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• Electronic Arts Voted Worst Company In America
• Happy First Contact Day!
• Liam Neeson To Star In Airplane Action Thriller ‘Non-Stop’
• Interview: Anthrax Guitarist Rob Caggiano
• Comic Review: Jim Henson’s ‘Tale of Sand’
• Watch Now: ‘Doctor Who’ As A 16-bit Video Game
• Comic Review: Avenger vs. X-Men Infinite #1
• Disney Announces Date For Marvel’s ‘Captain America’ Sequel
• Comic Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Micro-Series #2: Michelangelo (Global Conquest Edition)
• Dark Horse Comics Announces ‘Portal 2′ Concept Art Book
• HBO Sets Premiere Dates For ‘True Blood’ Season 5, ‘The Newsroom’
• ‘The Mummy’ Franchise Being Rebooted With ‘Prometheus’ Writer Jon Spaihts
• Jim Marshall, Founder Of Marshall Amps, Is Dead At 88

Electronic Arts Voted Worst Company In America Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:00 PM PDT Electronic Arts hasn't made a whole lot of friends over the years as one of the video game industry's juggernaut publishers. This has been magnified in recent years as the evolution into downloadable content and the ever-growing control developers and publishers have over their titles after they've been released and make their way into your homes has allowed EA do things their way, a way that draws a very distinct line in the sand and declares one thing quite loudly: money over all else. [...]

Happy First Contact Day! Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:05 PM PDT Happy First Contact Day, everyone! Today, April 5, marks the day in the year 2063 in the Star Trek universe that the human race made first contact with an alien race. The event occurred after Dr. Zefram Cochrane successfully achieved warp flight in his ship the Phoenix while rockin' to the sounds of Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride." The pilot of the Vulcan ship T'Plana Hath traced the warp signature back to Earth and landed at the Phoenix launch site where he greeted Dr. Cochrane with the Vulcan Salute, thus history was made! In the film Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg use time travel with the intent to prevent First Contact, so it's up to the Next Generation crew to stop the Borg and also ensure that Cochrane makes his historic flight. Check out the video here below from First Contact of the launch of the Phoenix, as well as Cochrane's meeting with the Vulcan [...]

Liam Neeson To Star In Airplane Action Thriller ‘Non-Stop’ Posted: 05 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT Clearly Liam Neeson is enjoying his time as an action movie star, as he continues to line up one new project after the other. It's being reported that Neeson has entered into negotiations to star in Non-Stop, a new action thriller from Dark Castle Entertainment. Not much is known about the movie yet, but it will supposedly be a "gritty" and "contained" thriller set on a domestic flight, with Neeson playing an air marshal. [...]

Interview: Anthrax Guitarist Rob Caggiano Posted: 05 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT Before I can sit down Anthrax guitarist and producer Rob Caggiano points at me. "That's a cool shirt!" The last time Rob and I spoke (you can read the interview HERE) Anthrax was gearing up for the release of the much anticipated new album Worship Music. Fast forward ten months and I'm sitting here with Rob on the Anthrax tour bus as the guitarist nods his approval at my Van Halen t-shirt. One of the giants of thrash metal has pulled into Oxford for the first of only three UK shows before heading off to Russia and Indonesia over the course of March. "I love the UK!" Caggiano smiles. England was a place that he "didn't really dig" at first, but that soon changed when he spent extended periods of time here working with notorious English extreme metal band Cradle Of Filth: "I started working with Cradle and ended up staying in the UK for months at a time. I think the longest stretch was like eight months [or] seven and a half months and I just fell in love with it. I just completely love England. I love the countryside, I love London. I just love it all," he says, including my hometown: "Oxford's cool. Last night we stayed in a really cool hotel which was actually an old prison, it's like a castle!" [...]

Comic Review: Jim Henson’s ‘Tale of Sand’ Posted: 05 Apr 2012 03:00 PM PDT Jim Henson's Tale of Sand Written by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl Art by Ramon K. Perez Archaia Entertainment Release Date: January 31, 2012 Cover Price: $29.95 When Jim Henson passed away over 20 years ago, the creator left a legacy like no other. His hit show Sesame Street continues to educate kids all over the world. The Muppets, another one of his creations, has endured and just recently made it back into the spotlight, thanks to their recent hit movie. Even the Dark Crystal, though a dud when it came out, is now a cult classic. Henson fever remains alive and well, which is probably why Archaia has decided to published Tale of Sand, a lost screenplay from Henson himself [...]

Watch Now: ‘Doctor Who’ As A 16-bit Video Game Posted: 05 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT This was too brilliant not to share! The folks over at College Humor have prepared an extremely cool video simulation of Series 5 and 6 of Doctor Who if it had been made as a 16-bit video game. You can check out the clip at the bottom of this post. The CH video contains a lot of allusions and aspects of the major story arcs from the previous two seasons that follow the Doctor's Eleventh Incarnation (Matt Smith), as he encounters adventures with Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill), and River Song (Alex Kingston). Even David Tennant's Doctor gains a cameo at the start for a fun regeneration sequence [...]

