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5 PS3 Games You Want To Play This Winter
October 12, 2011 11:12 pm geeks and gamersBelow is a list of 5 games for the PS3 you don’t wanna miss playing this winter… especially if you call yourself a “gamer.” And if you’re hanging out in your apartment between classes this winter, might as well stay warm and game it up with your friends. Uncharted 3 Release Date: 11/1/2011 – Link [...]
Read More »10 Crazy, Cross-Genre Pairings We’d Like to See Movies About
May 13, 2011 4:23 pm Entertainment, geeks and gamers, movies and celebritiesYes, this started off as a joke post, but the farther we got into our list, the more we realized these would actually be really cool to see. Good job, Hollywood! Once again, you’ve taken the lead. Now take note: here are the ten unlikely cross-genre pairings we want to see next…
Read More »Zombie Mascots #1 – Ohio State Buckeye
January 19, 2011 4:37 pm College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamersDue to the overwhelming fan reaction to our zombie outbreak infographic, we’ve decided to give you more of what you want… ZOMBIES! To go with the NCAA basketball season currently underway, we start with the number one-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes.
Read More »Top 5 Superhero Battles of All Time
October 5, 2010 12:45 pm College Life, geeks and gamersIn the history of superhero comics, there have been a multitude of superhero fights. You could argue that these have become overdone, written into comics mostly to boost sales. Let’s ignore that for the moment, and instead, let’s check out the five best superhero fights…
Read More »Harvard Nerds & Vampire Girls: Movie Weekend Preview (October 1st-3rd)
October 1, 2010 11:12 am College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers, Hi-Tech Student, Humor, movies and celebritiesKicking off four weeks of intentionally and unintentionally terrifying movies this weekend are two big releases: Let Me In, which examines the horrors of adolescence through the lens of a vampire tale; and The Social Network, which confronts the horrific truth that socially inept geeks were the masterminds behind the digital powerhouse that is Facebook. Let’s dive in, shall we?
Read More »Marvel Studios President talks Iron Man 2 Alternate Opening
September 23, 2010 2:02 pm College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers, movies and celebritiesYou would think since I was chatting with the Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, I would offer my film resume in hopes of landing an ideal job with Marvel Studios. But it is not a blogging matter. It’s a profound, incredibly unfair advantage backed by almost 70 years of Marvel comic book material. “All [...]
Read More »Ultimate X-men #41 and Born-again Fandom
September 23, 2010 12:23 pm College Life, geeks and gamersI love starting with a generalization, because they’re mostly always true. It seems today that almost everyone reading comics has a “getting back into comics” story. It’s no secret that the Nineties weren’t the Shakespearian era of comics, and so everyone except those who collected gatefold covers got out and didn’t look back for about ten years or so. I have one such story…
Read More »Superman Today, Gone Tomorrow
September 20, 2010 10:22 am College Life, geeks and gamersIt’s not easy for me to talk about, but I’m going to take you back to a traumatic time in my life. Perhaps you’ve shared this experience. I was innocently going to the movies. It was 1998, and I had no idea what awaited me. I stood in line, carefully concealing my box of Mike [...]
Read More »The People v. iPad Comics
September 16, 2010 11:02 am College Life, geeks and gamers 
Released on April 3rd, the iPad was supposed to revolutionize comic books. While it wasn’t created for such an endeavor, it was — wait, what was the iPad created for? Regardless, PSPs, iPhones, and whatever else had tried, but to no avail. No one wants to squint while reading their comics. They want size. The iPad was to give us that.Now, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know about you, but I have an iPad. I’ve downloaded these apps, and I’ve found something…strange. The DC app. The Marvel app. The Image app. The Boom! app. They’re…the same.
Aliens in Film
September 10, 2010 10:40 am College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers, movies and celebritiesHow many films have been made with extraterrestrials? A lot. Since 1902, over 291 of these movies have been made in the U.S. and abroad. These movie aliens provide an amusing look into how we view foreigners, the government, and ourselves. This infographic compiles every movie ever made about extraterrestrials (for space sake, some foreign [...]
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