Everyone has found themselves beatboxing under their breath from time to time.  The only problem is, only a handful of us out there are actually good at it.  Thankfully, INCREDIBOX has taken the fun of beatbox and removed any of the skill necessary to make it happen.

I was taken back to such videogames as Mario Paint and MTV Music Generator.  Enjoy wasting your time!

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Our friends @ Oh No Doom! are hosting yet another awesome show, Saturday, March 6th.”A Healthy Dose of Restlessness” is a multi-artist exhibit, featuring work from Nerd Citizen Matthew Ryan Sharp and favorite Toby Stanger.

Plus, I have been informed that there will be cupcakes.

OND! continues to impress with their new gallery space, and this show will be no different. Get all the info on Oh No Doom!’s “A Healthy Dose of Restlessness” here.

Listen to Matthew Ryan Sharp’s episode of Nerd City here.

Listen to Oh No Doom!’s episode of Nerd City here.

The Lake Monsters line of Midwest kaiju figures from Rotofugi has been the proverbial “Toast of the Town” since their Muscamoot started popping up around a year ago.  Steve Seeley even went so far a calling the Booskamoot version of said figure “Toy of the Year” for 2009.  Well, today marks the release of the newest installment in the Lake Monsters series, Dredge, designed by Brian Morris and sculpted by Chris Ryniak. This piece is 8 inches of pure evil (with a bit of vinyl mixed in there for durability)!

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The first release of our newest figure, Dredge, is upon us! We’re calling this first release the Imperial Version after the pearl purple finish and because, after all, purple is the color of royalty. This release is black vinyl with silver and pearlescent purple sprays and silver eyes.

Dredge – Imperial Version will be released on Friday, February 26th. It will be available in-store at Rotofugi in Chicago beginning when we open at noon. Online sales at rotofugi.com will begin at 2pm the same day. The price for this release is $60.

If you can’t make it in to the store today, get your Dredge at 2 p.m. CST today here.

To see more from Brian Morris, check out his official site here.

Thanks to Aintitcool, we get our first look at the official poster for the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street starring Jackie Earle Haley. The poster looks great and I enjoyed the trailer, but word on the net (and we trust everything we read online) is that this is not turnning out very good. Aintitcool has a quite negative review (read here) where the reviewer makes it out that this could end up being PG-13, which of course would make this movie pointless. I enjoyed the Friday the 13th remake/continuation that came out a few years back, so I still hold out hope for this one. Nightmare on Elm Street is set to be released on April 30th

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The film appears to share a sensibility with our good buddy Josh Elder’s not-for-profit “Reading with Pictures“, and it’s exciting to see the overall cause get publicity.

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Variety is reporting that Spider Man 4 will be filming in full 3D. Now there is no report on if the movie will be filmed with 3D cameras or just be upgraded to 3D in post production like the majority of current 3D movies are. No matter how enjoyable Avatar was in 3D, I personally don’t see the need for all these movies to be 3D as well, hopefully this fad will end sooner than later but by the looks of things it wont. Spider Man 4 is scheduled to be released on July 3rd 2012 and will be directed by Marc Webb. No casting announcements have been made at this time.

Today’s the day, people.  Whoever you are, wherever you are, head out to your local comic shop and pick up the print edition Colt Noble and the Megalords one-shot from Image comics!

From Image:

64 PAGES,FC, $5.99

Hack/Slash creator TIM SEELEY brings his acclaimed web comic to the printed page! Welcome to Planet Solus: a world of magic, monsters and high technology! It’s also home to Prince Jaysen, an average 15-year-old with hormones afire! Jaysen finds the mystical figure of action, an artifact that allows him to transform into COLT NOBLE, PALADIN OF POWER, just as his father, the King is taken hostage by a rag tag crew of would be evil overlords! Will he use the powerful body to save his world from the forces of darkness, or will he just try to get laid? It’s Space opera meets teen sex comedy! This collection contains the entire story, sketches, and pin ups, PLUS a PRINT EXCLUSIVE tale featuring the origin of the ANIMALIENS!

You can check out the main comic in web comic form right here at Nerd City!

You can also get a preview of the Animaliens backup story here courtesy of Newsarama!

Also if you’re in the Chicagoland area, you might want to head out to Challengers on Western tonight for Colt Noble release party with signing by the one and only Tim Seeley and special appearances by the Nerd City crew.  Details here.

