Bethesda Softworks announced DOOM 3 BFG Edition, along with their debut trailer featuring re-mastered graphics and lots of monsters. Check it out if you want...
May 2012
In God of War: Ascension, a prequel to the trilogy, Kratos returns as a younger man and for the first time ever the series will feature a multiplayer option...
What do the classic films The Exorcist, Cool Hand Luke and A Clockwork Orange all have in common? If you guessed, “a failure to communicate,” then you’d be...
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Take an inside studio look behind Batman: Arkham City as the developers from Rocksteady talk about the amazing voice cast they were able to use for the game...
Lance Henriksen has become synonymous with the Alien movie franchise, having played the synthetic android Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3 and then wealthy...
Sony considered but ultimately rejected a download-only scheme for its next videogame console, opting to include optical-disk drives rather than break with a...
So, A&E recently canceled Dog the Bounty Hunter. And of course there's already at least one online petition to somehow whammy the network into bringing it back...
After 10 years, Kevin Pereira is leaving G4 TV, where he has been a key face of the premium cable network’s tech and pop culture news, most notably on...
The 2012 Phoenix Comicon wrapped up on Sunday evening, but for the last day of the con the halls were filled with legions of enthusiastic pop culture fans who...
GateWorld brings us a tantalizing look at what might have been for fans of video games and the Stargate SG-1 TV series. Long before an Arizona company took...
This Saturday saw thousands of enthusiastic pop culture disciples descend on the Phoenix Convention Center with costumes, cameras, cash and a craving for cool...
Friday was another fantastic day of fun at the 2012 Phoenix Comicon. Astounding outfits were observed, rampaging robots ran amok, wars of wit & wisdom were...
Today Star Wars catches up to me and turns 35. I guess if I can forgive the crappy trailer that is about as exciting as a trip through a carwash, I can forgive...
G4 sent Jessica Chobot to San Mateo, Calif., to see what crazy, inventive creations made it to this year’s convention for everything do-it-yourself, The...
Get your first look at the electrifying gameplay from Marvel Heroes! I don’t know what Dr. Doom is up to, but I’m guessing it’s pretty epic...
The 2012 Phoenix Comicon kicked-off Thursday evening with amazing artists, creative costumes, a plethora of pop culture commodities, pleasurable panels and...
It seems that there is a zombie at every turn this weekend at the 2012 Phoenix Comicon, but attendees needn’t be afraid as the ever vigilant Department of...
It’s been 15 years since the clandestine alien wranglers, the Men in Black, first appeared on the big screen and 10 years since their last appearance in Men in...
Bianca Thompson is an experienced professional airbrush artist who specializes in commercial sketch cards and pin-ups for comic book & trading card...
Going to Phoenix Comicon? Of course you are. Amazing Arizona Comics creator (and Nerdvana contributor) will be at Artists’ Alley table #437, selling...
Morgan Webb has three great indie games to play this summer, and all for under $15: point-and-click adventure puzzler Botanicula, first-person old-school...
Shelby Robertson is a freelance illustrator and comic book professional and he is one of the most prolific and popular artists in the valley. His hard work and...
For the second year in a row, Nerdvana has been honored by the Arizona Press Club with the first-place award for Best Features Blog.
Alec Kozak is an independent comic book artist/author and 2012 graphic design graduate of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, where he worked as a Staff...
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have honored an episode of "Doctor Who" written by prolific sci-fi author Neil Gaiman with a Nebula Award.
Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida are about to get a lot more fun. Just as you can now build your own lightsaber at many Disney...
Freelance illustrator and “big geek,” Keith Decesare, is an incredible concept artist who specializes in the fantasy and steampunk genres by “shaping...
After a long Saturday at Phoenix Comicon next weekend, you might want to get down with your geeky self at the Kids Need to Read Geek Prom. You can purchase...
I wasn’t expecting much from the new Battleship movie, a film based on the almost 70 year-old game that involves two players in a hit & miss strategy to...
