Archive for November 7th, 2008

Lost Gets a Premiere Date!

Our prayers have been answered! ABC has just confirmed to me that Lost has received an official premiere date for season five, and even better, it’s a smidgen earlier than expected.
On Wednesday, Jan. 21, Lost returns with a three-hour (you heard me, three-hour!) premiere. “Because You Left” and “The Lie” will air back-to-back, following a [...]

Hounsou to voice ‘Black Panther’

Comic Book Biz: BET animated series adapted from Marvel comic — BET Networks and Marvel Animation have tapped big-screen thesp Djimon Hounsou (”Blood Diamond”) to give voice to the title character in the cable net’s upcoming animated skein, “The Black Panther.”

NXE Invites Going Out

Major Nelson has just updated his blog to let everyone know that more NXE preview invites are being sent out tomorrow, November 8th.
I mentioned this on my last show, but now it’s time to make it happen. This week we took a look at the list of the thousands of Xbox LIVE members that originally [...]

New InCharge for Xbox 360: 25 Hours of Battery Life

A new peripheral for Xbox 360 allows gamers to charge their controller batteries without removing the battery pack from the controller itself. Although the play-and-charge pack already enables this while gamers play, TeknoCreations claims that its new InCharge Inductive Charger provides enough juice to the recharged batteries to enable 25 hours of continuous play.Using a [...]

Players Drawn Away By Age of Conan and Warhammer Going Back To WoW

Strike Age of Conan and Warhammer Online from the list of massively multiplayer games with the potential to dethrone World of WarCraft. It looks like just the promise of Wrath of the Lich King has been more than enough to draw in the fans that had drifted away.
According to Edge Online, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime [...]

The CW & Warner Bros. TV Scrap Graysons

The CW and Warner Bros. TV have been forced to scrap their plans for “The Graysons,” reports Variety. The show, which had been given a put pilot commitment, was set to revolve around Batman sidekick Robin in his pre-Caped Crusader days.
The trade says the decision to yank the project came from Warner Bros. Pictures Group [...]