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Turn-based combat is a deadly chess game of humans versus aliens in the video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

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A Libyan civilian watches cars burn in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. (Associated Press)

**FILE** H. Ross Perot, chairman emeritus of Perot Systems, gives a thumbs up Sept. 21, 2009, in Dallas during the annoucement that Dell had acquired Perot Systems for $3.9 billion. (Associated Press/Perot Systems)

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In the dizzying world championships of the online battle arena game “League of Legends,” Taiwan’s Taipei Assassins defeated South Korea’s Azubu Frost in California on Saturday to claim the tournament’s $1 million grand prize. (Riot Games via Associated Press)

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This image taken from a video monitor, provided by Red Bull Stratos, shows pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria before he jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on on Oct. 14, 2012. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever — a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. (Associated Press/Red Bull Stratos)

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Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son (left) and Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Dan Hesse shake hands during their joint press conference in Tokyo on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. Tokyo-based mobile carrier Softbank has reached a deal with Sprint to acquire 70 percent of the U.S. wireless company for $20.1 billion in the largest-ever foreign acquisition by a Japanese company. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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In this Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 photo, the Quadski, a one-person motor boat that also drives on land, is tested in in Oxford Mich. The vehicle is being billed as the first commercially available, high-speed amphibious vehicle by its makers, Michigan-based Gibbs Technologies. It's scheduled to go on sale in the U.S. by the end of this year for around $40,000. The company hopes to sell it worldwide by 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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A still frame from a YouTube video shows police officers beating a University of Maryland student after a basketball game on March 3, 2010.

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Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas (3) looks for an opening in his offensive line in the first half action against Cincinnati during their NCAA College football game, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Landover, Md. Cincinnati defeated Virginia Tech 27-24. (AP Photo/Richard A. Lipski)

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NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., wipes his brow Oct. 6, 2012, after qualifying at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala. The drivers were qualifying for the Sunday running of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race. (Associated Press)