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Video games, particularly first-person shooters, are widely known to have some fantastic multiplayer modes, including the recently released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Whether it be fighting players around the world solo or forming squads with friends, multiplayer games are a great way for gamers to unwind and have fun with their friends.

While multiplayer games are famous for their multiplayer modes, there are still quite a few that have single-player campaigns. Though many multiplayer gamers would gravitate towards the multiplayer modes, the single-player campaigns are still worth playing through.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare

The Call of Duty franchise is easily far more iconic for its multiplayer modes, but the single-player campaigns are also a lot of fun for gamers, including the campaign for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

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The campaign features an epic story that stars many characters both old...

As much as I wanted to, I found it a bit of a challenge to become even remotely invested in the original Titanfall. While I did thoroughly enjoy developer Respawn Entertainment’s take on the first-person shooter, their debut title proved difficult to care about, especially if you decided to give it a go well-past its initial release (as I did).

With a lack of a proper, standalone single-player mode, Titanfall chose to focus its efforts on online multiplayer. While plenty of other shooters boast healthy daily active users, Titanfall quickly fell by the wayside, and months after its release, I found it difficult to find anyone to play with, as the game’s paid Dlc only served to fragment an already dwindling player base.

To their credit, Respawn has gone to great lengths to fix these shortcomings, and Titanfall 2 is a much better game as a result. There is...

Battlefield 1 is, unsurprisingly, the talk of the town. Dice’s lavish period shooter isn’t set to launch officially until Friday, October 21, but thanks to early access programs and select pre-order perks, players are already duking it out in The Great War as we speak.

Another first-person shooter that’s due to enter the fray in the coming weeks is Titanfall 2, and we now have a new gameplay snippet touting the sequel’s all-new single-player campaign. Drawing attention to the dynamic between Jack Cooper and his Titan, BT-7274, it’s a blistering tease of what’s to come, as the Militia prepares to wage war against the Imc as they gear up to unleash a devastating, Death Star-esque weapon that can obliterate entire planets.

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The official plot synopsis reads as so:

Jack Cooper is a 3rd Class Rifleman with the Militia.

Ask any early adopter of Respawn’s Titanfall and they’ll likely tell you that, while the mech on mech shooter was immensely fun to play, one thing that was sorely missed was a fully-fledged single-player campaign, given that much if not all of the game’s world-building was relegated to a small corner of your Hud or relayed during loading screens.

That all changes with the release of Titanfall 2 in two weeks’ time. It’s a multi-platform title that will include a single-player campaign from the get-go, one which will have a fairly significant amount of variety beneath its steely exterior. That’s according to the latest sizzle reel to emerge for the imminent sequel, this time casting light on how that single player vision coalesced.

Centering on the dynamic between towering titan BT-7274 and rifleman 3rd class Jack Cooper, Titanfall 2 is hoping to marry man with machine in more ways than one,...

Check out the vision for the upcoming Titanfall 2 single player campaign.

Respawn Entertainment released the Titanfall 2 Single Player Vision Trailer, where players get their first look at how Jack Cooper and BT-7274 must combine their abilities to survive together, and sometimes apart. Bred from a team that has worked on great single player campaigns, including Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2, Respawn sets the bar for a high quality campaign in Titanfall 2.

The new trailer works as a dev diary as we head behind the scenes to look at what inspired the Titanfall 2 single player campaign. The developers all worked on other hit releases such as Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and the best aspects of those games seem to come together to make this experience great.

They do highlight multiple times that the campaign will consists of a bond between man and machine as you play missions as both a pilot and within a titan.

If you're eager for Titanfall 2 (especially after today's new trailer) and looking for ways to show off your love of the franchise, you'll be happy to get your first look at the upcoming line-up of Titan Funko Pop! figures. Come inside to take a gander.

