Ten days before the launch of their much-anticipated Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Paizo Publishing today announced that the first print run of the book has sold out, with all preordered copies on their way to stores for an August 13 release. With preorders more than five times greater than for any previous product in Paizo's seven-year history, orders for the Core Rulebook continue to mount even as the company speeds to produce another print run. Paizo.com has retained enough copies to handle all paizo.com subscriptions and pre-orders. Customers who have not already placed a pre-order with paizo.com or their game or book retailer are encouraged to seek out a copy immediately following the book's retail release, as supplies are expected to run out well before the arrival of a second print run in early November.

(Please someone get Carp off the floor...) 

Acclaimed director Sam Raimi has been hired to make a movie based on the role-playing fantasy video game "World of Warcraft," entertainment industry press reports said Wednesday.

Raimi, best known for directing the trilogy of blockbuster "Spider-Man" superhero movies as well as classic 1981 horror film "The Evil Dead," will shoot the film after completing work on "Spider-Man 4," Daily Variety said.

Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out of science laboratories around the world. It's creating tremendous buzz among physicists, chemists and electronic engineers.