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• n  one who practices magic or sorcery

• The sorcerer appealed on the ground that he had not even seen his lion for three months before the murder.
• The man would eventually become Jonathan Strange, but her sorcerer's apprenticeship was a long one: it took Clarke more than 10 years to finish the book.
• In January, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a 24-year-old woman hacked her three-year-old son to death after a tantric sorcerer supposedly promised unlimited earthly riches.

• magician
• wizard
• necromancer
• thaumaturge
• thaumaturgist

News & Articles

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• 'The Dark Sorcerer' Demo Shows the Power of PlayStation 4
  Quantic Dream, the company behind the video game "Heavy Rain," has made available the entire PlayStation 4 tech demo shown at the E3 conference Somewhat unusual for demos of this type, the 12-minute long "Dark Sorcerer" not only has a story with a lot of dialogue — it's actually funny In a blog post , Quantic Dream's David Cage explains how challenging it was to create a tech demo that also ...
  June 12, 2013 - Mashable
• Behold all 12 minutes of Quantic Dream's The Dark Sorcerer E3 tech demo
  Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream has released a full-length version of its satirical PlayStation 4 tech demo The Dark Sorcerer, first shown at Sony's E3 press event last night. The Dark Sorcerer recasts the old man character featured in a previous Quantic Dream tech demo as a struggling actor with a goblinish/trollish co-star. Hijinks ensue. Shenanigans, even. Behold all 12 minutes of Quantic ...
  June 12, 2013 - Joystiq
• The Dark Sorcerer: A Comedy Experiment
  Comedy is hard to get right, and that's exactly why Quantic Dream made a PS4 demo around it. The Dark Sorcerer isn't a PlayStation 4 game, but more of a tech/thought experiment by Beyond: Two Souls/Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream. Of course, David Cage and the developer have done this sort of thing before with the  Kara demo , but this is of a decidedly different strain. The demo was shown at ...
  June 11, 2013 - Game Informer

Quotes

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• Jon Turteltaub in USA Today
  This ended up in our movie,Turteltaub says, pointing to a drawing of the sorcerer conjuring a mist of colors in the shape of a butterfly. "There's an evil sorcerer in the movie named Sun Lok who forms out of butterflies in these colors."
• Jay Baruchel in Fashion Wire Daily (subscription)
  With the success of the initial Sorcerer II Expedition in which we have so far discovered approximately 20 million new genes and thousands of new protein families, we are excited to now sample in new environments on this journey to the Baltic ,... Craig Venter http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFv7NIOYdIBqau1UfQNuqg2umemfg SYS-CON Media (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://ca.sys-con.com/node/883693&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEEE7MhmwPtY4cRCqN1qN6tosRE_g Mar 18, 2009 92444 122746 sorcerer It sounds cheesy, but I felt like the ghost of my grandparents were kind of watching me when we were shooting the sorcerer sequence, the famous 'Fantasia' sequence," Baruchel recalled at an earlier press conference. "When you're paying...