80s
Toy Stories: Battle Beasts
“Fire burns Wood! Wood floats on Water! Water puts out Fire!” Battle Beasts finally gave us the answer to a question that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time: If animals were bred into CONTINUE READING…
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The Rolling Stones Are Getting a Trading Card Set From Panini
Panini America is producing “the first fully-licensed career spanning trading card set” for the Stones, featuring the band members; variations of their logo; stage designs; cover artwork; and concert/tour documentary posters. The deal with the CONTINUE READING…
Food
Monster Cereals Have Returned For the 2024 Season
General Mill’s Monster Cereals are back starting this month for the 2024 Halloween season. This year’s lineup features Count Chocula, Boo Berry, Franken Berry, and Carmella Creeper. In a new twist, this year’s cereals introduce new pet marshmallows–one for each CONTINUE READING…
News
Hellmann’s Has Launched a Mayo-Inspired Cologne
In a collaboration with Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is releasing a new cologne called Will Levis No. 8, inspired by the scent of the brand’s famous mayonnaise. The fragrance features notes of lemon, coffee, CONTINUE READING…
Food
Taco Bell is Bringing Back Old Favorites For a New Nostalgia Menu
Taco Bell has announced it is testing a “Nostalgic Menu” at select Southern California locations for a limited time, while also noting that it is looking to bring these items nationwide later this year for a CONTINUE READING…
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Introducing So You Want To Be A Geek Podcast
We here at Geekster Media are proud to announce that a new podcast will be gracing our airways beginning Monday, July 29th called So You Want To Be A Geek. So You Want To Be CONTINUE READING…
90s
3 Retro Commercials From the Health and Nutrition Industry in the ’90s
Retro commercials possess a unique, nostalgic charm. Back when the Internet wasn’t as widespread, access to information was limited, and viewers had no luxury of fast-forwarding. This made retro commercials a powerful tool in influencing CONTINUE READING…
70s
Man From Atlantis
When the Star Wars wave hit in the late 1970s, science fiction rode that crest back to the major media in a major way. Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century took most of the TV sci-fi glory, but CONTINUE READING…
80s
Atari Acquires Intellivision
Atari has announced that it has acquired the Intellivision brand along with the rights to over 200 games in a move that, according to Digital Eclipse’s studio head Mike Mika, “ends the longest-running console war in CONTINUE READING…
Video Games
How the Internet Changed the Face of Gambling
For as long as civilization has existed, people have gambled. Gambling goes as far back as the Paleolithic period and it is astonishing how much the landscape has transformed over the centuries. The version of CONTINUE READING…
Comic Books
Archie is Finally Going to Choose Between Betty and Veronica
More than 80 years after he first found himself caught between the warring affections of Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge, Archie Andrews will finally do the one thing he’s been avoiding so hard it’s become CONTINUE READING…
90s
From Panels to Pixels: 6 Comics That Inspired Games
Comics and video games share a symbiotic relationship, often crossing paths to create immersiveexperiences that captivate audiences across mediums. Over the years, numerous comic bookseries have served as fertile ground for game developers, offering rich CONTINUE READING…
70s
Wonder Woman TV Series
Based on Charles Moulton’s 1940’s comic superhero, Wonder Woman first hit the live-action airwaves in a 1974 made-for-TV movie, starring Cathy Lee Crosby as the great one and Ricardo Montalban as her enemy. Another TV CONTINUE READING…
Articles
Games to Watch For in 2024
While the previous year was a big feast for game lovers, 2024 seems like an even match. Games like Baldur’s Gate 3, Street Fighter 6, Diablo 4, and Starfield star-struck gamers. This year, ardent gamers CONTINUE READING…
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5 Classic Video Games to Play in 2024
Gaming has always been an escape for various people. From the first video games ever developed to the online games we have right now, there’s no denying that some of these games have transformed pop CONTINUE READING…
