Legion of Geek

The weekend looms and in your hurry to make plans, you may have missed these headlines from around the nets.

Television

• But where’s “The Middleman”?: 10 SciFi/Fantasy series that lack resolution

Film

• The Dr. Horrible effect: “Evil Dead: The Musical in 3D” is full steam ahead.
• Some evil never dies: Chucky clones on the loose in the streets of New York.

Contests

• Win a book, lose your self-respect: Write the worst last line of a genre novel
• Win a book, lose your self-respect part 2: Penning author approved fanfic may win you a signed copy

Gaming

• Frag for charity: Get sponsored to play video games to benefit kids with cancer

Science

• What’s next? X-ray glasses?: Bionic lenses coming within years

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We tore ourselves away from Spore long enough to check out these links for you.

Games

• Video diary: Game producer talks Star Wars: Unleashed on the Wii

TV

• Vampire dating service: “True Blood” continues its ARG tactics
• iTunes in HD: Download free shows while they last
• Whedon writes: “Dollhouse” shuts down for more script doctoring

Books

• Listmania: SciFi/Fantasy best selling books of the week

Comics

• Because good stories never die: “Angel: After the Fall” #12 reviewed

Gear

• Android imminent: Google’s new iPhone competitor may be arriving in weeks

Productivity

• Incoming apps: Top 10 lifehacking programs not yet released

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If you own an Xbox 360 and haven’t yet checked out the excellent Xbox Live Marketplace title Braid — run, don’t walk, to check it out. This dreamy, inventive platformer requires you to bend time and wrap your mind around some challenging puzzles, all to the accompaniment of a great original soundtrack and unique visual style.

If you’re a fan of the game already, check out David Hellman’s Braid Graphics Briefcase which compiles a number of original Braid graphics into a few handy zip files including icons, a city panorama, wallpapers and more.

[Via Waxy.org]

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The excellent GiantBomb’s Brad Shoemaker has a great video review of the recently-released sequel to Viva Piñata, a bright and colorful real-time simulation gardening game (yes, that’s right, RTS gardening FTW!) from Rare Studios for the Xbox 360. Our favorite money quote:

“It’s okay to like piñatas.”

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PAX 2008, aka the Penny Arcade Expo, just wrapped up in Seattle over Labor Day Weekend. Among the fascinating, yet disturbing cosplay, the sex and violence in videogames panel and, oh yeah, the computer games, there was a little performance by Jonathan Coulton. He sang his ode to geekdom, “Still Alive” (you may remember it in the credits of “Portal”) and was joined this time by none other than ascending geek goddess, Felicia Day. Just watch the video so I can stop jamming geek into every other sentence.

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Rolando for iPhone - Teaser trailer from handcircus on Vimeo.

Being fans of both the delightfully quirky LocoRoco and of the iconic Apple mobile, the trailer for the upcoming similarly-styled Rolando for iPhone looks intriguing indeed. Calling it a “physics-based platform/puzzler,” developer Simon Oliver says he hopes to have the title available at the App Store by August for about $9.99.

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Legion of Geek recommendations:

• Alias [in the Geek Guide to TV]
• Mutant Storm Empire [in Best XBLA Games]
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow [in the Film Library]

First time director Kerry Conran spent four years filming against a bluescreen in his living room to produce a black and white teaser trailer for Sky Captain with his Macintosh IIci. Along with Sin City, it is one of the first major motion pictures to be shot entirely on a digital backlot. Sky Captain grossed $57.9M USD worldwide.

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‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’

[Via WoW Insider]

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Feeling lost in the universe? Losing faith in the old gods? Think you might be a Cylon? Well don’t sweat it Nugget, ‘cuz the Old Man is there to give you advice. The folks over at BindleDog have cooked up a fun little game called The Adama Oracle.

Why waste your time asking pricey therapists or dubious “family and friends” for advice when you can apply Admiral Adama’s years of military expertise to your most pressing questions? The Admiral will give it to you straight and have you charting a course for your own personal Earth in no time.

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