Comic Review: Avenger vs. X-Men Infinite #1 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 01:00 PM PDT Avenger vs. X-Men Infinite #1 Creators: Richard Isanova, Joe Quesada, Mark Waid Publisher: Marvel Comics Release Date: April 4, 2012 Cover Price: $.99 The release of Avengers vs. X-Men Infinite #1 exclusive to digital represents the culminations of two big pushes by Marvel Comics. The first is the beginning of Marvel's big summer event, the final run of Brian Michael Bendis on The Avengers. The second push involves Marvel's next generation of digital comics: Infinite. First the story... Avengers vs. X-Men Infinite #1 is a short story, even for a comic book, but it's only $.99 bought alone or it comes free with the full-on Avengers vs. X-Men #1. Infinite #1 is a prequel to the events in the first issue of this new story arc. The Phoenix Force is returning to Earth. If you aren't aware of what the force is you obviously haven't ever been an X-Men fan. The Phoenix Force is an incredibly powerful entity that often visits Earth via a human host. When it comes it typically brings heartache, death, and massive destruction. The space-traveling Nova is the first person to see the trajectory of the Phoenix and he pushes himself beyond the limits of his own power to rush to Earth and deliver a warning. This story follows his journey [...]

Disney Announces Date For Marvel’s ‘Captain America’ Sequel Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:59 AM PDT Last week, we learned of a shortlist of directors for Marvel's planned sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger, with the first film's director, Joe Johnston, not making the cut. Today, Walt Disney Studios, which owns Marvel, revealed that the released date for the sequel will be April 4, 2014. The studio also released a new photo of Chris Evans as Captain America from next month's The Avengers. Check out the photo here above. According to Disney, the second Captain America film will pick up where The Avengers leaves off, "as Steve Rogers continues his affiliation with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D and struggles to embrace his role in the modern world." [...]

Comic Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Micro-Series #2: Michelangelo (Global Conquest Edition) Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Micro-Series #2: Michelangelo Global Conquest Edition Written by Brian Lynch Art by Andy Kuhn Colors by Bill Crabtree Letters by Shawn Lee IDW Publishing Release Date: March 7, 2012 Cover Price: $3.99 The weird part about this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles renaissance we're going through is seeing that word 'Teenage' still attached to them. Sad, but true, in just a couple years the franchise will be hitting 30. It's not like there have always been great reasons to stick around as a TMNT fan, either. Many of us who grew up with them (Is anyone reading these books who didn't grow up with TMNT in someway?), to various degrees, look back to the cartoons and movies and video games and breakfast cereals and Coming Out of Our Shells tour and wince a little out of embarrassment. What I suspect the folks at IDW understand is that we see the Eastman and Laird books as the high water mark, and while we accept the ADD kid-friendly stuff that came afterwards it's time to move forward [...]

Dark Horse Comics Announces ‘Portal 2′ Concept Art Book Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:00 AM PDT During a video game panel at Emerald City Comic-Con this weekend, Dark Horse Comics announced that they would be publishing a new concept art book for developer Valve's hit sequel, Portal 2. The book, titled The Art of Portal 2, gives fans a look at the game from initial concepts to the final product, with added insight from both artists and writers who have worked on the Portal game series. At 184 pages, fans will get their fill of mostly never-before-seen art, including looks at the Aperture Science facility, characters such as Chell, and the design process of Valve. [...]

HBO Sets Premiere Dates For ‘True Blood’ Season 5, ‘The Newsroom’ Posted: 05 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT HBO has officially announced start dates for season five of True Blood, as well as a new series titled The Newsroom. The fifth season of the ultra-popular vampire horror-fantasy series will debut on Sunday, June 10 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The show, set mainly in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, follows a waitress named Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) with peculiar abilities whose seemingly normal life is abruptly overtaken by vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, witches, and other fantastical beings...not to mention all of the dangers that come with them. [...]

‘The Mummy’ Franchise Being Rebooted With ‘Prometheus’ Writer Jon Spaihts Posted: 05 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT Universal Pictures has gotten a hell of a lot of mileage out of The Mummy series over the years. The 1932 original film helped establish Boris Karloff as a major horror star and spawned five sequels, including 1955's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Then in 1999 the studio revived the property as a big-budget Raiders of the Lost Ark-style adventure with state-of-the-art visual effects and reaped huge rewards. The revitalized Mummy franchise made stars out of Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz and spawned two sequels of inferior quality, but still proved to be blockbusters for the studio, not to mention inspiring the Scorpion King spin-off series. The last sequel, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, was released just four years ago, but now Universal is looking to reboot the franchise once again, and this time they've tapped Jon Spaihts to write the new movie [...]

Jim Marshall, Founder Of Marshall Amps, Is Dead At 88 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 06:30 AM PDT Jim Marshall, founder of the legendary Marshall Amplification company, passed away today, April 5, 2012, at aged 88. Name any band rock or metal band over the last 50 years and you can almost guarantee they plug their guitars into the same amplifiers. These same bands will all have a similar live set-up: walls of black squares adorned with the famous white signature of their creator: Marshall. Jim Marshall was born in London, England on July 29, 1923. Due to poor health as a child he was excused military service and found his way into music first as a singer then a drummer. Later, he ran a music shop in West London and through conversations with his guitar playing customers - which included such esteemed talents as Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple) and Pete Townshend (The Who) - founded his namesake company in 1962 [...]

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