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• Zombies To Do Battle With Vampires In Upcoming Episode Of Spike TV’s ‘Deadliest Warrior’
• Geek Art: ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Lost’ Prints
• Microsoft Loses $1.2 Million To Hackers Who Manipulate Marketplace Codes
• Spider-Man Debut Comic ‘Amazing Fantasy #15′ Sells For $1.1 Million
• ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ Officially Off; Guillermo Del Toro To Direct ‘Pacific Rim’ Next
• Blu-ray Deal: Lost: The Complete Collection
• Patrick Troughton Era Creature Returns In ‘Doctor Who’ Series 6
• ‘Doctor Who’ Returns This April With New Season

Zombies To Do Battle With Vampires In Upcoming Episode Of Spike TV’s ‘Deadliest Warrior’ Posted: 10 Mar 2011 07:48 PM PST If you've never seen Spike TV's hit series, Deadliest Warrior, it's a show that takes history's great warriors and pits them against each other to determine who of them is indeed deadliest. Spartans have battled ninjas, samurai have fought vikings, the Mafia has taken on the Yakuza, and Green Berets have entered into a firefight with the Russian Spetsnaz. In an exciting event for geeks the world wide, the network has announced a very special episode of the show where horror movie staples, Vampires and Zombies, will face off in an epic battle to determine who is deadliest. You can learn more about the episode and watch a brief teaser trailer for it by clicking on below now! The way the show works is, experts from the various warriors are brought in to help test whoever is fighting's most effective weapons and strengths. With someone like the Spartans, their swords and spears and other weapons are used on ballistic dummies (complete with skeleton, organs, and blood), pig carcasses (which are very similar to a human's flesh), and scientific data. [...]

Geek Art: ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Lost’ Prints Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:50 PM PST Over the past couple of months, I've really become interested in art prints. I'm a huge fan of everything Mondo does, but there are some other great prints out there that are worth your attention. In honor of its first year of selling prints, Fro Design Co is doing one final run of Lost-inspired prints that helped launched its success. Each print reflects a different number in the famed 4,8,15,16,23,42 sequence of numbers while corresponding to one of the six seasons of the television. Each individual season print is 11" by 17" and is $25, while the entire set is $120 [...]

Microsoft Loses $1.2 Million To Hackers Who Manipulate Marketplace Codes Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:46 PM PST Some crafty hackers figured out something interesting recently, and that discovery led to the loss of about $1.2 million dollars. The hackers worked with the algorithms that Microsoft uses for their codes -- randomly generated as necessary -- and figured out a way to tweak the codes just slightly in order to keep using them over and over and over. When done correctly about 160 Microsoft points were obtained, but as you might imagine this, done many times over, built up quickly. When it was all said and done, over a million dollars in virtual goodies were acquired, including some for various avatar props, making it (what's assumed to be) the biggest virtual points heist of all time...if such a thing existed. Don't go getting your hopes up that this is an existing gap in Microsoft's Marketplace system, though. The company has already put a block on the hacker's work and anyone else trying to score some freebies will likely be tracked and punished. [...]

Spider-Man Debut Comic ‘Amazing Fantasy #15′ Sells For $1.1 Million Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:47 PM PST The comic book in which your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man debuted sold this week for $1.1 million. That's a lot of dough for a comic that originally sold for 12 cents. But Amazing Fantasy #15, the issue Spidey first graced comic book pages, is a comic issue of legend, held in very high regard among comic book geeks around the world. I've always been a Spider-Man fan, more so than any other hero and growing up I remember first learning about Amazing Fantasy #15. There's something enigmatic about that issue, something almost magical. I used to own several reprints of the issue back home in Australia, and while it was awesome to hold his origin story in my hands, it still wasn't the Holy Grail of Spider-Man Comics: an original copy. I recall snapping up Marvel's spin to release Amazing Fantasy #16, #17, and #18 many moons ago. Clearly, it was an effort by Marvel to make more bucks off the character's name and legend, but the storyline was a transition of what happens to Peter Parker from the closing frame of Amazing Fantasy #15 to the opening page of The Amazing Spider-Man #1. Call me a sucker for buying into it, but I loved the connection and transition the Marvel crew made -- if anything, it paid tribute to the enigma of Amazing Fantasy #15, without tarnishing the reverence fans have for it [...]

‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ Officially Off; Guillermo Del Toro To Direct ‘Pacific Rim’ Next Posted: 10 Mar 2011 11:57 AM PST x Sigh. Since 2008's Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Guillermo del Toro has been attached to direct some truly exciting movies. Unfortunately for we the fans, the Hollywood machine is a fickle beast and now two of said exciting projects have perished, and we're hearing about the third movie that del Toro will be directing "next." It started with The Hobbit, which del Toro was attached to helm for a long while before constant delays forced him to walk away from the two-part movie. Next up was the thrilling announcement that he would instead be taking on At the Mountains of Madness, an adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story that Guillermo had been dreaming about making. With James Cameron by his side it appeared that this one would be a surefire success, but alas, after whispers of trouble on the horizon, we now know that Universal Pictures has decided not to back the passion project. So why exactly did this ambitious project fail and what will del Toro do next? Keep on reading to find out! [...]

Blu-ray Deal: Lost: The Complete Collection Posted: 10 Mar 2011 10:09 AM PST The Blu-ray deal of the week over at Amazon this week is Lost: The Complete Collection, which is on sale for $167.99 (that's 40% off the list price of $279.99). Note, this deal is valid through the end of the week PST on Saturday, March 12, 2011. This Blu-ray box set contains all six seasons of the popular televisions series Lost, along with over three hours of new bonus features [...]

Patrick Troughton Era Creature Returns In ‘Doctor Who’ Series 6 Posted: 10 Mar 2011 09:13 AM PST As we move closer to the first episode of of Doctor Who Series 6, there are more tidbits of information coming out about this year's season -- including returning villains (and the tools at their disposal) and surprising guest stars that are returning from Series 5. The following information could be considered a tad on the spoilery side --- so consider to have been alerted! First off, as the spoiler-hounds have known for some time now, the Cybermen will be returning in Series 6, but what makes things interesting is who and what will also be in the episode [...]

‘Doctor Who’ Returns This April With New Season Posted: 10 Mar 2011 07:59 AM PST After nearly three months without new programming, Doctor Who will return for a new season beginning April 23, 2011 on BBC America. The first episode, penned by showrunner Stephen Moffat, kicks off a two-part story that reunites eleventh Doctor lead Matt Smith and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) after a special summons takes them on an adventure that starts in a Utah desert and leads all the way back to the 1969 White House in Washington, D.C. [...]

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