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In Celebration of the Release of Stan Lee’s “The Traveler #1” BOOM! Studios Presents this Humble Video…

from BOOM! Studios:

Stan’s Back! The Publishing Event of the Year!

Stan Lee, the most colossal force in the history of comics, teams up with BOOM! Studios to deliver a brand new line of superhero comics! The great innovator of our industry brings his inimitable talents back to the direct market in an explosive line of comics that nobody is prepared for! In this second ongoing series, The Traveler, Stan teams up with critically acclaimed writer Mark Waid (Irredeemable, Kingdom Come) and fan-favorite artist Chad Hardin (Age of Heroes, Amazing Spider-Man) to bring you a man out of time! The mysterious hero known only as the Traveler battles the forces of evil in a time-bending thriller that finds all of history and the future hanging in the balance! Rewrite history this November with Stan Lee and BOOM! Studios. Featuring covers by fan-favorite artists Scott Clark (Legion of Super-Heroes), Chad Hardin (Amazing Spider-Man), and Joe Benitez (Superman/Batman).

The Real Life Super Hero Project

Real Life Superheroes

For those of us watching Smallville this season, one of the ongoing story lines is public and government reaction to masked vigilantes. As young people growing up and into their abilities, we’ve witnessed every day people like Clark Kent, Oliver Queen and Arthur Curry take on the mantle of justice fighters, defending people in the name of Truth and Justice. In previous seasons, we saw the Justice Society of America and the scandal that put them out of the superhero business and now, as a new Justice League is forming, we see similar rumblings both pro- and anti-vigilante.

In a case of life imitating art here in my home state, a group of citizens has banded together to create their own team of superheroes patrolling the streets of Seattle. The Rain City Superhero Movement is a collection of masked vigilantes with military, martial arts and other special abilities. Seattle isn’t the only place you’ll find these Real Life Super Heroes, and it’s not a new movement. Heroes from all over the world are taking an active part in trying to improve the life of citizens in their communities, not only by fighting crime but hunger, disease, poverty and every other blight on humanity. Sometimes these heroes are praised for their efforts, and other times they are criticized or even mocked.

In a time when governments are failing to protect us, the interests of corporations have more weight then the needs of people, and apathy rules supreme, maybe now, more than ever, Real Life Super Heroes are needed. Maybe you can’t immobilize a thug with two fingers or take down a purse snatcher with a bola, but you can get involved and do something, however small, to improve the lives of the people in your community. From donating your time to feed the hungry at the local food shelter or helping build a home for a low income family, to raking an elderly neighbor’s lawn or participating in an AIDS or Cancer Walk, there are many things you can do to help improve someone’s life, not by spending money, which most of us don’t have much of, but time, which we spend too much of on frivolous things.

Have you thought about embracing your inner hero?

You can learn more about Real Life Super Heroes here:

The Real Life Super Hero Project
Real Life Superheroes.org
The Real Life Super Hero Project on Twitter
The Real Life Super Hero Project on Facebook
Real Life Superheroes Registry
Real Life Super Hero Manual

If you are looking for ways you can be a superhero without taking on an alter ego, check out these sites:

Rebuilding Together
Habitat for Humanity
AIDS Walk
Feeding America
Teachers Without Borders
MAP International
American Wildlife Foundation
Adopt a Highway

These are just a few of thousands of organizations, both local and international, that are doing good things that you can be a part of. Maybe you aren’t ready to save the world yet, but doing something in your own neck of the woods is a good place to start.

Mimoco’s Black Friday Sale Starts Now + New Baseman MIMOBOTs!

from Mimoco:

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Warriors of the Unknown

It was just another day of online gaming, until a wild shootout and a cheater changed everything. Now the Warriors must hunt down a hacker, server-to-server, game-by-game, if they can have any hope of saving the Internet and their hard drives.

Visit cosmicradicals.com or www.youtube.com/CosmicRadicals for more Warriors of the Unknown!

J!NX: $1000 Awarded to 3 Awesome Artists

from J!NX:

New Winners from the J!NX Design Arcade
The past few weeks have been pretty exciting for us with a few key launches. In the midst of all that, we wanted to highlight some of the gems that have come from the J!NX Design Arcade. I Slay Dragons (on the internet) comes to us from the inimitable iamdeadfish, which let me say, is also a cool alias. Ian-S enters the fray with Floppy Disk. It happens to everyone… I swear. And we round out the batch with Cult Classics from Mark722. Each of these digital artisans walks away with $750 cash and a $250 J!NX Gift Certificate!

“Riese: Kingdom Falling” Episode 8: Indoctrination

About Riese: Kingdom Falling:

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. People have grown restless, almost feral. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself.

Riese (Christine Chatelain), a wanderer, travels across the decaying lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Amara, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.

