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Disney Buys Lucasfilms for $4.05 Billion; Episode 7 Scheduled for 2015 Release
You heard that right, the Mouse now owns the Force. Disney has purchased Lucasfilms for $4.05 billion in cash and stock and announced that a new Star Wars movie will be released in 2015. George
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Book Review: ‘Year Zero: A Novel’
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a book that made me think of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as much as Robert Reid’s Year Zero did. For as strange and absurd as the Hitchhiker’s story
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New Batgirl Web-Series Ready to Showcase Stephanie Brown and a Host of Bat-Villians
With DC’s ‘New 52′ Barbra Gordon has slipped into the role of Batgirl again, but from 2009 to 2011 Stephanie Brown wore the female cowl. And even though after the events of Flashpoint, Stephanie
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Joss Whedon Officially Signs On for ‘The Avengers 2′; Working on Marvel TV Show
In the course of just a few months, Joss Whedon has gone from geek icon to main stream darling. The writer and director of The Avengers has become a household name thanks to the monster success
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Microsoft References ‘New Xbox’ for the First Time – UPDATE: No They Didn’t…
While my Xbox 360 has mainly been used as a Netflix & Hulu Plus machine ever since I built my ‘Battlestation’ PC, the next generation of home consoles is just around the corner. Microsoft has
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover to go through ’7 Minutes of Terror’
This Monday, at approxametly 1:31 AM (est), the NASA Curiosity rover will touchdown on the Mars surface. Curisosity’s landing will conclude one of the most ambitious projects in the history of science, and that’s
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‘Zelda’ Music Medley Used by Olympic Gymnast
You know what’s the talk of the town right now? The 2012 Summer Olympics. It’s impossible to turn on the TV or go to nearly any website without hearing about it. Now, Direct Geek
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‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’ to return on YouTube
If you grew up in the mid-90s odds are you learned about science from two places. The first was from your teachers at school, the second was from one of two (or possibly both)
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