Most of us know that computers can beat humans at chess. Did you also know that they can now beat us at Go. Perhaps the bigger question is why humans chose tabletop games as the benchmark of intellige

In 1494, the high castle walls that had dominated the Middle Ages came tumbling down in clouds of gunpowder smoke. It was the start of a new age

It’s sometimes easy to forget that Games Workshop – the metaphorical elephant in the miniatures and wargaming room – isn’t the only game in town. Mantic Games has racked up almost two decades of minia

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OLD GAMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES

The sky above Edinburgh is the colour of television tuned to a dead channel. To be fair, that’s quite common for October in Scotland. The opening line of Neuromancer by William Gibson rang in my head