Gig Matrix is a group blog about games, movies and TV. It’s that simple, really. We started the site in February of 2002, back when the PS2 was still newish and the Matrix sequels were something to look forward to. We ran whatever our friends sent us: recaps of Buffy and Smallville episodes, reviews of Star Wars games for the Gamecube, critiques of The Bachelor.

In early 2005, we switched to a blog format. Free of publishing bottlenecks (previously, everything had to filter through Reuben and his mess of tables and server-side includes), the Gig crew was free to rain wit and irreverence upon an unsuspecting (and largely uninterested) public.

The summer of 2007 saw another redesign and some reorganization. A new feature, the High Five, tracked the week’s most interesting tidbits, and with 95 percent less orange, the site was easier on the eyes than ever.

Now, in 2010, we’ve redesigned again. The art is bigger, the column is wider and the CSS is 3-ier. And if you’re using Internet Explorer, chances are good the site looks like total garbage. Reuben is working on that, but you really should consider using a better browser.

So welcome once again to the new Gig Matrix. We hope you like it.

Some acknowledgements

This version of the site is reliant on these things and their generous creators:

• The League Gothic typeface, released by the League of Moveable Type
• Nathan Smith’s 960 Grid System
• Analog’s #grid tool
• Ariel Flesler’s jQuery.ScrollTo script
• and soon the Modernizr javascript library by Faruk Ateş and Paul Irish