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Review: Get lost in Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2's heart of darkness
Far Cry 2's heart of darkness

By: MITCH KRPATA | November 11, 2008

Worst Enemy, even worse writing

His Own Worst Enemy
Two men. One body. It sounds like the title of a squeamish sequel to “Two Girls, One Cup.” But the good news is it’s just the premise of My Own Worst Enemy , Christian Slater’s foray into the world of crappy small-screen dramas that use a lexicon of jargon in order to sound “sciency.”

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | November 06, 2008

Evil urges

Fable II leaves it up to you
Those who've played the first Fable already know that being bad is a hell of a lot more fun than being good.

By: AARON SOLOMON | November 04, 2008

Video game Dead Space lacks true horror

The gory, gruesome Dead Space
In a survival horror game, the setting is everything. Dead Space has a good one.

By: MITCH KRPATA | October 22, 2008

NBC's Chuck doesn't deliver

NBC’s Chuck is a concept in search of a show
Though Chuck is programmed as a comic-action hybrid, it doesn’t do either particularly well.

By: RYAN STEWART | October 21, 2008

Hello, Larry

Sports blotter: "End of an era" edition
Absolutely nothing is funny about the Lawrence Phillips case, so let’s not even go there — there isn’t a single laugh to be found in this past week’s news that the onetime Next Jim Brown was sentenced to 10 years in Cali.

By: MATT TAIBBI | October 16, 2008

Games review: Lego Batman

Lego Batman looks to the West
Lego Batman is not The Dark Knight: Now, with Legos!

By: MADDY MYERS | October 16, 2008

Bad girls

Fashion deathmatches on Stylista and The Rachel Zoe Project
One of the accepted truths of the fashion world is that it’s utterly bizarre.

By: SHARON STEEL | October 29, 2008

More bad news for the Mets

Sports blotter: "Very bad times" edition
Look, it just isn’t seemly for us non–New Yorkers to laugh too much about the continued suckdom of the New York Mets, specifically their bullpen.

By: MATT TAIBBI | October 09, 2008

A mighty bad man

Balls, pucks, and monster trucks
October 3, 1995, brought my worst experience at the University of Memphis.

By: RICK WORMWOOD | October 09, 2008

Blast from the past

Mega Man goes retro
Playing Mega Man 9 , you feel you’ve stepped through a wormhole and emerged in 1988 with an NES controller in your hand.

By: MITCH KRPATA | October 22, 2008

The good news

David Alan Grier fills "TV's black hole" with Chocolate News
When David Alan Grier promises that he’s “filling TV’s black hole” with his chocolate flavor, you know it’s gonna be good.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | October 08, 2008

Husker don't

Sports blotter: "Next Lawrence Phillips" edition
Details right now are still sketchy, but Thunder Collins, a former University of Nebraska running back who was once considered a sure-fire NFL star, has been charged with murder.

By: MATT TAIBBI | October 02, 2008

Sarah Connor: Terminator's MILF from Hell

Terminator ’s wonder years
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is ostensibly sci-fi action adventure. It may be the best teen drama for adults on TV.

By: JON GARELICK | October 01, 2008

Crossword: ''You can look it up''

Eight entries from eight decades of the OED.

By: MATT JONES | October 01, 2008

Review: Rock Band 2

Rock Band 2 keeps it rolling
No need to double-check your calendar — Rock Band 2 really is available only 10 months after the release of the original.

By: MITCH KRPATA | October 01, 2008

Kaidoku XXX

Psycho Sudoku

By: PSYCHO SUDOKU | September 24, 2008

To Hell and Harry

Hell Girl, The IT Crowd
American hetero pornography is, most often, a fantasy celebration of exhibitionist sluttiness, itchy whores on their knees, opening their legs, without a moment’s hesitation or a flicker of shame.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 24, 2008

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

No new lease on life for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Many people regard anything produced in the past 15 years or so bearing the Star Wars brand as total garbage, and rightly so.

By: RYAN STEWART | September 23, 2008

Troop surge

Mercenaries 2 does it the old-fashioned way
It’s tempting to write off Mercenaries 2: World in Flames , if only because of the noisy ads — they’re scored by an annoying white-boy rap song.

By: AARON SOLOMON | September 16, 2008

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