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Shia LaBeouf rocks his favorite “Teddy Bear Beach” t-shirt while wrapping up a workout session at a gym on Friday (April 11) in West Hollywood, Calif.

The 27-year-old actor was spotted carrying his jump rope for the session.

A few weeks ago, Shia showed off his sweaty body after a gym workout.

It was recently announced that Shia has exited the upcoming film Rock the Kasbah and has been replaced by Scott Caan.


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2 New Clips, Interviews and a Poster for Agents of SHIELD

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Following Part 1's big reveals on the ABC series, HYDRA hunts down one of SHIELD's most cunning villains

“Marvel's Agents of SHIELD” is setting up another round of surprises for its upcoming second crossover episode with “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

TheWrap has the exclusive first look at next Tuesday's second crossover episode with “Captain America.”

(Spoiler alert: Don't read on if you don't want to know what happened on Tuesday's episode titled “Turn, Turn, Turn.”)

We learned on “The Winter Soldier” that criminal organization HYDRA has its tentacles throughout “SHIELD.” That was reinforced in this week's episode when it was revealed that the “Clairvoyant,” the shadowy figure who has been pulling the strings in attacks against SHIELD, is Agent Garrett, played by guest star Bill Paxton.

But, that wasn't even the most explosive thing we learned. Field specialist and all-around good guy Agent Ward (Brett Dalton) is really a bad guy. A very, very bad guy.

In our exclusive peek the episode's cold open, Ward delivers a gift from The Clairvoyant to one of SHIELD's most cunning villains.

Watch the video above.

Next week's episode, “Providence,” further explores the fallout of “Turn” and “Winter Soldier,” as the rest of the season runs uninterrupted to deliver fans even more body-blow surprises.

An encore of “Turn, Turn, Turn” airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. “Providence” will follow at 9 p.m.



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IGN: You've had this big overarching mystery of the Clairvoyant and their mystery identity. Should we now assume that that's definitely solved and Garrett is the answer to that question?

Bell: We love the fact that you're still questioning it, but let me put it this way: you'll know after next week the answer to that question...

IGN: This is another question that you may give me a similar answer on, but can we also assume that Victoria Hand and those other unfortunate gentlemen are definitely dead?

Bell: Let's say that Ward definitely killed them.

IGN: [Laughs] Okay!

Bell: It's the Marvel Universe... But he definitely put three shots in her, and he killed her.

IGN: It wasn't the ICER he was using at that point.

Loeb: No, no. He iced her in the old-school version of "iced her."

IGN: She had an interesting moment with Coulson right before that, where she was basically saying that the two of them were the two highest-ranking SHIELD members left. With her gone, it seems to me that Coulson would now be the de facto leader of whatever is left of SHIELD. Is that the position he's now finding himself in?

Loeb: That's as far as they know. Let's make sure that it's clear that they're living in a world where the SHIELD satellites have been compromised. They have very little information in terms of what's going on, and so in many ways they're like the viewers. They don't really know what's coming.

Bell: It's good -- most of the questions that you're asking are questions that our characters will be asking and that we'll be exploring through story.

IGN: Obviously this was already a personal thing for Coulson with Garrett’s betrayal alone, not to mention whenever he finds out about Ward. I am curious if we'll see a little more, though, of the personal ramifications of all of this. Even Sitwell, while he was mentioned in passing, there wasn't really time to deal with that, and that was kind of Coulson's buddy going back to Thor and the Marvel One-Shot of them together at the diner. Will we see Coulson having to deal with all the personal loss beyond what's happened to SHIELD itself?

Bell: Yeah, I would say that's what we do well on television, is focus on the interpersonal, the emotional, the psychological of that. In the movie, a giant Helicarrier crashes into the Triskelion -- a giant, awesome fight -- and we really get to deal with the ramifications of that and the interpersonal stuff that comes out of that.

Loeb: And just to make it clear, it's very personal to Coulson. We're going to see the ramifications of that.

IGN: Now we know next week's episode has Patton Oswalt in it as Eric Koenig, and Adrian Pasdar as Talbot. Can you talk about bringing in those characters? How were they brought in given the state of SHIELD at this point?

Bell: Well, Talbot isn't SHIELD, he is Air Force, per Marvel, and we've been fans of Patton forever. We found a way that we thought was a really wonderful way to bring him into the show that made sense at this time.