Riese is the Crown Princess of Eleysia, forced to flee into the wilds after her family was slaughtered. She will soon serve as a catalyst for a disparate group of supposed heretics, the Resistance, launching them into civil war.

Now is Your Chance to Help Get “Riese: Kingdom Falling” on Syfy!

Riese: Kingdom Falling

I think it’s no secret to anyone who visits ÜberSciFiGeek with any frequency that we have been huge fans and supporters of Riese: The Series since we first discovered some teaser footage on YouTube over a year ago. In case you are aren’t familiar with it, Riese is a sci-fi/fantasy series richly influenced by history, mythology, folklore and steampunk. The series follows a young woman named Riese and her companion, a wolf named Fenrir, who travel through a collapsing world trying to piece together the fragmented memories of her past while attempting to evade the dangerous religious cult that hunts her. The series is a visual and auditory feast with great attention paid to every detail, from the stitching of the wardrobe to the background noise in the high-definition sound. It caught the attention of Fireworks International and was pulled from the web while distribution rights were being negotiated. It was then re-edited with narration by Amanda Tapping (Stargate, Sanctuary) and re-released a few weeks ago on Syfy.com as Riese: Kingdom Falling.

From co-creators Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff (who shares directorial credits with Nicholas Humphries), Riese features sci-fi regulars such as Christine Chatelain (Sanctuary, Supernatural, The Collector), Sharon Taylor (Smallville, Stargate Atlantis, Eureka), Patrick Gilmore (Stargate Universe, Battlestar Galactica), Ben Cotton (Harper’s Island, Stargate Atlantis, Taken), Ryan Robbins (Sanctuary, Caprica, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis), Peter Kelamis (Stargate Universe, Dragon Ball Z, The X-Files), Emilie Ullerup (Sanctuary, jPod, Battlestar Galactica), Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Death Note), Allison Mack (Smallville, Alice & Huck), and Gina Chiarelli (The Dead Zone, Masters of Science Fiction, The Outer Limits).

For those of us who’ve been Riese fans (lovingly referred to as Rieslings) since the beginning, and the new ones who’ve been watching Riese: Kingdom Falling since it premiered on Syfy.com, it’s been a harrowing few weeks. Many of us watched Sanctuary get snapped up by Syfy after only eight episodes and have been hoping that Riese might be able to make the same move from hit web series to hit TV series. Syfy has been teasing us and watching the numbers while considering whether or not to make that hope a reality. We’ve all been waiting on the edge of our seats for news and running guerrilla warfare tactics to get our friends, family members and random strangers online to watch the show to help convince Syfy this should be on their New Original Series line-up for next season.

Well, the wait may be close to over. Today, Syfy posed the following question on its Facebook page:

What do you think? Should Riese eventually make the jump to TV?

Twitter and Facebook have been busy for the past few hours as Rieselings repost and respond to the question. @Riesetheseries tweeted “Our tweet to @Syfy got so much buzz it made it to Twitter’s front page. Guess you do want to see more Riese. 😉 Good work Rieslings!”

So, here’s your chance to help make our dreams a reality.

If you have a Facebook account, visit Syfy and answer “YES!!!”

If you have a Twitter account, send a friendly “PLEASE make #Riese a TV show!” to @syfy.

So, what are you waiting for? Go… do it. Now!

Riese: Kingdom Falling Official Website
Riese on Facebook
Riese on Twitter
Riese on Amazon
Riese: Battle for Eleysia Game for iPhone

“Riese: Kingdom Falling” Episode 7: Beast

About Riese: Kingdom Falling:

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. People have grown restless, almost feral. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself.

Riese (Christine Chatelain), a wanderer, travels across the decaying lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Amara, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.

Riese is the Crown Princess of Eleysia, forced to flee into the wilds after her family was slaughtered. She will soon serve as a catalyst for a disparate group of supposed heretics, the Resistance, launching them into civil war.

“Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet” On Sale Now

from Marvel:

The legendary Marvel Super Hero Squad is back and ready to “Hero Up” in an all-new video game adventure for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, the Wii and the Nintendo DS family of hand-held systems.

THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) announced that Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet, an all-new Marvel Super Hero Squad game, has landed on store shelves and is available for purchase today. For a limited time only, THQ is offering a free, exclusive downloadable pack inside every new copy of Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 systems. The downloadable pack — the Captain America Collection — commemorates the release of the game and features three new playable characters: Captain America, Bucky and Red Skull. It also offers new Heroic Feats, Achievements (Xbox 360) and Trophies (PlayStation 3 system) for each of those characters. Also available is a custom Super Hero Squad comic book inside copies of the game for Wii and Nintendo DS systems.

