EA has announced that for the 25th anniversary of Trivial Pursuit, our favorite quiz board game, EA will be releasing the game for play online on the next-gen consoles. EA also plans to release the game for mobile phones. The game will even be available on Pogo.com, EA’s web-based gaming site. Click read more for…
Daily Archives: January 9, 2009
Nvidia launches GTX 295 and GTX 285
Dual GPU GTX 295 is finally a reality as Nvidia has given the needed official acknowledgement. Two GTX 200 GPUs stuck together make this beast world’s faster dual GPU card. The specs are no surprise here as it is based on 55nm, DirectX 10, internal SLI with 1792MB of DDR3 memory, 480 processor cores and…
Expect Office 2007′s ‘Ribbon’ UI to permeate Windows 7, Microsoft says
The controversial ‘Ribbon’ user interface that Microsoft introduced in Office 2007 is being used for some of Windows 7′s built-in applications, such as WordPad and Paint. Tweet Source
New Eureka Cast Member Creates Sparks for Sheriff Carter
Actress Jamie Ray Newman (”Veronica Mars,” “Heroes”) joins the SCI FI Channel’s hit series “Eureka” when the second-half of the third season returns this summer. Newman will portray Dr. Tess Fontana, a new brain-wiz at Global Dynamics. You can catch a sneak peek of her debut HERE. Tweet Source
Braga Talks About “Flash Forward”
On Slice of SciFi #190, we brought you news that Robert J. Sawyer’s novel, “Flash Foward” was being made into a potential television series for ABC. The series is being billed as a companion piece to “Lost” for the alphabet network. One of the producers for the pilot and potential series is long-time “Star Trek”…
New details revealed about AMC’s re-imagined The Prisoner
Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel (center) star in AMC’s new The Prisoner. Only truly obsessive sci-fi geeks remember The Prisoner. Patrick McGoohan’s stylish 1967 British series is a cult hit about a man trapped for unknown reasons in a picturesque town called The Village and identified only as Number Six. He can’t figure out why…
Ghostbusters Officially Dated
Finally, the elusive Ghostboasters game has a date nailed down. On June 16, 2008 in North America, Atari says the game will be ready. This happens to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of the original film’s release. The rest of the world outside North America will see the game three days later on June 19,…
Amazing Spider-Man Obama Issue SELL OUT
Many Comic Book stores are already selling out of BOTH COVERS of Amazing Spider-Man #583 — featuring an appearance by President Elect Obama — and and the book doesn’t even come out until Wednesday! 2nd printing should arrive later this month (21st or 29th). Tweet
UPDATED: Wizard Cancels WizardWorld LA, Texas
Newsarama has learned that Wizard has canceled both its Los Angeles and Dallas-based conventions for 2009 Tweet Source
Sam Raimi Wants Morbius in Spider-Man 4
Sam Raimi revealed his pick for the villain for Spider-Man 4 in the latest issue of Empire Magazine. “I like it in the Marvel comics when Spider-Man fights Morbius,” said Raimi. “He’s really cool. A vampire! I like that combination of superhero plus supernatural.” As /Film reader Christopher M (who submitted the story) points out,…