Loeb: Adrian Pasdar has been a friend and a friend of Marvel. This will start out as something very small, and then people will see where that's headed. One of the great parts about Glenn Talbot -- and Adrian knew this, because I told him when we first started talking about the character -- he's a world-class jerk, and Adrian just gets a big kick out of playing those guys and plays them really well. There's something about the way that Adrian plays it where you go, "Wow, he's a world-class jerk, but, you know, he's kind of right." That's the part where you can't hate him, because you know that he's actually kind of right. In the comics when he would rant and vent and go on about the Hulk, from his point of view, he was actually right.

IGN: There was so much going on this week and you couldn't mention everything. Maria Hill -- who, again, at the time, they wouldn't know anything about what was going on with her -- but we saw the end of Captain America 2 where she went, and it has been revealed that we are going to be seeing her on the show again soon. Is there anything you can say about her return?

Loeb: It couldn't happen soon enough, couldn't happen often enough. We're such huge fans of Cobie [Smulders], and she's been such a huge fan. She's stayed in touch with us. It really just came down to, more than anything else, she had to finish that little, tiny, nobody-watched, CBS, comedy, half-hour, gigantic, juggernaut of a show. Really, hats off to the guys at CBS for accommodating us at the time when we needed her to come back into our storyline.



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Marvel.com: When did you learn that your character was going to go to the dark side?

Brett Dalton: When we were shooting “Yes Men.” It was a Friday night and [we were filming a] kind of brutal fight between May, and I thought, “Wow, there’s quite a few people on set for a Friday night, watching a fight scene.” Usually they don’t do that.

And then afterwards [Executive Producer] Maurissa [Tancharoen], who is clearly the designated mother of the entire set, was like, “Hey, you’re doing such a great job, the writers just wanted to talk to you after when you were done.” And I didn’t really think anything of it, and she was like, “It’s all good, don’t worry about it, but we just wanted a few [minutes] when you wrap.” [Then] I'm thinking the entire time, holy crap, they're gonna kill me off. I better enjoy this scene then because my days are numbered at this point. And you know I’m on a Joss Whedon show, so from the very beginning I’m not unaware of the fact that my position on the team was not a guarantee.

So there I was, I have not felt that way since middle school probably, being called into the principal’s office. It took me a really long time to get dressed because [of] the whole thing. I remember stalling as much as I could, and I walked in and sat down on the couch and there were all the writers there and I thought, “oh my god.” I was kind of in shock, kind of like, “give it to me doc, tell me the results what do we got here.” Then they proceeded to let me in on what their plan for my character had been all along. I don’t think anyone knew who the Clairvoyant was, so they told me first, “Well, Garrett is the clairvoyant and Garrett is your supervising officer and you trained under him so that makes you also part of Hydra.” And I think I just sat there with my jaw open for the next 20 minutes, and they just did all of the talking because I couldn’t say anything. It was a huge turn. I didn’t see any of that coming, so I was just shock for about the next day. Then it sank in and I started to think wow, what a cool opportunity. Because the Ward I thought I was going to be playing for the next few seasons, the whole thing just changed. Now I think what I was given was just a huge opportunity to play somebody who is more complex, more interesting, more dangerous, scarier in a way that Ward wasn’t. I get to play two different characters in a way.

Sixteen and a half episodes of a guy who is very trustworthy and rolled up his sleeves and did all the heavy lifting and didn’t really question authority. You know, a by-the-book risk assessor, and yet here I am. The last five episodes and I get to play somebody who I really think just has a troubled past. It’s so juicy [and] it’s so much more complex than the character I was before that.

I mean, I think it fulfilled a promise of his past. We got from the very beginning, [when] he’s talking to Coulson about how he has a troubled past and the whole revelation that he doesn’t play well with others. The Berserker episode, we get bits and pieces of this troubled past. This delivers on it in an interesting way that nobody sees coming.

Marvel.com: When you found out that this was all happening, were you ultimately glad that you didn’t know this was coming when you were doing the first 15 episodes? Do you think you would have been inclined to tip your hand if you had known?

Brett Dalton: Yes, yes I was very glad I did not know it. I don’t think there was any way I could of gotten that same amount of earnestness in that character. I think the temptation would have been to absolutely tip your hand prior to [this episode]. And TV is about the slow burn. [In] TV we have 22 episodes to tell the story, and I would of absolutely tried to give away too much too quickly. So I’m very happy that it developed as it did.

I’m not used to doing mystery either, because usually I’m doing plays, I’m doing things that are more or less a set story that you have two hours to tell, [where] there’s a beginning, middle and an end and you have a really big rehearsal process. So this whole TV thing is kind of a big opportunity for me to learn a whole [new] way to tell a story.

