This Sunday is Super Bowl XLIV. While there are certainly a lot of geeks (like me) who couldn’t care less about that, the popular notion that geeks and athletics never mix is simply not true. Here are ten examples of fictional sports from sci-fi, fantasy, video games, and more.

The Lost Island is only the latest in a long history of islands you really, really don’t want to visit. Here’s fair warning about ten of them.

We’ve been admiring posters for new films like Avatar, Solomon Kane, Edge of Darkness, The Last Airbender, and Legion. They inspired us to have another look at the 25 greatest and most intriguing movie posters of all time, not listed in any particular order, each being uniquely cool in its own right.

Vampires are famous not only for coffin cribs and an affinity for sanguinary necks, but also for their hard-earned immortality. Do Bill Compton or Edward Cullen have the necessary staying power to hang in there like my eight favorite vampires?

It’s the end of another year, and we’re closing out 2009 by taking a look back at our top 10 posts of the year, measured by the total number of hits.

In the final installment of his four-part list, Keenan reveals his top five horror films of the past decade!

Keenan’s four-part list of the top twenty horror films of the past decade (2000-2009) continues here with part three, numbers 10-6.

The Oughts are almost over and there’s one word that sums up this year’s video game releases: sequels. As much as I hate to see the same concepts revisited over and over, I can’t deny that many of this year’s best games are built upon fantastic formulas. My list is full of games followed by numbers, so let’s get to it!

Keenan’s four-part list of the top twenty horror films of the past decade (2000-2009) continues here with part two, numbers 15-11.

Keenan begins his countdown of the top 20 horror films from 2000-2009.