Great scott! Marty, get my DeLorean and Christopher Lloyd. We clearly need to get back to the future! The other night on his television program, The 700 Club, televangelist Pat Robertson answered a question from a concerned viewer. The question seemed innocent enough. The viewer asked if it was alright for Christians to enjoy video games that [...]
Let’s get this out of the way before anything else. I *want* to like this comic. I really do. But the first issue makes it very hard for me to buy into the concept, and I’m not sure what to do about it. Let me set the scene for you: In Dark Horse Comics Darth [...]
Once again, rumors on the future of the Star Wars franchise were flying faster than the Millennium Falcon making the Kessel Run. But before we get to that, a little bit of background – a refresher on what we know about Star Wars. Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy have confirmed that there are indeed new Star [...]
Earlier this week we received mixed reports on the future of the 3D re-releases of Star Wars Episodes II and II that were due out in theaters later this year. Websites and news sources couldn’t decide if they had simply been postponed, or if they had been completely canceled. Several days later, the word on [...]
We’re going to start this piece off by talking about a couple of things that are true about this movie. Yes. It is the first of three films based on this one book that is shorter than any of the books in The Lord of the Rings. Yes. The film clocks in at just shy [...]
Last week, the news broke that George Lucas has sold Lucasfilm Ltd to Disney Corporation for the not-so-paltry sum of $4.05 billion. You can read my initial reaction here. In the following week, we have had lots of news come out with emerging details about Episode VII as well as existing Star Wars properties, such [...]
There has been some truly stunning news coming from the world of movies in our lifetimes, but probably none that is as sweeping as the news that broke today. Disney has acquired LucasFilm Ltd for the sum of $4.05 billion. I’m going to let that sink in for just a minute. But the news doesn’t [...]
Whatever your political views, I think we can all share a measure of understanding for gamers in Iran, who lost access to World of Warcraft last week due to US sanctions against the country. Last week, hundreds of Iranian customers took to the Blizzard message boards, complaining that they couldn’t connect to the servers to [...]
Joss Whedon. There are very few names out there that you can say that will cause a reaction like the kind you get when you bring him up. From Buffy and Angel, to Firefly, to Dr. Horrible, Dollhouse and now The Avengers the director’s sharp sense of wit and humor in the small things as [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Fantasy Flight Games announced at GenCon they would be releasing the beta rules for their new Star Wars roleplaying game Edge of the Empire, selling them for $30. While this caused no small amount of groaning from gamers, a lot of whom didn’t think they should have to pay to test “beta” rules, many more, [...]
Say what you will about the prequels, George Lucas has proved time and again that Star Wars is still big business. In February of this year he re-released part one of the Saga, The Phantom Menace in 3D. Regardless of how you feel about 3D effects, there’s no denying that Lucasarts and Industrial Light and Magic are the companies [...]
Calling all fans of Star Wars! All wings report in! Fantasy Flight Games has officially released a working Beta of the rules for Star Wars – Edge of the Empire at GenCon today. They handed out numerous copies of the rulebook at their panel at the convention and are selling more of them for $30 [...]
I just had the pleasure of looking through Conan The Daughters of Midora and Other Stories, the upcoming trade paperback coming from Dark Horse Comics on August 15th. Weighing in at a hefty 120 pages, this book contains everything you would expect from a series of great Conan stories (the Howard kind, not the Schwarzenegger kind). [...]
Yesterday, BOOM studios announced that Hypernaturals #2 completely sold out at the distributor level, leading to the publisher to begin a second run. And this all happened one week before the August 1st release date of the comic. This second run printing will feature a new cover by Kris Anka of New Mutants fame, and it is available for [...]
You heard that right younglings. Bioware’s Star Wars MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game for those of you not familiar with the term) is going to be a adopting a free to play model this fall. Don’t be confused though – this isn’t what they were talking about at E3. That announcement was simply a small [...]
Mapmaker extraordinaire Christopher West has just launched a new Kickstarter project for a set of poster maps. This one, however, is a little bit different. Where we usually see images of his poster maps splashed around the Kickstarter page, this one is hidden from view, and it turns out there’s a very good reason for [...]
As a fan of comic book movies of all stripes and oftentimes dumb and mindless action films (such as The Expendables) I have long had a love/hate relationship with film critics who often forget to look at the movies they review through different filters. But for the most part, I’ve learned to simply tune most [...]
A few days ago, I posted a piece on Hit Monkey, a lesser known Marvel IP that was supposedly getting a game from High Moon Studios next year. A teaser image bearing the visage of the monkey assassin spread around the internet bearing the text “Shit just got bananas,” and that “The Hit will begin in 2013.” [...]
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Karl Urban, better known to fans to the nerd community as Eomer from The Two Towers and Return of the King or more recently as Leonard “Bones” McCoy from J.J. Abrams recent Star Trek reboot has promised fans that there will indeed by footage of the upcoming Star Trek 2 coming to fans by the end of San Diego Comic Con. SDCC is [...]
High Moon Studios, the developer best known for their very well done treatment of the Transformers IP with their recent Transformers: War for Cybertron, have announced a new release slated for 2013 with this teaser image. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this particular IP, Hit Monkey is a Marvel comic that tells the story of a Japanese [...]
