If I can manage to keep up with enough of this, I’ll see if I can make it an ongoing thing.  Here’s some of the news that you’ll want to know in geekdom this week!

See the list after the jump

Avengers, to the Imax!

Those of you planning to see the Avengers on opening night might want to make specific plans.  For those who see the film the first night at the first showing in an Imax, there will be a movie poster waiting just for you.  The posters are being marketed as being ‘limited edition.’  I don’t typically see movies in an Imax, but if there were ever going to be one, it’d sure be this one!

Iron Man 3 – Already Leaking Some Details

Scarlett Johansson  has said in an interview that she won’t be appearing in the third film staring the eponymous ferrous humanoid.  She does, however, look forward to the possibility of doing a Black Widow film at some point.  That may not seem like much news to most us, but keep in mind, she’s in the Avengers and Joss is directing.  This means she’s probably going to survive!

One More bit for the Avengers

As if any of us needed any more incentive to go see this film as soon as we possibly can, the first trailer for the new Spider-Man franchise is supposedly going to be attached to the film.  Personally, I really am not all that worked up for it, but if the trailer looks good then I’ll consider it.  On the other hand, I already know that’s not one I’ll line up for opening night for.

Hi-ho Silver, and Away!

So, this is something I was unaware of.  Intending to get an audience into theaters that may not have been for a while, or potentially several audiences that don’t typically go to the same theaters, Disney is making a new Lone Ranger film.  So, baby boomers and younger movie goers may overlap.  Also, it’s been reported that Jack White of the White Stripes has been brought aboard in order to work on the score.

This One is just for Brian

I gave up on the show Supernatural after they started doing a kind of monster of the week thing after they averted the apocalypse.  I’m sorry, I just don’t think you follow that up.  However, this week’s episode has two things going for it.  First, the title of the episode is The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo.  Second, it guest stars Felicia Day.  It’s incredible how far she’s gotten since she mostly became popular from a web series.

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

This is a thing and I endorse it.  It was one of the stranger things I’ve experienced this year when I found out that my father, of all people, was enthralled with this book.  It’s high on my ‘to read’ list and I will most certainly be seeing the film!

For Street Samurais

A few weeks back, I endorsed a Kickstarter game because it has a story that is being penned by Mike Stackpole to go with it.  That particular game, Wasteland, ended up getting almost $3 million.  That’s a stack of dough.  Right now, I’m going to say this to the old school, pen and paper gamers out there.

You remember how awesome it was the first time you played Shadowrun?  Do you remember the discordant thrill you got when you realized that you were playing a giant troll wit mechanical arms shooting a water gun at your enemies?  And lastly, how terribly disappointed you were when Microsoft released a pretty poor game based on Shadowrun that ended up being a team based shooter?

Then this is the game for you, ladies and gents.  The game is being developed in association with the original creator of the franchise, Jordan Weisman.  It’ll be a 2-d, turn based game with an emphasis on story-telling and made for iOS, Android and Windows PC’s.  It sounds really awesome to me.

Publishing Giant Tor Makes Bold Move

For those of you that have been frustrated in the past by the DRM protections on the e-books, that era may be coming to an end.  Tor and Forge, the publishers of such works as Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time have made an announcement, they will no longer be placing such protections on their e-books.  The decision was apparently based on the request of their authors.   On one hand, that sounds awesome, no more buying two copies of one book, for instance, for a husband and wife who each have e-readers of some kind.  On the other hand, I hope it doesn’t backfire too hard, but pirates are already breaking the DRM, so it’s not like their isn’t already a problem there.