Local creator April Reyna has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in computer animation, but since graduating from Arizona State University, she has focused her...
The creative forces behind downtown Mesa's Royale independent moviehouse are back with an online "horror host show" in the vein of classics like Elvira, with...
According to The Associated Press, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a new version of a bill that once threatened to make it a crime to “annoy or...
Diablo 3 players are being asked to be patient as Blizzard works to repair the servers that crashed when the game was finally released after 12 years...
The TRON: Uprising prelude “Beck’s Beginning” has hit the Web, but it’s worth noting that the 30-minute episode will also be aired 9:30...
This movie trailer for Hotel Transylvania, opening this fall, seems to be giving Halloween the Monsters, Inc. treatment. And I approve.
If you are a fan of the Sacha Baron Cohen characters Borat, Brüno and Ali G, then you are certainly going to want to see Cohen’s new movie, The Dictator. It is...
Remember the Nintendo GameCube? How could you forget? Dry your eyes, old-school gamers, and enjoy this trip to the Console Graveyard with G4’s Kevin...
TRON: Uprising doesn't premiere on Disney XD until June 7, but the entire pilot episode has been posted on YouTube -- and it's legit, not some Sam Flynn prank...
Chris Burkheart is one of the founding members and creative geniuses behind the local art collective known as Oddity Commodity. In 2008, Chris and his super...
An interesting story this weekend in The Arizona Republic and recapped by Airlock Alpha sheds some new light on the case of Mesa-based Cheyenne Mountain...
This is a story about a man cursed to stay in the darkness for 200 years until he escapes to find himself alone and confused in a new world he never knew. No...
Nintendo is lowering the suggested retail price of its two obsolete handheld gaming systems, the DSi and the old-people’s larger version, the DSi XL. The...
Scott Shehi is the founder, owner and head artist of the local independent creative group known as T.R.I.B.E. Studio Comics. Known as “Bub” to his friends and...
Patrick Stewart will NOT be appearing at Phoenix Comicon this year after all.
I just received word from 20th Century Fox’s agents that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus has been rated R. In the distant future, two superpowers control...
Friday night Phoenix’s creative community came together for Ignite Phoenix #12 to hear 18 local presenters each give a five-minute look at what...
Wow, what an incredible event! Last Friday’s Ignite Phoenix #12 was my first Ignite show, but it will certainly not be my last. This was the most amazing mix...
Check out the teaser for season 5 of Star Wars: Clone Wars, unveiled by StarWars.com today to coincide with “Star Wars Day.” May the 4th Be With...
The first Saturday in May is almost upon us — and that means that once again Free Comic Book Day has rolled around. Check out Lightning Octopus for full...
Anabel Martinez is a digital artist and graphic designer who specializes in creating sci-fi and fantasy art inspired by video games and other genre related...
Joss Whedon brings Marvel's 'The Avengers' to the big screen and delivers an intelligent action-packed summer blockbuster that will make you laugh, cry and...
And there came a movie, a movie unlike any other, where Earth's mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day...
Ignite Phoenix #12 is one of the valley’s premier community themed events and is happening this Friday, May 4, 2012, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Virginia...
Nerdvana contributor Bob Leeper has been delving into the history of this band of Marvel misfits -- and his profiles are collected here in link form. That you...
When multi-billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, inventor extraordinaire, dons his solar-charged, steel-mesh armor, he becomes a high-tech warrior — the...
1941! The world at war! And in a secret laboratory, frail Steve Rogers became the American super-soldier! For four thrilling years, he fought the Axis powers...
Arizonans may be used to Ignite Phoenix, but have never had a chance to irradiate it. Oren Peli’s latest foray into horror thrillers Chernobyl Diaries is...
Arizona native BIGCHRIS (aka Big Chris Wood) is an established professional artist & illustrator who has worked on projects as varied as the Halo and Left...
