Games

Defending world champion Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian, plays opponent American Fabiano Caruana in the final game of the World Chess Championship on November 28th, 2018, in London, England.

Grandmasters take their time getting to the ultimate endgame.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You can be the next Arthur Chu.

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

Not in collegiate hockey, at least.

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

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

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