to escape to prevent Mumm-Ra from getting the Eye of Thundera out of...
Heck, I’d watch it.
Via ABC News
TheOneRing.Net reports that WBShop.com is now selling the first official T-shirts related to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The film is set for a mid...
Syfy apparently has a sense of humor about its penchant for canceling good TV shows.
In the Star Trek universe, April 5 holds a special significance: It’s the day, just 51 years from now, when Dr. Zefram Cochrane pilots the first...
Original Star Trek trailblazer Nichelle Nichols used her Twitter hailing frequencies this week to post a photo of herself geeking out with President Barack...
"With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story" is the documentation of a truly unique American success story.
Pop culture nerd goddess Felicia Day's latest online venture, the YouTube channel Geek & Sundry, has launched with a bang.
A bill passed late last week by the Arizona Legislature would criminalize "use of an electronic or digital device to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass...
Want to see a free early screening of 'The Avengers?' Get ready to 'Like' this ...
Saturday at the International Horror and Science Fiction Film Festival was cult horror movie showcase time with a slew of well known genre actors and directors...
Believe it or not, the classic video game arcade is not a thing of the past — at least not in the Valley. (No sooner had I moved to Colorado than the...
