Is that Megatron sitting on top of the Bird’s Nest? Perhaps. Transformers have come to China, and while they may not be the walking and talking kind, they’ve mysteriously cropped all across cities in China.
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Okay, well maybe it’s not so mysterious. …
Is it time to start talking about cord-cutting again?
Two days after analysts at research firm SNL Kagan forecast that 12.1 million homes will have abandoned traditional TV providers for video-on-vemand services by 2015, Verizon and AT&T released their Q2 2011 subscriber numbers and, well, if people are planning on abandoning …
Damian Hess has been recording and performing as MC Frontalot for 11 years now. When he started out the music he made didn’t have a name, so he named it himself: it’s called nerdcore. Frontalot raps about computers, video games, Dungeons and Dragons, superheroes, action movies, cartoons and other things beloved of the Comic-Con
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Joss Whedon’s movies don’t make billions. His last foray into TV, Dollhouse, was canceled after two seasons. The one before that, Firefly, lasted only eleven (glorious, unforgettable) episodes. But more than any other writer or director working in Hollywood, he represents the authentic voice of the fan in the big-studio world, and more
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Today I was able to meet up with, seriatim, three artists who in different ways exemplify what Comic-Con is about. They are not the richest or most famous people at Comic-Con, but they are its royalty. If there is a soul within the heaving mass of hype and advertising that Comic-Con has become, they are it.
Royal Number One is Felicia
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So George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Paolini, Scott Westerfeld, David Anthony Durham and I walk into a bar.
No, seriously, we did. After the show floor closes at Comic-Con, big entertainment companies throw parties at bars all around the city. Mostly they’re the big movie and game companies — in the great Comic-Con …
Long before the Smithsonian or the Supreme Court got into the mix, one kick-ass gallery show was letting everybody know about the artfulness of video games. The “iam8Bit” exhibitions have taken icons like Mario, Pac-Man and Sonic and handed them over to artists who’d radically interpret the characters and their worlds.
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Unlike some (bald) people, we can’t all be at Comic-Con this year, soaking up our annual allotment of nerd sweat and “he’s-right-over-there!” celebrity sightings. As the nexus of almost al things nerd, The Con’s been a gracious host to an increasing video game presence in recent years.
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con features more …
From zero to 20 million unique visitors in 21 days or just three weeks time, that’s what web-tracker ComScore says Google’s new Google+ social networking service can lay claim to. Of those 20 million clicks, ComScore says five million or 25% came from the U.S.
Before anyone gets too excited, note I typed “visitors,” not “members.” …
With an unfathomable 11 million+ followers on Twitter, it’s no secret that Justin Bieber is already the Pied Piper for tweenish girls across the world. For perspective, that’s about as many followers as the entire population of Cuba. Suffice it to say: Wherever he goes, they follow in droves.
So it’s completely understandable that …
It’s safe to say we were all surprised when Microsoft accidentally leaked a prototype to a social media site, Tulalip, last week. Was this their answer to Google+, or was it another social network site to compete with Facebook? Or was it simply, as Microsoft contends, "an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which
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Bugs, and plenty of ’em—that’s the gist of a blog note by an Adobe senior product manager titled “Lion Tamers,” which links to a list of known Adobe product issues with Apple’s latest and greatest. Mac OS X 10.7 Lion just hit the airwaves Wednesday, and I mean literally—the only way to get a copy is by downloading it via Apple’s Mac …
