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By Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani

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The world is flat, and resting on the backs of four elephants who, in turn, stand upon the back of a giant, space-faring turtle. Welcome to Terry Pratchett's Discworld. How does it all work? Pratchett, along with Professors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, explain it all in The Science of Discworld IV.

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Neill Blomkamp's brand new film Elysium uses incredible visuals to give you a concrete sense of the wealthy elite enjoying their lives in space, while everybody else struggles in the slums on Earth. And some newly released concept art gives you a clearer sense than ever of just how this works. Including art by Syd Mead!

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In the '80s, there was no greater danger to young people than Dungeons & Dragons. Thankfully, religious PSAs like the above tried to save the youth's of America, mostly by completely misconstruing what the game was about.

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Last weekend, when the casting for Oberyn Martell, the A Song of Ice and Fire character commonly known as the Red Viper of Dorne, was announced, many commented that the actor was fairer skinned than they had anticipated the character would be.

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This year is all about the book adaptation. Game of Thrones, Warm Bodies, Beautiful Creatures and World War Z (sort of) were all books first! So here is our extensive guide to just about every movie and TV series turning your favorite book into a live-action wonder. Get out your reading lists so you too can say "the book was better."

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Reports have appeared on our Ewok-o-tron that suggests Ewoks will soon be available as companion characters in SWTOR, via the 2.3 patch. To unlock the ‘wok, you need 1 million space cash and a legacy level of 40, apparently. Tweek, for that is her Ewok name, will be a tanky/healer sort of companion. That, I know, will make someone in this world very happy.

You can watch said Ewok in action below. Spoilers of a kind, natch.
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There's a notion going around today that Legendary Pictures, which put out both Pacific Rim and Guillermo del Toro's forthcoming movie Crimson Peak, could be doing Hellboy 3 as well. Del Toro fueled this notion with his comments to one reporter today — but Legendary founder Thomas Tull tells us it's not likely.

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The New York Times revealed the cover and new title for Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic, now titled Overture, about the circumstances that led Dream to getting so easily captured in Sandman #1. It's also the spearhead for Vertigo's attempt to rebuild itself as DC's home for its most daring, artistic works.

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A collection of "draft" posters from Ender's Game have been released, looking slick as hell. Plus this gives us all another close up look at Ben Kingsley's face-tats as warrior poet and pilot Mazer Rackham. If they show footage from this movie at San Diego Comic Con, we will pass out.

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Remember when you used to jumble up all your LEGO playsets and make your own pretend cross-franchise stories? They are making that into a movie.

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Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick found a clever twist on zombie uprisings with Zombieland, and now they're giving us a look at the aftermath of a failed robot revolution, with their new movie Epsilon. Which just found itself a somewhat surprising director.

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We introduced you some of the weirdest aircraft of the 20th century before, but now it's time to talk about Earth's fleets of flying saucers. Check out these vehicles and concepts that show how we've been building UFOs all along.

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Nvidia's Shield handheld is dropping a Grant before it even hits the streets. The company announced this morning that the overpriced (see, we can say it now because they clearly agreed) portable will cut $50 from its original asking price of $350.

The company also revealed this morning that the device will be available on June 27. As Engadget notes, the device can be obtained from Nvidia's official website and we're still waiting to hear about supporting retailers. Our hands-on time with the handheld went well, but so does our time with the $170 Nintendo 3DS and the $250 PlayStation Vita.

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Mexico's active Popocatepetl volcano erupted yesterday, spewing ash and incandescent rock almost three miles high. And as you'll see in this dramatic video, the explosion produced a massive shockwave — sending huge chunks of burning debris to the surrounding areas.

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We've seen Andrew Stanton's vision for John Carter of Mars, but what if Pixar made CG animated versions of Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, and other pulp stories?

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A whole host of pieces have been revealed for next month's Celebration Europe Art Show, showcasing some of the coolest Star Wars fan art from artists around the world... although there's something playfully ironic about depicting George Lucas as the Dark Lord of the Sith in a work designed to celebrate the legacy of Star Wars.

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It's been less than a week since the Game of Thrones third season finale, and everyone is still delivering their postmortems on everything from the role of power in the series to its uncomfortable racial themes. Vulture, on the other hand, has taken a goofier route, explaining Season Three through the blood magic of diagrams. Spoilers, of course.

