Chris Dahlen's posts

Science-fiction and fantasy fans first got to know Felicia Day from the last season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, when…

The working title for the first Fable was "Project Ego," and the name still applies to the sequel, except that the…

It's the 22nd century, and America is divided between the staid old East Coast and the perverted, liberal Left…

Spore is a lousy game about evolution, and a clever game about life out in the stars. The evolution comes first:…

At last fall's Penny Arcade Expo, the first game that attendees caught on their way onto the show floor was the…

The first time you play Jonathan Blow's rave-worthy new game, Braid, it seems simple: it's an elegant puzzler with…

Quentin Tarantino once described Jackie Brown as a "hang-out movie": Plot aside, viewers enjoy the film for the…

Jonathan Blow's Braid starts with a simple premise: What if you could take back your biggest mistakes and try again?…

At first glance, Major League Eating: The Game looks as low-rent as the real-life sport that spawned it. Two…

It's next to impossible to find political content in video games—partly because they're big-budget products with an…

Tommy Tallarico seems to have a lock on the videogame industry: Not only is he a leading composer with hundreds of…

The Cambridge, Massachusetts. offices of Harmonix Music sit in Central Square, within walking distance of the city's…

Next week, the AV Club will run a special series on music and games, featuring the composers, musos, and nerds who…

1. Rear Window (1954)

The work of game artist Mark Essen is marked by disorienting controls, nauseating motion, and impossible difficulty.…

Good evening, boys and ghouls. I'll be your host for tonight's Fear Itself blog, subbing in for Scott Tobias. But…

Here was my pet theory on how the season - okay, the mid-season - finale would go: the Fleet finds Earth. They made…

To tackle the most complicated character on one of the most complicated shows on TV, James Callis used an old…

The LEGO Star Wars games worked on a lot of levels. They were casual games for hardcore nerds, and they turned a…

But really, this is Laura Roslin's episode. (And by that I mean Mary McDonnell's latest shot at an Emmy.) You'll…