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Cantina Talk: Darth Vader's House Will Get Spooky This Halloween

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First off: Bad news, Expanded Universe fans—that Mara Jade cameo in Episode IX looks less likely now that her creator, Timothy Zahn, has seemingly dashed hopes that she'll show up in the movie, saying that he's had no heads-up that Lucasfilm plans to use the character. Of course, there's always the possibility that he's playing […]

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The Inside Story of Pong and the Early Days of Atari

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Al Alcorn knew he was being wooed. Nolan Bushnell, the tall, brash, young engineer from Alcorn’s work-study days at Ampex, had shown up at Alcorn’s Sunnyvale office. Bushnell was driving a new blue station wagon. “It’s a company car,” he said with feigned nonchalance. He offered to drive Alcorn, recently hired as an associate engineer […]

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Westworld Recap, Season 2 Episode 8: The Great Ghost Nation Mystery

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In the canon of Westworld, the Ghost Nation does not play by the rules. They sometimes vanish into thin air. Their minds are impervious to Maeve's (Thandie Newton) takeover attempts and Ashley Stubbs' (Luke Hemsworth) voice commands. They collect human captives for unknown reasons. They are totally mysterious, living on Westworld's margins and never emerging […]

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Esports Zerg-Rush the Olympics—But Can They Become Official Events?

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Two days before the opening ceremony got underway in Pyeongchang, Sasha Hostyn made Olympics competitive history. She didn’t come from behind in a last-minute qualifying event, though, or pull off a new trick in a practice run—she used a zergling horde to upset the heavy favorite. In Gangneum, a seaside city 15 miles away from […]

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Live on ESPN: Is Esports Finally Ready for Its Crossover Moment?

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When the Overwatch League playoffs kick off tonight, fans will be tuning in to see which team will proceed to take on the league's top seeds, the New York Excelsior and Los Angeles Valiant. But while the diehards have been keeping up with the league's regular season via streaming site Twitch, they'll have some new […]

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The 10 (Well, 12) Most Anticipated Games of 2018

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With 2018 just weeks away, there's no shortage of games we're most excited about. A mixture of big budget games and potential sleeper hits, our gaming calendar for the new year is looking jam-packed already—even if those pesky release dates haven't quite been ironed out yet. Dragon Ball Fighter Z (January 26) Revealed at E3 […]

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WIRED's 16 Favorite Longform Stories of 2017

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Click:china crusher hammer manufacturer This year WIRED ramped up its longstanding commitment to publishing deeply reported narratives and investigations, both online and in print. In the process we covered everything from a strange pink pigment to a casino hacking caper to an obsessed robot-making scientist. Our writers spanned the globe, alighting in Japan, France, Silicon […]