Today marks the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man. Well, it’s technically tomorrow May 22, which it is in Japan right now, so we’re going with that since it’s a Japanese game. Anyway, the Google Doodles team wanted to do something special and they certainly delivered.
For the next 48 hours you can play Pac-Man on the homepage of …
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Clark <3’s Lex: During an interview with MTV, Smallville‘s Tom Welling said that he’d love to have Clark Kent’s arch nemesis Lex Luthor back for the tenth and final season of the series.
“I want to see Lex [Luthor],” said Welling. “I want to see him …
Is Marvel’s movie universe about to skip over the dull parts of each character’s history? A new rumor about the villains in The Avengers suggests that Iron Man, Thor and Captain America’s movie incarnations will leap eight years’ worth of stories in a single bound.
Comic Book Movie is amongst various websites and media outlets to have …
With Syfy announcing yesterday that characters from Warehouse 13 and Eureka will be swapping series this August, I started thinking about the other possibilities of crossovers from the dyslexic network.
The Warehouse 13/Eureka crossover sounds less Crisis on Infinite Earths than Spider-Man accidentally wandering into the Baxter …
I hate racing games. Well, that’s not really true. I hate cars. They kill people, they destroy the planet, they make lots of noise, etc. etc.
So I hate those ultra-realistic racing games that reproduce real cars in such minute detail that you feel like you’re driving your VW Passat to the center of town to pick up the kids after …
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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Heavy Rain, The Movie?: The magic eight ball says yes. Apparently, New Line guys Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are optioning the rights to turn the PS3 game into a feature-length film.
[via Slash Film]
You mean you actually built an Iron Man suit? …
It’s taken a decade, but it looks like Clark Kent is finally ready to assume his destiny as a man who wears his underwear on the outside with the news that Smallville‘s tenth season is to be its last.
The CW series has been on the bubble since creators Al Gough and Miles Millar left at the end of its seventh season along with …
Poor Heroes. First NBC cancels the series (Although creator Tim Kring said yesterday that he’s “finalizing [a] discussion about a number of ways to keep the ‘Heroes’ universe alive for its fans,” whatever that may mean) and then it gets slapped with a $60 million lawsuit alleging that its final season ripped off a little-known …
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
Is Nathan Fillion Ant-Man? Not yet, but it looks like it could happen. Marvel Studios has an Ant-Man film in the works, likely to debut sometime after The Avengers hits screens sometime in 2012. With Joss Whedon set to direct The Avegners, where some …
In the latest news to demonstrate the troubles of the manga market, DC Comics today announced that their manga imprint, CMX Manga, will close on July 1st. In a statement from co-publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee, the closure was blamed on “the challenges that manga is facing in the American marketplace,” presumably referring not only to …
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Available on: PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PSP Nintendo DS
ESRB rating: T for Teen
System reviewed on: PS3
By my count, the Prince of Persia has had three lives. First, the always-nameless hero debuted in 1992 in the ground-breaking adventures …
The “several sources” quoted by VentureBeat that said an Acer netbook running Google’s in-the-cloud Chrome operating system would be unveiled in a couple weeks have apparently been misinformed, according to Acer.
DigiTimes reports that the company “has no short-term plans for such a product” but that it will be following …
