A Shot in the Dark: Video Game Screenshots of the Week

Video game screenshots are a dime a dozen, and they’re used as carefully parsed-out marketing tools for video game PR.

Last-Minute Holiday Guide: Gifts For Nerds

FULL LIST: Techland’s Holiday Gift Guide

Is Google Working On Its Own Netbook?

I still don’t see the validity in netbooks. In fact, I’m looking at an HP netbook on my desk that I haven’t touched in over a month. But they’re wildly popular, so what do I know?

Best of the Decade: Characters

The greatest characters of the 2000′s from movies, TV, books, video games and comics. Basically anything that had fictional people in it was fair game. Or fictional cats. Or artificial intelligences.

Panel of the Week 12/16/09

Christmas is near and this year I’ve asked for multi-colored fits of anger, vigilante brutality, silly costumes, and revamped classic villains! Or maybe I’m just fidgety because that Iron Man 2 trailer dropped and I want laser whips so, so bad. Here it is, your Panel of the Week!

Avatar: The James Cameron Interview. Sequels? ‘Hell Yeah’

Even if you don’t love every James Cameron film, even if you’re suffering from Titanic – or hell, Avatar – fatigue, you’ve got to give him this: The man’s got energy to spare.

“Dragon Master” out for Nintendo DS

The Five Most Underrated Sci-Fi Masterpieces (Act II)

UPDATE (Jan. 10): The final list has just been announced! Go here to see which films made the cut.

Iron Man 2 Trailer: ‘I have successfully privatized world peace’

“I did you a big favor: I have successfully privatized world peace!”

Natalie Portman to Star in Film Version of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”

Maybe this will keep the vampire movies at bay for a while.

The New Alice in Wonderland Trailer

Wow, this looks great. It’s gotten, like, ten times better since the Comic-Con footage, which was kinda twee and overly Tim Burtonian.