Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Reaction

According to the game play counter located in the Call of Duty:  Modern Warfare 3 (2011) Multiplayer Barracks, I have played the game for roughly twelve hours...despite devoting sixteen hours of my life to the title thus far.  Here are my gut reactions to the Playstation 3 version of the multiplayer play and my favorite kits and maps.  

Batman: Arkham City (2011)

Batman day continues here with a short review of Batman:  Arkham City (2011).  I'd review some of the New 52 titles I'm reading, most notably Batman and Detective Comics, both of which I really like, but it's so early in their runs that I'm not sure what to say about them aside from great writing on both, better art by Tony Daniel on Detective.  In any case, I thought Arkham City was a major step beyond its predecessor, Arkham Asylum (2009).  Find out why after the jump.  

The Death of Gestural Play?

A few years back, David O'Grady, Jen Porst, and I completed a visual essay on the video game phenomenon of gestural play:  games that involve an interface that requires players to mimic "real life" bodily gestures (swinging a tennis racket, playing a guitar, etc.) in order to master the game.  The essay can be found at Mediascape.