Preview: Knights Contract Curses Gamers With Immortality

It’s odd that you see a single trend running through games from a publisher, but Namco Bandai really seems to be enamored of partnership a s a game design idea. I’ve written about Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom‘s odd couple and, of course, the tense bond between Monkey and Trip gives Enslaved it’s essential friction.

A Brief History of Vampire Comics

There weren’t a whole lot of vampires in American comic books before the early ’70s. Oh, there’d been a stray blood-sucker or two in the Golden Age, but comics tended to use them sparingly, and the original version of the Comics Code, in 1954, forbade the depiction of vampires (and other horror staples like zombies [...]

New Star Wars Movies? Don’t Hold Your Breath

Is George Lucas planning a new Star Wars movie trilogy, to take place after Return of The Jedi? It depends on who you listen to. Last week, IESB reported the rumor that Lucas was planning on three new movies to follow the 3D re-release of the six existing movies, a la the prequel trilogy that [...]

Uwe Boll Has Killed Superhero Movies

Okay, he hasn’t done it yet, but I’m confident that the Alone In The Dark and Bloodrayne auteur’s next project, Blubberella, will do the job. Twitch has the news – what little there is – about Boll’s next movie, which centers around an overweight superheroine and has the tagline “The first female fat superhero… She [...]

Top Ten Monday Tech Deals

It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.

In Memoriam: Sony Walkman

Today we celebrate the life of our dearly departed Sony Walkman, with the announcement that Sony will be ceasing production on the tape player version. (CD and Mini Disc versions will still be made.)

Zombie Crawl: The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun on Being Glenn

The Walking Dead premieres on Halloween, and we can’t be more excited to see some zombie action on the small screen. We’ve got tons of exclusive interviews from the upcoming series for you guys this week, so stay tuned to find more about the series.

Are These The All Time 100 Gadgets?

Every so often the folks at TIME compile a list of the All Time 100 (Insert something) since 1923, the year TIME was founded. Some time last year I was asked what my 5 favorite gadgets of all time were and I happily obliged with this list. Little did I know that it was precursor [...]

New Comics for 10/27/10

This Wednesday the 27th is no different than any other Wednesday. New comics will appear on racks all over the country and I will be there to buy a few too many of them. Here’s a list of new comics coming out this week. Give it a once over and see if anything talks to [...]

New Voiceover and Story Trailers for TRON: Evolution

It’s a still two whole months before we get to go back to the grid but Disney Interactive’s decided to teas us with a pair of clips for Tron: Evolution. Since the game bridges the gap between the two Tron movies, it’d be nice to have voicework by the talent from both films. Trailer no. [...]

Amazon’s Kindle E-book Readers to Get Book Lending Features

Amazon will be rolling out lending features to its Kindle e-book reader “later this year,” according to a company blog post. A similar feature exists for Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-book reader, which competes with the Kindle.