Funko's line-up of cutesy collectible toys have been taking the world by storm. Their designs are both unique and instantly recognizable, and the amount of licenses at their disposal have made them a favorite for fans to collect. Not to mention the fact that they have great distribution and bring forth characters fans actually want (unlike some other toy developers out there), it's easy to see why they've become so popular.

Today, they've revealed a new series of Funko Pop! figures to coincide with the launch of EA/Respawn's Titanfall 2, and they look all kinds of amazing. Coming with oversized Titan figures and mini 2 inch buddy figures,...

Meet BT-7274. It’s perhaps not as catchy as R2-D2, but with Titanfall 2, Respawn is hoping to instil a buddy cop dynamic into the sequel’s single-player campaign.

By stepping into the dirtied boots of rifleman 3rd class Jack Cooper, you’ll take point as the human half of that all-important relationship, exploring the mysterious planet of Typhon in a bid to unravel the secrets behind the Imc (Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation). BT-7274, meanwhile, “is unlike any Titan seen before in the Titanfall universe,” according to Respawn’s latest blog post, revealing that this “is the first Titan built by the Militia; a resistance group fighting the oppressive Imc to provide freedom and safety to the Frontier.”

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All of this comes hand-in-hand with the blistering cinematic trailer for Titanfall 2, one designed to draw attention to the shooter’s single-player campaign.

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On the front lines and in the face of adversity and war, they say that the bond between soldiers is unparalleled – but what of the bond between Titan and pilot?

In expanding its sci-fi shooter beyond the confines of online multiplayer, developer Respawn Entertainment is primed to launch Titanfall 2 with a fully-fledged single-player campaign come October, and today brings forth new information as to what the all-new game mode entails.

First and foremost, you’ll step into the boots of Jack Cooper, a grunt-level rifleman fighting the good fight under the Frontier Militia. Although Cooper has his eye on becoming a pilot himself, but he’ll have to impress one Captain Lastimosa.

In outlining the creative process behind Titanfall 2‘s single-player component, producer Drew McCoy told GameSpot that:

“When we started Titanfall 2, it wasn’t a forgone conclusion to include single-player.

Nick Grimshaw's 'X Factor' appointment has been hit with a massive backlash on Twitter. It was announced that the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host and 'How We Do' singer Rita Ora would be joining Simon Cowell and Cheryl Fernandez Versini on the judging panel for the next series of the ITV singing competition yesterday (16.06.15) but fans of the series have since expressed their disappointment at the announcement. One fan, Jack Cooper, tweeted: ''Nick Grimshaw judging musical talent is like having someone from a takeaway who assembles kebabs judging food on Masterchef #XFactor (sic).'' A Twitter user named Gagasfroots...

Nick Grimshaw's 'X Factor' appointment has been hit with a massive backlash on Twitter. It was announced that the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host and 'How We Do' singer Rita Ora would be joining Simon Cowell and Cheryl Fernandez Versini on the judging panel for the next series of the ITV singing competition yesterday (16.06.15) but fans of the series have since expressed their disappointment at the announcement. One fan, Jack Cooper, tweeted: ''Nick Grimshaw judging musical talent is like having someone from a takeaway who assembles kebabs judging food on Masterchef #XFactor (sic).'' A Twitter user named Gagasfroots...

Stars: Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tsutomu Sekine, Mayako Katsuragi, Shinoburyu, Lisa Gaye, Jessica Dublin, Jack Cooper | Written by Gay Partington Terry, Lloyd Kaufman | Directed by Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

Troma films have never been described as masterpieces and I don’t think that they would ever dream of making one. Most of their films have been created with a punk like attitude, fighting against what is seen as normal in the film making industry, and this is a reason fans love them. While their formula often works well, sometimes it fails and sadly The Toxic Avenger 2 is one of the examples of their failures. Looking past the film itself though the new 88 Films Blu-ray release looks to provide plenty of features and an uncut version of the film, but does that manage to get past the weaknesses of the film and make it a good purchase?...