Marvel.com: Yeah, and what makes it so perfect like you say is that you played Ward so earnestly in those first 15 episodes that his turn came as an even greater shock. But which has been more fun for you? To play the good guy, or the bad guy?

Brett Dalton: Oh man, so much more fun to play the bad guy. So much more fun. Plus my scenes [are with] Bill Paxton, who I think just has more fun in general on set than I typically do. Sometimes I kind of just act [with my] nose to the ground and [just] do it. And this whole thing has just opened up a kind of levity to it, a kind of, I won’t even say freedom--I’d say fun is the right word. There’s a real joy to it, and it’s great.

Marvel.com: Now Ward, despite his allegiance to Garrett, and therefore Hydra, has developed some personal attachments inside the team. How will those relationships impact him now that he’s back with Garrett?

Brett Dalton: Yeah, try as he might to keep those things in check, I think his feelings--or certain feelings--might have crept up and surprised him. When you’re living, eating, and on missions with people, you become part of that family unit. I think that it probably gets harder and harder to turn that off. I mean I couldn’t imagine doing that myself. Being an embedded spy has to be one of the most difficult jobs I could imagine. Because you have to wear one mask, and not forget about your job, your duty, at the same time. You have to let your guard down in a way, because they need to trust you. But it’s a false sense of letting your guard down. But my loyalty to Garrett wins out. So I have to follow his orders and I have to make some difficult decisions.

Marvel.com: How would you describe Ward’s relationship with Garrett, and how does Ward view Garrett?

Brett Dalton: I think Garrett offered him a [purpose]. He’s someone that’s always felt [like he was overlooked], and he’s somebody who doesn’t always know what to say but is eager to speak, [yet] doesn’t feel like anybody’s listening or anybody cares.




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'Sex Sent Me to the ER' returns with woman who received 3rd degree burns from melted 5lb gummy bear

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A couple looking to get some kicks in the bedroom ended their romantic evening in the emergency room after a kinky game went drastically wrong.

Michael and Josi, from Clarksville, Tennessee, decided to spice things up by melting a 5lb gummy bear on each others' bodies. However the searingly hot, sugary liquid left Josi with third-degree burns on her chest and in agonizing pain.

The couple, who didn't share their last names, decided to reveal their embarrassing tale on TLC series Sex Sent Me To The ER, which airs on Saturday night.



The situation was made even more excruciating by the fact that Josi decided to call her mother for advice.

For Michael, who had yet to meet her mother back in 2011, it was a particularly shameful moment. Michael told TLC: 'When you're in that moment, you don't think.'


However the couple claim that they are not so embarrassed by the gummy bear fiasco that they would miss out sharing the experience with the viewing public - or local news site, Tennessean.com. And all their friends and family know anyway, they added.

Despite the failed attempt at romance, the couple remain together three years later and are engaged.

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FUNimation Entertainment announced today it has acquired the U.S. and Canadian home video rights for One Piece Film: Z. This 12th movie celebrated the series 15th anniversary, with creator Eiichiro Oda overseeing the story of the Straw Hat Pirates in the New World – facing off against powerful former Marine Admiral “Z.”

One Piece Film: Z is expected to be released in Fall 2014.



Persona 3: The Movie will launch on Blu-ray in a collector's edition and standard edition in North America on May 20, according to distributor Aniplex USA.

The Blu-ray, which can be ordered from the Aniplex USA website, will be in Japanese with English subtitles. The Collector's Edition, which is priced at $79.98, will include the movie, trailers, audio commentary, original soundtrack CD, exclusive box art, newly-illustrated cover art, a 48-page deluxe booklet, Persona 3 stickers and key art illustration cards. The standard edition, which costs $59.98, will come with the movie, trailers, commercials and audio commentary.

Persona 3: The Movie was released in Japan on Nov. 23, 2013. The film, which is based on the Persona 3 role-playing game, was first announced in 2012.










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Taylor Swift walks around, gonna film a documentary with Ed for some reason

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Country music favorites Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran will appear together in a documentary that MTV began filming today.

Taylor Swift began filming an MTV documentary about Ed Sheeran, a source told SheKnows. While the news hasn’t broken yet, the source revealed that shooting began taking place today (Friday, April 11). While it is not yet known what exactly will be featured on the MTV special, it will most likely include information about the famous pair’s relationship and singing careers.

