Legacy... serge laget

This month we’re heading back to the Levant region of West Asia – specifically, Lebanon. This is an ancient region, with cities dating back to 8800 BC and evidence of habitation for over 14,000 years.

As he prepares to wrap up his career, Peter Molyneux looks back at 40 years’ worth of game creation

You’ll have heard people say, “Never judge a book by its cover.” Well, a similar sentiment – if you’ll bear with this tenuous link for a moment – could be applied to tabletop games: “Never judge a gam

Mythic Bastionland is the latest RPG from epic designer Chris McDowall. Chris represents a sort of chimeric force within the world of roleplaying design; he takes decades-established concepts and proc

You find yourself in a room. It is a bedroom, in fact, in Cheshire in the year 1966. Sitting in front of you are two teenaged boys. It is the year of England’s World Cup victory, and the two friends a

THE FIRST TOTAL WAR GAME WAS THE BREAKOUT HIT THAT CREATIVE ASSEMBLY NEEDED TO FREE ITSELF FROM ITS WORK-FOR-HIRE SITUATIONSHIP WITH ELECTRONIC ARTS. SINCE THEN THE SERIES HAS GONE FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, COVERING EVERYTHING FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS TO SKAVEN AND UNDEAD LORDS