The Academy of Interactive Entertainment ( AIE ) offers courses in computer game development and 3D animation.

A casino has a statistical arbitrage in every game of chance that it offers — referred to as the house advantage, house edge, vigorish or house vigorish.

In strict play, the dealer then offers the deck to the previous player ( in the sense of the game direction ) for cutting.

For a time, no credible offers surfaced from Denver interests, and it looked like the franchise would be moved to Tampa, Florida before even playing a game.

The Les Cévennes area offers mushrooms, chestnuts, berries, honey, lamb, game, sausages, pâtés and goat cheeses.

Rather than being a rigidly pre-defined set of rules like d20 System or GURPS, Fudge offers a customizable toolkit for building the users ' own specialized role-playing game system.

Some eye protection products are rated to withstand impact from birdshot loads, which offers protection against irresponsible firearms use by other game bird shooters.

Another game, Heavy Gear 2 offers a complex yet semi-realistic control system for its mecha in both terrain and outer space warfare.

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" Joshua then offers to play " a nice game of chess ", and relinquishes control of NORAD and the missiles.

is a television game show which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty.

The game offers five casino games, three party games, a full gift shop, three restaurants, three bars and a few surprises.

Dr. Mario 64, released in 2001 for the Nintendo 64, features Wario and several Wario Land 3 characters, and offers numerous game modes, including a story-focused single player mode.

The game also offers Friends Lists and Channels for chatting, where players can create custom channels or join Blizzard-approved ones.

Slash ' EM ( Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack-Extended Magic ) is a variant of the roguelike game NetHack that offers extra features, monsters, and items.

Cook Strait offers good game fishing.

A more likely ancestor is the gameboard found in Jiroft ( Iran ) that offers three rows of 12 points each, exactly as the later Roman game of " duodecim scripta ".

Several expansions have been released and the release of Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn in 2007 brought a new game engine which offers a newer visual experience.

* Contestants may not skip any tribal councils, nor can they refuse to participate in any immunity or reward challenge, unless the game offers them the opportunity to do so.

Game Informer commented that even a decade later the game still offers hours of entertainment.

The larger boards have more strategic combinations available than the smaller boards, and the four player game offers more tactical intrigue than the two player game.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy contains a scene during which the shipboard computer offers a game of halma.

The game offers diverse difficulty settings that affect the number and speed of humans present, and the conditions needed to accomplish the objective.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

I'll never forget one time I struck out three times, dropped a fly ball, and we lost the game.

In addition, the asteroids rotated, a new enemy dubbed a killer satellite was added to the game, which would, when shot, break apart into three smaller ships that homed on the player's position.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Acquire is a game for three to six players, though earlier editions included special rules for two players.

World War I saw the game in New Zealand go into recess for three quarters of a century.

In the Nintendo / GameFreak video game franchise " Pokémon ", there are three creatures in the same evolutionary chain named Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam ( the third of which is also an alleged magic word used by stage magicians ).

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

* QS — Quality start: a game in which a starting pitcher completes at least six innings and permits no more than three earned runs

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

* SVO — Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1 ) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2 ) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3 ) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer

Earned runs stem from the theory that the pitcher has sole responsibility to earn strikes against opposing batter ( s ) until at least three batters are retired in each inning of play, and nine innings ( a complete game ) are pitched.

The Division Series consists of two concurrent best-of-five series, featuring the three division winners and the winner of the wild-card game.

He or she can choose the player model ( giving access to nearly every character in the game as well as some film characters not seen in the campaign ) and lightsaber color.

The following day at E3, LucasArts gave a demonstration of the game, showing the lightsaber and Force combat as well as the " buddy " system: in which certain NPCs would fight with the player.

However, it did criticize the puzzles, the lightsaber interface and complained that " the game starts too slowly ".

The user control of the game was praised, especially control of the lightsaber.

The sound effects were also lauded, and seen as providing a good atmosphere to the game, in particular the lightsaber sound and its implementation.

The player initially chooses the character's species and gender, and begins the game with a single lightsaber.

Meanwhile, with all of his Slayers dead, Shimrra fights Luke and traps him with his royal amphistaff, the Scepter of Power, before taking out the late Anakin Solo's lightsaber as a mind game to Luke ; Shimrra wants Luke to know what it feels like to fight something that is part of his order, just as the Yuuzhan Vong have to fight Zonama Sekot, something that Shimrra believes should have been part of the Vong's order due to its living nature.

Several other games appeared, such as Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle ( 1983 ), where the player controlled the Millennium Falcon in a mission to destroy the second Death Star, and Jedi Arena ( 1983 ), the first game to attempt to simulate a lightsaber battle ( in this case, clearly inspired by the A New Hope scene, where Luke Skywalker trains with a seeker ).

The game environment is interactive, allowing, and in some cases requiring, the player to take such actions as moving and destroying objects with the lightsaber or force powers.

The game also features a multiplayer duel mode, in which two players face off against each other in a lightsaber battle.

The game was aided in development by Nick Gillard, the stunt coordinator and lightsaber fight trainer for The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith.

( Unlocked by beating the game as Qui-Gon Jinn or simply beating the game on the Game Boy Advance version )-only uses one blade in the PlayStation version, uses a double-bladed lightsaber in the Dreamcast and Game Boy Advance versions.