Author: Loryn Stone

Apple’s new streaming service reportedly has a $1 billion budget, but apparently it can’t buy some nerve. According to a report from Gizmodo, the company has long censored its walled-garden offerings on platforms like the App Store, and per a report in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, Apple is still aiming to keep its content offerings squeaky clean, with little “gratuitous sex, profanity or violence.” The desire to keep everything family-friendly is reportedly delaying or interfering with many projects. and the Journal writes that Apple’s own staff in Los Angeles have begun referring to the streaming project as “expensive NBC.” The Journal wrote…

Screenrant reports that Peter Parker may be wearing a new stealth suit in the latest Spider-Man: Far From Home set photo. Tom Holland made his debut as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man in a small role in Captain America: Civil War, but he’s quickly become a major part of the franchise. Spider-Man: Homecoming proved there’s still massive interest in standalone adventures for the web-slinger, and everyone agrees that he had the most emotional death scene in Avengers: Infinity War. Spider-Man: Far From Home is the first MCU movie to come out after Avengers 4,and will take Peter on a globetrotting mission. Nick Fury and Maria Hill are going to be…

https://youtu.be/lcwmDAYt22k Today I learned what it looks like when Harry and the Hendersons and E.T. have a baby wearing an Iron Giant onesie. It looks like the BumbleBee movie trailer. Let me preface by saying that this movie looks like lots of fun. The robots look awesome and the action scenes are exciting. If I was a kid or not a terrible person, I’d take this picture at face value and cheer along with it, grinning like a maniac and counting down the days until Christmas so this movie could be burned through my retinas and singed into my brain. Unfortunately, I’m a critical fuddy-duddy who has to…

Switch virtual arcade salons are receiving a major update. In addition to yesterday’s confirmation of Puzzle Bobble getting added to the Arcade Archives on Switch, Hamster overnight revealed the release schedule for the next batch of Arcade Archive titles. These are the Neo Geo MVS titles arriving on Switch over the coming weeks: Puzzle Bobble Puzzle Bobble 2 The King of Fighters 2001 Zupapa! 3 Count Bout Pleasure Goal Savage Reign Strikers 1945 Plus Not long after this, Hamster also teased another batch – this time non-SNK MVS Arcade Archives titles getting a new chance at the spotlight. This includes two more…

The Guardian reports that DC Comics has withdrawn a page of a new comic that showed Batman’s genitals for the first time, leaving fans scrambling to get hold of existing issues featuring what has rapidly become known as the “batawang”. Other names for it within Nerdbot HQ include (but are not limited to) Batdong, Batpeen, Batschlort, Batdingle, Batwilly, and Batdoodle. You get the idea. Published this week, Batman: Damned – part of a new, “edgy and provocative” line from DC – features Batman and the magician John Constantine hunting for a killer in Gotham City. The nude scene, drawn by Lee Bermejo,…

Comicbook.com reports that Bob’s Burgers and Archer star H. Jon Benajamin found himself in hot water and apologized Sunday after tweeting a joke many Twitter users called out for being racist and offensive. “Quick idea for the name of a tea shop- ‘ooh me so horny, me love you oolong time tea shop,’” Benjamin wrote in a since-deleted tweet. Hours later, Benjamin apologized in a subsequent pair of tweets, writing the “joke” was “lazy and incompetent and formulated quickly while making a cup of oolong tea.” The original line comes from 1987’s Stanley Kubrick-directed Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket, where a pair of…

https://youtu.be/Ib_4A2CG2Ag Star Wars is one of the biggest fantasy franchises in the world, and has been interpreted into many different works of art such as film, books, television. Now, one fan has combined the blockbuster franchise with the power of anime…ish. YouTube user Dmitry Grozov shared this stellar anime-inspired trailer for Star Wars: A New Hope and it almost hits that Macross-Captain Harlock-Galaxy Express-sorta-kinda-vibe. The animated trailer full of fantastic anime interpretation of the film’s central characters, Grozov goes the extra mile and even includes Japanese dialogue. It doesn’t look any less official than the soon to air Star Wars: Resistance on Disney Channel, right? Fan-made anime trailers and…

Hideo Kojima’s next game continues to look baffling in the absolute best way possible. Death Stranding has been amazing all of us who are both video game enthusiasts and people who like the things we look at to make sense since its very first trailer dropped during E3. We weren’t sure what was going on, but it looked awesome, and man did that Walking Dead dude look realistic.  With the Metal Gear Solid series, Hideo Kojima created an incredible track record for the bizarre, and his first game post his painful break-up with Konami looks set to continue that trend. Here’s the latest footage, straight…

BLUE’S CLUES & YOU TO BE HOSTED BY TV NEWCOMER JOSHUA DELA CRUZ…AND STEVE GIVES A BIG THUMBS UP! Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues has found a new pal for Blue in TV newcomer and Broadway actor Joshua Dela Cruz, and a brand-new title: Blue’s Clues & You. Dela Cruz will have a new generation of preschoolers searching for clues with the beloved energetic girl puppy Blue.  Production on Blue’s Clues & You will commence this month in Toronto. Original Blue’s Clues host Steve Burns helped guide the audition process during the search for the new host. Said Burns, “I had the great honor of being a part of the…

If there’s anything all of us at Nerdbot HQ can agree on, it’s that music is awesome. Especially when we’re rocking out to nerd-inspired bands. From that article we wrote about Simpsons Inspired Bands, down to the one about Video Game Cover Bands, nothing rocks our faces like some bad ass music blasting straight into our ear holes. But what about when a mainstream band delights our inner nerd? It’s no surprise that many heavy metal bands are nerds in disguise. After all, what are the topics of their songs? That’s right– Dragons and magic, forging steel, sword fighting alongside…