Freelance illustrator and “big geek,” Keith Decesare, is an incredible concept artist who specializes in the fantasy and steampunk genres by “shaping imagination into visual reality.” He most often works in the digital medium and has created art for role-playing games, trading cards, book covers, video games, historical depictions and movie concept art.
Keith performs extensive research on his subjects and creates narratives for each piece of work, believing each picture has its own story. Many of his stand alone pin-ups depict beautiful and adventurous women in fantasy settings, but he …

Those who know Bob and Debbie Leeper know that they were the ones who brought a lot of the fun and geekery to downtown Mesa with their store Evermore Nevermore. In an effort to draw people to the store in a sleepy town, Bob and Debbie planned elaborate events that they would later be known for, Steampunk Street being one of them. Unfortunately Evermore Nevermore is gone but Bob and Debbie’s love for downtown Mesa is not.
With lots of planning and money from their own pockets, they planned Steampunk Street …

I wasn’t expecting much from the new Battleship movie, a film based on the almost 70 year-old game that involves two players in a hit & miss strategy to “sink” each other’s mock naval fleets, and the film is as cheesy and implausible as they come, but somehow this movie won me over and I loved every corny minute of it. It’s a spectacular Saturday-morning summer popcorn movie and 45,000 tons of fun!
If you can imagine a mishmash of the films An Officer and a Gentleman, Top Gun, the Transformers …

Local creator April Reyna has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in computer animation, but since graduating from Arizona State University, she has focused her creativity and artistic skills on comic book illustration, saying, “I love to draw and feel that that is my goal in life.”
April began her comic art career with Heroic Age Studios where she worked on color separations for DC comics including Justice League of America, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman. She has since worked as a freelance artist on projects including Devi-licious Recipe Adventures, Alien …

The creative forces behind downtown Mesa’s Royale independent moviehouse are back with an online “horror host show” in the vein of classics like Elvira, with wrap-around segments to be filmed on a laboratory set at downtown Mesa’s Monsterland Bar & Grill.

Article by Ashley Nyal, writer for Geek News Network
I like to think the Phoenix area has a pretty successful club scene going on. Scottsdale and Mill Ave. are the places that come to mind when you think of drinking, dancing, and flirting on Friday and Saturday nights. If the trance/techno and hip-hop scenes aren’t really your thing, then you might want to check out a Fetish Ball or some kind of event hosted by the very erotic and wicked people at Horns and Halos – more about those nifty people in …

According to The Associated Press, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a new version of a bill that once threatened to make it a crime to “annoy or offend” someone online. Now, it only makes it a crime to use a digital device with the intent to intimidate or threaten, and the threat must be directed at a specific individual or group.
It was part of an effort to update Arizona’s harassment and stalking laws to include smartphones and online communication.
Read more at The East Valley Tribune.

Diablo 3 players are being asked to be patient as Blizzard works to repair the servers that crashed when the game was finally released after 12 years. Confusion over the server crash sent throngs of people to Battle.net to get answers, downing that site, as well.