And no I’m not talking about Scarface or Razor Ramon, I’m talking about Nemesis. With the success of the first auction to name the hero police officer (brought in almost 8 grand), Mark Millar is now auctioning off the rights to name the main character/villain of the upcoming Nemesis book. It would be cool to have your name in a comic, like previous MillarWorld forum members have done, but I think it would be even cooler to be the main character and villain. So if you got a few thousand dollars lying around and want your name to live on in comics, film, toys and video games; head over to eBay to bid on this auction right here.

Due to a slight delay in the book’s hardcover release, Chicago Comics and Challengers have rescheduled their joint “Strange Tales” party and signing from February 13th to March 6th.

This event should be one of the coolest in recent Nerd history, and will be totally worth the wait. Plus there will be beer. Nerd City will see you there.

As reported by Kotaku, Rare will have a playable version of the hit N64 game Perfect Dark at the Xbox Gaming Summit in San Fransisco next week. Perfect Dark for Xbox Live has been highly anticiapted by the gaming community ever since it was rumored over a year ago. What will be great about this is the game will run in full 1080p and 60fps, and of course will have online multiplayer. Looks like I can add this to the list of games that would make me want a 360, but that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Unfortunately, with Microsoft owning Rare and the James Bond rights being held by another company right now there is little hope that we will ever see an updated Goldeneye for the Wii….but one can hope. Below you will see the original N64 screen shot followed by the new screenshots detailing the upgrades to the game. Images courtesy of Kotaku and for more information visit the official Perfect Dark site right here. No official release date has been set for the game yet.

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Holy Shit! It’s fucking official:Tim Seeley’s “Colt Noble and the Megalords“, Nerd City’s first-ever web comic, is being released in print from Image Comics this Wednesday, February 10th!

In celebration, the night of the release, @ 5-7 p.m., Challengers Comics is hosting a signing and party with the man himself, Tim Seeley, and it is highly, highly probable the Nerd CIty boys will also be making an appearance (After swinging by Chicago Comics first, of course.)

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No matter your local comic shop, go out and support Tim and Nerd City by picking up a copy of this awesome, awesome book. Seriously, this is one of the most exciting moments in Nerd City history.

This year EA Sports is teaming up with Doritos to allow the fans to choose who will be on the cover of next years Madden game. The three choices are Drew Brees (QB for The Saints), Reggie Wayne (WR for The Colts) and Jared Allen (DE for The Vikings). What is great about this is besides allowing the fans to choose, is that a defensive player is a voting choice. Not since Ray Lewis on Madden 05 has a defensive player (well Troy Polamalu was on the Madden 10 cover with Larry Fitzgerald) been the sole player to possibly be on the cover. What I now ask of all you nerds out there is to go to the official voting site (right here) and vote for Jared Allen. My guess is that Drew Brees will get this, but if we all work together we can do our best to get Jared Allen the cover that he rightfully deserves. Next to Scott Pollard, Jared Allen is the most interesting man in sports. So please help me and Jared out and do your part by voting. And according to Diddy, if you don’t vote you die. For more information on Jared Allen you can visit his official site.

The finalist for this years Indie Game Challenge have been announced and there are an impressive set of games competing. The Indie Game Challenge was established to give developers a chance to show their skills off to a group of industry people in hopes of getting a job within a company or getting your own game published. What makes this event even better is there are different categories for professionals and amateurs, so there will be no problems with young upstarts haveing to worry about competing against many savvy veterans. This competition is being sponsored by Gamestop and The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University (which is the school for game design in the US, check their site out here) and will reward winners prizes that range from $500-$10,000 in cash and scholarships. You can view all the finalist and vote for your favorites at the Indie Game Challenge website right here along with finding out any information you may have about the event and upcoming news. By the way my favorites are Gear and Aaaa! A Blatant Disregard for Gravity.

Marcio Takara is known right now for his truly amazing work on "The Incredibles" by BOOM studios, if you’re not buying this book add it to you pull box now!:

He’s also done a lot of work on his own on some of the characters from the Big Two:

Pretty amazing if you ask me! Check out his DeviantArt account you’ll see his take on some of the big guns of DC and Marvel along with several other indie heroes, video game characters and other great illustrations that display pop culture nerd love.