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You Could Soon Buy Tickets For Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Plus a Marathon...

If you want to be among the first to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, be on your computer Friday. Screencrush reports, and we can confirm, that theaters around the country have been contacted by...

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Why Twitter Can and Will Make GIFs Disappear

You may have heard that Deadspin’s GIFs disappeared from Twitter. And then Deadspin disappeared from Twitter. And then Deadspin reappeared on Twitter. It all seems completely ridiculous, except all of...

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Tracer Is a Great Sci-Fi Fix For $2 on Kindle

Set on a giant space station orbiting a destroyed planet Earth, Tracer was one of io9’s must-read science fiction books of July, and you can get a copy on Kindle today for just $2. I finished this book...

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Deadspin The Xbox One Is Garbage And The Future Is Bullshit | Gizmodo There’s...

Deadspin The Xbox One Is Garbage And The Future Is Bullshit | Gizmodo There’s Something Odd in the Shadows of the Curiosity Rover’s Selfie | Jezebel Jennifer Lawrence Shouldn’t Blame Herself For Her...

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The Best Way To Make it to Mars? Go Back to the Moon.

Getting to the Moon was one of the greatest accomplishments in human history. But now, the Moon may be reduced to a mere pit stop for space travelers headed elsewhere. A Mars mission might be much...

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The Team Behind The X-Men Films Is Bringing Two New Marvel Shows To Television

Disney owns both Marvel and ABC, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only channel that can have Marvel TV shows. Fox just announced that it’s working on its own Marvel show, tentatively called Hellfire....

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Pop! Vinyl Ant-Man Rides Into Battle on the Cutest Ant In the World

Funko’s Pop! Vinyl toys tend to go one of two ways: either incredibly creepy, or incredibly cute. Someohow, they’ve managed to make a toy of a giant flying ant and make it the cutest thing in the...

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What Should The Fourth "New" Star Trek Movie Be Called?

It seems to be official: The pattern for new Star Trek movies is for the title to specify which direction we’re Star Trekkin’. E.g., Into Darkness. Or Beyond. So what title should the fourth movie in...

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Standing Desks Are Mostly Bullshit

A new study says that standing up at your desk doesn’t actually decrease your risk of death-by-office, unless you’re physically active otherwise.After several studies asserted that sitting at work all...

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The Final Girls Is The Smartest Meta-Horror Film Since Cabin in the Woods

The Final Girls is a slasher movie, a slasher-movie parody, a horror comedy, and a drama about coming to terms with regrets. Though it’s not especially scary in itself, The Final Girls is the smartest...

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A Satellite Took an Image That Looks Like a Van Gogh

This image of the Azore islands, taken by Sentinel-1A, was processed to make the water appear in blues and the land in brown and greens. The effect turns the image into something like a van Gogh...

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Good News!  You Live in a World with Sea Angels

The more we study the oceans, the clearer it becomes that the land got screwed in terms of the quality of our soft invertebrates. This diaphanous, scrimshawed angel is the ocean’s version of the slug....

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Hendo 2.0: Tony Hawk Helped Design a New Hoverboard That Actually Hovers

This time last year, we reviewed the Hendo—a real-life hoverboard that actually levitates off the ground (as opposed to whatever this thing is.) The same company’s new and improved model looks and...

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Marvel Could Be Introducing Another Major Comic Book Hero Through Netflix Soon

It’s official: King Kong will fight Godzilla again. Watch clips from Jem and the Holograms and The Last Witch Hunter. Black Panther gets another rumored director. An Agent Carter favorite might return...

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Gawker One Brooklyn Gunrunner Allegedly Sold an Undercover Cop 112 Guns In a...

Gawker One Brooklyn Gunrunner Allegedly Sold an Undercover Cop 112 Guns In a Year | Gizmodo Hilarious animation imagines Back to the Future traveling to our real life 2015 instead | Kotaku Guillermo...

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Enthusiasts Created A Giant Roman Empire Display From LEGO

British collective Brick to the Past built a historical LEGO display that’s probably one of the largest ever made. It’s a recreation of Hadrian’s famous wall at Rome’s northern frontier.The display has...

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Rumor Has It Marvel Is Clawing Fantastic Four Back From Fox

You’re going to need a giant salt lick for this one, but it’s not totally out of line with Marvel’s history: there’s a rumor that Fox exchanged the movie rights to Fantastic Four for the two X-Men...

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Here Are Over 50 Official Star Wars: Force Awakens Images You Probably...

It’s no exaggeration to say Disney has been very careful with content released from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Trailers, footage and toys have all been calculated in what’s revealed and while...

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Behold Terry Gilliam's Amazing Lost Animation Work For Monty Python And The...

Terry Gilliam’s fantastical animation work for the cult classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail was already a sight to behold—but we almost got a lot more of it in the actual film. Now 40 years later,...

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Today's Best Media Deals: Apollo 13, John Wick, 90210, and More

If The Martian got you excited about heroic space rescues, the 20th Anniversary Blu-ray of Apollo 13 is down to $10 today, complete with a bunch of special features, and a digital copy. Houston, we...

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