Sentences with phrase «on battleships»

According to Chan, it was his work on Battleships Forever that prepared him for work as a game designer, and the game's resulting IGF nomination that lead to an industry position.
From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.
Though a battle that featured pre-dreadnought ships, the Battle of Manila Bay involved massive steamships with large turrets and guns that were the precursors of those that would be seen on battleships in WWI and WWII.
The surprise attack on Battleship 357, now remembered as the Battle of Yeonpyeong, honors the men who bravely fought for freedom - on the Northern Limit Line.
American Warships (DVD & Blu - ray) The latest mockbuster attempts to capitalize on Battleship's Navy - versus - aliens derring - do.
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The devs said that to their knowledge, this was the first e-sports match to take place on a battleship at sea.
Judging by its 2013 date, I guess it was trying to be a late cash - in on the Battleship movie, which came out in 2012.
Black Ops II had almost the exact same mission, Modern Warfare 3 put you in a submarine and one can only assume Call of Duty Ghosts will have you fist fighting on the battleship Yamato.
Episode 226: Battleship Island — August 25, 2011 Naruto and crew continue their travels when they are suddenly hit by a band of pirates on a battleship - like island.

Not exact matches

Movies based on games have always been audience favourites — Super Mario Bros. and Battleship are classics — so what could possibly go wrong?
Early on at Hired, part of our hiring process involved asking candidates to interact with a strategic board game similar to Battleship, popular in the United States.
He cut short his studies at Loyola University New Orleans to join the U.S. Navy during World War II, serving on the USS South Dakota, a battleship, during preparations for an invasion of Japan that never came to pass.
Thursday is the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese assault on a US naval base that resulted in the deaths of 2,402 Americans, numerous injuries, and the sinking of four battleships.
And they all have some common themes: all are sequels, reboots, or based on another story, film or game (we're looking at you again, «Battleship.»)
A few months after this particular conference I was back in Sydney to speak at another conference, and after I spoke, Gerard Minack, former chief strategist at Morgan Stanley Australia, gave his own presentation on the world economy and, more specifically, on the slow - turning battleship of expansion in the production of hard commodities.
No battleships and bombers; but large, powerful nations can still play other games; such as cyber war and attacks on the other nation's currency.
(On a side note, how is it that obvious toads like Battleship, John Carter, Jack the Giant Slayer and the three dozen other fairy tale reboots get greenlit without half - trying, while a beloved series attached to a major star with a massive fan base has to raise their own money?
Along the way, you will also get to visit the London Bridge and the Tower Bridge on the River Thames and also the Battleship HMS Belfast.
His passing is woeful, he has 0 pace, the turning circle of a battleship and he can not cope if someone gets the run on him down a channel.
Hoping her son will be home for Christmas, she has purchased about a dozen presents — a scooter, a book, the game Battleship — which sit stacked on the stairs.
Because I could never stray from my pumping station for long, on the rare occasions I left my house, I might as well have been going off to war between the diaper bag and that battleship of a breast pump I carted everywhere.
Making a point about the difficulty of turning the proverbial battleship once it's set on course, I said that «institutional change requires funerals,» a phrase my colleague loved.
Perhaps more importantly, these tools also teach skills, since you start with the plans and construct the machines themselves using local materials — and once you've done that, you're on your way to being able to build anything up to and including a battleship.
Instead, his war chest could barely fund a game of Battleship — as of July 15, the Faso campaign had $ 1.4 million; Spitzer reported $ 8.5 million on September 22 — and his first ad is a study in anti-capitalist aesthetics.
Donald Trump signaled to his GOP rivals that he'll come out guns blazing at tomorrow night's CNN presidential debate by attending a pre-debate rally on a storied battleship in Los Angeles.
NYC Council Member Andy King meets with military veterans and officers taking part in the 2015 Veterans Day Sunset Ceremony, on board the Fantail, Battleship Missouri Memorial, Pearl Harbor.
As the nation celebrated our U.S. military men and women on Veterans Day, one Bronx lawmaker saluted our veterans from Pearl Harbor on board the USS Missouri battleship.
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 28, 1914 On this date 100 years ago Scientific American reported on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's most modern «dreadnoughts» — the largest and most powerful battleships in existance in 191On this date 100 years ago Scientific American reported on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's most modern «dreadnoughts» — the largest and most powerful battleships in existance in 191on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's most modern «dreadnoughts» — the largest and most powerful battleships in existance in 1914.
From that they were able to calculate that the tubes could withstand a compressive stress of roughly a hundred billion Pascals (equivalent to the pressure you would feel balancing a battleship on your head) without buckling.
Also see SETI senior astronomer and Battleship consultant Seth Shostak's thoughts on what aliens would want from us.
-- The most difficult target for an aeroplane would probably be a battleship, on account of its relatively small size and its rapid movement.
Before satellite images and drones could pinpoint the exact location of enemy targets, warfare was often more like a game of Battleship: a complex series of guesses based on spotty information.
One hundred twenty years ago this month an American naval commission investigated the reasons for the explosion of the battleship, Maine, in the Havana, Cuba, harbor, killing a total of 260 sailors on Feb. 15, 1898.
Then on the last day we went to Pearl Harbor and explored the USS Battleship Missouri and the USS Arizona memorial.
The inspiration this time is classic board games and today's gray & red vintage industrial board is based on the game Battleship.
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Spielberg's argument is that one summer the studios high - stakes gambles will yield a spate of flops on the scale of «Battleship» and «John Carter.»
Steven Seagal fans and action buffs should eat up this taut suspenser, which is set entirely on board a battleship.
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Based on the Hasbro board game, Battleship is...
«Battleship» is based on the popular Hasbro game and has been rebooted for the summer popcorn movie audience.
Battleship Rated PG - 13 for intense sequences of violence, action and destruction, and for language Available on DVD and Blu - ray If you think its quite a stretch to make a movie based on the Hasbro game Battleship and throw in an alien invasion then you aren't alone.
Watching Gangster Squad put me even more in mind of The Untouchables with a climax centered on a set of hotel steps that reminded me of The Untouchables» famous sequence in Union Station (itself an homage to the Odessa Steps sequence in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkim), but it had been long enough since I watched The Untouchables that I didn't even realize how very many things Gangster Squad stole from DePalma's film.
Finally, Hasbro Family Game Night has had each of it's add - on games, including family favourites such as Battleships, Boggle and Connect 4 reduced by 50 %.
This is the same studio that has movies based on Monopoly, Battleship, Candyland, Stretch Armstrong, and Major Matt Mason in development.
After such an utter failure with Battleship, Peter Berg looks to redeem himself by taking on this project.
In the meantime, you can see Neeson on the big screen in either the currently - playing Wrath of the Titans, this summer's Battleship board game move adaptation, the aforementioned second installment in the Taken franchise this fall - or (POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT) a certain upcoming, hotly - anticipated blockbuster that the actor was recently officially confirmed to appear in.
But whereas Transformers made some use of existing mythos and characters, Battleship was starting from scratch, with nothing more than a familiar title and the notion of ships firing shots at one another to go on.
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