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The Avengers climbed to the #4 movie of all time this weekend, knocking Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and Transformers: Dark of the Moon down the list. Still continuing to rake in money — made easier by the flop of Battleship, a...

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I’ve never played the Diablo series — it being the one omission in the major Blizzard series trilogy — but after a long wait, Diablo III is out now. There’s some problems connecting to Battle.net because of the large volume of fans, resulting in some...

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The CW has given a full season order to “Arrow,” the hourlong drama about DC’s Green Arrow, meaning we can look forward to seeing it almost certainly in the fall. Here’s the official description: “After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and...

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We here at In Genre couldn’t get enough of the adventures of Machete, the Mexican hit man with a heart of gold that spun off from the Grindhouse movie trailers. A sequel is now in the works, Machete Kills, and the confirmed cast keeps growing:...

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Between highest opening weekend (at $200.3 million, ahead of Harry Potter 8), helped in no small part by 3-D ticket sales, strong international numbers, and just plain hype; largest single day of all time ($61.8 million, not including Friday’s midnight premiere), biggest per theatre average...

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So, you’ve finished Portal 2.  You’ve played the multiplayer.  You’ve played the DLC.  Nothing left to do for the game, right? Wrong!  May 8 will see the release of the Perpetual Testing DLC, i.e. a level editor for the PC version of the game.  You...

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