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Geek Media Round-Up: October 13, 2008

13 Oct 2008  Media

Art

  • From the site that brought us steampunk Storm Troopers, now there’s steampunk (hawt) Leia and steampunk Yoda.

Film

  • Discover Magazine runs down 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Movie Scientists.
  • Five Ways To Make Star Trek More Like Star Wars makes me wonder in what way io9 thinks Star Trek fails to ignore physics. Seriously guys, they live ships that travel almost ten times the speed of light.
  • Neatorama recounts the stories behind three classic Halloween movies.
  • Something Awful puts a post-apocalyptic twist on some otherwise boring films.

Internet

  • io9′s list of Six Sweaty Moments of Geeky Triumph includes boxing, swimming, and of course, mystery ball.
  • The reason you should never submit your video game high scores to Digg.
  • Worth 1000′s latest gallery of Photoshop’d wonders features Technology vs Humans.

Literature

  • Free Fiction: Listen to “Northern Faerie Ring” by William A La Fleur at The Cthulhu Podcast.
  • The Galaxy Express explains the 7 Reasons Men Should Read Science Fiction Romance.

Television

  • There’s hardly a need to download or record your favorite television series anymore, with so many of them being streamed online.

Video Games

  • The Edge looks at The 20 Best Games at Tokyo Games Show.
  • Check out the trailers of Resident Evil 5 from the Tokyo Game Show.



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