Wildlands may be the slickest, simplest fantasy skirmish game ever made

Enlarge (credit: Osprey Games) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Miniature battle games have been around as long as the tabletop hobby itself. From industry giants like Warhammer 40,000 to competitors like Frostgrave, The Walking Dead, or the Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures […]

Fortnite Skirmish COUNTDOWN: Week 1 Fall Groups, schedule and Twitch stream

Today marks the start of Epic Games’ new Fortnite eSports competition, which has undergone some changes. Now known as the Fortnite Fall Skirmish, the new event will kick off later today, September 21. The development team say they have taken a number of ideas from the Summer Skirmish series and are bringing back some formats. […]

‘Scum will pay for their words!’: Khabib in social media skirmish with Russian rap stars

While verbal skirmishes are common in MMA, Russian UFC star Khabib Nurmagomedov, who is preparing to face Conor McGregor in October, has become involved in an explosive social media exchange with Russian rap artists. The unlikely conflict with the rappers originates in an Instagram post by Nurmagomedov in the middle of August. Back then, the […]

Fortnite Cube crashes Summer Skirmish on the way to next location

Fans are still trying to work out what the Fortnite Cube and where it might be heading to. And today it caused some major disruption during Epic Games’ Summer Skirmish event at PAX West. A series of solo matches made up week 8 of Summer Skirmish action today, with several heats determining who made it […]

Fortnite PAX West Getaway LTM gameplay REVEAL, Week 8 Summer Skirmish, Wildcard news

Week 8 will include the final Summer Skirmish action for Fortnite fans on all platforms. Having kicked off just over two months ago, the new eSports competition has been given out prize money each week for those players who have excelled. The final Summer Skirmish competition is being held at PAX West and is a 3-Stage […]

Fortnite Summer Skirmish week 5: Results, standings, Twitch live stream, start time, rules

Fortnite Summer Skirmish week 5 is well and truly underway with some big results from day one. The Fortnite Summer Skirmish week 5 saw a familiar face emerge victorious and scoop the huge $ 75,000 prize. Fortnite Summer Skirmish week 5 sees 90 teams of duos competing in this week’s format the King Pin. And […]

Fortnite Summer Skirmish Day 2 LIVE: Final Week 2 clash for leaderboard results

Epic Games have launched their final day of online competition for their latest eSports competition. The Fortnite Summer Skirmish will continue over the coming weeks, with day 2 of the current bracket finishing today. The first day of week 2 action was won by competitor iDropz_bodies, one of a number of players who have been […]

Fortnite Summer Skirmish tournament results, winners and current standings

Epic Games announced a new Fortnite series that would be shown on Twitch and included some big prize money earlier this month. And the first week of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish just ended with full results confirmed by the Epic team. For those that don’t know, the Summer Skirmish series includes a range of new […]

Arrowverse Crossover Recap (Night 2): Who Didn't Survive the Skirmish? Who From Earth-X Stayed Behind?

The “Crisis on Earth-X” was brought to Earth-X this Tuesday night, as the back half of the Arrowverse’s two-night crossover event unfolded on The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. RELATEDLegends of Tomorrow: Victor Garber to Exit in Season 3 The heroes did suffer a loss of their own along the way, when a selfless Stein […]

In a pre-Brexit skirmish with the City, Eurex takes on LCH

SEEN from the continent, it just isn’t right. LCH, a firm mostly owned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE), dominates the clearing of interest-rate derivatives. Each day it clears $ 3.4trn-worth, counting both sides of a trade. (The simplest variety is a swap of fixed and floating rates, allowing counterparties to reduce or increase their […]