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New Director Announced for Star Trek III The new Star Trek movie series might be taking a new turn with a new director for the third installment. J.J. Abrams, who directed the previous two films, is signing on solely as a producer for Star Trek III. Roberto Orci, a writer for several tv series and movies including Hercules(1995), Fringe, Amazing Spider-Man II and the previous Star Trek reboot films, will be making his directing debut in the newest Star Trek. Including a new director, the next film has two fresh writers on board, John D. Payne and Patrick McKay, with no previous listed film experience. Even though the team is new, it still has Abrams monetary blessing, so it should be up snuff. Even with the new Star Trek III news, let’s not forget about Star Trek Renegades, the successfully Kickstarted Star Trek fan film, who released a new character video on their Youtube channel. Sources: http://www.trektoday.com/, http://www.imdb.com/

Lucasfilm’s Canon Bait n’ Switch While this is not brand new news, you might of heard that the Star Wars Expanded Universe is no longer considered canon about three weeks ago. If you haven’t heard, everything in the Star Wars universe besides the movies and Clone Wars tv show(i.e. books, comics, games, etc.) will no longer be considered in the Star Wars universe, freeing up the writers of Star Wars 7 to ignore over 130 years covered in-universe past Return of the Jedi in the Expanded Universe(EU). This news broke the day the Star Wars Youtube channel released a video praising (continued on other side)

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The Fairfield Inquisitor

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(Lucasfilm, cont’d) and celebrating the EU while effectively erasing it from the Star Wars universe. All novels and such after this point will be in the “new canon” of the Star Wars universe. They will continue to profit off of the old EU, with old novels being rereleased under the Legends brand.  

Prince Variant *A spotlight for variants for board and card games. Variant Name(Original Game Name)

Rolling Chess(Chess)- For each unit you can determine the max it can each turn by rolling a 6-sided die and dividing the result by two. Adds a little chance and variety in the game. Zombie(Cards Against Humanity)- Once every 5 turns, you may discard one of your black cards and two white cards from your hand to add two white cards of your choice from the discard pile to your hand.

Comic Spotlight-Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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