A mysterious flat stone with a geometric pattern of straight lines carved into it may be a previously unknown Roman board game. Thousands of simulations by artificial intelligence of how sliding stone ...

Do you feel like luck is running out as soon as a game of rock-paper-scissors (shifuji) begins? Rest assured: your intelligence isn't the issue, and your mind-body deserves your full support. Science ...

In the game of war, there are no winners, no losers, only casualties. Both unsettling and tender is Franz Böhm’s BAFTA-winning short film Rock, Paper, Scissors, which follows the true story of Ivan ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible. By Carl Zimmer If you live in the ...

Welcome to the third ever RPS 100: Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual tradition of trying to fit all of our ...

In the grand spirit of Christmas, I want everyone to know that for this year's RPS Advent Calendar, I nominated a bunch of games about Japanese assassins and at least one point and click thriller ...

Rock-paper-scissors is usually a game of psychology, reverse psychology, reverse-reverse psychology, and chance. But what if a computer could understand you well enough to win every time? A team at ...

The Crew Motorfest and Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road landed on Xbox Game Pass, on Nov. 20, 2025. Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road became available for members of Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass ...

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Veteran games journalist Julian Benson has been appointed Editorial Director of PC gaming site Rock Paper Shotgun, owned by GamesIndustry.biz parent IGN Entertainment. A 13-year stalwart of UK games ...