Although DC Entertainment’s official line is that no-one can talk specifics about the number of employees affected by the decision to move all but the company’s print publishing division to the West Coast – with the LA Times’ figure of 20% layoffs challenged by DC spokespeople – until all DC employees have gone through one-on-one …
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WCG Utimate Gamer 2’s Faye On Romance and Regret
WCG Ultimate Gamer 2 is coming closer to the gauntlet, the final gaming match to determine the winner of $100,000 and the title of WCG Ultimate Gamer. Last night, we said goodbye to the sixth person eliminated, Faye Mata.
Mata might not have been as controversial as some of the other gamers, but she did have an interesting story line …
MLB iPhone App Delivers Food Right to Your Seat
Oh, to be a Phillies fan. The team may very well make the playoffs this year but even better, iPhone owners at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park can now order food right to their seats using MLB.com’s free Fan Direct app.
The stadium has apparently been running trials of the service since Monday, and is expected to officially unveil …
Why The Spider-Man Movie Reboot Will Be Awesome
Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacey. It’s that simple.
Oh, alright; I know that the much-maligned (and with good reason) Spider-Man 3 brought Gwen Stacey into the movies, but despite Bryce Dallas Howard’s best attempts, she was only ever a prop to make Mary Jane jealous and show that Peter wasn’t acting properly, and that’s not who Gwen …
Who Will Direct The Man Of Steel?
It’s been a big week for DC Entertainment; not only is everything other than print publishing moving to the West Coast over the next year, but if rumors are to be believed, the cross-media arm of DC Comics is gearing up to announce a full slate of upcoming movie, TV and other projects, filling in suspected blanks and making fanboys …
The Writers of the Guardians: Author Kathryn Lasky
Seeing your work turned into a movie can be an exciting and terrifying thing at the same time. Kathyrn Lasky, who wrote the 15 book Guardians of Ga’Hoole series, is now experiencing it. The first three books have been made into The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, directed by Zach Snyder. She talked about the anticipation …
Emanata: “It’s Happening Again”
“The most important panel in a Marvel comic this year,” last week’s Marvel T&A discussion with senior editors Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso informed us, was the one you see excerpted above: the top half of a two-page spread in Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr.’s newly released Avengers #5. There’s not much actually happening in it: …
Facebook’s Megafail Explained
As an outage, it wasn’t as lengthy as Skype’s 2007 two-day disappearance. As a bug, it didn’t produce results as hilarious as the 2009 screwup that left Google identifying the entire Web as malware. But the Facebook glitch that left “many” users without access to the site for two and a half hours must rank among the Web’s bigger …
The Writers of the Guardians: Screenwriter John Orloff
Screenwriter John Orloff might be a veteran in the movie industry, but The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole 3D marked the first time the writer ventured into animated features. (His previous works include writing A Mighty Heart and episodes from Band of Brothers.) Though there are many things he was able to draw on his …
Two Minute Video: Visions of a 3D Point and Shoot Camera
The Finepix Real 3D W3 is Fujifilm’s second stab at a consumer-friendly point and shoot camera that takes 3D photos. While the first version met with less-than-favorable reviews last year, the W3 has slimmed down a bit and gotten a little easier to use so it should fare better this time around.
It’s still a niche product for a niche …
The Comic Book Club: Thor #615
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss Thor #615.
DOUGLAS: I’m not sure what I expected Matt Fraction and Pasqual Ferry’s first issue of Thor to be like, I’m pretty sure this wasn’t it, and I …
New Trailer for Harry Potter Shows The Finale is Nigh
We’re getting a little emotional that the first part of the end of Harry Potter is coming. Although November is still far, we didn’t like it when we had to come to the last page of the epic saga… actually, that might be because we thought the epilogue was entirely unnecessary. We’re going to like it less when there’s few new things for …