“This latest entry into our series of Marvel Super Hero Squad video games ramps up the action, adventure and puzzle solving gameplay on every level as it captures the fun of the popular animated series,” said Martin Good, Executive Vice President, Kids, Family, Casual Games, and Global Online Services. “The addition of free downloadable content and the comic book right at launch provides even greater value to fans, and adds significantly to the game’s overall experience.”

In Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet, players use the “Squaddies’” super powers and super smarts to battle Thanos and a cast of villains, including Doctor Doom, Nebula, and Loki, as they search for the lost Infinity Stones. Along the way they travel through deep space, solve tricky puzzles, acquire new powers, and gain new allies in their mission to defeat the intergalactic threat. In addition to the game’s exciting campaign mode, players can experience exciting challenge modes, compete in multiplayer “beat-em ups” and more!

Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet was developed by Griptonite Games. The game is rated E10+ for everyone 10 and older and is available starting today on North American store shelves for the suggested retail prices of $39.99 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system and Wii) and $29.99 (Nintendo DS).

Be a Laughbender! RiffTrax’s riff of “The Last Airbender” is now available!

from RiffTrax:

A lot of bad things have come “from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan,” but we feel it’s safe to say that this one came straight from his colon. What is there to say about The Last Airbender that isn’t already said by its Rotten Tomatoes rating of 6%? A whole lot, as it turns out. It’s becoming apparent that the true genius of M. Night is finding a way to make the wrong creative decision at any given moment. Dialogue, casting, music cues, every choice in the film suggests that the once-acclaimed director has given up Alfred Hitchcock as his inspiration, and replaced him with a certain T. Wiseau. And, frankly, we couldn’t be happier. But, Mr. Shyamalan: we worked with Tommy Wiseau, we know Tommy Wiseau, and you, sir, are no Tommy Wiseau.

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“Riese: Kingdom Falling” Now Available at Amazon!

Riese: Kingdom Falling

Tired of waiting for new episodes? You no longer have to wait. Riese: Kingdom Falling, the fantastic 10 part steampunk-infused web series from creators Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff, is currently running on Syfy.com and will soon roll out to the rest of the world. New episodes air every Tuesday and Thursday at Syfy Rewind, with episode 7 premiering tomorrow. Fans in the US no longer have to wait, though. You can now download Riese: Kingdom Falling in two parts, in both standard and high definition. Part one features episodes 1 through 5 and part two features episodes 6 through 10. Here’s a chance for fans to help convince SyFy that Riese should make the move to a full one-hour series on television. Show your support and buy Riese now!

About Riese: Kingdom Falling:

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. People have grown restless, almost feral. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself.

Riese (Christine Chatelain), a wanderer, travels across the decaying lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Amara, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.

Riese is the Crown Princess of Eleysia, forced to flee into the wilds after her family was slaughtered. She will soon serve as a catalyst for a disparate group of supposed heretics, the Resistance, launching them into civil war.

Riese: Kingdom Falling Standard Definition

Riese: Kingdom Falling High Definition

L. Ron Hubbard Stories from the Golden Age at Amazon.com

from Stories from the Golden Age:

“For the month of November,” it was announced by Galaxy Press president John Goodwin, “the L. Ron Hubbard Golden Age Stories titles will be featured selections with Amazon.com so as to make them more accessible to those looking for exciting, adventurous and high interest stories, age appropriate from young adults to great-great grandparents.”

Stories from the Golden Age can be purchased either as a hard copy trade paperback, an eBook or as an unabridged multi-cast audiobook from Amazon (as well as all other sites where books and audiobooks are sold.) Galaxy Press has made it a point to offer all of their titles in each of the popular eBook formats as well. eBook sales are easily the fastest growing segment in the publishing industry today. In 2009, they were $169.5 million, less than half a percent of the total $35 billion publishing industry total. But, in a report by Forrester Research, it was predicted that eBook sales will total $966 million, a 176% sales increase. And next year will cross the $1 billion mark.

“We wanted to provide a reading and listening experience in each of the genres Hubbard wrote in,” continued Goodwin. “So, for the month of November, we arranged a sampling in each: mystery/thriller, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Western along with a special discount in appreciation for their giving them a try.”

Mystery/thriller: Under the Black Ensign
Fantasy: If I Were You
Science fiction: The Great Secret
Western: Branded Outlaw

Stories from the Golden Age is a line of 80 books and audiobooks containing 153 stories — adventures, westerns, mysteries, suspense thrillers, science fiction and fantasy — by NYT bestselling author L. Ron Hubbard. This is the culmination of an ambitious undertaking, several years in the making, and will provide today’s audience with exciting, heart-pumping, white-knuckle entertainment.

For more information on the Stories from the Golden Age, go to goldenagestories.com.