The prospect of taking classic board game Battleship, a guessing game with no real story, and turning it into a big-budget summer film for Universal and Hasbro Studios — with clear hopes of it ...

Is there a more defeated competitive swan song than “you sunk my battleship”? The strategy board game, which even received silver screen treatment replete with an aquaflage-wearing Rihanna, has been ...

New gameplay modes add touches of strategy and help the warfare go faster in Battleship for iPhone. All that's missing is online multiplayer; for now you have to settle for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to ...

Based on a board game that became popular precisely for its prosaic, binary nature (hit/miss), one would expect a feature-length Battleship to be a decidedly one-note affair. But a funny thing ...

“Battleship”is not the first major motion picture to be based on a board game — who could forget 1985’s benighted “Clue”? — but it is surely the most expensive. With every superhero more celebrated ...

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Mainstream big-screen filmmaking is in a weird, risk-averse rut right now. As detailed in Mark Harris' 2011 GQ essay and elsewhere, studios are now building their major releases almost exclusively ...

WEST MOUNTAIN, Utah -- A father-daughter game of "Battleship" ended with the threat of real violence Saturday, reports CBS affiliate KUTV. Utah County Sheriff's officers say John Richard Valenzuela, ...

WEST MOUNTAIN, Utah -- A father-daughter game of "Battleship" ended with the threat of real violence Saturday, reports CBS affiliate KUTV. Utah County Sheriff's officers say John Richard Valenzuela, ...