Author: Loryn Stone

This is a “Nerd Voices” contributing piece from Nerdbot reader Chris McAuley. You can find him on his video game and comic book blog or Facebook! So, we continue our run up to the spookiest time of the year with a horror movie tie-in from the NES.  The premise behind LJN’s 1989 adaptation of this famous slasher movie doesn’t really make much sense.  It must have been incredibly difficult to craft a decent game and narrative around the wordless killer Jason Voorhees. All he really did in the films was walk around and carve up teenagers.  It comes as no…

Stitch is back. An exclusive from The Hollywood Reporter shows that Lilo & Stitch, the 2002 animated movie from Walt Disney Feature Animation, is getting the live-action treatment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The studio has hired up-and-comer Mike Van Waes to pen the script for the remake, which will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback, formerly known as Lin Pictures. The two are already known in the Disney halls as they are working on the high-profile live-action remake of Aladdin. The original film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, who later found acclaim with How…

Capcom aims to energize the brand further on the series’ 30th anniversary milestone – Capcom Co., Ltd. (Capcom) today announced that its popular Mega Man IP is scheduled to be adapted into a live-action Hollywood film for the first time. Since Mega Man debuted on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, the series secured its position as one of Capcom’s major brands, boasting cumulative sales of 32 million units worldwide (as of June 30, 2018). Mega Man gained a following due to the challenging gameplay that contrasted with the memorable design of its characters; in the 30 years following its launch, the series has spawned numerous…

Huge news just dropped about the long awaiting Star Wars live-action television series in a report from Star Wars Underworld! After the good folks at Making Star Wars got some sneak peeks at the set, as well as some casting rumors, Jon Favreau, the writer and executive producer of the series, has revealed the full title and a brief synopsis! On Instagram, Favreau shared a photo which confirms the series will be titled “The Mandalorian”. The synopsis makes mention of Jango and Boba and teases the reveal of “another warrior” who will be at the center of this series, which takes place…

Video games are cool. One of my earliest memories was when I got an NES back in 1988. My sister and I loved that thing. Together, we annihilated the original Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge. We power-blasted Mario 2 and Mario 3. We tag teamed Bubble Bobble with a vengeance. And come 1992 when I got the Super Nintendo for my seventh birthday…forget it. I never left my house again. But from 1994-1997 my family moved to Israel and toys stores touting the hottest games were no longer in sight. I was away from all the exciting Nintendo and Sega…

Sign up to potentially get access to the test October 5th. In a surprise announcement Monday, Google revealed a partnership with Ubisoft to bring the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to your Chrome browser. CNET reports that on the same day the game comes out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, a limited number of users will be able to put Google’s new streaming technology, Project Stream, to the test in what could be a big step forward for efforts to bring blockbuster AAA games to streaming platforms. “The idea of streaming such graphically-rich content that requires near-instant interaction between the game controller and the graphics…

Embrace the supernaturally spine-chilling spirit with Halloween comics! Every Monday throughout the month of October, you can visit Marvel.com for a new week’s worth of creepy comics to read! Individually selected by Earth’s Mightiest Show hosts Lorraine Cink and Langston Belton, these issues will feature the greatest, most haunting horror stories from across Marvel history. We begin the 31 Days of Halloween with seven spellbinding stories to read from today, October 1, through October 7. Readers, beware! 1. BLOODSTONE #1 BLOODSTONE (2001) #1 published NOV 5, 2001 rating T+ writer Dan Abnett Andy Lanning What do you do when you discover that your dad was the legendary monster…

A report from CNET shows that a certain beloved character is returning for the final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. No, it’s not Ned Stark (or Catelyn, despite what author George R.R. Martin might wish). Doggone it, it’s Jon Snow’s best buddy, his direwolf, Ghost. “Oh, you’ll see (Ghost) again,” Game of Thrones visual effects supervisor Joe Bauer told The Huffington Post. “He has a fair amount of screen time in Season 8.” The surviving direwolves are difficult to work into the show because footage of real wolves is used, and “real wolves only behave in certain ways,” Bauer said. “I think that has something to do…

https://youtu.be/7393uSnHoc8 A new mod from ‘Sleeping Master’ brings the American-Exclusive Power Rangers villain Lord Zedd into the fight. With him, the Gwar-inspired Lord of Darkness brings with him moves that made him the baddie we adore and creep on a little more than we should. Hey, you have your beloveds and I’ll have mine, okay? Lord Zedd is king. He’s someone we want to hang out with for a beer. He’s full of tangents and Nerd Rage, and assuming you’re a badass too, you two will find lots of cool stuff to talk about. According to a report from Comicbook.com, the mod…

Nerdbot would like to thank Viz Media for providing us with a review copy of Frankenstein by Junji Ito. Happy Halloween month, ghosts and ghouls! I am so excited that in addition to all of the amazing ghastly and spooky Halloween-related content we have on Nerdbot this month, that we’re able to include horror manga on the list, courtesy of Viz Media! The kind people over at Viz provided Nerdbot with a copy of Junji Ito’s Frankenstein and I knew this was a book I not only wanted to take down hard and quick with a vengeance, but really make sure I wrote…