This is part of my ongoing research on traditional British pub games. The complete, expanded article will appear in the March 2012 issue of ...

In 1967, an ancient pub game was brought back into the light, complete with the discovery of an old text—the Wavenly Rules of 1585 —to bolst...

By now, you're probably aware that the Big Apple Announcement was not an iPhone 5, but an iPhone 4S . That "S" stands for, ...

We found this one in the American Boy's Book of Sports and Games (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864) , and thought it sounded like the kind of...

Tile-shifting can be moderately annoying when playing Catan, so a San Francisco craftsman is creating wooden tile sets and frames for the ba...

 "Les Osselets" (The Game of Knucklebones) by Jean-Baptise-Someon Chardin, 1734 A little bit of art for your weekend. This pai...

" Masskrugstremmen " means " beer-stein holding ," and it comes from the wonderful land of Bavaria, home of Werner Herzo...

"What's all this then?" From the curiously titled Children's Games With Things , by Iona and Peter Opie

Time will tell, but Amazon and Android converging for a new touch device called the Kindle Fire could alter the gaming landscape yet again. ...

New column at Maximum PC . Excerpt: Online communities need an outrageous outrage every once in a while to give the forum jockeys some oppo...

As anticipation for Skyrim, the latest game in the Elder Scrolls series, reaches a fever pitch, one loyal fans has created the ultimate ES: ...

This is a draft of a story I'm working on for Games. There are things artificial intelligence just can’t do, and protein folding is on...

As I've mentioned, I'm now contributing to a new game review/news department for Catholic News Service (CNS), a wire service with se...

Why, yes, you can overmerchandise something .

To my house does The Road the Canterbury wend. As a lover of all things Chaucer and Middle English, I've been following Alf Seegert'...

Yep, it's for real. I remember reading about it when it was published in Germany a few years back. Now it's set for an English-lang...

Grade: A Price: $1 I imagine there are quite a few people who won't be able to muscle past the premise of Gesundheit! in order to e...

I've been plowing a lot of hours over the past two weeks into pure gameplay and writing. I'm trying to finish all of Deus Ex (sidequ...

I didn't intend to take such a long break, but wrapping up the December issue of Games took longer than expected. After that, I had to m...

Wheatley, by TRP-Chan The Games Magazine Games 100 is the biggest project I do all year: a 15-page supplement on the 100 best games fr...