There isn’t much about the WiiU that’s been attractive to me as a consumer or a gamer. I mean, I know that eventually Nintendo will do something like put out a new Zelda game exclusively for the platform and then I’ll actually have to take a look at my choices, but for now there’s nothing about the system that’s really made me say wow, I want that.

Until yesterday, when Nintendo announced that the female version of the Wii Fit trainer, the one who explains how to do Yoga poses, pushups, and jackknifes, is going to be a playable character in its legendary franchise of fighting games, Super Smash Bros.

If you love the Lauren Faust created DC Nation short, Super Best Friends Forever, you’re in luck. Although we won’t be seeing any more animated shorts (at least anytime soon), DC has made the wise decision to create a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive statue set. USA Today has the rest of the DC con exclusives but we have tunnel vision right now. Take our money. Take it now. The three together will run $49.95 and of course, you’ll have to physically be at SDCC or know someone going to get one. Or risk scary Ebay prices after the fact.

(via DC Women Kicking Ass)

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“I’m afraid there were a few ‘thespian’ words used. They got a very stern royal ticking off but I have to say they were very sweet and they stopped immediately… The drumming just slowly got louder and louder and then settled right outside the stage door. There was just a thin wall between drumming and the theatre so it was unbelievably loud on stage. Paul Ritter and I could hardly hear each other speak and the audience couldn’t hear us speak at all… I thought, we can’t carry on like this, they have to stop. I was so upset from struggling through the scene with Paul that I literally walked straight off stage, straight up the stairs and straight out the stage door and banged my way through the crowd who were watching and said ‘stop, you’ve got to stop right now’ only I might have used stronger language than that. They were very sweet and stopped the minute they knew I wasn’t just a batty old woman haranguing them on the streets of Soho on a Saturday night.” — Dame Helen Mirren. Apparently if you interrupt a play she’s in by drumming right outside the theater she will not hesitate to tell you to STFU. Best part? She was playing the Queen of England at the time.

(via The Telegraph)

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Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, and Anne Neville are the focus of the BBC’s The White Queen. The series is based on Philippa Gregory’s best selling historical novel series The Cousins’ War, and follows the women’s perspective during the Wars of the Roses. Coincidentally enough, The White Queen was written by a woman named Emma Frost. The 10-episodes series will air this summer on BBC One and in August on Starz in the U.S.

(via Deadline)

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We’d heard the rumors that Zoe Saldana would play female lead Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy before, but—speaking for myself personally, here—I didn’t want to assume they’d come true lest I jinx that wonderful bit of casting.

Looks like my skepticism paid off, as the casting was not jinxed and Saldana has in fact been confirmed as Gamora. You’re welcome.

Zoe Saldana, of the Star Trek and Avatar soon-to-be-franchises, is looking to make a geeky hat trick by slotting a third major scifi series into her… bandolier? I guess? This mixed metaphor got away from me. What I’m trying to say is that according to the Hollywood Reporter, the actress is in talks to play the female lead in Guardians of the Galaxy, which, incidentally, would make her the first woman of color to play a major character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Even though I haven’t read the novels it’s based on, I decided I was going to see The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. But with this new trailer I realized Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey was starring as an ex-demon hunter so now I’ll be there on opening day.

(via Collider)

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Good news, HBO-less Game of Thrones fans. HBO has heard your pleas to make HBO GO, their online streaming service, available to those who don’t have cable. And they have responded with a resounding “Maybe. Eventually.”

Hey, it’s better than “no.”

What’s this? A new partnership between Hyperion Books and Marvel Entertainment?! Yes. She-Hulk and Rogue star in their own novels coming this June. 

Trailers don’t always need to be obvious to be effective. For instance, everyone I’ve talked to about this new BioShock Infinite trailer has said how impressed they were with it and how excited they now are for the game. Granted, most were excited before the trailer (and have been waiting a looooooong time for it to come out) but a little creativity goes a long way.

(via Geekosystem)

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