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Legendary: Noir Expansion
Among the infinite number of alternate universes contained in the stories of Marvel Comics, there lies a world set in the dark and forbidding streets of the gangster-dominated 1920s and ’30s, where the heroes, mostly devoid of superpowers, must rely … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero
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Legendary: Deadpool Expansion
The rapidly growing popularity of Marvel’s most famous mercenary, capped by a highly successful solo film in 2016, inspired Upper Deck to base an entire small box expansion around the mouthy anti-hero. Featuring characters from Deadpool’s more recent adventures, and … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero, Uncategorized
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Legendary Villains: Fear Itself Expansion
Two years after the release of Legendary: A Marvel Deck-Building Game, Upper Deck introduced another core set, Legendary Villains. In this spin-off version of the game the roles are reversed, with players acting as the villains and brawling against various … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero, Uncategorized
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Widow’s Walk – Reenter the House on the Hill!
In 2003, one of the most iconic board games of all time hit the market. It earned a 2nd edition in 2010, but other than that, the world of Betrayal at House on the Hill has never been revisited. Until … Continue reading
Legendary – Secret Wars: Volume 2 Expansion
The dimension-spanning Secret Wars story, introduced into Legendary with a big box expansion in the summer of 2015, continues in Legendary’s sixth expansion, released in December of the same year. However, while Secret Wars, Volume 2 may be a sequel … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero
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Legendary – Secret Wars: Volume 1 Expansion
In the latter half of 2015, Marvel Comics ran a major series of stories affecting their entire superhero universe. It involved the various parallel dimensions and alternate universes colliding: two universes go in, only one comes out! Two teams – … Continue reading
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Legendary: Guardians of the Galaxy Expansion
As a tie-in to the Guardians of the Galaxy film of 2014, Upper Deck introduced the third “small box” expansion for Legendary: A Marvel Deck-Building Game (the game’s fourth expansion overall, following Dark City, Fantastic Four, and Paint the Town … Continue reading
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Tagged Artifact, Attack, Building, Card, Common, Cosmic, Cost, Deck, Drax the Destroyer, Galaxy, Game, Gamora, Gem, Groot, Guardian, Hero, Infinity, Kree, Legendary, Marvel, Mastermind, Rare, Recruit, Rocket Raccoon, Ronan the Accuser, Scheme, Shard, Star, Star-Lord, Strike, Supreme Intelligence, Thanos, Uncommon, Villain, Wound
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Legendary: Paint the Town Red Expansion
In the base game set of Legendary: A Marvel Deck-Building Game, Upper Deck established a core group of well-known and beloved heroes to take on equally recognizable villains. One such hero was Spiderman, arguably the most famous hero of Marvel … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero
Tagged Attack, Black Cat, Card, Carnage, City, Feast, Game, Hero, Kraven, Legendary, Marvel, Master Strike, Mastermind, Moon Knight, Mysterio, Recruit, Rooftops, Sandman, Scarlet, Spider, Spiderman, Spiderwoman, Symbiote, Upper Deck, Villain, Wall-Crawl
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Legendary: Fantastic Four Expansion
It’s been a while since we looked at the wonderful world of Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game, far longer than I intended, but the time has come to return to this universe of heroes and villains! When last we left … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero
Tagged Attack, Ben Grimm, Board Game, Burrow, City, Cosmic, fantastic four, Focus, Galactus, Gaming, Herald, Hero, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Legendary, Marvel, Master Strike, Mastermind, Mole Man, Mr. Fantastic, Recruit, Scheme, Silver Surfer, Storm, Street, Subterranea, Thing, Threat, Upper Deck, Villain
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The Body on Screen
The newly-released Deadpool movie has brought with it a whirlwind of controversy over film content. Foremost in that discussion has been the subject of nudity, and pronouncements that the film is immoral because of scenes with full nudity, both of men … Continue reading
Posted in The Church
Tagged Art, concupiscence, Film, filmmaker, filmmaking, Good and Evil, Human Body, Michelangelo, modesty, Neil P. Hurley, Nudity, painting, photography, Pope St. John Paul II, Schindler's List, screen, sculpture, Sexuality, Sin, St. Agatha, temptation, Theology of the Body, Theology Through Film
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The “Unnecessary” Miracle
On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples. When the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, … Continue reading
Posted in The Church
Tagged Cana, Exegesis, Jesus, Marriage, Mary, miracle, Wedding, wine
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Legendary: Dark City Expansion
As fun as the base game of Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is, from the start there was always room for additions and improvements. Those upgrades have come in six expansions since Legendary’s creation in 2012, the most recent … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero
Tagged Angel, Apocalypse, Bishop, Blade, Board Game, Bribe, Cable, Colussus, Daredevil, Dark City, Domino, Elektra, Forge, Gaming, Ghost Rider, Hero, Iceman, Iron Fist, Jean Grey, Kingpin, Legendary, Marvel, Marvel Knight, Mastermind, Mephisto, Mr. Sinister, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Punisher, S.H.I.E.L.D., Scheme, Stryfe, Superhero, Teleport, Upper Deck, Versatile, Villain, Wolverine, X-Force, x-men
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Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
If you’re looking for gifts for your avid gamer friends or family this Christmas, or just interested in adding something to your own collection of tabletop games, I can’t recommend a better choice than Upper Deck’s Legendary: Marvel. Legendary is … Continue reading
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WARCRAFT Movie Trailer Released
At BlizzCon 2013, Blizzard Entertainment announced that a movie based on their Warcraft series of games was in production. Today, they released the first trailer for the film.
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Gaming, News, Reviews, Video Games
Tagged CGI, Chain Mail, Green Screen, Human, Movie Trailer, Movies, Orc, Plate Armor, Stormwind, The Beginning, Warcraft, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, World of Warcraft
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Warcraft Expansion: Were We Prepared?
At Gamescon 2015 in Cologne, Germany Blizzard Entertainment announced the sixth expansion to World of Warcraft, and it is… well… see for yourself…
Blizzard Announces That They are Going to Announce Something
Blizzard Entertainment has just teased that they will reveal the title for the next World of Warcraft expansion on August 6th at Gamescon 2015. Is it surprising that they want to move away from the mess that is the current … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, News, Video Games
Tagged Blizzard Entertainment, BlizzCon, Gamescon, Warlords of Draenor, World of Warcraft
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The Pixar Hierarchy
Since they released their first feature film in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios has become a household name all but synonymous with quality. They have had a few missteps along the way, but on the whole you can count on Pixar … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Fantasy, Fiction, Reviews, Science Fiction, Superhero
Tagged A Bug's Life, Brave, Cars, Film, Finding Nemo, Inc., Incredibles, Inside Out, Michael Giacchino, Monsters, Monsters University, Movies, Pete Docter, Pixar, Ratatouille, Toy Story, Up, WALL-E
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Hope in the Darkness
Another day of good friends, food, and fun came to a close, and as my headlights guided me home, one thought racing through my mind prevailed over all others: how can I possibly feel so empty? For those who suffer … Continue reading →