November 20th, 2009, 10:48 am by Jayson Peters
Chandler is the only Arizona city to host the Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience, an interactive event running Nov. 23 through Dec. 20 that lets shoppers take some of the newest video game titles for a spin.
Starting Monday in the Sears Court at Chandler Fashion Center, you’ll be able to try Wii games like New Super Mario Bros Wii and Wii Fit Plus and DS games such as Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, which releases Dec. 7.
Read on for a full description of the event and a list of all 35 U.S. shopping malls that are participating. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: Chandler • Events • Holidays • Nintendo • demos • DS • Mario • Wii • Wii Fit • Zelda | Post a Comment »
November 19th, 2009, 4:59 pm by Jayson Peters
 Brad Pitt’s production company has snagged the film rights to Dark Void, a new video game property from Capcom.
 Brad Pitt Plan B Entertainment has agreed to develop a sci-fi action franchise for the big screen as a potential starring vehicle for the actor.
Capcom will release Dark Void on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in North America on Jan. 19, 2010, and across Europe on Jan 22. The game is described as “an adrenaline-fuelled blend of aerial and ground-pounding combat which centers on Will, a pilot who crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle following a routine mission.
“Will wakes up to find himself in ‘The Void,’ an alternate world resembling a primitive earth where aliens with superior technology are planning to take over civilization. Together with a faction of humans who have disappeared into the Void, Will takes on the alien race using their own advanced technology including a high-powered jet pack to defeat them and keep order in the civilized world.”
Posted in: Gaming • Movies • PC • PlayStation 3 • Sci-Fi & Fantasy • Xbox 360 • Brad Pitt • Capcom • Dark Void | Post a Comment »
November 19th, 2009, 9:45 am by Jayson Peters
So, what do you do when you’re dumped by both your brooding vampire boyfriend and your brooding werewolf rebound? That’s the plot of New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, the movie based on Stephenie Meyer’s first novel.
The answer, Bella Swan decides, is to throw yourself into one hazardous situation after another just to get a fleeting glimpse of your former happiness. What else?
New Moon is a tight adaptation of the novel, which was full of action, humor and some decent drama. If you can get past the long stretches of unapologetic beefcake and the accompanying girly cheers and tween hype, it doesn’t make a bad movie.
Where it suffers, unforgivably, is in its leading man. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: Movies • Reviews • New Moon • Stephenie Meyer • Twilight | Post a Comment »
November 18th, 2009, 2:06 pm by Jayson Peters
IncGamers recently spoke with Mesa-based Stargate Worlds developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment about the increasing flow of news about the long-stalled online RPG:
 “Yes it is good to have some new content to show and start to be back in the public eye,” marketing director Jeremy Taylor told the site. “Most of our time without announcements came from the uncertainty of funding as we did not want to give our community and fan base consistently changing info. Production has never completely stopped and we still have a good group of developers working on bringing good quality content to market. It is certainly true that we went through our fair share of attrition due to funding issues but there is a team here and they are very dedicated.”
“While we continue to seek funding to take us to the finish line we are doing better and are making good progress.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: Business • Gaming • Mesa • PC • RPGs • Sci-Fi & Fantasy • Stargate • Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment • FireSky • Stargate Worlds • vaporware | Post a Comment »
November 18th, 2009, 10:52 am by Jayson Peters
 LeVar Burton and Felicia Day Phoenix Comicon organizers have announced the next big round of celebrity guests for Phoenix Comicon 2010, coming Memorial Day weekend at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Leading the pack is LeVar Burton, host of Reading Rainbow, Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Kunta Kinte from Roots.
Burton joins fellow TNG alum and ubergeek Wil Wheaton, along with the previously announced Jonathan Frakes, who played USS Enterprise first officer Will Riker. Frakes’ wife, General Hospital star Genie Francis, is also a guest.
Other Hollywood stars announced: John Schneider (Smallville and The Dukes of Hazzard), actress and geek goddess Felicia Day (The Guild, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Buffy the Vampire Slayer), perennial guest and The Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno, and Kevin Grazier, Ph.D., science adviser to the Syfy series Eureka and Battlestar Galactica. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: Comics • Conventions • Events • Sci-Fi & Fantasy • Smallville • Star Trek • Television • Felicia Day • LeVar Burton • Phoenix • Phoenix Comicon | 1 Comment »
November 17th, 2009, 9:20 pm by Jayson Peters
 It’s a relic from a time when Michael Jackson was trusted to entertain children, and now it looks like Captain EO is about to ride back to the big screen on the coattails of the documentary This Is It.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the short musical film produced by George Lucas and directed by Francis Ford Coppola will soon play again at Disneyland, where it ran in glorious 3-D from 1986-94. The unofficial Disney Blog reports that the park showed the space opera recently to Jackson family members — including the megastar’s children, who had never seen it.
