Shank Co-Creator Talks About Sharpening New Action Game

How manly is Shank, the eponymous hero of the new downloadable game that’s out this week? He swings a chainsaw with no problem, beats up Mexican luchadores and regains health by drinking a 40 oz. bottle of malt liquor.  The side-scrolling stab-em-up features an inviting cartooniness that somehow meshes with extremely hyper-violent gameplay. It’s a [...]

The Top 10 Star Wars Fan Films

Remember earlier in the month we asked you what your favorite Star Wars fan film was? Well we heard you loud and clear and Time.com has narrowed their list down to the top 10, using your suggestions.

Interview: Dark Horse Comics’ “Star Wars” Editors (Part II)

Over the past couple of decades, Dark Horse Comics has published hundreds of Star Wars comics and graphic novels, spanning millennia of the saga, and their publishing plans are ramping up for a big year next year. We went out to the company’s Milwaukie, Oregon headquarters to chat with editors Randy Stradley and Dave Marshall [...]

I Need This: GefenTV Auto Volume Stabilizer

It’s a known fact that TV networks crank the volume to 11 when programming switches to commercials. It can be both annoying and frightening all at once.

TiVo’s Next Big Thing Is…a QWERTY Remote

Everyone’s favorite DVR fanatics have just announced a revolutionary new product to compliment the rest of their illustrious line of goods, the TiVo Slide Remote. The QWERTY slider connects via Bluetooth and is available starting today for $89.99 on the TiVo website. Best Buy will begin carrying the remote this weekend.

Lucasfilm Goes After Jedi Mind – No Tricks

I’m not sure that it’s a lawsuit that anyone has been waiting for, but you have to admit: There’s something kind of wonderful about seeing “Lucas Vs. Jedi Mind” on a legal docket.

Shooting Blanks: Mafia II Review

Ambition doesn’t make a good game. Great production values do not make a good game. Not by themselves they don’t. It seems like a continually hard lesson to learn as console cycles roll into one another throughout the decades. Mafia II‘s the latest high-profile game to trip over this fallacy.

Spot the Gadgets in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

In honor of Star Wars Month, I volunteered to painstakingly watch all six Star Wars movies and compile a list of gadget-like devices I spot in each one. I can promise you I will miss a few and I won’t know what some of them are supposed to be called, but I’ll be damned if [...]

New Brightest Day Image Defies Gravity, Teases Cosmic Events

DC Comics has released a new promotional image for their Brightest Day event, one that links together already-released alternate covers with previously unseen material for a round-robin tease that cries out for decryption.

The 10 Tiny Details that Made Star Wars Matter

The first time I saw Star Wars I was really freaking scared.

Stan Lee Calls On You To Buy His Books, Do Your Nerd Duty

You have to hand it to Stan Lee and Boom! Studios: Their latest promotion for their new line of superhero books has managed to make buying the books seem like part of a much nobler quest to keep superheroes alive.