In one corner is thirty-seven-year-old Matt Gifford, five foot ten inches, weighing in at 185 pounds. Over his armor, he wears a red brigandine, a cloth garment studded with metal. On the other side ...

SAN RAMON — Bowling wasn’t doing it for Ian MacLeish. Television? Borrrrring. Uninspired by traditional social activities that have entertained high schoolers for decades, MacLeish, then a senior at ...

An interview with the creator of the just-released indie title 'Chivalry: Medieval Warfare.' Chivalry: Medieval Warfare launched this week on Steam. It's the second medieval melee combat game to grace ...

CHESAPEAKE — In the Middle Ages, knights sparring in combat as a public spectacle might have been a typical entertainment option. Hundreds of years later, some locals are dedicated to keeping the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The first ever Ironside Challenge at the Ironside Medieval Combat martial arts school was held September 16, 2017. The home team Ironside Wardens challenged ...

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 ...

When I expressed doubts earlier about first-person melee combat, several people reminded me of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, a game that actually pulls off pretty engaging combat in first person.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Four years after the release of Medieval: Total War, designer Creative Assembly and Sega are close to releasing the sequel to the popular strategy ...

Leave it to Gameloft to fix the mostly-broken mobile fighter genre. In-Fusio's Shado Fighter really upped the ante last year, but no bruiser has come close to matching its playability -- until now.

This week the month-long Yorkshire Medieval Festival turns its attention to early combat methods. As MATT CLARK discovers, they are surprisingly familiar. MARTIAL arts conjures visions of little ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. With their epic fights that involve thousands of warriors, the battles in the Total War strategy games have always invoked the cinematic battles of ...