Joe Swanberg has posted his Top Ten list over at Esquire, and in the top slot is Frank V. Ross’s deceptively low-key relationship drama Tiger Tale in Blue — nominated by Filmmaker as one our Best Films Not Playing at a Theater Near You in 2012. In an interview with Ross, Filmmaker‘s Nick Dawson called the film a “beautifully calibrated piece of observational cinema that is emotionally compelling without ever imposing itself upon the viewer.” And here’s Swanberg at Esquire: This is by a director named Frank B. Ross. It was nominated for a Gotham Award last year for Best […]...

Joe Swanberg has posted his Top Ten list over at Esquire, and in the top slot is Frank V. Ross’s deceptively low-key relationship drama Tiger Tale in Blue — nominated by Filmmaker as one our Best Films Not Playing at a Theater Near You in 2012. In an interview with Ross, Filmmaker‘s Nick Dawson called the film a “beautifully calibrated piece of observational cinema that is emotionally compelling without ever imposing itself upon the viewer.” And here’s Swanberg at Esquire: This is by a director named Frank B. Ross. It was nominated for a Gotham Award last year for Best […]...

Members of the Sloan Jury at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, chosen by the Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, also participated in the Science in Film Forum Panel at the Festival. The members of the 2013 Sloan Jury were: Paula Apsell (Senior Executive Producer, Nova and Nova ScienceNow, Director, Wgbh Science Unit), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Fountain, Pi), Scott Burns (writer, Contagion, Pu-239, The Informant and producer, An Inconvenient Truth), Dr. André Fenton (Professor of Neural Science at the Center for Neural Science at New York University), Dr. Lisa Randall (Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University, author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World).

2013 marks the 10th Anniversary of the Alfred P. Sloan Science in Film initiative, a collaboration between Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support the development and presentation of film projects that explore science and technology ideas, or depict scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in engaging new ways. Activities include the Science in Film Forum, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Sloan Commissioning Grant, and the Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, “Scientists, engineers, mathematicians are – like filmmakers - some of the most imaginative and adventurous thinkers of our time, and the Alfred P. Sloan Science in Film initiative has fostered awareness of and engagement with these fascinating themes in independent film for the last 10 years.”

"We are thrilled to celebrate our tenth anniversary with Sundance, which has been such a great partner in our nationwide effort to encourage filmmakers to engage with science and technology themes and characters,” said Doron Weber, Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “Anyone who looks at the incredible list of winning films, from Shane Carruth's Primer and Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man to Jake Scheirer’sRobot and Frank and Musa Syeed's Valley of Saints—or at the amazing screenplays that have been developed through the Sloan Fellowship at Sundance Institute Labs and the Sloan Commissioning Grant—will see that science and technology can reveal the human condition in ways previously unseen and undreamt of."

For more information about the Science in Film initiative, along with updated content, a complete list of supported filmmakers, trailers for completed films, and an interview with Jake Schreier (director, Robot and Frank, 2012 Sloan Prize Winner), visit www.sundance.org/science-in-film.

Feature Film Prize Jury

The Sloan Jury determines the recipient of the Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival which is presented to an outstanding Festival feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character. The Prize includes a $20,000 cash award by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Previous Alfred P. Sloan Prize Winners include: Jake Schreier and Christopher Ford, Robot & Frank, and Musa Syeed, Valley of Saints (2012); Mike Cahill and Brit Marling, Another Earth (2011); Diane Bell, Obselidia(2010); Max Mayer, Adam (2009); Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer (2008); Shi-Zheng Chen, Dark Matter (2007); Andrucha Waddington, The House of Sand (2006); Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man (2005), Shane Carruth, Primer(2004) and Marc Decena, Dopamine (2003). Several past winners have also been awarded Jury Awards at the Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize for Primer, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Sleep Dealer and the Excellence in Cinematography Award for Obselidia.

