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You're going to spend a lot of your weekend wasting time on Pixeltrek.com, maneuvering a LEGO-like Data around a pixelated Enterprise-D. Seriously, it's going to be a massive timesuck. But its best moment is providing us with a look at the bridge's bathroom.

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We’ve had the portentous “the world is ending and flames and demons and things” trailer for Dragon Age not-III, but perhaps more useful is this ‘stand together’ one, which shows off some of the party members you, as a titular Inquisitor, will be travelling/fighting/beast-with-two-backing with during the Bioware RPG. After all the recent hoo-hah about you-know-what, it’s rather heartening to see that Bioware/EA has gone with narration and perspective from the woman version of the player-character for this video. Strange to think how familiar that currently-novel voice will likely to sound to my ears in a few months’ time.
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I guess getting a book-accurate TV series of Neil Gaiman's American Gods novel from the same TV channel that was already making an excellent adaptation of Game of Thrones was too much to ask for. But HBO finally explained why they gave up on the much-anticipated show.

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The world of Dragon Age: Inquisition is big. Really big. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to Inquisition. It's big enough, in fact, to fit all of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 into...

There was really no doubt in our minds that Dominic Cooper would be reprising his role as Howard Stark for the Agent Carter series. But now that we have (some sort of) confirmation we are legit excited.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition’s new trailer makes me think that Bioware’s blood and (b)romance fantasy series has noticed the brooding character standing at the other side of the RPG battlefield. The veteran of a thousand deaths stares back, scars criss-crossing every inch of its face, nostrils included, and then rolls backwards out of the door. Dragon Age looks on enviously. It wants to have cool scars a well – it’s the scars, right? Chicks love the scars – and it wants people to notice when it rolls into a room. That, presumably, is why the E3 video caused me to react with a raised eyebrow and a murmur of “Soul-y shit”.

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First of all, let me say that I'm still shocked at how good NBC's Constantine series looks. Matt Ryan as the title character is just perfect. But this new trailer has me even more excited for the show, now that I know someone is stopping by... or at least his helmet is.

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Two weeks ago, director and co-writer Edgar Wright stepped down as director of Ant-Man, a film whose development he was involved with for years . Today, the film gets a new director and co-writer in Peyton Reed and Adam McKay, respectively.

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Chances are, you've read tons of stories in the Cthulhu Mythos — but "The Litany of Earth" by Ruthanna Emrys is still something special. It's set in a world where the U.S. government destroyed Innsmouth, closed Miskatonic University, and imprisoned the true believers. And now, one survivor of the camps is trying to rebuild her life.

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Chrome: Want more information about someone you have found online? Connect6 puts it at your fingertips. Just hover over a name, email, or social handle and you'll get a quick bio as long as you have the free extension installed.

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It’s been a long time since yesterday, so here’s a quick refresher: Legend of Grimrock 2 is already deep in alpha testing and well on its way to beta. Hurrah! I can’t wait to peel myself off the business end of an ogre’s club only to get re-crushed by a wicked tough puzzle. All of this seems to suggest that Grimrock 2: An Even Grimmer Rock is right around the corner, but apparently that’s only sort of the case. I got in touch with developer Almost Human about release plans and the possibility of an Early Access phase, and here’s what they told me.

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This weekend Maleficent made a boatload of cash, and that bums me out — because this wasn't the Maleficent I wanted. And it certainly wasn't the Maleficent we all deserved. Here's why I'm pissed at what Disney did to the biggest and baddest villain around. Warning, spoilers.

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Forget grains of salt; please find the nearest salt lick, and start chowing down. Because it's the only way you're going to survive the supposed news that Twilight's Robert Pattinson is the current favorite to play the new Indiana Jones.

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Emilia Clarke and Pedro Pascal break down the latest Game of Thrones episode. Ben Foster describes his Warcraft character. Doctor Who's latest director talks about what she brings to the set. Check out another Guardians of the Galaxy trailer. Plus, new details from the filming of Terminator: Genesis. Spoilers now!

The Leftovers

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Some games make massive developmental strides loudly. STOMP STOMP STOMP WEEKLY TWITCH BROADCAST CLANG WOMP WOOZLE WE ADDED PARTICLE RENDERING. Others, however, do so in relative silence, announcing progress only once all systems are (mostly) go. Case in point: Legend of Grimrock 2. The first-person dungeon/island crawler sequel looks more and more marvelous every time we see it, and now it’s quite deep in the dungeons of alpha. The next step? Beta. And apparently that one’s not too far off.

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Douglas Adams' biographer is publishing a treasure trove of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author's previously unseen work—including a rough draft for a second season of the TV show, material cut from the first Hitchhiker's novel, and Adams' unpublished writings on alien sex.

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This summer's Dungeons & Dragons relaunch includes a set of adventures focused on the rise of the dragon goddess Tiamat, designed by Wolfgang Baur and Steve Winter of Kobold Press. In this interview, they told us about adventure design and the joys of writing for a game system while it's still in development.

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It looks like Stargate is about to lose its status as one of the major movie franchises that have never been rebooted . Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are officially returning to the world of Stargate with a "re-imagined" trilogy of films.

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Wow. The Book of Life trailer is beautiful. It's absolutely stunning. We knew this movie was going to be good-looking, but—wow oh wow—does this trailer give us chills. Cannot wait.

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From the folks who saved the Star Trek TNG Touring Bridge from destruction comes another bold project. They want to construct a gigantic, multi-floored science fiction-themed museum in Los Angeles, and we think that's a GREAT idea!

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The afterlife looks like a candy-coated party in Guillermo del Toro's upcoming animated film The Book of Life, inspired by the Day of the Dead. These new images from the film introduce us to the main characters and give us a sense of the wacky land of the dead.

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The advanced technology in Watch Dogs is not just indistinguishable from magic - it IS magic. The game would have you believe you're the world's most powerful hacker, bending surveillance cameras, traffic control and all manner of personal...

Admittedly, we know very little about what caused Edgar Wright to step down as director of Ant-Man on Friday, other than the parting was "amicable" according to Marvel. But that might not have been the case at all.

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Did you realize that Ron Moore and Brannon Braga were writing the final TNG episode, "All Good Things...", at the same time they were drafting the first TNG movie, Generations? That's just one revelation in some fascinating interviews about "All Good Things," 20 years later.

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Taito unveiled the player characters for the Japanese arcade version of Left 4 Dead, and it's certainly a different type of crew to what's come before. The new heroes are (left to right) American bartender and ex-marine Jordan Blake, university...

Back in 1977, Paramount began production on a new live-action Star Trek series called Star Trek: Phase II. The idea was eventually scrapped in favor of making The Motion Picture. But Mike Minor had already completed concept art for a revamped interior for the Enterprise.

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If you saw this weekend's Game of Thrones, you saw the episode close with one of the best, bitterest, and most badass speeches ever made on the show, by Tyrion Lannister, to his shitty family and all the assholes of King's Landing. I did not think this scene could be any better. And then I saw this video.

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