Thursday, May 27, 2010 – Smell you later, FlashForward*
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
*Series finale airs tonight on ABC at 8 p.m.
Sherlock 2 gets a release date: The sequel to last year’s Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams is set to open Dec. 16, 2011. We also …
With Lost barely finished, you’d think that ABC would want to take a break from serialized geek-friendly shows for awhile, especially following the cancellation of FlashForward and failure of Happy Town. A new rumor suggests just the opposite, however, saying that the alphabet network are so desperate for a new Lost that they’re looking …
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, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams and Evan Narcisse discuss the Wednesday Comics hardcover collection and the second issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne.
DOUGLAS: I was excited about Wednesday Comics …
Granted, we’re assuming you still care about the Spider-Man franchise after Sony’s pathetic mishandle of our favorite web-slinger’s image as of late, but here goes nothing.
(More on Techland: What A Tangled Web: Spider-Man 4 Killed, Raimi, Maguire Out)
Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter broke news of the remaining five actors on …
Rumors of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer taking the stage for seven minutes at Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference have been greatly exaggerated. So exaggerated, in fact, that none of it’s true at all.
Microsoft just posted the following to its Twitter account:
“Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor …
In a move sure to surprise no-one, the Walt Disney Company have gotten involved in the ongoing legal battle between the heirs of Jack Kirby and recent Disney purchase Marvel Entertainment over the rights to the many characters that Kirby created for the publisher, including the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk and many more.
On Monday, …
WirelessGround.com contacted me to see if I was interested in reviewing one of their iPhone cases. “A solitary iPhone case?!” I thought to myself, “Make it ten! And make them different! Weird, even!” So here are ten iPhone cases that stand apart from the rest. Enjoy.
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It’s been nearly a week and we’re still not sure what went on during Sunday’s series finale of LOST. Theories ran rampant about 30 seconds after the show’s final moments aired, and I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. Still, we must press on. For posterity. Or divine wisdom. Or cheesy snacks. (Whatever peels your sci-fi …
Welcome back to the Panel of the Week where we pluck out the funniest, most mind bending, best looking panels from every week’s comic haul. This week we visit the future and the past. We violate the geneva conventions with Hawkeye, we holler candy coated battle calls with Thor, and we render the cutest mutant armor you’ve ever seen. So …
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Heidi Montag, star of MTV “reality show” The Hills, posted this 30-second clip to what she thought was Transformers director Michael Bay’s Twitter page. Filmed at American Defense Enterprises, she yells “This is for you, Michael Bay!” just before a little target practice.
(More on …
Nine-year-old Makenzie Melton from El Dorado Springs, Missouri, was chosen as the national winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest, which of course, means her winning doodle is now featured on Google.com.
(More on Techland: It’s Google Doodle Time: Our Geeky Favorites)
Melton’s doodle beat out more than 33,000 submissions …
Yesterday, the news broke that Insomniac Games would be pairing up with EA to develop a new game that’d be appearing on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Insomniac’s been turning out high-quality games–Spyro the Dragon (yes, Spyro. I said it), Ratchet & Clank and Resistance–for more than a decade. But all those games lived on the …