![]() The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States. ![]() Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. ![]() Thomas Andrews, who was the chief naval architect of the shipyard at that time, died in the disaster. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. The disaster drew much public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre and has inspired many artistic works. It remains to this day the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, which made the sinking possibly one of the deadliest for a single ship up to that time. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City. Lifeboats: 20 (sufficient for 1,178 people) Total: 3,327 (or 3,547 according to other sources) Two three-blade wing propellers and one three-blade centre propellerĬruising: 21 kn (39 km/h 24 mph). (ship's time) 14 April 1912 on her maiden voyage and sank 2 h 40 min later on 15 April 1912 109 years ago ( ).Ģ4 double-ended and five single-ended boilers feeding two reciprocating steam engines for the wing propellers, and a low-pressure turbine for the centre propeller output: 46,000 HP ![]() Titanic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912 ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you get behind the wheel to go online, race solo or take on up to three friends at your home, you’ll find Mario Kart Wii to be a one-of-a-kind experience! Shaped like a steering wheel, you place the Wii Remote inside the Wii Wheel’s casing and get ready to ride! In addition to the Wii Remote, you can also use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers in combo, or use a GameCube Controller to take those tight turns and challenges Mario Kart Wii throws at you.Ī new experience in racing is here! The world is waiting for you. You’ve been racing as the Mushroom Kingdom’s finest for a long time, but now there’s a new racer in town: Your Mii! Put your Mii behind the wheel and take on all comers! For those who want to get in the game even more, Mario Kart Wii comes packed with the Wii Wheel. How will riding a bike on these new retro tracks stack up to the karts? You’ll just have to play it to find out. Retro tracks are back! Along with new courses like Mushroom Canyon and Wario Mines, you’ll be racing on old favourites such as Sherbert Land, Waluigi Stadium, Peach Beach and 13 others. Plus, bikes and karts can launch into the air from certain boost ramps, and once in the air, you can perform special tricks to gain a boost when you hit the ground.Īll these new bikes and cool karts won’t just tear up new courses. On a bike, you can pop a wheelie, which can make you go faster but also makes you vulnerable to other racers and environmental effects. The other massive expansion to come to the Mario Kart franchise is the addition of a new type of vehicle: bikes! Although bikes have fewer wheels than karts, they have a different set of advantages. See someone with a better time than yours? The Mario Kart Channel also lets you download their ghost data to your Wii and race against the best! You can also see which characters and control methods were used to record this time. Here, your best times on tracks are compared to other racers from around the world. When you’re not going full-throttle toward the finish line, you can see how you stack up against others in the Mario Kart Channel. The online function of Mario Kart Wii also lets you join a friend’s race in action and be a spectator until the next course launches. You can create rooms for friends to join and even text chat while you’re waiting for other racers. You’ll be able to race against up to 11 other players from around the world in massive online races or race against your friends. Similar to Mario Kart DS, players will be able to take full advantage of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Mario Kart Wii isn’t an update – it’s a breakthrough! ![]() All your favourite Mario Kart franchise features return, such as classic tracks, cup modes, battles, boosts and ghost data. With all the new additions, don’t expect Mario Kart Wii to skimp on the details. 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Game Debate Grand Theft Auto V News - Grand Theft Auto V : GTA 5 Redux Mod Makes Rockstars Classic Look Ridiculously Good. Yet again struck with disappointment on the quality of this 3rd upgrade, I decided “If you want something done right, you just have to do it yourself”, ergo began the unofficial development of Redux. Barely full 1080p, still no AA, low fps, and not the boost in visuals vs performance one would expect from 7 years of system development.