Archive | February, 2010

25 February 2010 ~ 72 Comments

March's SFX Magazine gets 3D Doctor Who cover

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The new issue of SFX will feature a specially commissioned 3D cover featuring Matt Smith as Doctor Who, and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. The artwork below (via SFX.co.uk) also features a pair of Weeping Angels in the background. Created with the association of the show’s production team, the cover was created in time for [...]

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22 February 2010 ~ 62 Comments

Shatner to play lead in Twitter Sitcom

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William Shatner via last.fm Popular Twitter feed,’Sh*t My Dad Says‘ is to become a TV sitcom, with William Shatner playing the titular dad. The feed was launched in August 2009 by 29-year old Justin Halpern who used Twitter to post the bizarre musings of his elderly father. The stream now has more than one million [...]

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22 February 2010 ~ 105 Comments

New Doctor Who trailer released

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The BBC have released a new Doctor Who trailer ahead of the upcoming airing of season 5. Featuring Daleks, Weeping Angels and more the trailer borrows heavily from the new Doctor Who artwork – or maybe it’s the other way round! – but the trailer does offer a little more insight as to how Matthew [...]

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18 February 2010 ~ 56 Comments

Ubisoft DRM requires always-on internet connection

Image via Wikipedia Games publisher Ubisoft have come in for some considerable flak over plans to implement a new DRM and copy-protection approach to their PC games. Back in January, the publisher announced that to play or save any Ubisoft games on PC then the user would require to be permanently connected to the internet [...]

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17 February 2010 ~ 163 Comments

Finale foes for Doctor Who

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Image via Wikipedia More Doctor Who news, this time from STV and a real spoiler, so if you don’t want to know more then go play Farmville or something on Facebook… STV are reporting that new Doctor Who Matthew Smith will battle a host of old enemies in a dramatic end-of-series finale. In the finale, [...]

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17 February 2010 ~ 90 Comments

New Doctor Who image revealed

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New Doctor Who image revealed

SFX have revealed a new image for the upcoming series of Doctor Who which depicts new Doctor Matthew Smith and his assistant, Amy Pond together for the first time. In the image the duo are seen to be caught in a swirling vortex – not unlike the vortex seen in the old John Pertwee/Tom Baker [...]

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12 February 2010 ~ 78 Comments

Closed music blogs getting back online

Image via CrunchBase The six music blogs unceremoniously dumped by Google are in the process of getting back online. All bar one have of the blogs has been restored, or moved to alternate webhosting after Google’s Blogger service pulled the plug on the six blogs amid claims of illegal hosting of copyrighted content. The six [...]

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12 February 2010 ~ 65 Comments

Marvel Miniseries for Amadeus Cho

Image via Wikipedia Amadeus Cho is to get his own miniseries says DigitalSpy. If you don’t know who Amadeus Cho is, he is the sidekick of the Incredible Hercules and the ‘seventh smartest person in the world.’ In In the miniseries, to be called ‘Heroic Age: Prince of Power’ and based on the Marvel Comics [...]

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12 February 2010 ~ 82 Comments

Old enemies return to Doctor Who

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Image via Wikipedia An old favourite enemy of Doctor Who will make their long-awaited return to the TV show in the new series. Onthebox reports the lizard-like Silurians will feature in the series after the show’s new boss, Steven Moffat bowed to fans’ requests to bring back the reptilian foe. The Silurians first featured in [...]

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09 February 2010 ~ 27 Comments

24 The Movie gets a writer

Image via Wikipedia 24: The Movie has moved a step closer to reality after 20th Century Fox drafted in Billy Ray (Flightplan, State of Play) to write the script. With the latest day in Jack Bauer’s life currently being played out on TV screens around the world it isn’t yet known whether Day 8 will [...]

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