Games

Grandmasters take their time getting to the ultimate endgame.

• By Tom Jacobs

Compelling without being any fun, the mindless minimalism of clicker games provides a futuristic look at the present.

• By Glenn Dixon

Nineteen years after Deep Blue won a chess match against a grand master, a Google team has created an A.I. that's able to win against professional players of the ancient Chinese strategy game of Go.

• By Francie Diep

Research suggests highly skilled players who achieve a "flow state" are buffered against the games' negative psychological impact.

• By Tom Jacobs

Players of an online survival game expressed guilt for killing, but less so for non-lethal actions that would result in a character’s death.

• By Tom Jacobs

It's probably not Satan—just your unconscious muscle movement.

• By Katie Heaney

You can be the next Arthur Chu.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Answers to some of your questions about how the NSA and its British counterpart have been scouring smartphone apps.

• By Julia Angwin & Jeff Larson

Not in collegiate hockey, at least.

• By Ryan Jacobs

We often frame the white, male experience as the only normal one—even in video games.

• By Galen Ciscell

What if you could make a game of Tetris last forever? What would that mean for our minds?

• By Ryan O'Hanlon

From American socialism to German hyperinflation to worldwide vulture capitalism, the strange and shifting lessons of a favorite board game.

• By Jock O'Connell