įeeling rather upset about the “modern” state of gaming consoles, I knew there was still one last chance to receive the experience I truly desired. Then there was hope: the “next-gen” re-release on PS4 and Xbox One! I snatched up a PS4 the moment I could, and after waiting 7 years for a new console to be produced, I was again extremely disappointed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That said, it’s not hard to get a faint sense of why she’s still hanging on. She testifies that she’d been conscious and had given him consent, when that’s clearly not true. Though Chloe agrees to testify against Bryce, by the time she reaches the stand, she’s singing a different tune. Even Jess points this out, noting to Clay that this is the kind of revelation that will change Chloe’s life. Again, it feels like a strangely manipulative move - yes, Chloe deserves to know the truth about what happened to her, but it’s so specifically for a means to an end that I feel even worse for her. We know that he raped her, and now she knows it, too, as Jess shows her the photos in an attempt to get her to testify against him. Then there’s the fact that there’s something grim going on in his relationship with Chloe. The only part of this that’s true is that they’d been friends, unbeknownst to Clay and the rest of the class, though things went sour after Hannah drew a firm line, saying that she only liked Bryce as a friend. They clean Bryce up for the trial, even giving him his old glasses, and of course, Bryce lies on the stand, saying that he and Hannah had had a whole relationship. Which, incidentally, is exactly what the Walkers’ lawyer is doing. It’s awful (and, I’d argue, unnecessary), especially as the writing seems to be going to lengths to make him sympathetic. Over the course of “Bryce and Chloe,” we’re subjected to flashbacks of his rape of Hannah in his own memory as well as Clay’s, as Clay’s hallucination of Hannah echoes the tape that she’d made recounting that night. If the show is going to point out how complicit the administration is in letting him get away with it all by giving the coach the “promising future” spiel, I don’t think it can also try to justify or otherwise make excuses for his behavior, particularly not by suddenly revealing that he’s also had thoughts of suicide in the same episode that shows him with an erection while recalling raping Hannah. Generally speaking, I understand the impulse to humanize the characters, but Bryce is a serial rapist. Bryce Walker, on the other hand … I’m not sure what this show is trying to accomplish by filling in his character this late in the game. Wathen Andre Lesley John Ozuna Thomas Dalby Tim Baylar Marie Finch Gary Perez Monterey Morrissey Sophia Marcs Nick Ryan Jurewicz Steven J.Credit where credit’s due: Justin Prentice is terrific. Stewart Brandon Black Kenny Beers Caleb Pilkenton Zach Prusak Georgia Pellkofer Brandon Kraus Galen G. 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When he first came to Gotham, King Tut built a sphinx to shout out his demands to Gotham City. Sometimes he is hit on the head and this awakens the professor, and sometimes he snaps out of it himself. It is usually at this time, when he becomes his old self once again. He invests so much time and effort into his capers he often breaks down and cries when things come crumbling down around him. He also has a tendency to be sadistic, insisting that while he detests violence, he loves a little torture, which he calls "good clean fun." As much as he hates Batman, he seems to hate Robin even more, as on one occasion he has the Boy Wonder suspended above a crocodile pit, and another time plans to have him boiled in a vat of oil. He is a rather emotional villain, going from joy to anger and then into sadness in a matter of moments. ![]() When anyone dares to question the veracity of his claims, he gets extremely irate, insisting that he is the "Nabob of the Nile" or the "Moon God of Thoth and stuff like that." ![]() His hideouts are decorated with his Egyptian artifacts and his partners in crime are dressed in ancient Egyptian costumes. His speech is laced with Egyptian history lessons, his curses and praises directed toward Egyptian gods. His antipathy towards Batman and Robin is based on the concept that they have tried to stop him, and as such are regarded as rebels against his throne. His ultimate goal is to claim Gotham-that is, Thebes-as his own. When he regained consciousness, he believed that he was the reincarnation of King Tutankhamun and that Gotham is the ancient city of Thebes. One such rock hit McElroy, knocking him out. One day he was at work when a student protest turned vicious, and rocks were thrown. King Tut is in fact William Omaha McElroy, a highly regarded professor of Egyptology at Yale University. ![]() ![]() ![]() Limited number available at the Mondo Booth (#435). If you'll be at San Diego Comic-Con come find us - we'll be giving away Jurassic Park patches! These patches are free to Jurassic Park: The Chaos Gene newsletter