Otakus & Geeks Holiday Gift Guide 2018 - Scholastic's AFK (Away From Keyboard)

Otakus & Geeks Holiday Gift Guide 2018 - Scholastic's AFK (Away From Keyboard)

AFK is a publishing program that brings you books about your favorite video games like Halo, Assassin’s Creed, World of Warcraft, Hello Neighbor, and Five Nights at Freddy’s. From guidebooks to original novels, stay in the worlds of the games you love, even while you’re Away From Keyboard.

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Videogame Flashback: Daze Before Christmas

Videogame Flashback: Daze Before Christmas

Daze Before Christmas is a video game developed by Norwegian video game development company Funcom and originally released by Sunsoft onto the Sega Mega Drive in 1994 exclusively in Australia. A version was also released for the Super NES both in Europe and Australia.

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Videogame Flashback: Dragonball Z Shin Budokai

Videogame Flashback: Dragonball Z Shin Budokai

In Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, players can take on their friends in intense WiFi multiplayer battles employing all the most exhilarating aspects of Dragon Ball Z combat, including counter-attacks, super high-speed bouts, flight and Ki (energy) management. In single player mode players will be able to challenge some of the most evil characters ever seen in a comic-based video game, or to play as the bad guys themselves and become the most feared and powerful warrior in the universe.Alongside the breathtaking high-speed WiFi multiplayer combat, other features include a choice of 18 playable characters including prize fighter Pikkon, a Revamped version of the acclaimed Saiyan Overdrive fighting system, the ability to perform in-game transformations to more powerful forms, an all-new stage from the Janemba movie, and a total of seven game modes including compelling story mode.

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Overlord Review

Overlord Review

On the eve of D-Day, American paratroopers drop behind enemy lines to penetrate the walls of a fortified church and destroy a radio transmitter. As the soldiers approach their target, they soon begin to realize that there's more going on in the Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. Making their way to an underground lab, the outnumbered men stumble upon a sinister experiment that forces them into a vicious battle against an army of the undead.

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Otakus & Geeks: Essential Anime Episode 35 - Blue Gender

Otakus & Geeks: Essential Anime Episode 35 - Blue Gender

Imagine waking after spending more than two decades in suspended animation. You awaken to a world more terrifying than your worst nightmare. A world where human beings are hunted down by giant insect-like creatures called the Blue. Welcome to Earth in the year 2031…a time when the planet is no longer ours. Earth’s very survival now rests in your hands.

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DC Comics: Super Heroines 100 Greatest Moments (Book Review)

DC Comics: Super Heroines 100 Greatest Moments (Book Review)

This is the first in a series that will include DC Comics Super Heroines: 100 Greatest Moments (available in October) and DC Comics Super-Villians: 100 Greatest Moments (publishing June of 2019).

Robert Greenberger has long worked in the pop-culture field, including tenures at Starlog Press, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Weekly World News. His most recent works include The Essential Batman Encyclopedia, Spider-Man Vault (co-written with Peter David), and Stan Lee's How to Write Comics (co-written with Stan Lee). He has over a dozen Star Trek books to his credit, in addition to editing the comic

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Halloween (2018) Review

Halloween (2018) Review

It's been 40 years since Laurie Strode survived a vicious attack from crazed killer Michael Myers on Halloween night. Locked up in an institution, Myers manages to escape when his bus transfer goes horribly wrong. Laurie now faces a terrifying showdown when the masked madman returns to Haddonfield, Ill. -- but this time, she's ready for him.

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Venom Review

Venom Review

Journalist Eddie Brock is trying to take down Carlton Drake, the notorious and brilliant founder of the Life Foundation. While investigating one of Drake's experiments, Eddie's body merges with the alien Venom -- leaving him with superhuman strength and power. Twisted, dark and fueled by rage, Venom tries to control the new and dangerous abilities that Eddie finds so intoxicating.

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"SUIT UP!" Interview with Marcy Harriell

"SUIT UP!" Interview with Marcy Harriell

Justin had a chat with Marcy Harriell about her new “Suit Up!” that will premiere on October 5th on the streaming service Blueprint. An actress by trade -- having starred in film, TV and Broadway productions (most notably, in Rent and Lin Manuel Miranda's In The Heights) -- Marcy Harriell is a Sewist, founder of fashion blog Oonaballoona, and the host of “Re:Fashion,” a new series on NBCUniversal’s streaming on-demand subscription service Bluprint (it’s like the Netflix of makers, doers and creators). Follow Marcy's creative adventures on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter as @marcyharriell or her blog “oonaballoona by marcy harriell,” (http://www.oonaballoona.com/).

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