10 Great Co-Op RTS Games for Comp-Stomp Fun

Source: GameSpy

Real-time strategy gaming has a reputation as being harshly competitive, and many gamers steer clear of playing in multiplayer to avoid the danger of losing friends over lopsided victories and excessive celebration dances. So when I m ...
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Meet the Guy Who Invented All Those Star Wars Sounds

Source: AlanCross.ca

It was 35 years ago this month that the world was first exposed to what was going on in a galaxy far, far away. Unless you where there, it's hard to explain how big a deal Star Wars become with that first movie. Not only did it change sci-fi ...
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Grown Woman Watches ‘Star Wars’ for the First Time [LIVE BLOG]

Source: Mashable

Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share Against all odds, there are people on Earth who haven’t seen Star Wars . And I’m not talking about hunter-gatherers in the Amazon rainforest. I’m talking about people who enjoy indoor plumbing, like my colleague Christine ...
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Ben Burtt on Star Wars, Forbidden Planet and the Sound of Sci-Fi

Source: Wired

Wired:How did Forbidden Planet‘s soundtrack impact your work on Star Wars? Ben Burtt at the 30th anniversary screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark last year in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: Toby Canham/Getty Images MARIN COUNTY, Califo ...
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WCBR’s Top Picks

Source: Weekly Comic Book Review

Best of the past week: Fantastic Four #605.1 – I probably should give this to Saga #3 and can’t believe that I’m giving any honors to an issue with art by Mike Choi (because his art was very pedestrian in this ...
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Stellar Impact - Armada Edition ab sofort im Handel erhältlich

Source: Magazin-iamgamer.de

Stellar Impact zeigt eine neue Herangehensweise an das erfolgreichen DotA (Defense of the Ancients) Spielprinzip. Ein Echtzeit Strategie Abenteuer im Weltall, welches geschickte Einsatzweisen und komplexes taktisches De ...
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Garth Nix Interview

Source: Matilda

Although you've written science fiction in the past, you're best known for your fantasy series. Why write one versus the other? I'm not sure that there's anything that you can't do in either form. In any genre you're wor ...
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In Which Charles Stross Beats Science Fiction With A Big Shitty Stick

Source: Warrenellis.com

…those people who are doing the "big visionary ideas about the future" SF are mostly doing so in a vacuum of critical appreciation. Greg Egan’s wonderful clockwork constructions out of the raw stuff of quantu ...
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SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done?

Source: Hacker News

Are SF writers "slacking off" or is science fiction still the genre of "big ideas"? If so, what authors are supplying these ideas for the next generation of scientists and engineers?After thinking about that for a while, I ca ...
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