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One classic after another: A closer look at the 10 Oscar nominees for best picture

Here are Stars and Stripes staffers’ thoughts on the 10 best picture Oscar nominees this year -- and one film that perhaps ...

The Blood Bowl update, using the tabletop game's latest rules, will be a separate game called Warhammer Blood Bowl 'free for all players who already own Blood Bowl 3'

Last year Games Workshop announced there would be a new edition of Blood Bowl, the tabletop game of frenzied fantasy football ferocity. Cyanide Studio's digital adaptation, Blood Bowl 3, is getting ...

SETI thinks it could have missed calls from aliens. Here's why

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'

When Firaxis's XCOM remake came out a constant complaint in the comments was that its random number generator was clearly cheating against players. Someone would miss a 95% chance, or God forbid a ...