Month: February 2021

Most tabletop roleplaying games, from Dungeons & Dragons to Apocalypse World, are designed to be cooperative, multiplayer experiences – games where friends and family can gather around the table, put their heads together to solve problems, and have fun portraying fictional characters. Tabletop gaming fans unable to meet with fellow gamers in person or online need not despair, however:
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Questlove is set to direct a forthcoming documentary about funk titan Sly Stone, MRC Non-Fiction today has announced. Common will serve as an executive producer on the film. The project does not yet have a title or release date. In a press release, Questlove said, “It goes beyond saying that Sly’s creative legacy is in
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In the span of six days, the Chinese box office roared to a $1.2B Lunar New Year record, with Wanda Pictures’ Detective Chinatown 3 setting global benchmarks for the biggest opening day and weekend in a single market. This happened even as some Covid restrictions remain in place in the Middle Kingdom. While the pandemic
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Prince Markie Dee, one-third of the famous ’80s hip hop group The Fat Boys, has died. Prince passed away suddenly Thursday, according to SiriusXM’s Rock The Bells channel, where he used to host a radio show. The report did not mention a cause of death. The rapper helped start The Fat Boys, a pioneering rap
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Blaseball‘s beta proved to be a surprise success in 2020, and developer The Game Band is ready to start things back up again starting March 1st! Well, maybe. According to the developer, it’s “99.9% sure” the game will come back that day. Regardless of when the new season drops, Blaseball fans should be excited for
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SAN FRANCISCO – The Quebec government will invest 400 million Canadian dollars ($315.5 million) in Telesat’s Lightspeed low-Earth orbit communications network. MDA will produce the constellation’s phased array antennas. And Thales Alenia Space will manufacture the satellites in Quebec, under a memorandum of understanding announced Feb. 18. “The Lightspeed program will create 600 high-paying STEM
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The game show-themed battle royale Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is coming to the Nintendo Switch in Summer 2021. Its publisher, Devolver Digital, and developer, Mediatonic, unveiled the news during a February 17 Nintendo Direct, about half a year since the title was first released on PlayStation 4 and PC. Fall Guys has expanded its horizons once again, but will the latest version of
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The only thing more dangerous than a drug dealer taking out other drug dealers is an unstable CI.  And that’s just what Intelligence encountered on Chicago PD Season 8 Episode 7. Man, that was one hell of an episode. It was messy, emotional, heartbreaking, and, at times, frustrating.  It’s been a while since an episode focused
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday set reopening dates for amusement parks, indoor family recreation centers and summer camps — the latest venues to get a nod as movie theaters in the city remain shuttered. That’s despite Manhattan having the lowest Covid-19 infection rate in New York — 2.5%, confirmed at the governor’s press briefing
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Françoise Cactus, the singer, drummer, and co-songwriter of the prolific French-German indie duo Stereo Total, has died. The band broke the news on social media. “We are devastated to announce the passing of our beloved friend, singer and drummer Françoise Cactus,” Stereo Total wrote on the band’s Facebook page. “She died peacefully at home this
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