I just received word from 20th Century Fox’s agents that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus has been rated R.

In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system’s natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.
Ridley Scott, director of ‘Alien’ and ‘Blade Runner,’ returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to …

Friday night Phoenix’s creative community came together for Ignite Phoenix #12 to hear 18 local presenters each give a five-minute look at what they’re most passionate about. You can read a recap from Bob Leeper here.
Now the videos of the presentations themselves are online, and you can catch them at YouTube. Below I’ve gathered some of the nerdiest entries, many of which come from friends of Nerdvana!
Hanging Out With Hackers, Trekkies, Steampunkers, and Monsterologists by Jonathan Simon aka @electricoctopi

Bronies: The internet phenomenon from nowhere by Joseph Plate

Wires! by Carl Jimenez aka @cactuscarl

Women …

Check out the teaser for season 5 of Star Wars: Clone Wars, unveiled by StarWars.com today to coincide with “Star Wars Day.” May the 4th Be With You!
Featured prominently: a vengeful Darth Maul, rescued last season by his brother Savage Opress, and the Mandalorian splinter group known as Death Watch.

The first Saturday in May is almost upon us — and that means that once again Free Comic Book Day has rolled around. Check out Lightning Octopus for full details on where you and your kids can get some free ink in the AZ.
Remember — this is the first year without Atomic Comics after the nationally known Arizona chain bit the dust. Go out and get your free comics — but also check out what other products the participating stores have on the shelf that might interest you, and support …

Nerdvana contributor Bob Leeper has been delving into the history of this band of Marvel misfits — and his profiles are collected here in link form. That you can click! Please do so now.

This weekend GateWorld reported on some developments that could move the defunct Stargate SG-1 franchise forward. It sounds like there is an app-based game in the works for smartphones and tablets, but there are hints of a further announcement at Comic-Con that would involve a larger revival.
Last year about this time we saw the end of 14 consecutive years of Stargate being on TV in some form when Stargate Universe ended, a victim of Syfy’s infamous penchant for canceling scripted sci-fi shows in favor of “reality” programming. We’ve also borne witness to …

AZ ASSIST, a Tempe-based nonprofit organization that helps teens and young adults with autism, will host a Gaming Day event this Saturday in connection with Autism Awareness & Acceptance Month. Among the attractions, Amazing Arizona Comics creator and Nerdvana contributor Russ Kazmierczak Jr. will be doing sketches from noon to 2 p.m. The first person to mention Nerdvana will get an exclusive, oversized Amazing Arizona Comics framed page!

A new episode of ThunderCats Saturday morning on Cartoon Network:
Lion-O and company come upon a Dog City where they unexpectedly find a cat: Pumyra. This comes as a surprise since they believed all the cats were enslaved by Mumm-Ra, but an even greater surprise is that this cat has no love for Lion-O and, in the end, he’s forced to face the cat down in a death match — and she’s not pulling any punches. Meanwhile, Panthro runs into an old friend turned enemy, Dobo.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 will be available as a digital download go.ign.com/IVutoV
— IGN (@IGN) April 27, 2012
 

Good news: ‘Fringe’ renewed. Bad news: The fifth season will be its last. bit.ly/Icvz3g
— Nerdvana (@nerdvana) April 26, 2012