This weekend I had the chance to visit the Twin Galaxies Arcade and eSports Event Center in Banning CA. The display was pretty impressive. For the first time since 1984, video gaming and player ranking authority Twin Galaxies has opened its own arcade and eSports professional expo center. In observance of a new, modern era for the...
Archive - May 2015
When I chose to recap Outlander for the venerable website which you now read, it was despite the facts that a) I had never read the books, b) it had received only a middling review from a certain viewer whose tastes tend to jibe with my own, and c) I was male—indeed, I still am—and therefore patently not the target demographic. Happily, I...
Melissa Benoist stands cooly in front of flaming wreckage in her cool new costume in CBS’ highly-anticipated superhero series, Supergirl. She is actually the second [easyazon_link identifier=”B009LDD5E0″ locale=”US” tag=”legoflei07-20″]Glee[/easyazon_link] alum to join in on the superhero fun made...
In news that comes a little surprise, Lionsgate has confirmed that its upcoming adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey will be spread over multiple installments. While it remains to be seen whether the work will be divided into two parts or if this will become yet another trilogy, CEO Jon Feltheimer was recently quoted as saying that the...
Ant Lucia’s pin-up style artwork of DC Comics’ female superheroes took the comic book world by storm. The covers, posters, and statues were so popular, DC is bringing the Bombshells back! This time around, the DC Bombshells are being turned into satin robes from Underboss. As pictured below, the robes feature Harley Quinn (on...
I was disappointed with the last hoverboard headline I read from Hendo. I wanted to see a hoverboard in a real world environment that was being flown by a mad man. Enter Canadian maker Catalin Alexandru Duru, inventor of a hoverboard that set a world record for longest distance traveled on a hoverboard. The clip released recently is from his...
Fans of the Tron series may be disappointed to hear that Tron 3 is not going forward at Disney. As a huge fan of the first film back in 1982 (please don’t do the math), I was thrilled to see the news that Tron: Legacy starring Olivia Wilde and Garrett Hedlund was happening. I had a blast on the set. The movie, however, was...
The Eisner Award nominated [easyazon_link identifier=”1632150190″ locale=”US” tag=”legoflei07-20″]The Wicked + The Divine[/easyazon_link] is breaking out to TV land! Universal Television has optioned the rights to the property for Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick’s new production company Milkfed Criminal...
[easyazon_link identifier=”B00BFX4FUM” locale=”US” tag=”legoflei07-20″]Disney XD[/easyazon_link], the channel all the cool Disney cartoons call home now, just unveiled new footage from Marvel’s upcoming new animated series, Guardians of the Galaxy. In the clip below, there’s about 17 seconds of new...
As someone who has been harassed online for things like reporting on #gamergate, Anita Sarkeesian, a Star Wars shirt that called Princess Leia “Most Likely to be Rescued,” the Spider-Woman variant cover, etc., I was pleased to learn that the Department of Justice is now going to take online harassment seriously. Look, I work on the...