Video games ARE art, despite what any haters of the medium will want to tell you. Games like Journey and Limbo prove this to be true, and a game like Elegy for a Dead World furthers this idea exponentially. The best way the game could be described is sort of like those Mad-Lib games you […]
Marvel looks to have 2015 locked down pretty hard, movie-wise. Actually, they seem to have the next century planned out, but one of the movies we have to look forward to first is Ant Man. While anything with Paul Rudd has to be a certain amount of awesome, some people do seem to have their doubts. Thankfully, […]
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Empire Robotics have built a pretty impressive robot in the form of the Versaball. It is a simple robot arm that can do some really cool, simple things that would make your own life immeasurably easier (to help you change light bulbs and such). But apparently, while sitting around the lab figuring out other uses […]
You can’t deny that actor Michael Keaton had an amazing comeback in 2014 with Birdman. A movie essentially satirizing himself and his pop culture turn as Batman many years back (and how his career has sort of slowed down a bit since that role, inexplicably). Keaton recently went on The Superhero Show at IGN to […]
Futurama is an incredibly well written show that throws joke after joke at its audience, well aware that some of those jokes will only be picked up on by their brightest and most scientifically inclined fans. But it’s also clear to see the creators of the show enjoy that. Slipping in jokes that may fly […]
Continuing our look back at the stories we covered in 2014 and their subsequent developments, we turn to May. Despite finally bringing in a deadline to stop issuing security updates for the 13-year-old Windows XP, Microsoft issued a patch for Internet Explorer on the system, vowing it was a one-off. It has since stuck to […]
As we continue our look back on the stories we covered in 2014 — and the subsequent developments — we reach March. A group of more than a million players joined forces to beat Pokemon Red/Blue through a project that translated chat room comments into commands on a game broadcast over Twitch. That inspired similar […]
Kelley Swilley Ceccato was sick and tired of reading sci-fi and fantasy books that treated women and girls as second fiddles. Under the pen name Nan Monroe, Ceccato, a writer/performer with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, decided to write a young adult fantasy novel specifically for girls. Published by Gilded Dragonfly Books, the 300-page Atterwald tells the story of […]
Check out this awesome footage of the international volunteer-created larp College of Wizardry, a 3-day Harry Potter-themed larping event that took place in a castle museum in Czocha, Poland in November 2014. [cosmicjokeuk]