On a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Swift praised Sheeran for having great superstar potential and revealed why she picked him to be her opening act for her North American tour last year.

"I’ve found that choosing a great opening act depends just as much on who the person is offstage as who they [sic] are onstage,” Swift said. “When someone is as approachable and outgoing as Ed, you know you’re not going to deal with tantrums and diva-like behavior that I really have no patience for.”

Meanwhile, while they have become great pals, Sheeran insists he has never dated Swift, and his new emotional break-up song is not about her. “It’s 100 percent not about Taylor,” Sheeran told Rolling Stone magazine.

"Taylor is one of those people that if you piss her off and she writes a song about you, it’s not good news for you," the "I See Fire" crooner added. But, ironically, when Swift heard her friend’s emotional song about heartache, she was impressed, but alarmed at the same time.

"She was just like, ‘Whatever happens, ever, between us as friends,’" Sheeran revealed, “‘I never want to piss you off that much.’"

Rumors that Swift and Sheeran might be dating came when the pair was spotted together at a hotel last year after they worked on song lyrics for the British star’s new album, X. The pair also collaborated on Swift’s tune, “Everything Has Changed,” which features Sheeran on a remix version and the video.

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Arsenal beat Wigan on penalties; through to FA Cup final.

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Jordi Gomez's penalty put the Latics on course to reach another final, but Per Mertesacker's late equaliser maintained Arsenal's hopes of winning their first silverware since they claimed this trophy in 2005.

The teams could not be separated by extra time and, when it went to penalties, goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski saved Wigan's first two spot-kicks, from Gary Caldwell and Jack Collison, to put Arsenal on the way to a meeting with either Hull City or Sheffield United.

Mikel Arteta, Kim Kallstrom and Olivier Giroud were all on target for Arsenal - while James McArthur and Jean Beausejour scored for Wigan - leaving Santi Cazorla to send the Gunners fans wild with celebration and relief with the decisive penalty.

Arsenal had the better of the chances before penalties, with Wigan keeper Scott Carson twice denying Yaya Sanogo, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain hitting the woodwork in extra time.

On a day when Everton moved ahead of Arsenal in the race for a place in next season's Champions League with victory at Sunderland, this will provide a lift in confidence for Arsene Wenger's side, despite a largely unconvincing display.

Wigan manager Uwe Rosler can be justifiably proud of his players, who can now concentrate on their main priority of winning promotion back to the Premier League.

Wenger stuck with his policy of replacing Wojciech Szczesny with Fabianski and playing Sanogo in attack, and the youngster almost made the crucial early breakthrough.

Carson, with nightmare memories of Wembley after his error when thrust into England's Euro 2008 qualifier against Croatia, did brilliantly to get down to Sanogo's header as he met Oxlade-Chamberlain's cross.

He also did well to race from goal to block Oxlade-Chamberlain and Sanogo again, but Wigan grew into the game and Callum McManaman, man of the match in last season's FA Cup final win against Manchester City, was emerging as a real threat to the uncertain Nacho Monreal.

Bacary Sagna had another good chance for Arsenal when Mertesacker flicked on Arteta's corner, but his finish at the far post was high and off target.

McManaman was the central figure as Wigan went ahead after 63 minutes, referee Michael Oliver having an easy decision as Mertesacker dived in recklessly in the area.

An injury to Monreal, which required his replacement by Kieran Gibbs, meant almost a four-minute delay before Gomez could take his kick, but he remained commendably cool to beat Fabianski with a perfect penalty.

Wenger needed to react but his decision to replace Lukas Podolski, rather than the struggling Sanogo, with Giroud was met with a loud chorus of jeering from the increasingly anxious Gunners fans.

Arsenal, as they had to do, finally demonstrated a greater sense of urgency, and a frantic few seconds led to the equaliser after 82 minutes.

Sagna had headed against the post and Carson had again saved superbly from Gibbs before Mertesacker arrived at the far post to score with a stooping header from Gibbs's scuffed shot.

Arsenal carried the momentum into extra time, and Carson excelled once more to turn over a fine rising shot on the turn from Sanogo.

The Gunners had gathered momentum and only the woodwork saved Wigan as Oxlade-Chamberlain's powerful shot rattled out off the angle of post and bar with Carson helpless.

Then came penalties - and the shot at a trophy Arsenal have waited for since 2005.


