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Console Modder Ben Heck Making Film Starring Giant Robotic Possum

It’s called Possumus Woman, and he’s almost done with it. I think this picture of Mr. Heckendorn fighting said marsupial in the back of a flatbed (“the most complex scene”) kind of says it all-let us know when there’s an Xbox 360 inside that robo-possum, Ben! [Ben Heck]

Movies John Mahoney

Great Literary Novel Becomes A Slapstick Bikini Movie

When the “bad boy of French literature” made a movie of his ground-breaking novel about cloning, cults and the end of the world, he probably wasn’t hoping for comparisons to Benny Hill or critics bursting out laughing during his first showing. Novelist and H.P. Lovecraft critic Michel Houellebecq was so offended by the critics’ laughter,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Books Can Control Your Mind as Powerfully as Television

Click to viewTales from George Orwell’s 1984 to the movies Network and Videodrome are all about how people are so controlled by television that they’ll do anything. Usually, books are presented as an antidote to a TV-controlled populace. But now a new neuroscience study reveals that books control people’s minds and emotions in exactly the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

It’s Like Life On Mars, Only With A Wooden Sword

Neil’s playing Nintendo while drunk, and he decides to masturbate while looking at the “kinda hot” fairy in the classic fantasy game Zelda. Somehow this leads to him asphyxiating himself with the game controller cord, and he passes out. When he wakes up, he’s stuck inside the game as an elf. Now the confused lad…

io9 Meredith Woerner

20 Things That Should Be Their Own Genres (But Aren’t)

Click to viewOne of the great mysteries of the universe is why some types of story get to repeat, with endless variations, while others just don’t. How is that space opera gets to be its own genre? Or the amnesiac detective story? Or time-travel romance? Who decides that these things are genres, but some other…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Megatron No Longer Dangerous In Canada

Megatron may be a seemingly-unstoppable killing machine hellbent on world domination and possession of, depending on your age, the Matrix or the All-Spark, but there is apparently one place on Earth where he is powerless. Beautiful surroundings, socialized healthcare, and now keeping the leader of the Decepticons at bay. Is there anything Canada can’t do?The…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Not Even Samuel L. Jackson In Terrible Eyeliner Can Save The Spirit

New footage from Frank Miller’s The Spirit has the Octopus and the Spirit duking it out through a murky cess-pool. It looks like the retarded baby from Sin City. Miller is truly just hell-bent on taking all of the fun out of this remake and just making it his own foul creation. Plus, somebody get…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Five Guns for Wars of the Future, Not One a Death Ray

At some point in humanity’s future, our military forces are going to have to fight alien invaders, angry robots or hordes of zombies. Ultimately, a bunch of infantry grunts are going to have to hold the line against the onslaught. And they’re going to need guns. Awesome guns. What have the arms merchants of the…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Comic Artist’s Nightmares Come To Life In Indie Movie

An artist’s comic-book pages come to life, threatening to end the world as we know it, in a new movie called Santos. Now the artist has to put down the pen and paper and find his inner hero, or we’re all doomed. Santos is yet another addition to the great line up at this years…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Everything That’s Wrong with Nature

Sometimes humans really do seem like nothing more than tangles of metal, bone, and hair attached a digital watches. That’s the uneasy message of Canadian artist David Altmejd’s sculptures, which have made him a controversial but popular artist over the past few years. A lot of his stuff is techno-grotesque, which you can see below,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Trent Reznor Is HBO’s Great Scifi Hope?

Apparently, HBO’s new slogan could be “It’s not television, it’s a concept album and online ARG about a futuristic dystopia turned into mini-series.” That’s if new reports that the cable channel is planning to adapt Nine Inch Nail’s Year Zero into a TV series turn out to be true, of course.The LA Times is reporting…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Watch The Craziest Scenes From Death Race, Chuck, Knight Rider, Heroes And Sarah Connor

This morning’s spoilers are pretty video-intensive. There’s an adults-only sneak peek at the killer-car movie Death Race. NBC put out some extra-long promo videos for Chuck, Knight Rider and Heroes, with some scenes you’ve only heard about so far. A new Sarah Connor trailer shows John Connor doing the one thing you’d never expect him…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

