The Daily Dose
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 – Happy Geek Pride Day!
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Keyboards for Rockband 3?: A demo for upcoming Green Day Rockband displayed a tease of Rockband 3, complete with keys. Though Harmonix hasn’t made an official announcement as to how this will work with the game, and especially …
Two Words: Zombie Jerky
Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too …
Dracula’s Latest Death Lasts Less Than A Week
It was only last week that Marvel Comics was announcing that they’d killed off Dracula, but he’s already on his way back in a new monthly series from another publisher, with some help from fan-favorite writer Kurt Busiek.
Busiek is co-writing new series Dracula: The Company of Monsters for LA-based Boom! Studios, which not only …
Harry Potter’s Receding Hair Line: Photos of Deathly Hallows Epilogue Scene Leaked
It’s the few minutes that could discredit an entire eight-film franchise.
Collectively, Potter fans worry about the filming of the epilogue scene of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, the end to Rowling’s epic story that features the main (surviving) characters 19 years after the events of the book. On paper, it’s a …
Who Will Make Up The Toy League Of America?
According to reports, Paramount Pictures are teaming up with Transformers and G.I. Joe manufacturers Hasbro to make a brand specific version of Toy Story called Hasbro Factory, featuring all the toys not good enough to get their own movies. Yes, that’s right: it’s pretty much The Island of Misfit Toys – The Movie.
The strange thing is …
Happy Geek Pride Day!
Comics on Our Pull List 5/26/10
Here are five books that I’m looking forward to this week. We have representatives from the relaunching Avengers titles as well as some loose ends from Siege. Bruce jumps forward in time and Clark ends a war. We also have some certifiables going after Hitler. It’s a well rounded week. Check back later to see if any of these stories make …
Chuck Ep. 3.18/19: Down In A Blaze Of Glory
Secrets revealed, enemies defeated and the status quo (literally) exploded – Last night’s Chuck on NBC showed Lost how to really do a series finale. It’s almost a shame that it’s continuing next year, really.
Last night’s double bill of “Chuck Vs. The Subway” and “Chuck Vs. The Ring, Part II” managed to bring every plot thread of the …
They Should Make It: Cheap Smartphones, Free Service
Hear me out, hear me out. I’m not just calling for cheap smartphones and free service because I’m cheap (I am cheap). Rather, I think a company like, oh, let’s use Google as an example, could provide a viable alternative to expensive phones and even more expensive cell phone plans.
Google makes money by selling targeted …
Poll: Do You Give A Hoot About Tomorrow’s Facebook Privacy Changes?
It seems like a Facebook change is more of a weekly event than a grand, once-in-a-while update. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook’s VP of Product Chris Cox announced that the site would roll out changes to its privacy settings once again, this time bringing a settings system that is “drastically simplified.” Right now, users …
He Who Crowned the Prince: Talking with Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner
Video game movies tend to suck. That ain’t news. But the visual sizzle on display in he previews for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is giving movie-goers and gamers reason to hope. Dreamy-hunk–with-actual-acting-chops Jake Gyllenhaal ratchets up the anticipation meter, too. But, if the film translation of PoP winds actually …