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Fault in Our Stars OST tracklist announced

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1) Ed Sheeran – “All Of The Stars”
2) Jake Bugg – “Simple As This”
3) Grouplove – “Let Me In”
4) Birdy & Jaymes Young – “Best Shot”
5) Kodaline – “All I Want”
6) Tom Odell – “Long Way Down”
7) Charli XCX – “Boom Clap”
8) STRFKR – “While I’m Alive”
9) Indians – “Oblivion”
10) The Radio Dept. – “Strange Things Will Happen”
11) Afasi & Filthy – “Bomfallarella”
12) Ray LaMontagne – “Without Words”
13) Birdy – “Not About Angels”
14) Lykke Li – “No One Ever Loved”
15) M83 – “Wait”

Bonus track
16) Birdy – “Tee Shirt”


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Jada Pinkett Smith Reminds You to Love Your Body

A tale of two Coachellas! Leo D shuns the spotlight while girlfriend Toni Garrn poses up a storm!

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They have been dating for almost a year, practically a lifetime when it comes to relationships for Leonardo DiCaprio.

And the 39-year-old heartthrob and modeliser is so smitten with Toni Garrn that he made sure she was by his side at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in Indio, California on Friday.

However, he did try to keep their appearance together as low-key as possible, taking care not to be photographed with the 21-year-old beauty, who he was first linked to last May.

Leo was casually dressed as he soaked up the atmosphere at the festival, wearing jeans, a white T-shirt and a plaid shirt.

He tried to go incognito by wearing a hat but having been famous for over 20 years, there was no escaping attention.

Toni could be spotted in the background, with her long legs on display in tiny denim shorts but, as ever, there was no public display of affection from her famous boyfriend.

However, she still managed to have fun, sharing a picture of herself in the crowd with a pal.

The festival's iconic ferris wheel was visible in the background as Toni struck a pose.

No doubt Coachella is a welcome break for Leonardo as his year got off to a busy start - attending numerous awards ceremonies after being nominated for his stand out role in The Wolf Of Wolf Street.

Nevertheless, Leo says he’s nothing like his overly indulgent character in that film – having never touched drugs.

He said: 'Never done it. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was three or four years old. So Hollywood was a walk in the park for me...'

'I'd go to parties and it was there and, yeah, there's that temptation. Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in and they essentially say they want to belong.

'It's incredibly vulnerable to be an actor and also get criticism at a young age when you're formulating who you are. We've seen a lot of people fall victim to that, and it's very unfortunate.'

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Jenny McCarthy Fires Back at Critics in New Column: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine"

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Jenny McCarthy is okay with the gray. In a Chiacgo Sun-Times column published Saturday, April 12, the View cohost explains how her controversial anti-vaccination stance has neither changed nor evolved -- it's just that she's always been in the gray zone.

"I am not 'anti-vaccine,'" McCarthy, 41, writes in the opening line of her piece. "This is not a change in my stance nor is it a new position that I have recently adopted. For years, I have repeatedly stated that I am, in fact, 'pro-vaccine' and for years I have been wrongly branded as 'anti-vaccine.'"

"My beautiful son, Evan, inspired this mother to question the 'one size fits all' philosophy of the recommended vaccine schedule," McCarthy continues. The View cohost, whose 11-year-old son Evan has autism, has argued for years that certain early childhood vaccines have been linked to the developmental disorder in children.


McCarthy first voiced her opinion during a controversial appearance back in April 2008 on Larry King Live. And just last month, the TV personality was slammed during a Twitter conversation by fans claiming the star was anti-vaccination, during an unrelated topic.

"What happened to critical thinking? What happened to asking questions because every child is different?" McCarthy asks of media outlets posting about her anti-vaccine stance. "I embarked on this quest not only for myself and my family, but for countless parents who shared my desire for knowledge that could lead to options and alternate schedules, but never to eliminate the vaccines."

The actress adds, "For my child, I asked for a schedule that would allow one shot per visit instead of the multiple shots they were and still are giving infants." She adds in her list of vaccination "beliefs": "I believe in the importance of a vaccine program and I believe parents have the right to choose one poke per visit. I’ve never told anyone to not vaccinate. Should a child with the flu receive six vaccines in one doctor visit? Should a child with a compromised immune system be treated the same way as a robust, healthy child? Shouldn’t a child with a family history of vaccine reactions have a different plan? Or at least the right to ask questions?"


McCarthy says she is not discounting conversations about improving healthcare of young children and future generations. "This is an extremely important discussion and I am dumbfounded that these conversations are discounted and negated because the answers are not black or white," she writes.

