Today’s Ript Apparel tee by artist tonynichols is a must-buy for Browncoats and fans of classic animated kitsch-fest Challenge of the Super Friends. His Shiny Friends design is a delightful mash-up of two great properties, and it’s available today only.
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It’s nearly time for one of my favorite Portland events: Wordstock.
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Last night I received an unexpected surprise from my friends at Nintendo of America: one of their soon-to-be-released 2DS systems. I haven’t exactly had enough play time to give the handheld a full and proper review, but here are some unboxing images of the 2DS and its new special carrying case.
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On August 15, 1939, The Wizard of Oz held its red carpet premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. On September 20 of this year, in celebration of the film’s upcoming 75th anniversary, a completely remastered 3D IMAX version of the film premiered at what is now the TCL Chinese Theatre to open the largest IMAX auditorium in the world. The Wizard of Oz is now playing in over 300 IMAX theaters in the US and 11 in Canada.
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Fantastic primer on a few of the best-known languages created for fantasy/sci-fi books and shows, from Lord of the Rings to Star Trek.
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Schmovie is the independent game from Galactic Sneeze that I’ve been waiting for since February. I first met Bryan and Sarah, the creators, back then at the NY Toy Fair. They had a demo of the game in their booth and were playing it with anyone and everyone. It was a great hit and managed to captivate me for half an hour — an eternity compared to the time I usually spend in a booth when trying to see a few thousand exhibitors in just three days.
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Yesterday was the birthday of my pal Tribe One, but in an interesting variation on a theme he was the one giving presents.
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An incredible new app takes an in-depth look at how Disney Animation Studios creates feature films. Read on to learn about the app’s story and interactive features.
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The geek in me can’t just play Candy Crush. Instead of merely wasting my evening, lining up pieces of brightly colored candy on the iPad, I also spend an inordinate amount of time thinking through the construction of the different levels. What makes a level frustrating vs. challenging? Which is more dreaded: multiplying chocolate pieces or multi-layered jellies? I threw these questions out there to the vast Internet, trying to figure out what was the hardest level of Candy Crush.
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Fire up those Blu-ray players, Tony Stark is coming home! The final installment in the trilogy has finally made it to Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download – in both 3D and 2D flavors. I’m not going into review mode on the movie, because let’s face it, you probably already saw it in the theater.
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Conspiracy? Video Art? Anti-war Protest? Elaborate marketing scheme? No one knows what’s going on at Pronunciation Book, but we may find out tomorrow.
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I’ve written previously about Kobo’s Aura HD, the 6.8-inch, 265 dpi, EPUB-compatible e-reader that still leads the pack so far as I’m concerned. Kobo has now released the Aura, a 6-inch e-reader that doesn’t have quite the same razor sharp display as the Aura HD, but it’s much more compact and shaves some dollars off the price tag as well. By being smaller than comparable e-readers, finding a variety of different cases to choose from may be an issue again. But you can’t have everything…
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Last week was a strange one for Nintendo; the company looked back on the life of a true industry visionary and also looked toward the future of its Wii Fit franchise.
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Geeks on a Mission contains five essays from graduate students who participated in the Technology Consulting in the Global Community (TCinGC), a program that matches up Carnegie Mellon graduates with organizations in other countries to solve problems. What kinds of problems? Well, that depends on the country… and the client in that country. These are volunteers, and they are sent out (after some additional training) as consultants to work with the clients to understand the problem at hand and then offer up a solution that can be maintained AFTER the consultants have returned home.
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Enjoy hip-hop, karaoke and mobile gaming? Then have I got a Kickstarter for you!
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Hollywood and pirate novels would have you believe that pirates were swashbucklers living a life of pleasure on the seas, fighting only when they had to. They make it easy to see past the fact that they were stealing gold and other valuables by making the people they were stealing it from seem worse than them. Well, I enjoy Talk Like a Pirate Day as much as most other geeks, but I think it’s important to add a dose of reality. So I’m here to dispel some of the more popular myths about pirates, and to confirm a few as well.
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Here’s a quick look at the new iPad/Android tablet game that combines physical toys with Angry Birds game-play: Angry Birds Star Wars II Telepods. Not only that, but it has all your favorite Star Wars characters too!
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD on Wii U is ideal for families (with a little help from a guide or two).
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Family review of one of the larger of the 2013 LEGO Technic sets, the Gran Prix Racer (42000).
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There isn’t enough time to research games thoroughly before download. I work a full time job, and I can’t keep up with the game request research. We have fairly strict rules about violence in games since I know my kids will end up in our bedroom with their nightmares. Of course every child is different, and what rolls off one child’s vinegary brain like a blob of oil will emulsify in another child’s imagination. So we can’t always go with popularity or another parent’s vetting of a game since every child is different. There are plenty of times when I have to say no not because there is anything wrong with the game, but because I don’t have the time to explore the reviews and look at screenshots. By the time I can get around to looking at the game, that game is already on its way out with the elementary school set. If you want to keep up with the video game talk, you need to pretty much download and start playing instantly.
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Thirty years ago today, Dungeons & Dragons came to Saturday morning cartoon land. Whether you think this was a good thing or not probably depends (as some wizard/crazy old man once said) on your own point of view.
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Codex Born opens with a new mystery for Isaac Vainio – the librarian with a talent for reaching into books and bringing objects into reality – and his friends, but author Jim C. Hines takes the people, ideas, and history developed in Libriomancer and pushes them all into fantastic new territory.
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In this interview, author Anton Strout talks about his writing influences, why he’s so high on a charity called Worldbuilders, and about juggling parenthood, a day job and writing. Oh, and finding time for gaming in all that.
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The Royal Canadian Mint has been knocking out the collectible goodies. The Mint has released glow-in-the-dark dinosaur coins, Bald Eagles (stepping on someone else’s turf there), hologram coins, full color depictions of the Northern Lights and even a snowflake embedded with a crystal. In perhaps its greatest pop culture effort to date, the Mint recently released a set of seven Superman coins, in celebration of the Man of Steel’s 75th Anniversary.
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I’m a big fan of Quirk Books — they continue to put out fun books that live up to the publisher’s name. Point your browser over to quirkbooks.com and spend a few minutes looking over their library and I’ll bet dollars to donuts you’ll find at least one book that you’ll put on your Wish List. I highly recommend The Last Policeman and its sequel, and I recently enjoyed William Shakespeare’s Star Wars . I’ve got a couple of new Quirk books to share with you here — one is a new book in a great Middle Grade reader series and the other is fun little book that’s a bit hard to categorize.
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If you’ve ever seen Powerpuff Girls or Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, you’ve already been introduced to the weird cartoon genius of Craig McCracken; and if you haven’t, then you’ve missed something. Either way, you’re in for a treat tonight as McCracken’s new series Wander Over Yonder has its premiere on Disney Channel.
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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has appeared on many TV shows, as either the star or a guest, over the past 15 years or so. But one thing he hasn’t done is been a voice actor on a cartoon show. Until now, that is. Yes, on tonight’s new episode of GeekDad favorite Phineas and Ferb, airing from 9:30 – 9:45pm ET/PT on Disney Channel, Ramsay will make his voice acting debut.
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Flipping channels manually is so last season. This year, let an app on your wifi enabled device switch the channels automatically when a commercial comes on.
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Welcome to the third of our irregular rounds-ups of all things Judge Dredd and 2000AD, this time featuring more movie sequel news, a new Dredd graphic novel and another from John Wagner, plus new Slaine stories in the weekly progs.
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Congrats to Garret from New Jersey, who was randomly selected to win the copy of the Harry Potter box set. Enjoy!
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