subscribers. With several scenarios and modular environment tiles for players to explore, each faction has unique objectives to complete in an effort to win the game! Find items needed for your faction, attack or avoid other dinosaurs, gain experience and customize your faction. Choose your faction from the following: InGen, Park Visitors, Raptors or the T. “Jurassic Park: The Chaos Gene” is a 2 to 4 player asymmetrical miniatures board game, for age 14 and up. Through a scenario-based system, the game becomes a truly chaotic mix of modern humans and prehistoric beasts. While exploration of the park is at the core of each player’s motivation, the means by which separate factions achieve their goals couldn’t be more different. Taking an asymmetrical approach to the game’s playable characters and factions, “Jurassic Park: The Chaos Gene” is a 2-4 player adventure of varying strategies, objectives, and perspectives. We'll have the box top on display at Mondo’s booth at San Diego Comic-Con (#435), and attendees will have the opportunity to get a special Jurassic Park patch when visiting the booth. The game will be available online on our website and in stores everywhere this Fall. Dinosaur cards have values ranging from 1-5 while Escape cards have values ranging from +1 to +3. Movement is handled through rounds of card play during which cards are played and then reacted to in order to eliminate all the cards in your hand. ”Movie fans and board game enthusiasts can expect exciting gameplay and gorgeous artwork, featuring the immensely talented artist Matthew Woodson. The object of the game is to get your pawn from its start space to the 'Final Escape' space while avoiding the pursuing Spinosaurus. The gameplay is also a little unfocused as the player doesn’t have control of who they play as and the UI is a little bit askew in parts.We are celebrating 25 years of dinosaur chaos with the anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s unequalled Jurassic Park and Mondo Games is excited to unveil our next board game, “Jurassic Park: The Chaos Gene. The story is mediocre at best, losing a lot of its appeal due to the writer’s inability to flesh out their characters. Overall, Jurassic Park: The Game is a Telltale game which sticks to the formula but fails to deliver a great final product. Which is a little disappointing in and of itself. The camera angle and laboured clue checking functions are a little disappointing but as a whole, the presentation and the functionality of the game itself is definitely the strongest aspects of the game. The game uses the standard Telltale format, the branching paths and the usual UI to drive the story. Then with regards to the gameplay, this is probably the most competent aspect of this title. However, it leads to a lack of cohesion and an inability to establish characters who fans can care for. The game rather decides to go with an Until Dawn sort of storytelling method, where your choices dictate who you will control. However, the issue with this is that you don’t control one set character. The story picks up somewhere between the original movie and the second, where you will follow the story of many different mercenaries, scientists and researchers as they explore the intriguing world of Jurassic Park. However, sadly this game fails to captivate its audience. These games live and die by their ability to form new stories and create new and interesting characters. However, on this occasion we have to say, it hasn’t had the same level of success. This has worked well with past outings with emphasis on The Walking Dead series. This game does uses the typical Telltale format, taking a large franchise and producing a four-part episodic series which tells a new story within the universe. However, were they too busy asking if they could that they forgot to ask themselves if they should? We find out in our review of Jurrasic Park: The Game. ![]() This game aims to tell a new story in the Jurrasic Park series that is up to the standard of the wonderful movies. However, thanks to the dino angle, this game plays very similarly to games like Dino Crisis, Turok, Path of Titans and Jurrasic World: Evolution. This game plays like just about any other game within the series of Telltale games. So, with that in mind, it only seems fitting that the video game industry try and bring this wonderful IP to live, Jurassic Park: The Game is complete with velociraptors aplenty and other scaly gargantuan killers. The original movies were a roaring success and even the more recent Jurassic World earned some plaudits too. Ever since a young Mr Goldblum graced the screen, the Jurrasic Park franchise has remained a popular fixture within cinema culture. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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