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Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games | Games | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/stasi-coldwargames-its-all-a-game-alliiertenmuseum-berlin

"A PlayStation game is now the best-selling game on Xbox."
This is like the end of Hundred Years' War ... enemy banners flying, no one admits defeat, but the battlefield’s empty.
https://www.theverge.com/news/770311/plays

Credit where it's due:
To #BBC4 for showing "The War Game", made but suppressed in 1965, on impact of a #nuclear war on SE England. Very powerful.
Apt for #HiroshimaDay in this time of …

"And quite an adventure the life of Margittai Neumann Janos Lajos was. A child prodigy, he published his first paper in mathematics before age 20. He was the indisputable champion of applied mathematics in the 20th century. His work yielded groundbreaking advances in theoretical mathematics, quantum mechanics, game theory, economics, fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, electrodynamics, meteorology, and computing."

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

Choose Your Battles: Distributed Learning Over Multiple Tug of War Games
Siddharth Chandak, Ilai Bistritz, Nicholas Bambos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20147 https://

Choose Your Battles: Distributed Learning Over Multiple Tug of War Games
Consider N players and K games taking place simultaneously. Each of these games is modeled as a Tug-of-War (ToW) game where increasing the action of one player decreases the reward for all other players. Each player participates in only one game at any given time. At each time step, a player decides the game in which they wish to participate in and the action they take in that game. Their reward depends on the actions of all players that are in the same game. This system of K games is termed `M…

Consistency of tug-of-war type operators on random data clouds
Jeongmin Han, Huajie Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18383…

Consistency of tug-of-war type operators on random data clouds
In this paper, we study a tug-of-war type operator on geometric graphs and its associated Dirichlet problem on a random data cloud. Specifically, we analyze the convergence of the value functions as the number of data points increases and the step size of the game shrinks. This analysis reveals the connection between our tug-of-war type operator and the corresponding model problem. A key ingredient in establishing this result is the consistency of the operator.

Advance Wars 1 2 Reboot Camp: blasting through
AW1 2RC is a compilation of the first two Advance Wars games (not the first games in the series, mind - Famicom Wars and Game Boy Wars hold that honour) with new graphics, the war room separated out into a combined section, and a few niceties added to make the game run a bit smoother. It also has a 'casual' mode which I seem to have been enrolled on, even though I answered "no" when asked if this was my first time playing…

'The game is about to change' — Republican Senator Graham says he expects influx of US weapons shipments to Ukraine, ahead of Trump's 'major' announcement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/the-game-is-about-to.html

'Call of Duty' maker goes to war with 'parasitic' cheat developers in L.A. federal court
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-25/call-of-duty-activision-blizzard-hacking-lawsuit
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'Call of Duty' maker goes to war with cheat developers in L.A. court
"Call of Duty" publisher Activision-Blizzard is suing hacking developers worldwide over cheats designed for the popular first-person-shooter video game.

I found this a rather interesting piece:
"Ukraine’s Most Lethal Soldiers"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/09/ukraine-war-drones-kherson/684190/

Inside Ukraine's Deadly Game of Drone Warfare
From the front lines in Kherson, with a unit that kills Russians for points

Sabre rattling but fresh from watching a reshowing of The War Game, I am very uneasy about this.
These fools could easily do the stupid thing and accelerate Armageddon from decades to hours.
Trump orders nuclear submarines to be moved near Russia over 'foolish and inflammatory statements' | ITV News

The world is against the Kremlin! A big turn for Ukraine. The rules of the game are changing: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/the-world-is-against-the.html

No. 1 pick Cam Ward, Titans offense sputter over three series against Falcons https://www.nfl.com/news/no-1-pick-cam-ward-titans-offense-sputter-over-three-series-against-falcons