For those of you who may have missed the news on the podcast, we have altered the conditions of the competition – for the better!
We have decided to reduce the number of questions needed to enter. How awesome are we! If you are one of the many people who have already entered, don’t worry, your entry is still in the running 🙂
And if you hadn’t entered yet, now is the perfect time. The questions are so easy, you’d me MAD not to enter!
We have 2 awesome prize packs, with both packs featuring a double entry weekend Pass from the great guys from OzComicCon!
1st Prize includes:
- A copy of The Prestige novel
- A copy of the V for Vendetta hardcover
- The V for Vendetta DVD
- And a double weekend pass for OzComicCon!
Runners Up prize pack, which includes:
- A copy of The Prestige novel
- As well as the DVD of the film
- The Killing Joke trade
- And a double weekend pass for OzComicCon!
All you have to do to win these great prizes is to email us at feedback@nerdculturepodcast.com and answer the following questions:
1. Name any 2 people we have been lucky enough to interview on the show. This also includes any guest crew members we had.
2. Name 2 guests coming to the Melbourne OzComicCon event
Entries close midnight June 23 and the winners will be announced on Episode #27, which will be up June 24.
Be in it to win it!
My excitement for Oz Comic-Con is getting out of control!
They have just announced a new guest for the Melbourne event (June 3oth/July 1st) – Julie Benz!
The lovely Ms Benz has featured in a heap of productions, but is best known for her work in Buffy, Angel & Dexter.
She is joining a really great line-up. I have already mentioned quite a few of them on this website and the podcast so I’ll take the opportunity to highlight some of the guests I haven’t mentioned yet:
David Okeniyi, Willow Shields, Levin Rambin – The Hunger Games
Karen Baltzer, Ryan Robbins – Sanctuary
Hudson Leick – Xena, Warrior Princess
Jeffrey Combs – Re-Animator
Paul Mason – creator of the comic The Soldier Legacy
Scott Allie – Senior Managing Editor at Dark Horse
Stewert McKenny – artist on Star Wars: The Clone Wars comic
And many more local and overseas guests joining them.
For full details check out their website – Oz Comic-Con
And don’t forget to pre-purchase your ticket! Ticket details here – Oz Comic-Con/Tickets – and you can buy them from Ticketmaster – Ticketmaster
Not long to go now!
Acclaimed author Ray Bradbury has died, aged 91.
The prolific writer leaves behind a huge body of work, with more than 27 novels and 600 short stories, including the classic books Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.
The entire NCP Crew are saddened at the loss of one of our literary heroes and our thoughts go out to his family at this time.
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The makers of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and game publisher Activision Blizzard, have agreed to end their legal fight over millions of dollars in royalties.
The two sides said they had settled the matter out of court. The terms were not disclosed.
Jason West and Vincent Zampella, former heads of Activision game studio Infinity Ward, had sued Activision for wrongful dismissal after the company fired them in March 2010. The pair claimed they were fired to avoid paying them bonuses and sought more than US$36 million ($37 million) based on the game’s profits following its release in November 2009. They later raised their claim to over US$1 billion ($1.036 billion).
Activision countersued, accusing them of conspiring to take their secrets to rival Electronic Arts and breaching their contractual and financial duties. Activision also said West and Zampella poisoned the atmosphere at Infinity Ward against Activision, prompting dozens of developers to follow them out the door.
The pair later formed a new company called Respawn Entertainment, which is currently developing games for EA.
Two weeks ago, Activision and EA settled a lawsuit over whether EA unfairly recruited the executives while they were under contract.
EA hailed the settlement between Activision and the game developers as a victory.
“Activision’s refusal to pay their talent and attempt to blame EA were absurd. This settlement is a vindication of Vince and Jason, and the right of creative artists to collect the rewards due for their hard work,” it said in a statement.
Source: news.com.au
