^{Castlevania's Gabriel Belmont, one of this year's hottest heroes}

There's no better way to spend a snowy day than browsing through a slideshow of sexy video game guys. Luckily for you, my list of the sexiest video game studs of 2010 is right here for your time-wasting pleasure. There's a lot of variety in my top ten picks this year, so I can say with confidence that you're bound to see something you like.

Look, Julie Taymor, we know you've done some awesome stuff in the past. But really, that doesn't give you the green light to go a-maiming actors left and right.

We've been keeping tabs on the body-count of this giant-ass-production-that-could since reports of injuries started popping up early in November.

Infinite Santa 8000 is the star of an animated web series, in which he must kill hordes of mutants in order to survive a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Infinite Santa 8000 is the star of an animated web series, in which he must kill hordes of mutants in order to survive a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

^{Two characters getting married in Fable 3 (via Co-Optimus)}

"This is my bold claim - I need you to experience something in Fable that you as gamers have never experienced before...Everybody is talking about emotion, story, engagement and narrative. We have tried to approach it in a different way. We are going to explore love." -- Peter Molyneux, creator of the Fable games (Via BBC)

^{Tigirl, reflection hologram, 1985. Photo: © M. Benyon}

Nothing has ridden the wave of the future quite like the hologram. It's one of those rare innovations that, like the monorail and the laser pointer, seems high-tech no matter how many times you feast your incredulous eyeballs on it. Luckily, there's no better place to get your hologram fascination fix than home of the world's largest holography collection, the MIT Museum.