Science in Film Forum Panel

The Science in Film Forum Panel takes place at Sundance Film Festival on January 22 at 2:30 p.m. Mt at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City. Sloan Jurors Aronofsky, Burns, Dr. Fenton and Dr. Randall will engage in conversation with moderator Paula Apsell.

Juror and Panelist Bios

Paula Apsell

As Director of the Wgbh Science Unit and Senior Executive Producer of the PBS science series Nova, Paula Apsell has overseen the production of hundreds of acclaimed science documentaries, including such distinguished miniseries as The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene, Origins with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Making Stuff with David Pogue and the magazine spin-off Nova scienceNOW. Nova is the nation’s most watched science series, a top site on pbs.org, and recipient of every major broadcasting honor, including the Emmy®, the Peabody®, and the duPont-Columbia Gold Baton. Paula has won numerous individual awards and has served on many boards including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She was recently journalist in residence at Uc Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Darren Aronofsky

Academy Award® Nominated Director Darren Aronofsky was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent film, Black Swan, won Natalie Portman the Academy Award® for Best Actress and received four other nominations, including Best Picture. The film received scores of other accolades, appeared on over 200 critical Top Ten lists, and swept the 2011 Independent Spirit Award with wins for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Cinematography. Prior to Black Swan, Darren directed The Wrestler. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it won the esteemed Golden Lion making it only the third American film in history to win this grand prize. He also directed The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, and Requiem for a Dream, which was named to over 150 Top Ten lists. Darren’s first feature, π, won the Director’s Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. He is currently at work on Noah, based on the biblical story of Noah’s ark. Among his honors, the American Film Institute gave Darren the prestigious Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal, the Stockholm Film Festival presented him the Golden Horse Visionary Award, and he has won three Independent Spirit Awards.

Scott Z. Burns

Scott Burns is screenwriter, director and producer. He wrote the original screenplay for Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Matt Damon, penned the screen adaptation of Soderbergh's The Informant! and co-wrote the Academy Award® winning Bourne Ultimatum, directed by Paul Greengrass. He was a producer on An Inconvenient Truth, the Academy Award® winning documentary, for which he received the Humanitas Prize and the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America. Scott recently completed production on Side Effects, a psychological thriller, slated for release in early 2013. It stars Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta Jones and Channing Tatum and is again directed by Steven Soderbergh with Scott writing and producing along with Greg Jacobs and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura. Currently, Scott is writing The Library, a stage play based on the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School with Steven Soderbergh directing and Kennedy/Marshall producing. The play is under development at the Public Theater in New York City. Scott began his career in advertising and was part of the creative team responsible for the original "Got Milk?" campaign. His advertising work has been recognized by the Clio Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival.

Dr. André Fenton

Dr. André Fenton, is a neuroscientist, biomedical engineer and entrepreneur working on three related problems: how brains store information in memory; how brains coordinate knowledge to selectively activate relevant information and suppress irrelevant information; and how to record electrical activity from brain cells in freely-moving subjects. André and colleagues identified PKMzeta as the first memory storage molecule, a discovery identified by Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal, as one of the ten most important breakthroughs in all the science reported in 2006. Recordings of electrical brain activity in André’s lab are elucidating the physiology of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. It was recently discovered that preemptive cognitive training during adolescence changes the brain sufficiently to prevent the adult brain dysfunction and cognitive impairments that arises from brain damage during early life in a schizophrenia-related animal model. André is a Professor of Neural Science at New York University’s Center for Neural Science. He founded Bio-Signal Group Corp., which is developing an inexpensive, miniature wireless Eeg system for functional brain monitoring of patients in emergency medicine applications and other clinical scenarios.

