Valve and Dark Horse have joined forces to bring us a hardcover edition of comics: over two hundred pages of story and awesome new art in three fan-favorite series. Included: Team Fortress, Portal and Left 4 Dead. These are new stories, including origins and history, for Valve’s greatest games. What’s not to love? Check out some of […]
The world’s first regular high-definition television broadcast took place 75 years ago. Of course it wasn’t 720 lines, but it was arguably the birth of what we know as television today. The broadcast came from Alexandra Palace (pictured) in London on November 2nd, 1936. It came seven years after the first broadcasts aimed at a […]
Some of you might be runners. Others might wonder why on earth you would want to run if nothing’s chasing you. Here’s a race for all of you! Run For Your Lives is part 5k race, part obstacle course, part zombie apocalypse training ground. Taking place in cities across the U.S. next year (currently Atlanta, […]
Tomorrow is Wednesday and that means new comic book day! I recently had a friend tell me he is giving up smoking, and using all this cigarette money on comics. I told him he’d still need to come up with more money for all the titles he likes to read. Luckily this will be a […]
It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population, especially in the West. As higher standards of living and better health care are reaching more parts of the world, […]
Just because there won’t be any more Harry Potter movies doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy a rousing game of Quidditch – or at least Muggle Quidditch, the real sport based on the fictional one. And if you’re interested in serious Quidditch teams, look no farther than the International Quidditch Association, the governing body founded […]
Thirty days and thirty nights of literary abandon began today for aspiring novelists participating in National Novel Writing Month. Launched in 1999, NaNoWriMo is an annual challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Last year, over 200,000 people signed up, writing 2,872,682,109 words. Of course, you can write a novel whenever you want to, […]
Minecraft isn’t just a game, it’s a work of art — and that’s official. That’s the verdict of judges at the UK’s GameCity event, which aims to celebrate video games in a cultural context. Though the festival, organized by Nottingham Trent University, has been running for five years, this is the first time it has […]
Lightwriting is so fun. Add a couple robots, a lightsaber and some sweet battle scenes and, even though we argue that this shouldn’t really be called “Starwars V Startrek”, you’ve got a cool little short. Starwars V Startrek from LICHTFAKTOR on Vimeo. Shot by Lichtfaktor for Sky Movies, it clocks in at just over two […]
You procrastinated and now you have like zero hours to make a costume. That’s ok–the Internet has a wealth of ideas for getting something together quickly and cheaply. And most of these are fun and meme-ish, so your geeky friends will know what you’re supposed to be. Best Halloween costume ever? NOPE, Chuck Testa. For […]