Games / a history of violence

Anno 117: Pax Romana Ubisoft Mainz/ £49.99 At its height in AD 117, the Roman empire stretched from the sun-baked sands of Egypt to the wind-lashed shores of Britannia. It was the scope and scale of t

How crime organizes the world

Tales of the Old West is a Wild West RPG, built on the same Year Zero engine that’s used to run Free League games like Alien and Tales from the Loop. Aiming to pull off some kind of game design trick-

Our pick of the latest military history books

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

W hen it staggered half-formed from its grave ...