Who doesn’t want to see Chris Hardwick dressed up as Leia? If that is just me then don’t mention it and let me enjoy my weird fantasies.
Anyway, Hardwick and his people over at Nerdist.com have released their first episode in the Course of the Force web series which will coincide with the July 9-16th lightsaber relay run of the same name which starts at Skywalker Ranch and ends in San Diego for Comic-Con.
The lightsaber used for the run has gone missing and Chris had dispatched Matt Mira to investigate and find it before the event is ruined.
This year marks the Man of Steel’s 75th anniversary and DC is beginning to ramp up the festivities this summer. Of course you have Zack Snyder’s huge summer film Man of Steel and on the comics side there are two new series debuting this summer, Scott Snyder and Jim Lee’s Superman Unchained and Greg Pak and Jae Lee’s Batman/Superman.
DC has released an official logo for Superman’s big year which will accompany everything having to do with the big, blue boy scout this year.
A two minute animated feature produced by Zack Snyder which will detail Superman’s legacy from comics to cartoons to movies will also be released sometime this year.
We here at Nerd Rating are on official countdown to The Last of Us. 16 days until Naughty Dog’s much anticipated post-apocalyptic story is finally in our hands.
Today the studio announced that the game will be getting a Season Pass that will have three DLC packs, two for multiplayer and one for single player. Exactly how the DLC will fit into the single player story is very much a mystery.
The Last of Us Season Pass will cost $20 and will also give buyers character boosts like increased crafting and healing as well as weapon upgrades and a 90 minute documentary titled “Grounded”.
Among the many rumors swirling around J.J. Abrams Star Wars Episode VII my favorite is easily the one that involves the director wanting his Fringe star John Noble to play a part. In a recent interview with IGN, the former Walter Bishop was asked about said rumor and Noble was more than willing to venture into the galaxy far, far away.
“That would just be epic doing something like that. And it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. I have a terrific relationship with J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot, I really do. So it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. It’s awhile away yet.”
Noble was then asked what it would be like joining up with a franchise as big as Star Wars especially given his work in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
“Well, I mean Star Wars. If you’re going to do one, do Star Wars. I mean seriously, if you’re going to pick one to do, do that one. Because that’s basically a cultural revolution. It reset pop culture in some ways. So if I had to choose one, it would be that one.”
Look, you can bring back your Hans, Lukes and Leias all you want, as of right now I basically have two requirements for Episode VII.
1. [amazon_link id=”0544115899″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Fall of Arthur[/amazon_link]- J.R.R. Tolkien- $25
The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur’s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere’s flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur’s return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle.
Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him ‘You simply must finish it!’ But in vain: he abandoned it, at some date unknown, though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937, the year of the publication of The Hobbit and the first stirrings of The Lord of the Rings. Years later, in a letter of 1955, he said that ‘he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur’; but that day never came.
The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black’s magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray’s Anatomy for mythological beasts—dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus—all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.
3. [amazon_link id=”1613776128″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Star Trek: The John Byrne Collection[/amazon_link]- John Byrne- $49.99
Comics legend John Byrne has taken on 4 Star Trek titles, and they are all collected here, in one oversized hardcover collection. “Assignment Earth” recounts the adventures of interstellar agent Gary Seven, “Crew” recounts a tale from the very beginnings of the United Federation of Planets, “Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor” is a collection of tales from the member of the Frontier Medics Program, and mystery, intrigue, and war abound in “Romulans.”
4. [amazon_link id=”0425264181″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The City[/amazon_link]- Stella Gemmell- $26.95
In the center of the City lives the emperor. Few have ever seen him, but those who have recall a man in his prime, though he should be very old. Some grimly speculate that he is no longer human, if he ever was. A small number have come to the desperate conclusion that the only way to stop the war is to end the emperor’s unnaturally long life.
From the mazelike sewers below the City, where the poor struggle to stay alive in the dark, to the blood-soaked fields of battle, where few heroes manage to endure the never-ending siege, the rebels pin their hopes on one man—Shuskara. The emperor’s former general, he was betrayed long ago and is believed to be dead. But, under different aliases, he has survived, forsaking his City and hiding from his immortal foe. Now the time has come for him to engage in one final battle to free the City from the creature who dwells at its heart, pulling the strings that keep the land drenched in gore.
Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before, then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in London: “Your patient must be an imposter.”
Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle’s house? And what has become of her two most precious possessions, a dragonfly pin left to her by her mother and a writing case containing her journal, the only record of those missing weeks? Georgina’s perilous quest to free herself takes us from a cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon House and into a web of hidden family ties on which her survival depends.
It is becoming very eerie how much Microsoft is sounding like Sony from 2005 when the Playstation 3 was announced. They are on the top of the heap and may have developed a bit of big head syndrome. Always online with 24 hour internet checks, extra fees for playing games on other profiles are just the beginning of Microsoft’s uphill battle for next-gen supremacy, but they don’t seem to be too worried.
Take, for example, an interview with Phil Spencer, Microsoft Studios corporate vice-president had with Official Xbox Magazine.
“We believe that if all you want is gaming, you’ll still pick us, at the end of the day. The super core guys, they will buy everything. They will buy all devices, but most people really only do buy one device, and if you’re going to think about what that one device is, we believe an all-in-one system that does the best games and TV and entertainment will be something that’s really unique.”
Now there is some truth in that statement in that some hardcore gamers will pick up both systems, but the statement reeks of taking the gaming community for granted. It sounds so passive like “we don’t need to worry about gamers, they will buy shit on a stick if it has Xbox on it”.
Do we need to begin a ticker for how many times Microsoft can screw up before E3?
It was the heavyweight battle of Fast & Furious 6 vs. The Hangover Part III and it wasn’t even a contest. Diesel, Walker and The Rock KO’ed The Wolfpack with ease in the biggest Memorial Day ever at the box office.
Two new TV spots for Man of Steel are here featuring new footage of Zack Snyder’s epic feeling movie. More action and more Russell Crowe are the name of the game.
Cybersquatting is not a new thing. People have been making quite a bit of money off of it for years. Buy up a popular available domain name that may need to be used in the future and wait for a company to buy the rights from you. It seems Microsoft is hitting a wall with the Xbox One in that someone owns the domain rights and has for the past two years.
One man in London owns the rights to XboxOne.com and XboxOne.net and Microsoft has filed a dispute seeking to get these domain names for their use.
I am not worried about the whole domain name deal. What I am wondering about is why Microsoft just now filed the dispute for these names. They have already snatched up domain names for all of the possible names we had heard about, but this is the first we have heard about this and it is after Microsoft has announced the name of the console.
This tells me that the Xbox One name was not decided upon until the event was almost upon us or Microsoft changed the name in an attempt to swerve everyone who thought they had the name figured out. The console simply said Xbox on it and a company as large and well thought out as Microsoft had not even filed for the domain names of their next-gen console? Mix this in with the garble of messages about used games and always being online and it looks like Microsoft waited three months after Sony’s press conference and still seemed rushed into an announcement.
