Week In Nerdom

Music

New Music/Video
Linkin Park - Healing Foot https://youtu.be/KKpwDFueO8E Another Meteora unreleased track.
Ov Sulfur - Wide Open https://youtu.be/W5DBZfTcvx4 featuring Howard Jones!!
THY ART IS MURDER - Until There Is No Longer https://youtu.be/M7MJLbbsIlI

Tours/Festivals
Smashing Pumpkins - The World is a Vampire Tour 2023. Starts July 28 in Las Vegas for 2 nights. Runs through Sept 9th in Noblesville, IN. Support from Interpol Rival Sons Stone Temple Pilots.
https://blabbermouth.net/news/smashing-pumpkins-announce-summer-2023-the-world-is-a-vampire-north-american-tour
Godsmack X Staind - Starts July 18 in St. Louis. Runs through Aug 31 in Austin TX. https://blabbermouth.net/news/godsmack-and-staind-announce-summer-2023-north-american-tour
Avenged Sevenfold - Support from Alexisonfire. Starts July 18 in Camden NJ. Runs Through Aug 7 in Vancouver BC. https://blabbermouth.net/news/avenged-sevenfold-announces-summer-2023-north-american-tour

Suggests
Ov Sulfur - The Burden Ov Faith

Gaming/Tech

Follow-ups/Corrections
LTT HACK!!
https://youtu.be/yGXaAWbzl5A
https://youtu.be/xf9ERdBkM5M
Multiversus - The Beta is closing??!? Just for a little while. A few months of downtime to bring it back in full release form in 2024. As of June the open beta will be severely limited, with the full release happening some time in 2024. All earned gear and characters will transfer over. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-multiversus-open-beta-is-going-offline-in-june-ahead-of-a-full-launch-in-2024/
RE:4 - Mercenaries mode in April as free DLC https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-resident-evil-4-remake-will-add-the-mercenaries-mode-as-free-dlc-in-april/
LotR: Gollum - RELEASE DATE! May 25… after being announced as one of the first PS5 games. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-finally-has-a-release-date/

Trailers
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - https://youtu.be/a6qna-ZCbxA DRAGON!

Reg ‘ol News
TMNT: Last Ronin - Game based on the STELLAR series is in the works. No word on who will be making or publishing it just yet. The Last Ronin was written by original TMNT creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, and is set in New York in a dark future.
The city is ruled by The Shredder’s grandson, and only one of the four Turtles remains, his brothers already dead. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-darker-more-mature-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-game-is-in-development/

Suggests
Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

Comic Books/Books

Reg ‘ol News
Francis Ford Coppola - Megalopolis movie turning into a comic too. Francis Ford Coppola is simultaneously making one of the largest films of his career and joining the world of comics. Announced at WonderCon 2023 over the weekend, Coppola's Megalopolis is being turned into a graphic novel thanks to Image Comics. At the Anaheim-based convention, Image held a panel spotlight its new Syzygy imprint, led in part by former IDW publisher Chris Ryall. During the panel, it was revealed Ryall is adapting an original story set in the world of Megalopolis alongside artist Jacob Phillips.
https://comicbook.com/comics/news/francis-ford-coppola-megalopolis-comic-announced-image-comics/

Summer of Symbiotes - Marvel's Summer of Symbiotes is a celebration of Venom's 35th anniversary, featuring new ongoing series, limited series, and crossovers spotlighting Venom, Carnage, Red Goblin, and many more. The event will culminate in the Death of Venomverse, a story in which Carnage heads into the Multiverse for its greatest killing spree yet.
https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-summer-of-symbiotes-venom-details-new-titles/
What if…? Dark - a new series of one-shots that takes a dark twist on classic stories of the past. July will see the release of What If... ? Dark: Spider-Gwen #1 by writer Gerry Conway and Jody Houser, with art by Ramon Bachs and a cover by Greg Land. This sees Gerry Conway return to his most famous Spider-Man story, "The Night Gwen Stacy Died," from 1973's The Amazing Spider-Man #121-122. It featured Spider-Man's confrontation with the Green Goblin with Gwen Stacy's life hanging in the balance on the Brooklyn Bridge. Gwen Stacy ended up dying after being dropped from the bridge, with Spider-Man attempting to rescue her.
https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-what-if-dark-classic-stories-dark-twist/

Suggests
Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice
a horror novel by American writer Anne Rice, the fifth in her Vampire Chronicles series, following The Tale of the Body Thief. In this story, Lestat is approached by the Devil and offered a job at his side.