I can’t let Dan have all of the comic-related fun, now can I? Dan’s five trades in today’s other Geek Beat article are fantastic and must reads, but I thought I’d add onto it by sharing... More
A port of Rockstar’s hugely successful handheld spinoff, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is to make its way to the iPad. Featuring updated high definition graphics for Apple’s tablet, the... More
A.K.A. Five Gateway Drugs That Will Get You Addicted to Mainstream Superhero Comics Superheroes are everywhere these days. You can find them dominating the box office at your local movie theater, taking... More
So in a recent article I wrote about my excitement in the re-release of the Dark Sun campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons. This was one of my favorite settings from Second Edition, an edition of... More
The first thing that struck me about the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins was that I couldn’t put it down. It is so gosh darn exciting. Collins combines some of the most epic emotional stakes... More
It’s invisible. It wafts through the air with all the pleasantness of freshly baked goods. Just, you know, odourless. Like carbon monoxide, but, well, not deadly. Digressed – it’s awesome. Yes,... More
“The rack. The chain from Torquemada’s rack.” “What? Who is this Torquemada woman?” “A different rack entirely.” There will be Warehouse 13 spoilers, and now I want borscht. I’ve... More
by Susan L. Carr In Making History, author Stephen Fry tackles the question “What if Hitler had never been born?” Cambridge history graduate student Michael Young sets out to answer... More
Labor Day is coming up this weekend, and for an ever-growing number of geeks in the Southeastern part of the US that means its time to get ready for Dragon Con. Held every year in Atlanta, it is now the... More
Does the name ring a bell? Certainly photography geeks out there should know of the Daguerreotype, the first successful photographic process. Daguerreotypes are photographs made with mercury vapor on copper... More
