Monthly Archives: October 2010

Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide

by Darice de Cuba
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Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide

The Simpsons is a mammoth of a cartoon TV show, on air for twenty years already. I remember as a little kid I would watch it on and off on a Venezuelan TV channel. Ironically back then they aired it on after school hours while now it is or was been banned from showing in Venezuela. Now I watch it late nights on Comedy Central, and I must say I’m glad I’m not hooked on it. When I’m really hooked on a TV show I tend to become an encyclopedia on it. I started watching Friends in year 2000/2001 and now I own the whole show on DVD and have Read more »

Watch This: The Week in Game Vids

by Robin Parrish
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Watch This: The Week in Game Vids

Starting today, every Friday I’ll be bringing you a selection of the most buzzed-about trailers and gameplay videos from new and upcoming titles. Here I humbly present this week’s delectable entrees: A brand new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood — which looks better and better every time I see it. This one focuses on the Mercenary. Some guy in Japan completed Demon’s Souls in under an hour. Got to be some kind of record. A new trailer for an upcoming Red Dead Redemption DLC pack called “Undead Nightmare.” There are zombies. The “Pro Guitar” mode in Rock Band 3 is too hard for you. Don’t bother trying it, you will just feel badly Read more »

Meet Peter Jackson’s Hobbit (and Dwarves)

by Robin Parrish
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Meet Peter Jackson’s Hobbit (and Dwarves)

It’s really happening, and here’s the proof: Peter Jackson has announced casting for his main Hobbit and eight of the Dwarves involved in Bilbo Baggins’ pre-Lord of the Rings adventure. Now as a geek and a storyteller, I worship the ground Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy walks on. It was the most perfect book-to-film cinematic production ever, in my estimation. But Jackson’s record since LotR has been less than stellar. King Kong was a bloated love letter to a favorite film from Jackson’s youth — which no one enjoyed nearly as much as he did. And while I have yet to see The Lovely Bones, it was universally panned by Read more »

When Pac-Man Goes Wrong

by Noemi Twigg
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When Pac-Man Goes Wrong

Wait – is that even possible?  How can you go wrong with Pac-Man?  We’ve seen some of the coolest pieces of merchandise following the Pac-Man theme, but who would have thought that there is some really bad (in the original sense) stuff out there?  I came across a collection of the 10 Absolutely Horrible Pieces of Pac-Man Merchandise earlier, and boy, do I have to agree with the writer! Read more »

How To Make A Successful First Issue

by Darren Burr
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How To Make A Successful First Issue

Recently I criticised Chaos War #1 as a very ‘by the numbers’ start to a major crossover, but this weeks comic crop has shown that the series indeed has the ability to meet its potential. Having the death of Nightmare give the Chaos King the power to (in effect) kidnap the minds of the living even as he rampages through the various realms of the dead certainly raises the stakes (and makes the series far simpler to deal with). I similarly criticised the relaunch of Magnus Robot Fighter when it came out, but Dark Horse has scored two masterstrokes this week. The first being the third Valiant/Acclaim character to receive Read more »

This Is How Your Brain Sees The Inside Of Your Body

by James Johnson
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This Is How Your Brain Sees The Inside Of Your Body

See the crazy picture shown above? That freaky little creature is how our brains see the inside of our body. The idea of how our brain depicts our body started in the 1930s when Wilder Penfield began poking around live brains of epilepsy patients. Wilder noted what part of the brain affected which body functions they controlled and how that part of the brain made people feel. Wilder’s experiments led to a distorted view of how the brain sees our body, that view is the picture above known as the cortical homunculus. Basically cortical homunculus shows what part of the bodies are considered the most important by the brain. Here’s Read more »

Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v. 4

by Dina Ely
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Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v. 4

It’s been a roller coaster week for geeks, from disappointments over perplexing comic-to-movie adaptations to box office successes to big time Internet privacy fails. Let’s jump right into this week’s wins and fails in everything geek. FAIL: Nick Cave’s The Crow An unnamed actor in the cast of the forthcoming Crow movie, set to star Mark Wahlberg, rejected musician and quirky, dark film maker Nick Cave’s script. So it’s back to the drawing board for the movie, and both Cave and Crow fans are left scratching their heads. A Cave Crow could’ve had tremendous potential with Cave directing and screenwriting. Such a pity. Read more »

John Romero Goes Cutesy With Social Facebook Game

by Robin Parrish
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John Romero Goes Cutesy With Social Facebook Game

The man who once promised to “make you his b*tch” (with Daikatana, a game so bad it couldn’t even make you its meter maid), has released his latest game, and it’s one of those painfully cute Facebook social games in the same vein as Farmville. It’s called Ravenwood Fair, and Romero built it in just 2 months alongside eight employees of LOLapps, a company that exclusively makes Facebook games. (Other games in LOLapps portfolio include Garden Life and Critter Island. Combined, LOLapps boasts 150 million active users every month.) Romero is best remembered as being the co-creator of id Software’s first roster of first-person shooters like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Read more »

Tell Time a la TRON

by Noemi Twigg
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Tell Time a la TRON

Last week, we saw some really cool accessories – TRON style – courtesy of Robin.  I think most of them were for us girls, though.  Here’s something that will work for anyone, no matter what your gender is: a Tron-inspired watch (or a set of them). Dubbed 7R0N (or s2v2n-R-z2ro-N), the design was dreamt up by a guy named Scott from the UK.  Anyone who has seen the host of TRON: Legacy posts that we’ve shared in this site will not fail to see where the inspiration comes from.  Here, take a look at them and tell me if they are not drool-worthy. So how do you figure out what time Read more »

Star Wars Droid Bathing Suit. R2D2 Has Never Looked So Curvy

by James Johnson
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Star Wars Droid Bathing Suit. R2D2 Has Never Looked So Curvy

Judging from the feminist attacks I received when I wrote my Star Wars Corsets article, which by the way I meant no ill will towards women with, I chose to take a slightly safer approach this time, so I introduce to you the Droid bathing suit from Black Milk (notice the single piece, body covering design). The Droid outfit is debuting in Australia where the summer is about to begin as our bleak, cold, wet Autumn and Winter take over the U.S. So what do you think? Can you really enjoy the view at the beach if the swimmer looks like a curvy version of R2D2? Read more »