Gambonanza is a Roguelike that feels very much like chess combined with Balatro, and wow does it work. Here's our full review ...

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed into the center. But their opponents were not across the table, or even ...

When Bianca Mitchell-Avila was 16 years old, she first had the idea for the documentary that became “Madwomen’s Game.” The premise was simple: it would highlight and empower the real-life women ...

Ten minutes past one in the afternoon—and Magnus Carlsen’s world was crashing down around him. This can’t be happening. Magnus ran a hand through his disheveled mane of auburn hair, a chaotic halo ...

The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire that refined it into a recognizable strategic system. It was Persia that ...

A new VR game based on the heist action of Payday, Payday: Aces High, is coming later this year to Steam and the Meta Store. The officially-licensed game brings four-player co-op to VR where you can ...

This article is part of AI Week. Almost nine out of ten workers in the games industry (88.4%), predominantly developers, believe that generative AI use should be declared on digital storefronts like ...

The young chess player reached instinctively toward his threatened king, scanning the board for safe haven — until his instructor stepped in with a question. “If you move your king out of check, what ...

As board games go, it's hard to get more influential than chess. It's not the oldest game out there, Go is more than a millennium older, but Chess still predates Monopoly by roughly five centuries.

New York Attorney General Letitia James sued video game developer and publisher Valve Corporation for using game loot boxes to facilitate illegal gambling activities among children and teenagers.

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...

The Charlotte Chess Center announced the news of the prolific player's death with a social media post on Oct. 20 Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers influencers ...