Dr. Lisa Randall

Dr. Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University where she is Frank J. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science. Her research connects theoretical insights addressing puzzles in our current understanding of the properties of matter, the universe, and space. Dr. Randall is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. Professor Randall was included in Time Magazine's “100 Most Influential People” of 2007, was among Esquire Magazine's “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century," and was one of 40 people featured in “The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary issue" in 2008. Dr. Randall's two books, Warped Passages (2005) and Knocking on Heaven’s Door (2011) were featured on the lists of New York Times 100 Most Influential Books. Her ebook, Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space, was published last summer.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Founded in 1934, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a non-profit philanthropy that makes grants in science, technology and economic performance. This Sloan-Sundance partnership forms part of a broader national program by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to stimulate leading artists in film, television, and theater; to create more realistic and compelling stories about science and technology; and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in the popular imagination. Over the past decade, the Foundation has partnered with some of the top film schools in the country – including AFI, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Nyu, UCLA, and USC – and established annual awards in screenwriting and film production and an annual first-feature award for alumni. The Foundation has also started an annual Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival and initiated new screenwriting and film production workshops at the Hamptons and Tribeca Film Festival and with Film Independent. As more finished films emerge from this developmental pipeline—four features were completed this year, with half a dozen more on deck—the foundation has also partnered with the Coolidge Corner Theater and the Arthouse Convergence to screen science films in up to 40 theaters nationwide. The Foundation also has an active theater program and commissions over a dozen science plays each year from the Ensemble Studio Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club and Playwright Horizons.

The Sundance Film Festival®

A program of the non-profit Sundance Institute®, the Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies, and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, The Cove, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Precious, Trouble the Water, and Napoleon Dynamite, and through its New Frontier initiative, has showcased the cinematic works of media artists including Isaac Julien, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Matthew Barney. The 2013 Sundance Film Festival® sponsors include: Presenting Sponsors – Hp, Acura, Sundance Channel and Chase Sapphire PreferredSM; Leadership Sponsors – Directv, Entertainment Weekly, Focus Forward, a partnership between Ge and Cinelan, Southwest Airlines, Sprint and YouTube; Sustaining Sponsors – Adobe, Canada Goose, Canon U.S.A., Inc., CÎRoc Ultra Premium Vodka, FilterForGood®, a partnership between Brita® and Nalgene®, Hilton HHonors and Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, Intel Corporation, L'Oréal Paris, Recycled Paper Greetings, Stella Artois® and Time Warner Inc. Sundance Institute recognizes critical support from the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development, and the State of Utah as Festival Host State. The support of these organizations will defray costs associated with the 10-day Festival and the nonprofit Sundance Institute's year-round programs for independent film and theatre artists. www.sundance.org/festival.

Sundance Institute

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a global, nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to nurturing artistic expression in film and theater, and to supporting intercultural dialogue between artists and audiences. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to unite, inform and inspire, regardless of geo-political, social, religious or cultural differences. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival and its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Human-simian relations go terribly awry in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" with James Franco this week. Unfortunately, it is not the first time that humans and monkeys have come to blows in film, but Homo sapiens have had a few ape friends over the years. In fact, sometimes chimps can even be heroes. Here are the five movie monkeys that we would most like to hang out with if given the chance.

5. Ed, "Ed" (1996)

Jack Cooper's (Matt LeBlanc) baseball-playing sidekick copped some attitude and gave a horrible Razzie-winning performance in "Ed." If you haven't seen it, just spend a couple of minutes watching the trailer, and you'll think you're looking at something concocted by the Onion or "Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!" The film is very real, though, and it's a true testament to the fact that even the worst movie ever written can still...

"I believe in the church of the baseball," Susan Sarandon's Annie Savoy said in "Bull Durham." I do too. Especially right now in early April, when the weather is perfect, and every team has a chance, at least hypothetically, to go all the way. In a few months, half the teams playing and half the fantasy baseball managers watching will already be thinking about next year. But this is the time of year when every baseball fan gets excited, has hope, and believes.

I also like to believe in the church of baseball movies, but they make it awfully difficult sometimes. There are some classics, but just as there are more bad pitchers in the league than good ones, there's more bad baseball movies than good, and more than a few that deserve to be sent back down to the minors because they weren't cut out for the big show.