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Games competitions

April 2024

  • A competitor solves a Rubik's cube during the Rubik's Cube European Championship in Prague, Czech Republic, July 15, 2016.

    Square dancing: why do we still love the Rubik’s Cube?

    It’s 50 years since Ernő Rubik unleashed his mesmerising magic cube on the world. But why, despite the growth in digital games, is the plastic puzzle as popular as ever, asks Kyle MacNeill

September 2023

  • The hands of war-gamers sitting around a table with maps on it

    What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war game in London to find out

    Here, military personnel, Nato staff and others are facing off in a simulation. The winners? Those who stop the world plunging into catastrophe. The losers? Us, if they get it wrong

November 2022

  • Cosy night in with a slippe

    Get cosy! A snug night in with a board game is my new going out

    I used to love sweaty gigs and late-night bars. But now playing Settlers of Catan with friends around a kitchen table is the only way I want to party

September 2022

  • Stuart Kenny playing chess

    Why I quit
    My online chess addiction was ruining my life. Something had to change

    Stuart Kenny
    I didn’t like the person it was making me, but a few strategic moves later, the calm and mystique of the game returned, says Stuart Kenny

March 2022

  • Lego Masters co-host Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught

    ‘Don’t get rid of your old Lego!’: Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught’s unlikely rise to fame

    McNaught is famous for his mastery of a toy. Now he’s got a following among ‘Adult Fans of Lego’ – and an exhibition made of more than 6m pieces

February 2022

  • Wordle

    Urdu, Chinese, even Old Norse: how Wordle spread across the globe

  • A GCHQ tweet reads 'SORRY' along the top row of the word-game Wordle

    Shush! Britain’s top spy decries Wordle braggers

December 2021

  • kids playing games

    What are you playing at? The strange world of family games

  • Members of Chinese esports organisation EDward Gaming celebrate after winning the League of Legends World Championship finals in Iceland last month.

    Why do female pro gamers earn millions less than men?

November 2021

  • ‘I don’t think it’s a children’s game, because I never played it when I was young’: the World Conker Championships has been won the past two years by Jasmine Tetley.

    When kids’ games get serious: the adults competing at tag, conkers and hide and seek

    Tag, conkers, Simon Says and hide and seek are not just for children, there are adults who take them very competitively, too. Amelia Tait meets the competitors for whom kids’ games have become a career. One, two, three…

August 2021

  • Pokémon Go players gather under night lights against a backdrop of skyscrapers at the game's Hong Kong launch in 2016.

    Pokémon no go? Players revolt as Niantic sends them back outside

    Consternation as players summoned back to gyms and PokeStops after pandemic-induced relaxation of rules

July 2021

  • Games Workshop. Opening day queue of first shop in Hammersmith in April 1978

    How Games Workshop grew to become more profitable than Google

    Tabletop gaming, based on a mix of science fiction and fantasy worlds, has seen sales surge during lockdown

April 2021

  • Participants compete during the 2021 National Scrabble Championships at Bankstown Sports Club on April 05, 2021 in Sydney, Australia.

    War of words: Australian Scrabble Championship 2021 – in pictures

    Around 100 wordsmiths and dictionary devotees aged from seven to 87 battle it out for triple word scores and the elusive S

February 2021

  • Basque Fronton court Madrid Beti Jai Fronton Madrid

    Will the ‘Sistine Chapel’ of pelota bounce back as a centre of Spanish culture?

    Campaigners call for historic sports venue in Madrid to become a world heritage site after its €38m restoration

February 2019

  • Fortnite World Cup announcement

    Fortnite World Cup to feature $130m prize pot and a New York final

    Epic Games will host the year’s biggest video gaming event when the battle royale phenomenon’s top players go head to head

August 2018

  • Three Fatalities Reported At Mass Shooting At Jacksonville Gaming Tournament<br>JACKSONVILLE, FL - AUGUST 27: A Jacksonville Sheriff officer helps keep the perimeter secure as law enforcement investigates a shooting at the GLHF Game Bar at the Jacksonville Landing on August 27, 2018 in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooting occurred at the GLHF Game Bar during a Madden 19 video game tournament and initial reports indicate 3 people were killed including the gunman and several others were wounded. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    Madden NFL 19 tournaments cancelled as shooting suspect's history emerges

    David Katz, 24, was admitted twice to mental health facilities and showed an obsession with video games, records show

May 2018

  • Stadium filled with fans watching competitive videogaming

    Extreme eSports: the very male, billion-dollar gaming industry at a stadium near you

    A crowd of 18,000 filled a Sydney arena at the weekend to watch groups of young men play video games for huge cash prizes

April 2017

  • eSports

    eSports to be a medal event at 2022 Asian Games

    Competitive gaming will be added to the official programme at the 2022 Asian Games, the Olympic Council of Asia announced on Monday

February 2017

  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.

    Plague game up for health trust prize

    Winter Hall in the running as Wellcome Trust announces six finalists for its Developing Beyond prize

January 2017

  • Chelsea, who makes her living by gaming at home on Twitch

    The women who make a living gaming on Twitch

    ‘There’s definitely like, a secret girls’ club,’ and women say they need it in the male-dominated gamer world
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