Thumb Candy is a British Channel 4 television documentary about the history of computer games hosted by Iain Lee who interviewed the people who were involved in creating the first big video games.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a discipline that soared on the wings of optimism in the 1960s and 1970s, only to fall into disillusionment and even disrepute in the ensuing years. But in that time, ...

It is this freewheeling agency, adds Dr McCall, that makes games—especially those that lean towards simulation rather than ...