What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than to watch Felicia Day do some medieval butt-kicking? The official DVD release for the video game based web series Dragon Age: Redemption has been slated for Feb. 14.

For a guy who’s trying to build up Arizona’s Geek Culture, it can feel like a kick in the gut when nerd havens shut down – especially when I’ve gotten to know some of the owners. (This article originally appeared on LightningOctopus.com — please leave your comments on the original post there.)

MADCAP Theaters will be hosting Geeks’ Night Out, Tempe’s celebration of all things science, science fiction and technology 5 to 10 p.m. Feb. 16. On tap: sci-fi trivia, video games, a ghost hunting tour and a tech job fair.
As this super-nerdy promo video says: May the Geeks be with you!

On Feb. 10, “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” will be re-released in theaters — this time with state-of-the-art RealD 3D technology and some fun giveaways for fans.

Can’t think of what to get your companion for Valentine’s Day this year?

“Stargate Resistance” shut down just over a year ago, but elements of the online combat game survive online — if only to hawk online gambling sites.

Let’s face it, video game rivalries are among the fiercest out there, particularly among fighting games. Well now Capcom is letting the Tekken and Street Fighter fans bump heads in their newly announced online reality TV show “Cross Assault” for their upcoming video game Street Fighter X Tekken.

Summer Skye checks in at Pop Culture Paradise for a Warmachine minature game demo.

Mesa Community College’s video game speaker series continues Jan. 25 with Chris Crawford describing his 20-year quest to develop software that generates stories for game play. It takes place 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in room LB145 of the MCC main campus at Southern Avenue and Dobson Road in Mesa.
You can read more about the lecture series and upcoming speakers in my original post.

Capcom will be releasing Resident Evil 6 on Nov. 20, 2012, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. A Windows PC release will follow.