Geek Grotto

Sorry these are taking a bit longer than I wanted to get them up, but we did have a few "Technical Difficulties" that I have to fix manually on a few of the videos we took at SDCC.

A bit late with our video's from San Diego, but here is Capcom's Rey Jimenez telling us about DuckTales!!!

During this year's San Diego Comic Con, Engadget threw a GDGT event where Nokia was present. There I was given a near fully charged " POW! #Nokia POW er" branded DC-16 battery. Just in time as my phone, a Lumia 900, was in battery saver mode! So, how did Nokia's little gift do?

Here we interview Svea Macek, the wife of the late Carl Macek, about her involvement with Robotech at this year's San Diego Comic Con.

We had a chance to talk to the Director and Producer of "The Vigilante Diaries", Christian Sesma, at SDCC this year.If their fundraiser succeeds, we learn what this new web series has in store for us!

This year during the San Diego Comic Con, Engadget held a GDGT Live meetup at Stingaree. Among many of the sponsors, Nokia what there showing off the Lumia 1020! So I did what any full blooded geek would do, I asked if I could play with it!!! After a few minutes, I realized that this is the best camera phone on the market and could easily replace most point and shoot cameras!

We had a chance to chat with Fede Alvarez, the director of the recent Evil Dead movie, and learned a few interesting things. First and foremost, the movie that was released is his Director's Cut. He was happy to not have to butcher his film to keep an R rating! Second, and the matter that people think CG was used? "Bulls@#t!. We picked a location were we knew the river would overflow eventually. So we filmed the initial scenes and then went ahead and continued filming the movie. Once the river started rising, we sent a crew to film it while we went ahead with the movie" What about Bruce? "I initially wanted to bring in Bruce (Cambell) and Ted Raimi, but was told this is my Evil Dead movie, so make it my own!" After that, someone asked about Bruce's cameo at the end, to which Fede said "At first, we didn't have Bruce in it at all. As we started to market the movie, people kept asking if he was in the movie. After people finally started to bel...

A CAPE! Normally, when you pick up your pass at SDCC, you normally get a bag , while neat, is not very sturdy. This year, Warner Brothers is adding a cape into the bags! You will get a bag that is randomly chosen for you with matching cape this year. Shows/capes include "Teen Titans Go w/ Beware the Batman" cape, "Big Bang Theory w/ Bazinga", "Arrow w/ Arrow?", and more. Go on and take a peek!

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost bring the finale of "The Cornetto Trilogy" to Comic Con! On Thursday, July 18th at 1pm, there will be a fan crawl starting at The Commons SD.  Everyone can join in, but 12 winners get a chance to attend an invite-only The World's End Comic Con party that night! Friday there will be a panel at 10am with the trio talking about the movie. Also that Friday, 100 lucky people who collect 12 trading cards on the streets of San Diego will be able to catch a screening of The World's End"! For now you can watch these 2 new featurettes! "The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy" "Director at Work" More about "The World's End" at the official website: http://www.theworldsendmovie.com

Well Geeks, it's crunch time! with 19 days before SDCC, we are finalizing quite a few things! Almost all of our new gear is in hand and scheduling has begun. We can now work independently and still record HD video with clear audio, so hopefully we will have more footage than the previous years!!! More coming soon!!!!

Dark Horse Comics today released their list of San Diego Comic Con exclusives, which 99% contains pure epic! as for the 1%? It really creeps me out! Take a peak after the jump!

Well Geeks, we are less than a month away from the pinnacle of Geekdom, The 2013 San Diego Comic Con! With that said, we will be there in force! And by force, I mean 2 of us!!! Anyways, we have spent the past 2 months preparing. We now own our own video equipment, and have improved our audio sources for this year. This did cost us a bit of cash out of pocket, and I will miss my copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga, but in the long run it seems worth it. Now with E3 over, we should be able to start scheduling events to attend and people to talk to. Also, prepare for a stream of Comic Con press releases leading up to "The Con"!