Nintendo has a pretty serious problem on its hands: The Wii is outselling the Wii U, and the Wii isn’t selling that well. The public doesn’t understand what the Wii U is or why they should buy one. So Nintendo is doing something that’s… actually really sensible and a great idea: They’re teaming up with Best Buy to put unreleased games into stores for you to try out. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook is spending a not-inconsiderable sum of money to make clicking the site’s “Like” button a protected form of speech. So much so that they’ve appealed a ruling against the concept and are currently making arguments in front of a federal appeals court. But why is Facebook, a company that regularly engages in actions that border on privacy supervillainy, suddenly so dedicated to free speech? Read the rest of this entry »
When you speak to Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson, the one thing that pops out about them the most is what great friends they are. Over the course of a long, freewheeling chat, Busiek and Anderson teased each other, made each other laugh, and communicated, above all, a real sense of friendship and genuine pleasure in their work. And you can tell they’re glad to get Astro City back in front of readers. We asked them about the process, and why the book went so suddenly on hiatus. Read the rest of this entry »
As some of you may perhaps know, an obscure sitcom called Arrested Development is being brought back for a fourth season by Netflix. In a desperate attempt to make the Internet aware of the show, the producers put out InsertMeAnywhere, an attempt to crowdsource funny marketing materials. And Capcom answered the call. Read the rest of this entry »
This stock photo might be the album cover.
You mostly remember Andrew Mason, if at all, for being fired from Groupon. To Mason’s credit, he was honest about his failings and didn’t try to run some line of B.S. about it. And he showed a considerable sense of humor, something we’re kind of hoping extends to the album he’s just announced. Read the rest of this entry »
Hawkeye is a book we may have mentioned a little bit in the past. So we are, of course, mildly excited to discover Matt Fraction, the writer, is selling official T-shirts. And even better, they’re going to a good cause. Read the rest of this entry »
Star Trek Into Darkness actually does everything right, regardless of how you feel about the franchise. It’s action-packed; it’s fast-paced; it’s even actually surprisingly thoughtful, raising the question of whether we hunt terrorists damn the torpedoes or whether we stop and think about the moral consequences of our actions. Do we go to our enemies guns blazing and give no quarter, or do we refuse to accept war as an inevitability?
And then everybody loses their damn minds. Spoilers to follow. Read the rest of this entry »
Bitcoin is a fascinating experiment, albeit one that has a lot of volatility and one that attracts the attention of extremely unsavory characters as well as Internet libertarians. But the currency is currently dealing with a fairly important setback in the form of a major exchange, Mt. Gox, being in serious trouble with the US Government. Here’s what’s going on, and why. Read the rest of this entry »
Batgirl just wrapped up a major arc, and Barbara is a mess due to various events we won’t spoil here. So now would be a very, very bad time for a new psycho killer to show up. Unfortunately, the Ventriloquist has never been noted for his, or rather her, sense of timing. Read the rest of this entry »