10 Comics Creators We Wish Would Make Movies Instead Of Frank Miller

Click to viewWe used to love Frank Miller, before his comics work turned into schlocky self-parody. But even in his prime, Frank wouldn’t be our first choice to direct a semi-major Hollywood movie, so we’re sad that Miller’s getting his shot at the brass ring with The Spirit. We can think of ten comics creators…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Batman Story Chris Nolan Won’t Ever Adapt

Sure, Christian Bale and Chris Nolan have already made it clear they won’t have Robin the Boy Wonder in their third Batman movie, but what about Batman’s other sidekicks? I’m referring, of course, to Scooby Doo and his gang, who teamed up with Batman twice in 1972. I would tell you more about the plot…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Cuntblocker 5000, If Ron Popeil Were a Total Prude

Click to viewThank goodness the brightest television inventors of our generation aren’t the prudish sorts who will pull words like “cunt” from our morning weather report. Because then even the sunniest days would be filled with the subfusc clouds of rain. * If the repetition of the word “cunt” didn’t give it away, this video…

Television Mark Wilson

This Material Does Not Conform to the Laws of Gravity

Click to viewSachiko Kodama is a physics geek turned artist whose intimacy with the laws of magnetism has led her to create art out of magnets and oils filled with magnetic particles. As the magnets interact with the magnetized water, she’s able to create amazingly weird, oily shapes that mutate and flow seemingly without reference…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Fish Boy Resurfaces In The Movies

Move over bat boy, the kid with gills is taking over. Stone Village Pictures has bought the rights to Alexander Belyaev’s scifi novel Amphibian Man. In this 1920s novel, a scientist saves his young son’s life by transplanting shark gills onto his little body. Of course, now the child spends most of his days in…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Huge California Porn Tax Proposal Goes Limp

Digital dowloads taxes might be breathing hot and steamy down our necks, but we apparently dodged at least one taxation bullet today: A Ron Jeremy-sized 25 percent tax on adult entertainment in California that would’ve extended to streamed and downloaded internet porn (you know, if you actually paid for it). https://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-itunes-taxes-5036071 Assemblyman Charles Calderon argued…

Movies Matt Buchanan

Heroes Embrace, Cast Comic Book Fans

It’s taken them three seasons, but Heroes is finally embracing its heritage with the announcement that Seth Green and Breckin Meyer are to join the cast of NBC’s superhuman drama, playing two massive comic book nerds. Does this mean that we’re going to see more of 9th Wonders, the show’s deus ex comic book plot…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Secrets of the Metamaterials that Will Make You Invisible

Invisibility used to be the stuff of comic books and Harry Potter novels. But this week, scientists from UC Berkeley have emerged with two new invisibility-producing “metamaterials,” engineered substances that bend electromagnetic waves in ways they’ve never bent before. They call it “negative refraction.” But you and I can just call it the first step…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Console Modder Ben Heck Making Film Starring Giant Robotic Possum

Great Literary Novel Becomes A Slapstick Bikini Movie

Books Can Control Your Mind as Powerfully as Television

It’s Like Life On Mars, Only With A Wooden Sword

20 Things That Should Be Their Own Genres (But Aren’t)

Megatron No Longer Dangerous In Canada

Not Even Samuel L. Jackson In Terrible Eyeliner Can Save The Spirit

Five Guns for Wars of the Future, Not One a Death Ray

Comic Artist’s Nightmares Come To Life In Indie Movie

Everything That’s Wrong with Nature

Trent Reznor Is HBO’s Great Scifi Hope?

Watch The Craziest Scenes From Death Race, Chuck, Knight Rider, Heroes And Sarah Connor

10 Comics Creators We Wish Would Make Movies Instead Of Frank Miller

The Batman Story Chris Nolan Won’t Ever Adapt

Cuntblocker 5000, If Ron Popeil Were a Total Prude

This Material Does Not Conform to the Laws of Gravity

Fish Boy Resurfaces In The Movies

Huge California Porn Tax Proposal Goes Limp

Heroes Embrace, Cast Comic Book Fans

Secrets of the Metamaterials that Will Make You Invisible

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

Sun’s Latest Outburst Complicates Planned Launch of Artemis 2

Instagram Will Finally Let You Lurk to Your Heart’s Content—for a Price

Popular Sweetener Found in Protein Bars Tied to Stroke, Blood Clot Risk

HBO’s Boss Has Yet to Be Approached About Partnering on ‘Doctor Who’

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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