Author: Loryn Stone

New reports from Deadline.com tally that we’re up to five the DC series on the air, and a high-profile Batwoman pilot set for this coming season. How big can the DC footprint on the network get? “We have five on the air but we also added a sixth night (of network programming),” the CW president Mark Pedowitz said during the network’s TCA executive session.”Shows do eventually end but we have no plans to end any of them right now. We’ll see where we come out as the season goes on.” This past season, the CW also had plans to expand the worlds of Riverdale and Supernatural with potential new series.…

This is a Nerdbot “Nerd Voices” contributor post from reader Rachael Brennan. Follow her on Twitter! Today’s Trope is a strange one that’s been bogging my brain for like, five minutes now. I’ve watched a lot of old TV. And after a certain amount of time, patterns and trends come to the forefront. Therefore in today’s article, we decided to address one of the most annoying tropes of all, one that’s typically played up for laughs. What’s so funny about the husband who won’t bed his attractive, sexually starved wife? Is there comedy in there? We’re not completely sure. Just…

Dateline.com reports that the crew from Star Trek’s USS Discovery appears to be on board with Patrick Stewart’s return to the Star Trek franchise. Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays science officer Michael Burnam on Star Trek: Discovery, tweeted out a greeting and posted an Instagram shot of herself with Stewart. The tweet was a reaction to the announcement that Stewart will headline a new series for CBS All Access, reprising his iconic Jean-Luc Picard captaincy from Star Trek: The Next Generation. https://twitter.com/SonequaMG/status/1026195935850844162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1026195935850844162&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2018%2F08%2Fpatrick-stewart-welcomed-back-to-star-trek-by-sonequa-martin-green-from-discovery-1202440481%2F Stewart is one of the most popular stars of the Star Trek franchise. He headlined the Star Trek: Next Generation series for its seven-season run and also portrayed Picard in the movies Star…

Bleeding Cool reports that famed Marvel Comics writer Stan Lee will no longer participate in public autograph signings. Desert Wind Comics, who host signing events with Lee, say in their events schedule fans hoping to have comic books or merchandise autographed by Lee can submit their materials through the mail until August 18: “As many of you know, Stan Lee has been getting older and as such signing opportunities are getting more rare. And getting books signed that are eligible for CGC Signature Series Grading is becoming more difficult. The exact date and location of this [sic] signings will not be announced for…

On August 4th, 2018 (which is like four days in Internet time) an online Death Hoax surfaced from its swampy sarcophagus of lies. The victim of today’s supposed Hollywood Passing? Back to the Future star and long time Parkinson’s Disease sufferer, Michael J. Fox. Although the news of this “passing” due to “complications from Parkinson’s” infected the internet merely moments ago, it was still long enough for the good heroes of Snopes.com to get the down and dirty of this hideous hoaxy rumor and put our worries to rest: “The popular actor has not passed away at 57 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. On…

Back in the late 90s/early 2000s the Rhythm Game phenomenon EXPLODED. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a huge number of music-based games were present in the gaming scene. While Konami was a huge contributor to these games (and bulky arcade machines) with their Bemani series, there were other games that were a little less visible. The games were amazing and the songs from them were even better. Today on Nerdbot we’re counting down our Top 7 awesome songs from rhythm games! 1) Bust a Groove Originally called Bust a Move on the original Playstation (and changed because of the American Puzzle Bobble/Bust a Move debacle) Bust a Groove was…

This is a Nerdbot “Nerd Voices” contributor post from reader Rachael Brennan. Follow her on Twitter! Do you remember years ago when all the gendered-advertising fuss freaked out over Bic For Her gel pens? The joke got so big that even Ellen DeGeneres did a bit on her talk show about the ridiculousness that these pens even existed. Well more recently, the PepsiCo CEO kinda-sorta announced that they were making new chips based on gender preferences and the internet had an opinion about this. The opinion, of course, is that gendered potato chips are nonsensical garbage, the kind of thing…

Reports from Polygon show that new Overwatch NERF blasters are on their way! The second weapon in the Overwatch collaboration between the Nerf Rival line of toys and Blizzard was revealed at ChinaJoy in Shanghai and, lo and behold, it’s D.Va’s Light Gun. A news release from Hasbro boasted that that blaster has a three-round capacity and will fire the foam ammunition at a velocity of up to 80 feet per second. Other features include a spring-action mechanism, a safety, a ready indicator and, of course, D.Va’s bunny charm dangling from the grip. The unveiling comes about a week after the first weapon in the line,…

CBR.com reports that the Walt Disney Company is reportedly trying to buy back the cable rights to Star Wars from AT&T-owned Turner Broadcasting. Seller’s remorse, anyone? Although Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the entertainment conglomerate struck a deal in 2016 for TNT and TBS to become the exclusive cable home for the Star Wars films. Turner, then part of Time Warner, paid $275 million for five of the six movies, 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and (then upcoming) releases like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Solo: A Star Wars Story. A separate deal was made between Turner and Fox, the original distributor of Star Wars:…

17) Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City I bought it but took it back to the shop days later. Because a player deserves better than the gaming equivalent of having a Hepatitis infected nail hammered through his ball sack.   16) PacMan for Atari 2600 Sure it was bad, but the letdown from the arcade version was immeasurable. Thankfully I didn’t buy it. My cousin got the on the day it came out. Rushed to his house to play. So glad my parents didn’t waste $30 in that.   15) WrestleMania for NES I was a wrestling fan as a kid…