Dax Collins was a geek long before it was actually a good thing to be. Growing up in and around Atlanta, GA, he honed his skills in gaming, writing, and TV viewing, never knowing that one day the three could collide and allow him to rule the universe. Video games have always been his first love, and he even went to school and got a Master's degree in Interactive Design and Video Game Development. He uses the degree every day, nonstop. Wait...
An undergrad degree (BALS - hehe) at Oglethorpe University in Communications followed by the aforementioned Masters at the Savannah College of Art and Design led Dax to work in the exciting field of orthodontics as a day job while working on a big writing project at night (it could be a game, it could be a novel) and playing a tremendous amount of World of Warcraft (For the Horde!). He wants to write the games you play and play the games you write. Dax lives in East Point, Georgia with his wife Sarah, daughter Lily, and two dogs Gatsby and Zoe. You can follow him on Twitter @Daxcollins.

As the third season continues down a darker path, this episode (the best of the season) really broke the record for drama within Team Bartowski. It furthered the more serious nature the show has adopted while also giving some genuine laugh out loud moments.

You could go fork out $60 for the latest and greatest video game but you’d like to, you know, eat this month. Well, there are certainly a lot of great options out there for your gaming dollars that can still show you a good time, despite being a little older and more “experienced.”

With the reshoots and the delays, you could even say that I was not expecting much of anything from this movie at all. I felt like I got about that out of it: not much. I certainly didn’t hate it, but I also didn’t know that it was possible to make a boring werewolf movie, either.

This was easily the best episode of Chuck so far this season. It went out of the way to make sure that the usual conventions were avoided. There was no talking to the General, there were no parties to walk through, and while there was some help from Casey, Sarah and Shaw, this was totally about Chuck and his abilities.

Sometimes you find that the most pedestrian among us are, in fact, awesome. As season three rolls along, we are finding that Chuck may not be the perfect spy, but he’s certainly a capable one — with or without the Intersect.

Chuck moves to its regular night and continues to bring the good stuff in the third episode of the season. This time around we got a Devon (Dr. Awesome)-centric episode, which in my opinion was long overdue.

This episode wasn’t as good as the first, but it was still very good. I’m excited about this season and think that once everything becomes settled in again, the writers have given themselves some fun new angles to play with and some new mysteries to solve.

NBC’s Chuck has returned this week and the geek-centric spy show has, from all appearances, hit a ratings home run. The show that was so close to being axed last season has picked up right where it left off with Chuck trying to become the new Intersect 2.0.

It is exciting when a game that has been around for a long time comes up with such a good idea that they change the way the game is played. The random dungeon tool in World of Warcraft is exactly that: a game-changer for leveling characters and endgame characters alike.

As we come down to the end of the year, let’s take a look back at the movies of 2009 that grabbed the Fandomania staff and made us all take notice.