The Media Room

Slashers 101 is Stacie Ponder’s zine-sized cartoon-format exploration of her favorite horror subgenre. If you’ve seen one, you’ve kind of seen ‘em all. Stacie Ponder actually has seen ‘em all.

Check out the world’s first baseball card to feature a squirrel instead of the player!

Sakanaction represents the best of Japanese alternative rock music today.

Go to any notable, geek-oriented web community and find The Walking Dead discussion. You’re almost guaranteed to discover TV and horror fans arguing about the show’s relative merits, with the naysayers screaming the loudest.

Johnny Depp goes gonzo in Puerto Rico; an animated puss struts his stuff; Justin Timberlake continues his attempt at movie stardom; and Shakespeare might turn out to be not so great after all.

Mass Effect co-op takes cue from Gears Of War andOccupy Wall Street influences Bioshock Infinite. Watch behind the scenes of the original NBA Jam, I Am Alive finally resurfaces and the Steel Battalion trailer gets heavy.

Need to celebrate Halloween with a bloody game? Bloodrayne: Betrayal finds Rayne in shockingly new territory (2D!). However; she’s still slaughtering fiends left and right in a beautiful HD hack and slash adventure now available on the cheap during this special Shocktober promotion.

This was seriously one of the worst episodes of TNA ever produced. If TNA Impact Wrestling shows were towns built at the foothills of active volcanoes, then this one would definitely be the Pompeii of them all.

Tim and Terry have reemerged from the mental abyss after Jim Schwartz’ Week 6 Harbaugh-induced meltdown left them with a touch of the crazies. Have they conquered this madness or has their descent only just begun?

This week in music we hear new Coldplay, a little bit of Tom Waits, some Deer Tick and we get in the Christmas spirit with She and Him

What goes bump in the night? The bass in your speakers might, if you turn up this collection of Japanese music this Halloween.

Can you name even five famous mustaches? Guy looks at the top ten guys with the most impressive facial hair that have graced us on film and TV.

Okabu is an impossibly charming and candy-colored adventure from HandCircus, creators of Rolando, an award-winning iOS game that has a solid rating on the App Store.

To celebrate the release of Attack the Block on Blu-ray, Tim sat down with writer and director Joe Cornish in New York. Find out the filmmaker’s thoughts on his special effects, cast, and that incredible ending.

Tim hooks up with a titan of the gaming world to see what’s coming down the pipeline. Oh, and he gets some playing time with a little game called Street Fighter X Tekken.