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The miniature wargame play celebrated in the War Game Digest could reach only a limited audience because it required painstaking efforts from dedicated and artisanal adults. Avalon Hill’s board wargames, on the other hand, could reasonably aspire to reach the mass market. They built on the recognized tradition of juvenile board games, but with a…
How roleplaying games and fantasy fiction confounded the FBI, confronted the law, and led to a more open web On January 17, 1980, FBI agents descended on a small business in Wisconsin to investigate a plot against the life of an American business executive in Beirut, Lebanon, named William Weatherby. The tip came to local…
As we’ve learned through the course of the month, David Letterman’s departure means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For Americana musicians, it means saying goodbye to one of the genre’s biggest champions. For POTUS, it means losing an “escape” after a long day at work. And for the 20-time visitor…
View this image › Joss Whedon at an event for Avengers: Age Of Ultron in Seoul, South Korea, on April 17, 2015. Ahn Young-joon / AP When filmmaker Joss Whedon decided to delete his Twitter account on Monday, the day after his movie Avengers: Age of Ultron scored the second-highest domestic opening weekend ever, it…
May 7, 2015 1:00 PM Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: About a year ago, we singled out some of our favorite unloved summer blockbusters. With the event-movie season upon us again, it’s time for the sequel. Mystery Men (1999) When Mystery Men was…
Start: GPT End: GPT Begin comScore Tag End comScore Tag Google Tag Manager End Google Tag Manager May 06, 2015 9:00am PT by Lesley Goldberg ‘Powers’ Renewed for Second Season at PlayStation (Exclusive) Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television The comic book drama was the first original scripted series for the Sony-owned video gaming console. Powers…
[Editor’s Note: The author of this piece is a former Marvel employee and wishes to remain anonymous.] Disney does not care about Marvel’s female market, which makes us virtually invisible. I could probably populate Pluto with the amount of Princess items Disney makes. But where are Gamora and Black Widow? This exclusion of women from Marvel…
The arguments over Black Widow have gotten ugly. Last night, Joss Whedon quit Twitter, with an image that pointed the blame at Twitter haters. But there’s a real issue with Black Widow, and her role in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and it’s worth talking about. It’s worth talking about it like adults. After Whedon abandoned…
Today in “This is why we can’t have nice things” — Joss Whedon has left Twitter. After a blockbuster weekend for “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the writer and director took an abrupt leave of social media Monday. In his final two tweets, he posted, “Now I may me down to sleep, I pray the lord…
May 5, 2015 2:27 PM “If I could put time in a bottle,” Jim Croce once sang, creating yet another musical idea that could then be sampled by Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs. And it took Sean “P. Diddy” Combs many years and countless dollars he earned from dead rappers, but at last he did put…