Without Warning on DVD! It's finally happened - the 1994 mock-newscast thriller Without Warning is coming to DVD on July 3rd. It's being released as an extremely low-budget title by Madacy Entertainment, well-known for no-frills DVDs. But it goes without saying that Without Warning, which sparked controversy for CBS in 1994 for causing a War Of The Worlds-style panic in parts of the U.S. despite repeated disclaimers and obvious signs of being pre-produced, has generated more feedback on this site than anything else, including repeated pleas to launch a DVD petition. Without Warning is, at long last, available on DVD from theLogBook.com.

Without Warning

Don't Clickum till you see the whites of their eyes. Some video game programmers from the "classic age" have moved on to middle management, some have evolved into the current "60 gazillion people on the development team" style of game making, and others, like Steve Woita, are still pumping out games the old-school way. Woita, who programmed Taz and the ultra-rare holy grail Quadrun for Atari, as well as the unreleased Garfield, is still following the golden age rule of "easy to learn, hard to master," and you can now get your hands on his latest game: Clickum. Check it out at the link below and get a modern-day jolt of classic gaming goodness.

Steve Woita's Clickum

Superzapper recharge! A great many things that we saw in the original Star Trek seems to have come to life - communicators (after a fashion), little flat computer storage media, and so on. Scientists are still scratching their heads on the teleportation front, but leave it to the military to make the next advance: if a round of recent simulations proves succeessful, Air Force top guns could be firing lasers from their fighter jets as soon as a decade from now. Airplane-mounted lasers are nothing new - they're currently in development as anti-terrorist measures on passenger jetliners - but the new models being developed and simulated for use on fighter jets would fire (and chew up) much more energy. The advantages? Unlike incredibly expensive missiles and munitions, laser weapons could be recharged. The downsides? They're relatively short-range - and the plane's pilot has to draw that bead on his or her target for several seconds. Ironically enough, real lasers make no sound, but to aid pilots who are used to hearing something when they fire their weapons, the simulators use sound effects from - you guessed it - Star Trek. Source: Scripps Howard News Service

Tron goes from 16-color to 4-color. So we get a new game, but no movie. Never fear, Tron devotees - the continuing adventures will be told. 88 MPH Studios and Disney's publishing wing are reviving Tron in comics. A four-part comic miniseries planned for this winter will set the backstory for August's Tron 2.0 computer game, while a second miniseries, currently slated for spring, jumps back 20 years and picks up what happened next for Tron, Yori, Dumont and the other programs in the virtual world. Each issue will be 22 pages in full color. Source: comicbookresources.com

Sci-Fi Channel's new frontier: lobbying Washington. From the network that said it couldn't afford to keep Farscape on the air or take Babylon 5: Legend Of The Rangers to series, Sci-Fi Channel now presents...lobbyists. In the wake of its incredibly successful Roswell UFO special, Sci-Fi Channel is hiring a lobbying firm to get Congress to declassify decades worth of documents related to UFO sightings and crashes. Even spokespeople for the lobbying firm - one of whose partners is former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta - admit that they face an uphill battle in being taken seriously. Source: Zap2it.com