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 womenย and girlsย as second fiddles. Under the pen name Nan Monroe, Ceccato, a writer/performer with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, decidedย to write a young adult fantasyย 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]
If you’ve ever wondered if you could replace the turkey in your Thanksgiving dinner with hot dogs, you’re probably a bit weird. But never mind, because the not-entirely-unbiased source of Oscar Meyer has published instructions for doing just that. It’s hard to imagine this would be tastier or quicker than turkey, but it would certainly […]
Ignore the video’s title as the reactions — and the way they change during the game — are much more about the newbie experience than they are about gender.
One of the main writers of the Choose Your Own Adventure series has died aged 78. RA Montgomery was also the key to the books getting published. Although some obituaries are listing Montgomery as the creator of the series, that’s not entirely accurate. The idea itself is usually credited to Edward Packard, who developed the […]
For me, Quebec city is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and even though many would argue that the climate here kind of sucks, it totally feels like home to me. So I guess you can imagine my excitement when I learned a few months ago that there would be a Comic […]
Meet… the Death Star Theater. Star Wars fans Vic Wertz and Lisa Stevens paid homage to their love by enlisting Doug Chiang, the lead designer on Episode I and Episode II, to create a SW-themed home theater and the end result? The control deck of the Death Star! (Although, Wertz believes inspiration came from Vader’s […]
Jon Lazar has customized Lego minifigures to recreate 31 super heroines nominated by readers of his blog. He explains: When the LEGO Friends line was introduced, it was met with mixed reviews. Many little girls loved it and LEGO builders liked the colors that were introduced with the line, but it was often derided for […]