The star concludes her piece by simply stating, "One size does not fit all." She adds, "God help us all if gray is no longer an option."

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Lana Del Rey teases "West Coast" in Las Vegas

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Down on the West Coast, they got a sayin':
"If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin'"
But you got the music, you got the music in you
Don't you?
Down on the West Coast, I get this feeling like it all could happen
That's why I'm leaving you for the moment, you for the moment Boy Blue
Yeah, you


BBC Radio 1 Premiere Times: GMT - between 10AM/1PM, PST - between 3AM/6AM, EST - between 6AM/9AM

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Alpha Centauri basically getting a sequel.

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That spaceship that launches when you win a game of Sid Meier’s Civilization 5 with the science victory isn’t an ending - it’s the beginning of Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth. In Fall of 2014, it’ll pick up that story and put us in charge of the effort to colonize a new alien world full of life, and build a new, unwritten future for humanity.





If you’ve played 1999’s best 4X strategy game, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, that idea will sound familiar. (Fun fact: Alpha Centauri wasn’t called Civilization because Firaxis and publisher EA didn’t own the rights to the name. Firaxis regained the rights to Civilization when it was bought by 2K, but the rights to the Alpha Centauri name remain at EA.) But David McDonough, Beyond Earth’s co-lead designer, says this isn’t a retread of that classic. “This game is not an Alpha Centauri sequel or prequel. It’s its own idea, its own experience, based on the idea of the future of mankind on an alien world,” he explains. While some old hands at Firaxis have worked on both games, Alpha Centauri designer Brian Reynolds has no involvement in Beyond Earth.


Though it’s built on the hex-based engine and structure of Civilization 5, Beyond Earth is not an expansion pack, but a full-fledged game that’s designed to be familiar to fans but also make fundamental changes to the way you play and win. The biggest, McDonough believes, is the switch from the traditional, linear tech tree that drives other Civilization games forward through established history to a more open-ended “Tech web” system.


“We’re huge fans of sci-fi from every part of pop culture and history, so we went to that and imagined a web where you start in the middle, surrounded by techs that are relatively recognizable based on conventional technology, and you go outward into any frontier you can imagine,” says McDonough. He points to options like advanced AI and cybernetics, or genetic manipulation that allows you to meld human and alien DNA. Because of the non-linear choices you and your competitors will make based on your needs and overall strategy, and the intentional lack of technology trading, no faction will be able to unlock all the technologies in a single playthrough, and by the end of a game each faction should look and function very differently.

Furthering the differences that will develop between future humanity’s factions are several philosophical “Affinities” (Supremacy, Wealth, Purity, and Harmony). They’ll allow you to determine how humanity evolves on this new world and unlock Affinity-exclusive units, while other competing colonies might go in another direction entirely.


Those differences in ideology are intended to inspire conflict and tension between factions, and almost inevitably, war. Beyond Earth will use the same one-unit-per-tile combat system we’ve seen in Civ 5, but its upgrade system is intended to be deeper and more flexible due to a multi-tiered tree system and - again - to allow you to control its evolution rather than simply progress from spearmen to muskets to riflemen. Options may be conventional boosts to attack power or healing ability (those were the early examples given, anyway) but they carry with them different effects based on the Affinity they’re associated with. Choosing more aggressive upgrades changes your army to reflect that with the jagged, sharp edges of the Supremacy Affinity, whereas others will give your units a more rounded, organic look of the Harmony line. But potentially the most exciting new aspect of combat is the satellite layer, where you can build and launch orbital weapons stations that
bombard enemy troops or support stations that buff your own soldiers in a certain area, much like Civ 5’s great generals.


At the same time you’re competing with the other colonial powers on this planet, you’ll also be up against the native life you find there – much of it initially hostile. “Civ 5’s barbarians are really more like a speed bump or an early-game punching bag for you to kind of get your military chops before you’re ready to get into a real war. In this game, they’re completely different. It’s really a whole other opponent that plays completely asymmetrically to any of the human players,” says McDonough. He promises that the indigenous aliens, while not sentient, will react intelligently and with some coordination to what you’re doing on their world, and how you interact with them can range from all-out hostility to befriending, domesticating, and breeding them for your own use. (The description is reminiscent of Sid Meier’s Colonization’s Native American tribes that inhabit the new world, and can either be foug
ht or befriended and assimilated.) You can expect them to be a major obstacle to the free land-grab expansion we’re accustomed to in Civilization games.

