Sharlto Copley – yes, the dude from District 9 – was sprinting through New York City on Wednesday on an A-Team promotional tour, and we tracked down his cell phone number so that we could hit him up with a couple questions about the film before he made it to the airport.
Yes, we’ve seen the movie – we were the ones giggling in the …
If you’ve noticed an absence of football video games featuring actual NFL teams, there’s a reason. EA Sports and its Madden franchise has had an exclusive agreement with the NFL for years now, first signed in 2005 and recently extended through 2012.
However, free online football simulator QUICKHIT has managed to ink a deal with …
Gawker is reporting that a recent vulnerability on AT&T’s network exposed the e-mail addresses associated with what they believe to be 114,000 iPad 3G owners’ user accounts.
According to the article:
“The specific information exposed in the breach included subscribers’ email addresses, coupled with an associated ID used to
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
What Stan Lee Thinks Of Donald Glover’s Spider-Man Casting Campaign [via MTV Splash Page]
Apple’s Worst Security Break: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed [via Gawker]
AdMob CEO: Apple’s New Mobile Advertising Rules Will Hurt Developers …
Unless there’s a sudden technology breakthrough brewing that no one knows about, movies will always be missing the core element of video gaming: pressing a button (or providing some other kind of input) to make stuff happen on a screen. Still, film can accomplish things with gaming-centric adaptations that aren’t inherent to the …
Over the last few years, it’s become increasingly obvious that the San Diego Comic-Con needs a new name, given the amount of non-comic-related guests, panels and material to be found there (Not that I’m complaining; it isn’t every day that you get to walk into Castle Grayskull, unless you’re He-Man). If you need any convincing about …
Okay, so it’s not an actual real-life bird and therefore not a true “cryptid” per se, but the Saqqara Bird is nonetheless an interesting and mysterious artifact from the ancient past with many possible and opposing explanations.
The Saqqara Bird is a small wooden figurine that was excavated in 1898 from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. …
Well, now it’s official: Marvel Comics’ Editor In Chief (and newly-promoted Marvel Entertainment Chief Creative Officer) Joe Quesada confirmed yesterday that the company’s same-day-digital release of Invincible Iron Man Annual #1 will cost more than the print version:
The Iron Man comic is over 60 pages, and in print it’s priced at
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In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. Our first interviewee is writer Jason Aaron of Wolverine: Weapon X, Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine, Scalped and Punishermax. (And scroll down for a special Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine bonus!)
What was the first comic book you ever read?
I think …
This may be one of the more expensive ways, from a hardware standpoint, to get a SNES emulator up and running but if you have an iPad and an iPhone (both jailbroken, of course) then SNES (HD) may be worth checking out.
The basic idea is that you load your SNES roms into a specific folder on your jailbroken iPad and then connect …
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Okay, we haven’t been shy around here about our love for Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus – the schlocky underwater monster thriller that ends in a flurry of mutually assured aquatic destruction.
It’s a brilliant bit of pulp. But it has nothing on an actual shark vs. octopus duel – which I found the other day on …