After EO left Disneyland, it was replaced by another 3-D experience: Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.
See also: The King of Pop’s forgotten pop culture empire
Posted in: Deaths • Disney • Movies • Music • Sci-Fi & Fantasy • Captain EO • Michael Jackson | 1 Comment »
November 17th, 2009, 4:28 pm by Jayson Peters
 The official website of Star Trek Online has relaunched today with a new design and a first look at the game’s striking box art.
The online RPG, due out Feb. 2, is priced at $49.99. Subscription pricing has not been announced. PC system requirements were revealed last week.
Closed beta testing of the game, which is set in the generation after Star Trek: The Next Generation, began earlier this year.
Developers also announced that fan displeasure at word that starship interiors would not be accessible at launch has led to the inclusion of bridges as a venue for social interaction within the game.
But that’s not all! Hit the jump for a video showing how space combat will work.
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Posted in: Gaming • PC • RPGs • Star Trek • Atari • box art • Cryptic • Star Trek Online | Post a Comment »
November 17th, 2009, 3:26 pm by Chris "KeL" Adams
Publisher Harper Collins held recently held “The Graveyard Book Halloween Party Contest” in which independent bookstores would hold a in-store Halloween party using author Neil Gaiman’s novel The Graveyard Book as the theme. The results have just been announced and Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe was selected as one of the five first place finishers. They just missed out on winning the grand prize, consisting of a visit and signing by best-selling writer Neil Gaiman.
But all is not lost! By winning first prize, they’ll be receiving five signed copies of The Graveyard Book and a customized video greeting from Gaiman himself. Very impressive! It just goes to show you the wonders and importance of independent booksellers, so be sure to support your local indy bookstore!
Posted in: Books • Changing Hands • Gaiman | Post a Comment »
November 17th, 2009, 2:51 pm by Jayson Peters
 Big Finish Productions, masters of modern audio drama who kept Doctor Who alive with the original cast during the show’s long absence from the screen, are delving deeper into the show’s forgotten past. After already resurrecting scripts that were never made during Colin Baker’s time in the TARDIS, the company has announced it will record the stories that were set aside when the series was canceled in 1989 and Sylvester McCoy was the Doctor (pictured with Sophie Aldred as Ace).
The project came together quickly during a recent fan convention via text message, Facebook and hurried meeting. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: Doctor Who • Sci-Fi & Fantasy • Television • BBC • Big Finish Productions | Post a Comment »
November 17th, 2009, 1:22 pm by Jayson Peters
 This has been sitting in my e-mail for a few weeks now. I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, but my curiosity is always piqued when I get U.S. government correspondence containing the words “life on Mars” in the title — which would be almost never.
A series of depressions discovered on Mars could be entrances to a cave system that might provide shelter for future Mars missions or shed light on whether microbial life forms have ever existed on the “Red Planet.”
Caves could reveal secrets of life on Mars (USGS)
Posted in: Science • Mars • Notebook dump • USGS | Post a Comment »
November 16th, 2009, 3:31 pm by Jayson Peters
 Vintage villainy from 'The Venture Bros.' Cartoon Network is now offering build-your-own DVDs of Adult Swim series episodes — to the point where you even select the case artwork and disc name.
Starting today at AdultSwimShop.com, you can mix and match your favorite episodes of original series like Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture. Bros., Sealab 2021 and Tim & Eric Awesome Show — as many as will fit on the 110-minute disc. The $20 price includes free shipping within 48 hours.
Hit the jump to read the official announcement. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: Collecting • DVDs • Deals • Holidays • Television • Toons • Adult Swim • Aqua Teen Hunger Force • Cartoon Network • The Venture Bros. | Post a Comment »
November 16th, 2009, 2:43 pm by Jayson Peters
 Terry Goddard Vonage must alter its marketing practices, honor consumer cancellation requests and even provide refunds to some customers under a settlement announced today by Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard that also involves 31 other state attorneys general.
Customers had complained of difficulty dropping their service due to incentives Vonage offered employees who prevented cancellation, as well as confusion over the cost of the company’s equipment and services.
“We cannot allow companies to ignore their customers’ legal rights. Consumers must be treated with decency and not put off or prevented from canceling their phone service,” Goddard said in the announcement, which you can read in full after the jump.
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Posted in: Technology • Arizona • consumer rights • Law • Litigation • Terry Goddard • VoIP • Vonage | Post a Comment »
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