This week brings the Steam premiere of the Wadjeteye’s point and click retro cyber-thriller “Gemini Rue“. In the spirit of classic Sierra and LucasArts games (with a little Blade/Lode Runner thrown in), Gemini Rue tells the tale of two strangers brought together by crime, space, and fate. Direct Link to Youtube Video Homage-y and charming as hell, this [...]

This Friday, October 28th, our friends at Rotofugi will be hosting a celebration of Gary Baseman’s newest line of toys with Kidrobot, Toby’s Secret Society. Baseman will be there from 7-10 pm and there will be a mini exhibit of his drawings on display, which will be up through November 27th. For more info on Gary [...]

Rocksteady along with Warner Bros has announced that the Nightwing bundle will be the first set of DLC to come out for Batman: Arkham City. Unlike the Catwoman DLC that came with the game, the Nightwing DLC will be similar to the Robin DLC in that it will be for challenge map access only [...]

When it comes to great MOTUC customs, you can’t get much better than the work of Masterenglish. His latest custom, a relatively simply, but masterfully executed project is this Batman from the Dark Knight Returns comics. The recipe for this consisted of a DC Direct Dark Knight Returns head, utility belt, and cape, [...]

Nerd City: Video Edition is back for a very-special Halloween-themed episode II (we can’t believe it either). Max talks Battlefield 3, The Cap, designer toys, and all the Halloween happenings you can handle. Awwwooooooooo!

Rockstar games has done the inevitable and officially announced Grand Theft Auto V. They have provided no details outside of the teaser image below but one can bet it’ll play along the same lines as previous incarnations. The launch trailer will be available on November 2nd where we will get much more details [...]

Although I’ve never played it, and really don’t necessarily ever intend to, The World of Warcraft fascinates me. I really love the overall aesthetic of the universe, as well as the ever evolving storyline and lore. Plus, something that’s such a worldwide phenomenon is sort of hard to ignore. This past weekend was Blizzcon, the yearly [...]

Heads up, Glyos fans! Tomorrow, October 23rd, at 9 pm EDT, there’s going to be a huge drop of some amazingly colored new Glyos awesomeness from our friends at Onell Design. The release will consist of: United Glyan Forces -Glyan Glyaxia Command Elite (yellow/blue) $8 -Glyan Glyaxia Outer Battalion (blue/yellow) $8 -Glyan Strike Team White Skull [...]

In the first ever Nerd City: Video Edition, Max talks New York Comic Con, Ghostbusters, Walking Dead, Rubiks Cubes, Batman, Video Games, and oh so much more. Please, be kind, it’s our first time!

After leaked screen shots surfaced of the player selection screen for Soulcalibur 5 were found showing a character that looked very similar to Ezio from Assassins Creed, Namco has confirmed today that Ezio will be a playable character. Continuing the tradition of putting non Namco characters in their Soulcalibur series (Spawn, Link, Darth Vader and Yoda) [...]

Our good friends @ GameStop are @ it again with another kick-a$$ pre-order sweepstakes. With combat-drunk Nerds chomping @ the bit for the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, GameStop makes it oh so easy. Pre-order the game, and enter to win prizes (can’t get much easier than that)! With trip, vehicle, and [...]

Our main man, Revise CMW, along with Uriel Correa and Sam Alcarez, will have a pop-up show opening tonight in which they use their art to take over a raw vintage space on Chicago’s West Side. For Chicago people, this is a great chance to support ssome awesome local artists in an environment that’s guaranteed [...]

Royal-T has knocked it out of the park once again with his latest action figure-scaled statue, or “staction”, of a fan-created Masters of the Universe character, Wraptor. Although not fully assembled, the picture above has all of the elements of Wraptor in an essentially finished state. We’ll hopefully get some assembled pics and sale info [...]

Check out these awesome contributions to The Sucklord’s SuckPax Series 3 trading cards from our friend, Adriean Koleric, aka ITEM. Both his vintage cards(left) and sketch cards(right) are both great examples of what Adriean’s style has evolved into over the years. He combines stylized collage with recurring patterns/iconography and subtle pop cultural references and [...]

Hopefully, I’ve made it abundantly clear by now that one of my favorite current comic books is the ridiculously awesome fantasy extravaganza that is Skullkickers. Owing much of its inspiration to classic gaming, it only makes sense that the Skullkickers setting would lend itself to some sort of gaming system. That’s where the good people [...]

From the combined genius of Onell Design’s Matt Doughty, The Godbeast and Jason Frailey comes this insanely cool new figure prototype that was previewed last weekend at NYCC. Heavily inspired by the Battle Beast figures of the 80’s, this humanoid wolf warrior utilizes the glyos system for increased articulation and part interchangeability. I’m told that [...]

I recently happened upon this outstanding little piece of grotesque awesomeness by a personal favorite artist of mine, Dieter VDO. This image was revealed on his Flickr, which I highly recommend checking on the regular, if this sort of art is your cup of tea. For even more from Dieter VDO, be sure to check out [...]

So much cool stuff was revealed this past weekend at NYCC, that I’ve got quite the game of catch up to play. One such reveal was the awesomely huge new Big Rig vinyl figure/vehicle by Onell Design. This hulking mechanized monstrosity is an evolution form the previously released Rig and Rig Wing and features a [...]

Kid NES, a talented graffiti artist, painted a fantastic looking Gutsdozer and Mega Man scene from Mega Man 2 on a building down in Dallas TX. This video, set to music from Mega Man 2, shows off his whole painting process. Source:Capcom Unity

Continuing their stream of news related to Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Capcom announced at this weekends NYCC that upon it’s release on November 15th UMVC3 will have free DLC. This DLC will include a Heroes vs Heralds mode and will offer Galactus as a playable character, although in his own fighting mode note [...]