Week In Nerdom 1-15

Music

Follow-ups/Corrections
Sebastian Bach V Chris Jericho - this really just has to stop!

NoFX
New record, Single Album, with Linewleum song featuring A7X

KING 810
Lead singer was seen in video at the capital on the 6th. Has come forth to say that he was filming a new music video…

Black Sabbath
Reissuing 2 Dio era albums, Mob Rule and Heaven and Hell, with bonus unheard LIVE material.
https://store.rhino.com/artist/black-sabbath.html

Jared Dines
Mountain Dew meme guitar exists and it is heavy!
https://youtu.be/Rp9KxaMTKb0

TV/Streaming

Follow-ups/Corrections
Happy WandaVision day!

Dustin Diamond
Stage 4 Cancer

Movies

Follow-ups/Corrections
No Time To Die - Moved to Autumn… sometime. Perhaps November https://deadline.com/2021/01/no-time-to-die-release-date-change-2021-covid-pandemic-fall-1234672055/

Disney
Showing the first signs of following in WB’s footsteps. New movie Nomadland will get a simultaneous release.
https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/nomadland-release-date-hulu-1234885688/

Mortal Kombat
Movie trailer today??? Lewis Tan wants us to think so.
https://twitter.com/TheLewisTan
Also, why is it news that there is an animated movie in the works? This has been announced.
We now, also know that Kobra, Kira, Tremor, Kuai Liang, and Kabal will be in it based on casting calls.
https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2021/01/13/mortal-kombat-animated-film/

Gaming/Tech

Fender
New “personal amp” Mustang GTX has a standard headphone jack on it, and the ability to stream bluetooth tunes to play along to.
https://gizmodo.com/fenders-tiny-personal-amp-could-recreate-classic-tones-1846052331

Apex Legends
New patch notes found here: https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1349782758059503617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Sony
Sales lowest since the 90s. Console sales in the homeland are DRAMATICALLY down.

Resident Evil
New Multiplayer game?? Announced a surprise Beta for an as-yet-unannounced multiplayer game later this month. It should be noted that the sign up page is on the RE8 page… but it DOES seem to imply this multiplayer experience will be a separate thing from the main game.
https://www.residentevil.com/village/us/topics/25th-cbt/

Comic Books/Books

Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries
New DC all-ages book coming digitally March 27th and in print April 13th.
Each book is a self-contained story and they seem to be coming out once a week or so for 12 print issues or 24 digital issues.

Robin
Damien Wayne Robin series coming from DC as part of the Infinite Frontier event, taking place after/during Future State. W - Joshua Williamson A - Gleb Melnikov
“After learning of the deadly League of Lazarus tournament, Damian Wayne has a new mission: to win the tournament and prove he is the greatest fighter in the DC Universe! But first he must find the secret island where the tournament is being held!”

Rumor Mill

Confirmations/Refutations
Spider-Man 3 - Feige alludes to the Spider-Man rumors being true in at least the desires of the MCU

Chris Evans
Returning to Cap? Deadline seems to think so. Old man Cap in Falcon ATWS???
Evans himself has posted to his Twitter account saying that the rumors are “news” to him
https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/1349835808497229824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

MK11
The Thiny is now saying that Fire God Liu Kang and Kronika are coming to the game. And the Cyrax and Sektor files have gone missing.
Mileena/Kitana voice actress possibly recording new work for the game.

Super Mario 3d World + Bowser’s Fury
Daisy in the trailer? Playable character??

GTA6
New source echoing the female protagonist and the Vice City rumors.

Marvel
Rogue solo movie the newest rumor.