Almost five years ago, comedian Patton Oswalt wrote an article for Wired called “Wake Up, Geek Culture, Time to Die.” It was equal parts eulogy for the romanticized nerd he once was, and a lament for ...

Washington tops yet another list — this time for something that actually matters: full-throttle, no-holds-barred nerdery. Geek culture thrives here. Seattle has PAX West, Emerald City Comic Con, ...

Geek culture is big, but even in the vast, loosely defined ocean of “geek” there are a few universal touchstones. That’s not to say that everyone agrees on them – hell, if you can get five geeks ...

The 97th Academy Awards are upon us, but will any geek-oriented movies land any big wins this year? The 97th Academy Awards will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2nd, awarding accolades to films released ...

Billed as "the first social marketplace for your inner geek," Cosmunity is a newly released social network app for iOS and Android that focuses on convention attendees and geeks at large. The company ...

MomoCon opened this week in Atlanta, with organisers expecting around 65,000 gamers, anime fans and cosplayers to attend one of the country’s biggest celebrations of geek culture, providing a major ...

'Geek Girls' director Gina Hara took four years to find women who would speak out about the secretive female geek community. She tells CNET how she did it. Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET ...

Is the geek-culture bubble bursting? For years, "geek culture" has been on the rise. What was once the safe haven of the outsider became more and more popular until geek culture effectively became ...

Whenever nerds of a certain age get-together, the topic invariably turns to the current geek-dominated state of popular culture and how different and more accepting today’s environment is compared to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Sunny skies and comfortable weather were perfect for Saturday’s seventh annual Geek Out At Staten Island, a convention dedicated to celebrating, encouraging, and promoting geek ...

Dive into the rise of geek culture as a mainstream sensation in 2026, embraced by Gen Z and fueled by anime, comics, and gaming, reshaping pop culture.