Comic-Con is happening right now, and in honor of the biggest annual geek event in the known universe, video game publishers have turned out in force, showing off some absolutely killer game trailers for hot upcoming titles like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Batman: Arkham City, Spider-Man: Edge of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and I’m throwing in a leaked video from the Assassin’s Creed franchise that will set your mind spinning. Read more »
Two great first issues this week, one revealing a long awaited history while the other pushes forward to create a new one. Yet one vibrant and multi-layered comics legacy seems yet again to be fading into obscurity. In an Q&A session on Facebook prior to San Diego Comicon, Dan DiDio answered questions regarding the new DCnU, but there was one little pearl that I found devastating. Dan DiDio Jerry, sorry but we no longer have the rights to Red Circle. So, the tales of the Mighty Crusaders have once again bitten the dust, this time before they barely even got started. Which is a crying shame, since the current interpretation Read more »
Geek culture. It certainly is not new, but heck, I am still sometimes not sure what it is really supposed to be. I think it’s one of those things that can’t be easily pinned down. So I found this article titled “Five Reasons Geek Culture Should Go Away”, and quite understandably, it immediately caught my attention. Peter Smith, the author outlines his reasons as follows. Geek culture is escapist. It’s simplistic. It’s dogmatic. It’s sexist. All of this stuff was better when it was cheap. After having read the article several times – and going through a roller coaster ride of thoughts ranging from “WTF?” to “Indeed!” to “I couldn’t Read more »
Announced today at Comic-Con by BioWare: the forever-in-development Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is now available for pre-order. They also announced the details about the requisite Collector’s Edition, which you’ll find after the jump. We still don’t have a release date, but they wouldn’t announce today’s stuff unless the release was imminent, right? Read more »
Here at ForeverGeek, our love for “LEGO artist” Nathan Sawaya knows no bounds. If you’ve ever wanted to see how he builds the amazing things that he builds out of LEGO bricks, here’s your chance. Read more »
Mario Brothers and Classic WWF Wrestlers. If you get even remotely excited at the prospect of seeing a mashup featuring these two, then you are probably from the same era I am. I still remember being thoroughly excited by the prospect of playing Super Mario with my cousins – a rare treat allowed by my parents during summer vacation. Equally as exciting was wrestling night. Every now and then, my parents would allow me and my sister to watch WWF at a friend’s house. In my eyes, those events were BIG. Today, I can’t believe how much I got suckered into that farce, but then again, I have to admit Read more »
Games on Adult Swim are hit or miss. In the case of Fat Wizard, it’s definitely one of those titles deserving to be seated in its place of honor beside Robot Unicorn Attack and 5 Minutes to Kill Yourself. On the surface, Fat Wizard looks like another one of those lazy flash games that rips off top down dungeon crawl games like Magicka. I mean, c’mon, it looks overly simplistic. But the static JPEG title is where the “lazy” ends. After loading, Fat Wizard takes you to the short tutorial. You play, **drumroll** a fat wizard but being fat has nothing to do with the game’s awesomeness. Your objective is Read more »
Those devious souls at PopCap have unleashed their latest and greatest upon the populace, and it’s every bit as compulsively addictive as you’d expect. Read more »
Not since the heady days of Superman Meets Bugs Bunny have I found such enjoyment in the funny-animal books as I did this weekend digging through the back issue bins to find an incomplete set of Thunderbunny from Warp Graphics. It is a great shame of the coming DCnU that series such as the aforementioned classic or say Phil Foglio’s Angel And The Ape will most likely be retconned out of existence. Where this leaves such esteemed tomes as Dodo and The Frog or Peter Porkchops I dread to think. After all, at the end of the Final Crisis, Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew were seen in the Read more »
Last year, you marveled at a marriage between Calvin & Hobbes and Star Wars, where the beloved child-and-stuffed-tiger were depicted as Han Solo and Chewbacca — adorably riding a toy Millenium Falcon. If you liked that instant classic, you’ll love this scifi-meets-comic-strip mashup. Read more »
