These are definitely the droids you are looking for! If you’ve ever dreamed of your own adorable robo companion then Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will be the place to go! At this year’s Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, Disney Parks staff showed off the custom droids guests can create in their park. Guests will build their new companions at the Droid Depot inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. You can choose between an R2- or BB- series droid. All droids are roughly 18 inches tall and fully remote-controlled. The system runs on AA and AAA batteries. Each droid can move any…
Author: Jessica Lamb
Jessica Lamb
Jessica Lamb was born and raised in Fennville, Michigan. She attended Aquinas College where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in Creative Writing. Since then, she has dedicated herself to spreading the word about all things nerd culture.
If you are a fan of the Star Wars franchise, you’ve thought about what it would be like to wield your own lightsaber at least once. Disney’s Star Wars Land intends to make that dream a reality. Visitors will have the option to create and wield their own lightsabers. A VIP-only presentation from the Disney Parks team was held at this year’s Star Wars Celebration in Chicago. Thanks to it, fans everywhere now have a better idea how the process of constructing your own lightsaber will work. Two lightsaber shops will be available at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge when it…
Five months ago, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata suddenly left Square Enix. This came as a surprise with Tabata having diligently worked for Square Enix and on the Final Fantasy franchise for many years. Tabata left the company on good terms citing “a project that I truly wish to solidify as my next challenge.” We now know what that project entails and it is something that has never been done before. The Pegasus Dream Tour is a fantasy sports RPG that will be the first-ever officially licensed Paralympics video game. The Pegasus Dream Tour is developed by Tabata’s new…
Cthulhu lives! Or at least something that looks like it did. Scientists in Herefordshire, Britain recently discovered the fossilized remains of a 430 million-year-old sea creature with tentacles longer than its body. Scientists named the mysterious creature Sollasina cthulhu after H.P. Lovecraft’s sea beast. Sollasina was a type of sea cucumber with 45 tentacles it used to walk across the seafloor. In a University of Oxford article, the research shows that “although the fossil is just 3 [centimeters] wide, its many long tentacles would have made it appear quite monstrous to other small sea creatures alive at the time.” The…
Seven years. That’s how long fans of the Borderlands franchise have been waiting for a sequel. Sure, there was Tales from the Borderlands and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, but none of them scratched that itch the way a true continuation does. The latest trailer for Borderlands 3 shows many characters from these intermediate games making their appearance. One such character is Rhys, who is voice-acted by the legendary Troy Baker. Except it appears he is not anymore, and even Troy Baker was unaware. In response to fan questions about his involvement as Rhys in Borderlands 3, Baker says “I’m sorry to…
The end is near, Avengers: Endgame that is. The highly anticipated film will mark the end of a narrative that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been building towards for a long time. It will also be the end of Phase 3 for Marvel. One ending means an opportunity for new beginnings though. Marvel intends for phase 4 of the MCU to be five years of new and returning characters heading down an entirely different path. Phase 4 will begin this summer with Spider-Man: Far from Home. After that, much of the timeline of phase 4 remains a mystery. We do…
Eighteen years. That’s how long it’s been since episode one of the Fruits Basket anime premiered. On April 5th I got to relive those first episode feelings though with the premiere of episode one of the Fruits Basket remake. It made me laugh and smile, but most importantly, it gave me an intimacy with the anime that was missing from the original. Fruits Basket holds a very special place in my heart. It was one of the first manga I ever picked up from my local library. I fell in love with it. In fact, I checked out volume one…
Egypt, Greece, America,Italy- there are no shortage of locations that the Assassin’s Creed franchise has visited. It seems that if there is one thing besides stealth that the Brotherhood is exceptionally good at, it is traveling the world. Those travels may be taking the series to some new territory in the future, as rumored by an Easter egg recently discovered in Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. Wiki user AlifMorrisonudin was playing the Division 2 when he spotted an interesting poster on the wall. This poster features a soldier holding an item which looks strikingly like an Apple of Eden,…
Whether it’s swearing, throwing things, or setting the controller down with an angry sigh- every gamer has had those rage-inducing moments of play at least once. It’s perfectly normal to occasionally get frustrated with a difficult puzzle or elusive drop item. Recently, one 25-year-old nursing care worker took those feelings too far though. He was arrested for threatening to kill Square Enix staff via e-mail. On February 5th, the unidentified man sent an e-mail to Square Enix Tokyo’s office. The e-mail read “hey staff tomorrow I’m going to kill you get ready [for your punishment].” In Japanese, the last section…
Hey, listen! It seems that Monolith Soft may have a new Zelda game in the pipeline. The developer best known for the Xenoblade Chronicles series recently put a call out for new members to join their team. On their official website, the studio is recruiting developers, programmers, designers and artists to join a new Zelda project. The exact nature of this new Zelda project is unknown. Monolith Soft are no strangers to the Zelda universe though, as they co-developed The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The developer has shown their expertise…