According to CNN Money, the deal will create the world’s largest audio entertainment company, the companies said early Monday. SiriusXM has 36 million subscribers in North America. It was formed with the merger of the Sirius and XM satellite radio services in 2008. Sirius had paid Howard Stern hundreds of millions of dollars to lure him from traditional radio in 2006. SiriusXM has built a stable of stars with exclusive programming to go along with its lineup of music, news, talk and sports. Pandora, a groundbreaking streaming music service founded in 2000, has more than 70 million active users. It faces…
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Loryn Stone has dedicated her life to the written Word of the Nerd. Her writing has also been published on other pop culture websites such as Cracked, LoadScreen, PopLurker, and Temple of Geek. Her debut young-adult novel "My Starlight" (a contemporary love letter to fandom, friendship, anime, cosplaying, love, and loss) is out now by Affinity Rainbow Publications. When she's not writing, Loryn's other interests include collecting robots (Megazords, specifically), playing bass, and blasting metal.
When he spoke at SXSW in March, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was going to be back…on the set of the next Terminator. Today, as reported by Deadline, he posted a photo of himself with Terminator scars alongside the film’s fellow adversary/ally Sarah Connor aka Linda Hamilton on Instagram. “Happy birthday to my dear friend Linda Hamilton. One of my favorite co-stars, a true badass, and a wonderful human being. I’m pumped to be back together again,” Schwarzenegger wrote in his post which you can see below. Schwarzenegger mentioned at SXSW that the Terminator reboot directed by Tim Miller was shooting in Spain and joked that the production had to write President…
James McAvoy really liked playing a younger version of Sir Patrick Stewart in the X-Men franchise, so much so, he now wants another go. Though this time he’s offered to play a young Jean-Luc Picard in Stewart’s new Star Trek series. The Scottish actor volunteered his talents on Instagram in a comment underneath a picture of the Star Trek captain with the writing team for the new show. “Need a flashback guy????” McAvoy wrote. “Just saying @sirpatstew I’ve got previous experience and will work for autographs.” Patrick Stewart has begun pre-production in his Star Trek series which marks the return of his iconic captain, fourteen years after The Next Generation came…
Bowsette, the glorious Peach/Bowser crossover character introduced in both Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, is becoming quite the social media darling over this past week. You might feel like everywhere you click, there’s suddenly more and more Bowsette popping up, making it the next Pop Culture Infiltration that popped up out of nowhere and won’t go away. Well hang tight, friend. This too shall pass. Blue dress or gold. Laurel or Yanni. Let’s march forward. With that, where has this hyper-accelerated meme gone in the few days since her internet explosion? Well, let us help you understand. A…
News recently hit that Sony was set to discontinue the PlayStation Vita in 2019. However, an immediate successor hasn’t been announced. If Sony is (officially or unofficially) leave the portable gaming market, there’s speculation that Nintendo may have the upper hand in dominating the market. This report from Business Insider suggests that, with the Vita discontinuation, Sony can focus more on the success of its PlayStation 4, as well as its forthcoming PlayStation 5. But that indicates that Nintendo could easily take over with both the Nintendo 3DS and Switch. Which somewhat leads us to our next question; do you consider the Switch to be a portable,…
Nerdbot would like to thank SuBLime Manga for providing an advance review copy of ‘Coyote Vol. One’ by Ranmaru Zariya. It’s boy’s love yaoi manga time again, kids! And today, we’re taking a peek between the pages of Coyote Volume One by Rnmaru Zariya. I’ll be honest when I say that I never know what to expect when it comes to Yuri and Yaoi manga. Because truthfully, there was a time in my life when I was thoroughly convinced that Yuri and Yaoi were just coy terms for porn. However, that’s a broad stroke word and a disservice to the genre. Often,…
Turkey Day has always been special among the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crowd. It’s a stuffed, happy day filled with back to back episodes of MST3K. The tradition is long-old at this point. Back in the day, the show would air all day marathon style on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central. But last year, MST3K fans were given a different sort of treat. It was the day that Netflix confirmed that the big daddy of riffing show had been renewed for a twelfth season. And now, streaming platform has done it again: The A.V. Club reports that new episodes of MST3K will arrive on Netflix this Thanksgiving—Thursday, November 22—marking…
You can find Nerd World Order’s apparel on their website, on Instagram, or join their Facebook community, which is over 16,000 nerds strong! At this year’s Nerdbot-Con, I had the pleasure of getting to interview Allen Dukes of Nerd World Order. NWO is not only an apparel line, specializing in nerdy designs based off of nostalgic bands and movies, but an entire community dedicated to creating a fun, exciting, and inclusive safe space where we nerds can geek out together, read fun articles and nerdy news together, and talk about the fun fandom delights that get our blood pumping! I’m…
https://youtu.be/c8F3nk6gQxQ Venom is about to open in theaters and star Tom Hardy thinks his alien anti-hero is ready to take on “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes,” Marvel’s Avengers. During an interview with MTV, Hardy got onto the topic first by discussing the film’s rating, noting that his kids play with Spider-Man and Venom toys side by side. “My littlest ones, they watch Spider-Man and Venom quite comfortably…so it’s not like they’re scared by him,” Hardy says. “At the same time, there’s a lot within the real estate that you can actually imbue with a complete sense of gratuitous violence, and if you wanted to I think…
A former Telltale employee is suing the company in a class-action lawsuit, alleging that it violated labor laws on the books in California and nationwide when it laid off hundreds of employees on Friday in advance of a planned closure of the studio. As reported by Polygon, the complaint, filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco, is a class-action lawsuit submitted by Vernie Roberts on behalf of himself and his fellow laid-off workers. In the complaint, Roberts says Telltale — which is based in the San Francisco suburb of San Rafael, California — let go of the employees “without cause”…