The other major change is in how you start, and how Beyond Earth intends to make itself highly replayable. Instead of simply picking a nation and starting with a settler and a couple of scouts or warriors, your starting conditions and bonuses will depend on your choice of which of the eight Earth organizations sponsored your expedition, what types of colonists you brought with you, the ship that transports you there, and the cargo you packed. McDonough stresses that those leaders don’t define your culture like they do in past Civ games, but provide a wide variety of starting points. Even the leader’s models which you see during diplomacy will change based on the Affinity choices you make along the way.

Naturally, where you’re going will depend on your choices, too. Beyond Earth will include five different victory conditions, including the usual Domination (aka conquer everybody) and making contact with a sentient alien race. From the sound of it, there’s more than enough content here to keep this new spin on the old formula interesting and addictive. Though it doesn’t appear to focus as much on characterization and inter-species diplomacy as its inspiration, its new ideas and open-endedness make it a promising attempt at recapturing the appeal of “just one more turn” strategy on another world.



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How often have you abandoned earth to save Humanity only to find a bunch of other people followed you to screw you over, ONTD?

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Jessa Duggar wants to have a lot of kids with her fiance Ben Seewald!!!!

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Now that her sister Jill is planning a wedding, Jessa, who is in a courtship with Ben, is enjoying her relationship.

"Things are going great," Jessa, 21, tells PEOPLE exclusively. "We are looking forward to what the future holds." Both Duggars have chosen to wait to hold hands until they're engaged and save their first kiss until wedding.

Ben, who is the oldest in a family of seven from Hot Springs, Ark., says he and Jessa make up the distance by keeping in touch via Skype or FaceTime, writing letters to one another and talking on the phone. "Jessa wrote me a letter for every single day for 20 days when we were apart," says Ben, 18. "It was so romantic."

Jessa and her sisters Jana, 24, Jill, 22, and Jinger, 20, recently published a book about relationships Growing Up Duggar that explains the girls' take on dating vs. courtship.

As the youngsters watch their older sisters in relationships, some worry how life is going to change without their sisters around. Michelle reminds them to visit Josh, 26, married to Anna, 25, and their kids daughter Mackynzie, 4, and sons Michael, 2, and Marcus, 8 months.

"It is a bittersweet time," says Michelle. "Some of the little ones don't like change but I remind them that we get to visit Josh and Anna and remind them how fun that is."

And do Jessa and Ben hope to have a large family of their own some day? "We both want to have a big family," says Jessa. "We are talking about our goals and the future with family. We have both talked about adoption and want to adopt, too."

"Just because you are young, it doesn't mean you are not ready for life," Ben adds. "I want to encourage people to embrace adulthood. There is responsibility that comes with it and great reward. Jessa and I both have the same love for God and we really care about people. We have a lot of the same desires and goals in life."



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Days of Future Past Photos Reveal The X-Men's Dark History And Future

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After a frighteningly terrible bit of marketing, the latest X-Men movie has stepped up their game and released a fantastic photo series that paints the entire alternate history and future for our mutant friends (including Baby Colossus!). Check out this gorgeous X-Men photo timeline!

This collection of photos was released on the new viral marketing website 25 Moments. It tells the whole story of the Mutants right from where we left off on X-Men: First Class. Sadly as time moves forward, things start to get worse and worse for our X-buddies. And a lot of them die. So be warned there are some spoilers ahead.



A shot from the Cuban Missile Crisis.



Magneto is implicated in the JFK assassination.



Xavier at his school for gifted mutant tykes.



Trask hard at work in his lab.



Trask and Nixon.



Quicksilver breaks a bunch or world records, makes normies hate him. (lmao what a flop bitch)



This guy Bob Bell starts an anti-mutant religious campaign.



Mad Cow Disease was accidentally invented by the mutant cure-all vaccine.



Guantanamo Bay is now a Mutant Detention Center.



Mutants help repair the Golden Gate bridge, which you'ill remember was destroyed in X-Men: The Last Stand.











Border patrol keeping mutants out.



A Mutant Inhibitor Collar. Yikes. This is allegedly Kitty Pryde in Camp X-Ray.



Trask Industries takes over Xavier's School for Gifted Mutants.



Occupy Wall Street (eye roll — we get it, you're timely, X-Men movie) joins forces with the X-Men to march on old Xavier mansion. The peaceful protest ends in bloodshed when the Sentinels kill Angel.



Blink photographed saving a bunch of mutant children from Trask Prison camps.



