Those crafty buggers at Telltale Games are giving away the first episode of the Back To The Future game series away for free on PC for a limited time. To claim your code, click here, then you can come back and download the episode at the end of the year. The episodic game series, based on the hit film series, will be available on PC, Mac, iPad and PS3. The trilogy of films has also just been released for the the first time on Blu-ray – a nice stocking filler for the HD lover in your life.
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Time-travel Tuesday: A primer in flexible-history theory
6 CommentsMarch 30, 2010 – 10:53 am
Some people will drone on and on about time machines, and how we might build them, what they would look like and whether they would travel through time and space or merely through time. That is not what we will be discussing today. Today we’re talking about time-travel’s effect on history. It’s going to be fascinating, you’re all going to thank me, so let’s just get started.
Now, this is all very complicated and it’s possible to get waaaay too deep into this stuff, so we’re going to breeze lightly over the three main competing theories like a dandelion seed caught in an updraft. We’ll highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each theory, with examples from movies and TV all the way to help you out. By the end of this instructive series of tutorials you’ll be able to watch a film about time-travel and exclaim, “Hogwash and Poppycock! This film appears to subscribe to a flexible-history theory of time-travel and yet this paradox is one typically seen in a fixed-timeline scenario! I shall write to Ofcom, and they will understand and subscribe to my e-newsletter.” Read More
