Tales of Glory hands-on: Swingin’ and slayin’ with swords and spears in VR

Two of my favorite PC games are Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Mount & Blade (both Warband and the original), so consider me excited when I saw Tales of Glory for the first time. With a heavy focus on first-person melee combat among an assortment of knights wielding weapons like pikes and swords and spears, it looks like the recipe for […]

The most brutal rivals on Wall Street are putting their swords down for a good cause

CBOE The rivalries between the biggest US stock exchanges make the Coke-Pepsi divide look trivial.  On social media and in public filings with regulators, these companies brutally attack their rivals and their business models. This reporter has witnessed first hand the degree to which folks at the four main US exchanges will go to throw serious shade […]

Here are some videos of Trump and his cabinet members awkwardly dancing with swords in Saudi Arabia

Thomson Reuters Two videos posted on Twitter show President Trump, secretary of state Rex Tillerson, and secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross dancing while holding swords during their visit to Saudi Arabia.  Reince Priebus and Stephen Bannon also make a brief appearance in the clip.  Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia kicked off his first foreign trip […]

This management consultant’s weekend hobby involves fighting with real swords and axes

We spent the afternoon with members of the New York City chapter of the Armored Combat League.  The group suits up in medieval armor and engages in brutal hand-to-hand combat with weapons made of real metal. The group practices at a martial arts studio in Harlem called Sword Class NYC, where they train twice a week in […]

‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George RR Martin To Release New Writing In 2017 ‘Book Of Swords’

Game of Thrones author George RR Martin will indeed release new material set in the world of his popular A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2017, but it isn’t exactly what fans of Game of Thrones were hoping for. Still, the new announcement may serve to whet the appetites of readers who have […]