OLD GAMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES

Crytek’s hack ‘n’ slash was a dud on launch, but now?

Once known for its lacemaking factories, Nottingham has reinvented itself as a centre of role-playing games. Games Workshop – maker of Warhammer 40,000 – is a multibillion-pound behemoth, and it sustains a whole ecosystem.

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

In the 1960s, American project developer and writer Stewart Brand played a part in the LSD-based counterculture of San Francisco. Along with author Ken Kesey and composer Ramón Sender Barayón, he co-p

Samurai rose to be global emblems of honour and courage, but their story doesn’t always match the myths they told about themselves, as a British Museum exhibition shows