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Redditor Sartro quizzed his Father right after the season finale of Game of Thrones on the names of each character. The results are priceless.

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Back in 1996, economist Paul Krugman wrote an essay about the next 100 years of economic history, as if looking back from the year 2096. At the center of that essay was the notion that white-collar jobs would disappear, and a college education would become much less valuable. And is this already happening now?

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Last week's Game of Thrones season finale ended with a scene full of racial imagery that seemed kind of messed up. But actually, argues comedian Aamer Rahman, Daenerys' whole storyline has been problematic from the very beginning. Here's why.

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Well, don’t take that entirely literally. I’m just writing that to get your attention and/or I can’t think of a more accurate way to do it within the character limit. Obviously you can’t build your own Xbox One or PlayStation 4 – they use some custom hardware not available to PC-builders to do their next-generation thing, they’re running bespoke operating systems (and all the horror-DRM that goes with it) and contain it all with in a comparatively small black monolith that sits underneath your TV. Additionally, console games can be made to specific hardware requirements, which can entail a far great degree of optimisation than trying to target a hundred thousand million different PC configs. No matter what the console generation, the PC comparison can never be an exact one. What you can do, though, is build yourself a PC that has a little more grunt under the hood than these apparent future-machines, for pretty much the same amount of money.

To be honest, while hitting the £420 price of an Xbone is eminently possible, I’d recommend you spend just a little more on a games PC than that – it’ll last you longer, there’s more scope for upgrading later, games will look fancier and you won’t have to spend a week trawling price comparison sites. Either way, the idea that a beefy games PC costs thousands of dollars/pounds is an outdated and wildly inaccurate one.
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En el transcurso de la conferencia de EA en la E3, BioWare ha anunciado que "Dragon Age: Inquisition", la tercera parte de la saga Dragon Age, se lanzará en otoño de 2014 y promete cambiar por completo el concepto de RPG.

La E3, que ha coincidido en fecha con la celebración de la WWDC 2013, sigue su curso y la verdad es que en el programa de hoy se esperan muchas novedades. Tras la conferencia de Microsoft y las novedades alrededor de Xbox One y Xbox 360 (incluyendo la llegada de Metal Gear Solid V a Xbox One) o una nueva entrega de Star Wars Battlefront (esta vez desarrollado por DICE), ha llegado el turno de BioWare que, tal y como se esperaba, ha anunciado la continuación de la saga Dragon Age con una tercera entrega: Dragon Age: Inquisition.

El anuncio, que se ha hecho en el marco de la conferencia de EA dentro de la E3, ha corrido a cargo de Aaron Flynn, GM de Bioware, y durante su intervención ha mostrado algunos detalles que llegarán con esta tercera entrega de la saga Dragon Age que, por cierto, elimina el número 3 de su nombre para llamarse directamente "Dragon Age: Inquisition". El juego parece sumar lo mejor de las dos entregas anteriores y será, en palabras del responsable de Bioware, una nueva experiencia que nos hará redescubrir el mundo de los RPGs y nos sumergirá en un escenario totalmente libre que nos atrapará por completo.

Vale la pena ver el tráiler y apreciar lo que está por llegar en este juego que llegará en otoño de 2014 para plataformas de nueva generación, está basado en el motor Frostbite de DICE y nos ofrecerá un "mundo abierto" en el que las decisiones que tomemos afectarán tanto al curso de la historia como al microuniverso en el que nos estamos moviendo, por tanto, la experiencia de juego será totalmente personalizada.

Una pena que el lanzamiento se retrase hasta dentro de casi un año y medio porque, la verdad, el juego tiene una pinta más que estupenda.

Up until now, we've only seen scattered images of Hollywood's whitewashed vision for Akira. But with the movie adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Manga dead in the water the internet has become a dumping ground of Akira concept art. Including this completely insane first look at Tetsuo's big climax. We have no idea how they could have pulled this scene off. Check it out.

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Eric Guzman decided to combine his two favorite comic book characters—Spider-Man and Batman—into a single mutant animal-themed hero. And he just kept going, coming up with Spider-Bat's rogues gallery and more DC/Marvel mashed-up heroes.

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The premiere of the new Man of Steel in theaters is only a couple of days away, so graphic designer Kate Willaert, sponsored by HalloweenCostumes.com, thought this would be a great time to put together this visual history of Superman's iconic 'S' shield, from its beginnings, 75 years go, to the present day.


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