The New Sentinel (Mark X). (LMAO!!!!!)



Bad News for Beast, according to this website: "Hank McCoy is dragged from his home and murdered by an angry mob of Human Majority protesters outside his home in upstate New York." Yikes.



Bishop starts the "Free Mutants" Resistance. The site also claims that Bishop is a Camp X-Ray escapee.

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NICK CARTER IS GETTING MARRIED TODAY!!!

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Backstreet Boy Nick Carter is getting married Saturday – and it's something the groom himself thought would never happen.

"I said I'd never get married," the 34-year-old told PEOPLE last year, but he's making it official with a Southern California wedding to his fiancée, fitness expert and actress Lauren Kitt.

The happy couple, who got engaged in February 2013, held a rehearsal dinner on Friday night.

Carter's bandmate A.J. McLean posted on Instagram Friday that he was getting ready to head to the rehearsal dinner for "the wedding that most of u thought would never happen, but I'm so happy it is finally!"

Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough also attended the pre-wedding bash, which was Arabian-themed.



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In fact, in an interview with PEOPLE last year, Carter said that it was Dorough who helped him get up the nerve to propose to Kitt. "I asked Howie [for advice]. I was like, 'I love her, and I don't want to lose her.' And he was like, 'Just do it!' "

Carter popped the question with an enormous, 7-carat pear-shaped diamond in the Florida Keys, after sailing Kitt to a nearby island. Things didn't totally go according to plan. "The boat was barely running. It died, like, four times," he said.

They finally made it to the island and climbed a hill, where Carter surprised Kitt. "I got down on my knees and did that whole hoopla," he said. "She was like, 'Are you serious?' And started crying. Now we call it Engagement Island."


On April 5, Kitt posted a photo on Instagram of her and her father, saying, "Next Saturday the first man I ever loved with give me away to the love of my life. I love you Dad."





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Yes, Even Cara Delevingne is at Coachella. And We're Not

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Their elder sister Chloe tied the knot for the second time earlier this year, so the Delevingne girls clearly know a thing or two about throwing a Hen Do.And for Poppy’s forthcoming nuptials they have taken things to another level – they’ve headed to Coachella Music And Arts Festival in California which they’ve affectionately dubbed Popchella.

The bride-to-be was spotted strolling around the festival in Indio alongside younger sister Cara soaking up not just the sun but also the atmosphere.

Poppy, who started her fun filled weekend at The Beverly Hills Hotel , was seen carrying an inflatable dinosaur as she strutted around. In keeping with the festival theme the 27-year-old wore a black tasselled skirt and crop top – revealing her long legs.

Cara meanwhile proved that long legs certainly run in the family as she wore a pair of pink hot pants for the occasion. The 21-year-old has clearly been enjoying some time in the sun recently as she looked very tanned. She teamed her shorts with a black and white T-shirt and a casual pair of trainers and a rucksack.

Despite being one of the world’s most famous models, Cara went almost unnoticed as she strutted through the fields before tucking into a slice of pizza.The group weren’t joined by Cara’s girlfriend – Michelle Rodriguez but it is thought that the actress will be attending her wedding to James Cook.


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Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian Bond Over Skin Care?

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So this quietly happened yesterday…

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Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian showed up at the dermatology office…around the same time.  A coincidence?

With word being that Beyoncé doesn’t want anything to do with the Kardashian clan, much less Kim and Kanye’s wedding, these recent snaps may be saying otherwise.

The two women were spotted arriving at a ritzy skincare clinic in Beverly Hills on Friday afternoon. But before the Beyhive attacks, the ladies entered separately.

Beyoncé, dressed in a blue and white patterned pantsuit, arrived minutes before Kim, who arrived alone in her Mercedes-Benz truck.

With Kim’s wedding date fast approaching, could they be getting close on the low? Was this a spa day between girlfriends?

Oh, to be an esthetician in that office!


This isn’t the first time the two have been spotted being at the same place, at the same time though. They were pretty chummy back in 2012. They danced and hung out together as they watched their men perform during a UK stop of their “Watch The Throne” tour. They also sat front row with Kanye and Jay between them at the 2012 BET Awards. And let’s not forget Kim being present backstage and taking pics with Bey’s team at her “Mrs. Carter” show.

Still, rumors persist that Beyoncé just isn’t checking for Kim.

Guess we’ll see when Kim’s wedding date, May 24th, comes around!


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I feel like they have private play dates for blu ivy and north....they probably will end up going to the same school and do a reality show together when their older.


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