Archive for the ‘Conventions’ tag

DC’s New 52-Your Handy Checklist

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on September 3, 2011 at 4:25 am | No Comments

DC's New 52

We wanted to make sure you can easily get your mits on the New 52 from DC, as they’re released, this month. So we’ve prepared this handy checklist for you – just print it out, and check off the one’s you’ve bought. We’ve even added the release dates for each one. Yeah, we know, we’re [...]

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BlizzCon DENIED: Sometimes Life Has No Respect for Geek Needs

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:15 am | No Comments

BlizzCon Denied - anyone have a Kleenex? I hate to see a paladin cry...

Due to circumstances beyond our control, GeekSpeakBlog – in other words, ME – will not be attending BlizzCon after all. In the manner of all Mr. Murphy’s Laws, if something can go wrong, it probably will, and often literally in the 11th hour. So I offer sincere apologies to our readers and fans, as I [...]

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Blizzard Slays with the new Cataclysm Commercial!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 17, 2010 at 7:10 pm | No Comments

Deathwing blows it all away on December 7, 2010

I am not too proud, or too “adult” to say that when I watched this commercial, I sat here with my mouth agape, swept away under Deathwing’s destructive spell. This commercial made it’s debut during the Cowboys/Vikings game. So one form of gaming glory was the vehicle for another….Of course, if it had been a [...]

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BlizzCon or Bust! Tenacious D to Play! FourSquare Up with GSB in Anaheim!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 11, 2010 at 9:58 pm | No Comments

Tenacious D at BlizzCon

As I may have mentioned, I’ll be at BlizzCon this year, along with thousands of my closest gaming buddies. If you’ll be at BlizzCon, too, you can say “Mok’ra!” or “Bal’a Dash, Malanore!” (I’ll even be nice if you come up and say, “Ishnu-alah!”) Simply find me through FourSquare; I’ll be posting locations throughout the [...]

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The Squee Heard ‘Round Azeroth

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:45 pm | No Comments

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm drops 12/07/10

Blizzard Entertainment has upped the geek ante with the release of the Cataclysm “dump your gold HERE!” announcement. Yep, you guessed it. We now know that Cataclysm will be dropping on December 7, 2010. Not resting on their virtually enhanced laurels, though, they’ve also released the schedule of events (there’s also a printable version, that’s [...]

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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 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, [...]

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Cataclysmic News from Blizzard for World of Warcraft Gamers

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

Deathwing - 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 [...]

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The Squee heard round the World…or at least ComicCon

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on August 7, 2009 at 11:24 pm | No Comments

The kiss fans have waited for...The Doctor plants one on Capt. Jack!

Here’s a quickie for fans of Doctor Who, Torchwood or just really good kisses…yeah, kisses…It’s the kiss fans of both show have been waiting for! Can we say David Tennant AND John Barrowman? (And a little something for Russell T. Davies, too.) Yes, totally squee-worthy stuff, ladies and geekymen… http://tinyurl.com/lfuh55 Ummmm, don’t miss that drool…and [...]

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