Quorum

C. Thi Nguyen The Score How to stop playing someone else’s game 368pp. Allen Lane. £25. Games and metrics are cousins of a sort. They both give us targets to pursue, often in the form of numerical sco

CThi Nguyen is a gamer. Many people are gamers—artists, technologists, business leaders, even certain journalists—but many others still hold their noses at the term, as though there’s something overwh

Designer: Alessio Cavatore | Publisher: Mantic Games If, like me, your first ever miniature game involved rows and rows of tiny geckos, you may have been sad when Warhammer Fantasy Battles was discont

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.

OLD GAMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES