X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer!

While we're on the subject of geek movie franchises, here's the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer! Luckily, unlike the Eddie Murphy thing, there's no chance this is a hoax. I wasn't expecting much from this movie... but the trailer actually makes it look pretty cool. What do you guys think?
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE HD

Best Geek Jack-o-Lanterns of 2008!

Sure, it's one thing to invest hundreds on an elaborate costume honoring your favorite icon of geekdom... but it's a whole 'nother deal when you're elbow-deep in pumpkin innards carefully carving that same icon into a decaying gourd. Here we honor the 2008 masters of negative space with the top geek pumpkins of this past Halloween!


UPDATE 2009! Here and here are a new crop of pumpkins designed by your own Gnerd editors, including Left 4 Dead zombies, Larry David, and Ponyo!


First of course, the most popular costume... ALSO one of the most popular pumpkins!

Image Courtesy of CraigG144

Now if only I had found this costume, I would have won Bingo!

Image courtesy of sage_82

Star Wars, Portal, Cylons, and so much more after the jump...


Another Wall-E... much simpler, but its simplicity adds to the cuteness of the character

Image courtesy of mrboma

An awesome Wario and Boo
Images courtesy of grantsewell

Some one's got Secret Invasion on the brain...

Image courtesy of lensbs

Of course it wouldn't be a geek Halloween without Star Wars!

Image courtesy of pixelelated

Image courtesy of Metal Chris

Image courtesy of Simon Davison

Image courtesy of garcher84

Here's The Adorable Gizmo and his pal Batman (my favorite Batman RIP title so far)

Image courtesy of ktsaltishok

Here's an impressive combination of the latest in LED and pumpkin technology

Image courtesy of MAKE

This is a simple pumpkin, sure... but the connotations of this image are far more terrifying to any geek than anything else Halloween has to offer...

Image courtesy of penner42

If you weren't aware of Geekanerd's obsession with all things Portal, then you've been under a rock for a year (or you haven't visited this blog... either or)

Image courtesy of wickerman

Image courtesy of prettypinkninja

This one's for AHR

Image courtesy of bluedot11

And lastly (and probably leastly), here was my pumpkin... It was a design I did in high school during a major Bond phase... unfortunately I didn't have time to flesh out my own Joker design this year-so I went back to this oldie... but it turned out pretty well. Unfortunately this photo is at a bit of an angle, but you get the idea.

Weekanerd NYC: Labyrinth, Scrabble, and Advance Wars Launch

Friday, January 18

• Labyrinth (New 35mm Print)
  
• Midnight@ The Sunshine, 143 Houston, Manhattan

Despite the constant presence of alternately cute and traumatizingly scary muppets, if you were born in the early 80s/late 70s chances are your viewing of this film coincided with your sexual awakening. Whether that new, confusing feeling was tied to young Jennifer Connelly or David Bowie depends on the individual. Actually scratch that, no matter what your preference, how are you not down with this action?
Scrabble and Advance Wars Launch Party, after the jump...

Saturday, January 19

• Scrabble For Cheaters
• Noon @ 826NYC, 372 5th Avenue, Brooklyn

Word nerds need a new venue to show off their skills now that Scrabulous' days are numbered (or is that lettered? Hawww.) Scrabble For Cheaters is a charity event in which 2-player teams compete for vocab dominance, with both their lexicons AND their bank accounts. That's right, for $25 bucks you can trade out a letter, and for a whopping $500 you can play Jykyqyz, say it's a type of Icelandic blanket, and no one can question it. There are lots more buyable cheats in between, hit the link for a list. Sadly all the team slots are filled, though you can still show up and see if teams like Eatin' n Cheatin' can outwit (or outspend) The Great Tile Caper.

Sunday, January 20

• Advance Wars: Days Of Ruin Launch Party
• 1pm @ Nintendo World, 10 Rockefeller Plaza

A launch at the Nintendo Store usually means there's free stuff to be had. To celebrate their new DS Title, the latest in the Advance Wars series, they'll be giving out free copies of the game to the first 25 folks in line. You'd probably have to get in line sometime on Friday to get one, but it is a four day weekend so....you have time. Check out the press release on Go Nintendo, cause Nintendo World seems to have taken the event info down from their terribly run official site.