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May 24, 2013 – 2:08 am |

Love was in the air at Phoenix Comicon 2013 during its Thursday (or Thor’s Day might be more appropriate) opening night festivities; and I don’t mean just the crowds of pop culture enthusiasts’ adoration of …

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Sparky sitrep: Sun Devils can now vote on minutiae of ASU mascot’s makeover

April 22, 2013 – 8:00 am |

Arizona State University hopes to turn a PR disaster around this week as a select group starts voting to determine a new look for Sparky the Sun Devil’s mascot costume.

Tempe’s Changing Hands to open Phoenix book shop this fall

March 28, 2013 – 12:34 pm |

Huge news, everyone. Changing Hands is coming to Phoenix! New store opens this fall. bit.ly/14rgzIW
— Changing Hands (@changinghands) March 28, 2013
Tempe’s Changing Hands Bookstore will finally expand into Phoenix this fall, occupying part of the …

Video: Geeks’ Night Out returns to Tempe Feb. 21

February 19, 2013 – 7:25 pm |

Prepare yourself for the invasion. The City of Tempe hosts “Geeks Night Out” on Thursday, February 21 in downtown Tempe. It’s part of the week long SciTech festival. Come and embrace your “inner geek”.

Not dead yet: 2 campaigns aim to keep Mesa’s Monsterland going (UPDATED)

January 18, 2013 – 9:30 pm |
Marco Regalado

There is not one, but at least two bids out there to keep Monsterland going — one by dedicated employees of the venue and another by an East Valley businessman.

Kickstarter goal: Console gaming bar in Tempe’s Mill Avenue District

January 7, 2013 – 2:39 pm |

Go to the bar or play video games? Not exactly a crisis, but certainly it can be a minor dilemma sometimes. Of course there are bars with arcade units, and larger arcade-bars like GameWorks and Dave & Buster’s. But a neighborhood bar built around the concept of console gaming?

Geekssociated Press: Alisa Ex reports LIVE from Taiyou Con

January 5, 2013 – 11:15 pm |

Streamed live on Jan 5, 2013

Star Wars novelist Timothy Zahn plans Tempe stop on Scoundrels book tour

December 20, 2012 – 1:30 pm |

Timothy Zahn’s “Oceans Eleven”-style Han Solo heist adventure Scoundrels hits bookstores Jan. 1. (Nerdvana acquired an advance copy and a review is coming very soon.) And now we’ve learned that the author will be making an …

Tempe web entrepreneur exposes another alarming Amazon vulnerability

December 19, 2012 – 8:56 pm |
Tempe web entrepreneur exposes another alarming Amazon vulnerability

Over the summer Wired magazine writer Mat Honan related his nightmare of costly identity theft through vulnerabilities in the way his Amazon, iCloud and Google accounts interacted.
Now it is Chris Cardinal, an executive at Tempe-based …

Wrath of CopperCon: CASFS to screen Star Trek II with TV episode that spawned it

December 3, 2012 – 8:40 am |

Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but Khan Noonien Singh is a spicy dish best served on the big screen.

New video stores set to open in malls next year

November 19, 2012 – 9:28 pm |

Believe it or not, the brick-and-mortar video store is not dead — at least not in America’s shopping malls. Trans World Entertainment, which still owns nearly 400 stores under the F.Y.E., Suncoast and Saturday Matinee …