You knew this was coming. Whether you love or hate (and a lot of you seem to hate) the recently announced casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in the upcoming Superman/Batman film from Warner Bros., there is now a t-shirt for you. You know, assuming you need to express that kind of opinion via t-shirt.

Designed by Robinzson and sold on Redbubble.com, two shirts are being offered. Each has a Batman ’66 style logo, with the Batman: The Dark Horses Rises! shirt, shown above, being for those in the pro-Affleck camp, and the Batman: The Dark Horse shirt having the same design but with a no symbol over it. The shirts run for $24.54 each, meaning you are now less than $25 away from being able to let complete strangers know how passionately you feel about the casting of a movie that is two years away from reaching theaters.

The DC Comics and Scribblenauts mash-up Scribblenauts Unmasked is a who's who of comic book heroes and villains, boasting more than 2,000 characters, vehicles and items from the more than 70 year old DC universe. With more than 30 variations on Batman and more than 130 Green Lanterns, there's a lot to keep track of in Scribblenauts Unmasked.

Thanks to the game's Batcomputer, which filters all those objects into categories like heroes, villains, teams, vehicles and objects, and its use of hyperlinks, navigating through all that DC history is actually quite manageable.

The Batcomputer, accessed through an icon on the Wii U's touchscreen on that version of the game, lets players search through that DC database for the exact Superman they're looking for (Red Son, Darkseid Superman, Superman Red/Blue, Thought Robot, etc.) and offers information on some of the game's more obscure comic book references.

Take, for example, evil Yellow Lantern Hal Jordan. His entry in the Scribblenauts Unmasked Batcomputer has links to other game objects, like Yellow Lantern rings, Sinestro Corps and Parallax, that help shine a light on some DC history you might have missed. The Wikipedia-like nature of the Batcomputer's entries can lead to some deep DC references, like Mogo, The Living Planet of the Green Lantern Corps (who I summoned and then forced to pilot Wonder Woman's invisible jet), the furry superhero team the Zoo Crew and Flash's Cosmic Treadmill.

There's a lot to dig through in Scribblenauts Unmasked, and the Batcomputer is a welcome addition for dealing with the array of DC characters and their many incarnations.

Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure is coming to Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Windows PC on Sept. 24.

VentureBeat has what it claims are pictures of the Galaxy Gear smartwatch that Samsung is expected to unveil at IFA in Germany this week, showing a chunky device with a full-color display, Bluetooth for connecting to a smartphone, and a Wi-Fi radio for connecting directly to the internet. This is essentially a full-on computer on your wrist: it's said to have a 4-megapixel camera built into the strap and its own speakers, perhaps for use as a handsfree calling device.

It's important to note that Samsung has an established track record of keeping its upcoming devices inside fake shells prior to their public unveiling, so this may not be the final shape — but odds are high that the size of the screen, a claimed 3 inches, won't change. That makes this a chunky wrist accessory that many won't likely consider as a replacement for a standard wristwatch.

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A fan hums softly.

We live in a silent century. Though no less powerful than their pre-millennial ancestors, our post-millennial innovations are mostly intangible; even when they do occupy physical space, they but wobble neighboring air particles and scarcely make a sound.

Compiling the "Sounds of the 21st Century" is a steep challenge, therefore, but one that legendary beatboxer Beardyman didn't shy from.

"There's an absence of sound rather than a defining sound," he tells Wired.co.uk. Pay attention to the objects around you—the one's that are truly 21st century make next to no noise when we interact with them. The clatter of keyboards? 20th century. The din of car engines? 20th century. The cacophony of the city? Choose whichever century BC you like.

The selfie has made it all the way to the top. On Wednesday worlds collided when Pope Francis posed with a group of Italian teenagers on Wednesday and got caught in a self-portrait taken with one of the teens' cellphones. Unfortunately the Pope — known for his outgoing nature and his departures from papal conventions — didn't capture the selfie himself, and he hasn't published it on his Twitter feed.

It seems the teenagers, who were part of a group visiting from an Italian diocese, decided a grainy shot from a front-facing cellphone camera would be the best way to photograph their encounter with the pope himself at St. Peter's Basilica. Thankfully a journalist has published the photo online for us all to be a part of this moment, and a photographer was on hand to record just how the selfie went down. The teenagers' decision may not have made for the best photo, but it has made it a good week for the humble selfie: the term just made it into the Oxford Online Dictionary.

Video game developers should aim to be as inclusive as possible when designing characters for their games because this allows them to explore fresh perspectives and stories, according to a panel of developers who spoke at a PAX panel in Seattle today.

During the panel, titled "Everything we know is sexist. Now what?", writers, community managers and narrative designers whose portfolios include games like Guild Wars 2, Murdered: Soul Suspect and Gears of War discussed the importance of character diversity and inclusiveness in the creative process. Speaking to a roomful of PAX attendees, the developers explained that when game-makers mindlessly use tropes and only feature straight, white male characters, they risk creating boring experiences for players.

"When people think about the lack of inclusiveness in games, there's the political and social consequences which are unfairness and lack of opportunity, but there are also creative consequences, which are boredom and a real lack of expansion of the imagination," said John Sutherland, a writer at VidGameStory.

"Picking a female protagonist or an LGBT protagonist opens a whole avenue for stories that have not been told..."

Matthew Moore, a game designer at ArenaNet echoed Sutherland's sentiments, saying that diversity is important to creativity because "we don't want to revisit the same things again and again and again.

"We want to experience the breadth of creative experiences, and that's not gonna happen if we just keep relying on tropes."

"If you choose a straight, white male protagonist, that's a story we've been trlling for several millenia," Anna Megill, narrative designer at Airtight Games added. "But picking a female protagonist or an LGBT protagonist opens a whole avenue for stories that have not been told. These are fresh perspectives completely unexplored by our industry.

"I just can't imagine that you, as a writer or producer or creative person, would not take advantage of that."

The developers pointed out that being inclusive is not about political correctness. Rather, it's about writing more interesting stories and experiences that have not been explored by the medium.

Cameron Harris, a freelance editor and story consultant who has worked for BioWare and ArenaNet said there can often be legitimate contexts where every character in a game is straight, white and male, and it's OK to use tropes — as long as it's not a result of laziness.

"Be mindful of what you're doing," Harris said. "Don't just fall into the habit of, 'Oh I'll just write this and think about it later...' Make sure you're interrogating yourself. Am I being inclusive of other points of view that aren't necessarily mine? Look over your work and ask, 'Does everyone have to be a man here? Does everybody have to be straight? Doesn't everybody have to be white?'"

The panel suggested that developers interrogate their own work by doing gender-flipping exercises and sharing it with people who have different backgrounds to their own.

"Read, watch and play other things by people who aren't like us," Harris said. "Question what you can gain from telling stories from another point of view."

As part of the ebook price fixing scandal that ensnared Apple with a guilty verdict this year, all five publishing giants involved eventually agreed to a settlement in federal court — and now we're starting to get a better idea of just how much consumers will be getting back as part of the deal. If you purchased an ebook from one of the publishers involved between April 1st, 2010 and May 21st, 2012, you could be eligible for up to $3.06 per book purchased. That number is for books that fall under the New York Times bestseller umbrella, while non-bestsellers will net you an estimated $0.73 per purchase. This will include ebooks purchased through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Apple, and the payment will come either in the form of credit good with whichever retailer you used or a check. The amounts are still estimates for now; the settlement with publishers Macmillan and Penguin is still being hashed out, so the final numbers could be slightly different.