Archive for the ‘Events’ category

Sequel to Best Selling Batman: Arkham Asylum Video Game Announced

Posted by GeekSpeaker | Posted on December 13, 2009 at 1:48 pm | 2 Comments

Sequel to Best Selling Batman: Arkham Asylum Video Game AnnouncedBatman and Joker will be back on video game consoles everywhere when the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum is released

Comic Book Resources is reporting that a sequel to the best selling Batman: Arkham Asylum video game is already in the works. The announcement came during Spike TV’s 7th Annual Video Game Awards.

The site reports that, while the game didn’t win any awards, everyone’s favorite Dark Knight was present throughout the ceremony, with the [...]

Star Wars Celebration V Coming to Orlando, FL in 2010

Posted by GeekSpeaker | Posted on December 4, 2009 at 12:39 pm | 1 Comment

Star Wars Celebration V Coming to Orlando, FL in 2010Star Wars Celebration V is heading to Orlando, FL in August, 2010

As a native Floridian and native Orlandoan (Orlandonian? Orlandoite?), this is indeed huge news. It seems that the premier convention for all things Star Wars is coming to my fair city in August, 2010, as Star Wars Celebration V will be landing at the Orange County Convention center next summer.

From August 12 -15, 2010, fans [...]

True Blood Players Presents: Bites 4 Blood-Virtual Twitter Blood Drive

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on November 30, 2009 at 2:20 pm | 3 Comments

True Blood Players Presents: Bites 4 Blood-Virtual Twitter Blood DriveTrue Blood Players: Bites for Blood

Fans of the True Blood Players know and love SookieBonTemps and her fellow players on Twitter. For those new to this group of virtual thespians, they assume the identities of the characters from Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse novels, and the HBO series, True Blood. Within these personas, they play out the stories presented on the show, [...]

Gamers, get your WoW on for Halloween!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 23, 2009 at 2:20 am | No Comments

Gamers, get your WoW on for Halloween!Night Elf Prosthetic Latex Kit

If you’re hoping to express your inner gaming geek, while trick or treating this year, check out the w00tworthy masks from the BuyCostumes website. They’ve got the licensed loot from Blizzard, so you can get your geek on in style, this Halloween, or just stock up so you’ll be ready for some hard core party-time [...]

Horrible Emmy Announcement! The status is NOW Quo!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on September 21, 2009 at 2:45 am | 1 Comment

Horrible Emmy Announcement! The status is NOW Quo!Dr. Horrible

 Neil Patrick Harris was the athletic, yet luminous host to the Emmys, last night. He did his usual, quirky, amusing best, but the highlight for fans and members of the Evil League of Evil the world over occurred when Dr. Horrible took over the 2009 Emmys for one brief, sort-of shiny, slightly buffered moment. Just as [...]

Cataclysmic News from Blizzard for World of Warcraft Gamers

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on August 22, 2009 at 12:05 am | 3 Comments

Cataclysmic News from Blizzard for World of Warcraft GamersDeathwing - World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

 

Let’s get the biggest and best news out of the way first: Blizzard confirmed the next expansion for World of Warcraft will be Cataclysm. For those who play and haunt the chat groups, we sort of knew this was coming. However, you can now see the video and new artwork on the newly revealed Cataclysm [...]

Google Logo – 7/23/09

Posted by Jason | Posted on July 23, 2009 at 9:08 pm | 1 Comment

Google Logo – 7/23/09Google Logo in honor of Comic-Con 2009 on July 23, 2009

Google always surprises with interesting logos on their main search page.  I am sure we all have seen them.  Today, they pleased me by putting up a logo in honor of Comic-Con 2009.  The logo is designed by Jim Lee of DC Comics and shows the word Google inhabited by Superheroes Batman & Robin; Green [...]

Comic-Con: Sunday Programming

Posted by GeekSpeaker | Posted on July 13, 2009 at 12:27 pm | No Comments

Comic-Con: Sunday ProgrammingSan Diego Comic-Con International, July 22 - 26, 2009

The Comic Con Programming Guide for Sunday has been released, and, as usual, it’s a nice low key day to wrap up the four (and 1/2 if you go to Preview Night!) days of fun and excitment. Sunday is considered “Kids Day” at Comic Con, so there’s a lot of programming that day suited for [...]