Some medieval games immerse players in lived-in worlds filled with mud, blood, and politics. Features like AI companions, cryptic lore, and realistic combat set these medieval open-world games apart.

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

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Medieval III ushers in the long-awaited return to the franchise’s historical roots, both a tribute to its legendary predecessors and a bold revolution for the series.

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. The dream of the common person’s utopia was more than a little bit different during ...

Publisher Sega and developer Creative Assembly have announced Total War: MEDIEVAL III. It is currently in early development.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Season 2 has been MIA for all of 2017, and the show will ...

Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever the popular imagination wants. When people ...

The upcoming season of "Game of Thrones" will take viewers to a magical world harboring dragons, sorceresses and supernatural ice creatures. But the contested kingdom of Westeros is not entirely a ...

Master of the Chronique scandaleuse, “Denise Poncher before a Vision of Death” (Paris, France, about 1500), tempera colors, ink and gold on parchment; Leaf: (5 1/4 × 3 7/16 inches) (courtesy the J.

The Middle Ages is one of the key “wish fulfillment” times for creators for various reasons. Mainly because there is a thrill in being a Knight, and fighting in wars of that era, or taking that period ...

Fighters from Poland (in red) and France (in blue) fight against each other in a "5 vs 5" competition during the Medieval Combat World Championship in Belmonte, Spain, May 1, 2014. Medieval combat is ...