Featured Story #1
Commands & Colors Napoleonics From GMT Games
Commands & Colors Napoleonics has just gone up on GMT’s P500 list. Commands & Colors: Napoleonics allows you to re-fight epic battles of the Napoleonic era. In this core volume, the focus is on the French and the British, two bitter rivals in the struggle for European... [Read more...]
Featured Story #2
Cthulhu Fiction: Mysteries Of The Worm, 3rd Ed By Robert Bloch
This just in from Chaosium: Mysteries of the Worm New Edition to Release August 2009. The book is printed and should arrive at our warehouse next week. Mysteries of the Worm 20 Early Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Robert Bloch Third Edition $15.95 CHA 6037 ISBN 1-56882-176-X ISBN-13:... [Read more...]
Featured Story #3
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 - Deadpool Trailer
Coming this fall 2009, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 will bring back the teamwork, drama, and excitement that began in Marvel Ultimate Alliance. One of the featured playable characters is the ever popular Deadpool. Below is a trailer highlighting some of the gameplay that can be... [Read more...]
Featured Story #4
Mother’s Day - A Geek’s Guide To Being Prepared
Mother’s Day is almost upon us. Are you Prepared? In our day to day routines, we often overlook the most obvious things in our lives. Take a moment now to plan your Mother’s Day and don’t wait until the last minute. Yes, I’m talking to all of you geeks... [Read more...]
Featured Story #5
Book Review - “The Savage Tales Of Solomon Kane” by Robert E. Howard
Solomon Kane is one of Robert E. Howard’s most enigmatic characters. First appearing in 1928, there were nine short stories, three poems and four fragments written by Howard about the dour-faced Puritan avenger. All of these woks appear in “The Savage Tales Of Solomon... [Read more...]
Movies/TV
New Iron Man 2 Trailer Left Me Speechless!
Paramount has released the newest trailer for Jon Favreau’s upcoming Iron Man 2, and you can view it at Apple.com. Needless to say, it’s awesome.
We get lots of Robert Downey Jr.’s trademark humor (they should call him Tony Snark), Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts, a new look at War Machine, a lot of Mickey Rourke’s cool new villain Whiplash and a bit of Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow bringing the smackdown.
The sequel features the continuing adventures of billionaire industrialist Tony Stark and his alter ego, Iron Man. It opens May 7, 2010.
Here is the YouTube version below… [Read more...]
Technology
Oppo Multitouch Android Smartphone
OPPO is known as a portable media player manufacturer in its early years in China. The company will launch their first Android-powered smartphone in the first quarter of 2010. The phone will comes with a 3.5-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, a side slide QWERTY keyboard and a Wi-Fi connectivity. The name of the model is still unavailable at this time. Stay tuned for more updates.
Comic Book News
Disney’s ‘DigiComics’ iPhone App Launching Worldwide In 2010
Disney is rolling out a digital comics application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch and Sony’s PlayStation Portable globally beginning in Italy and soon to include the U.S. and UK, with rollouts in key markets throughout the world in 2010.
Disney DigiComics will begin by offering a relatively modest fifty downloadable comics featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other familiar Disney characters via in-app purchases, according to the Disney Comics Worldwide blog. The company will then begin adding five to ten new comics weekly, continuing storylines.
The comics were originally created for newspapers and magazines in Disney-crazy Italy, though in the future new content may be created just for the application. Series available first, according to the report, are X-Mickey, Wizards of Mickey, The Canterville Ghost, and Phantom of the Opera. Wizards of Mickey is published in the States by Boom! Studios (see “Boom’s Disney Standards”).
Up to 50,000 stories from the Disney archives are eventually planned for release through the app, according to Italy.
The new application represents a divergence from Disney’s digital strategy for desktop, where it’s pursuing a subscription model. Disney Books is now offering over 500 titles online by subscription for an annual fee of $79.95 (see “Disney Makes Children’s Books Available Online”).
Gaming
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker English Demo Releases Today
No matter how often you play it, you won’t be able to understand the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker TGS demo unless you know Japanese. Thankfully, all that changes today with a brand new English language demo for your PSP. Based on our calculations, the English translation makes it about 15% more comprehensible than before. Excellent!
The demo will be available on the PlayStation Store and here on Joystiq (via BigDownload) later today. To ensure a problem-free experience, make sure you have the latest firmware update and have at least 103MB of free space on your PSP.
Gallery: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
