Games

Japan is next level for retro game collectors

Around 70-80 percent of customers are foreign tourists, who have flocked to Japan in record numbers this year, store manager Komura, who only gave his surname, told AFP.

In Dhaka’s secret alleys, lone arcades hint at a bygone era

Dhaka's fading gaming arcades struggle against modern technology and economic challenges, yet remain nostalgic escapes for many.

Five amazing board and card games worth checking out

Here are five amazing board and card games that are worth checking out.

Games / A beginner’s guide to soulsborne games

This article serves as a guide to the most interesting entry points to Miyazaki's world and the soulsborne genre.

Games / Why previous generation Pokémon games are still relevant

Is it entirely nostalgia, or is there something more to it? 

GAME / The new CoD MW 2 offers one of the best first-person shooter campaigns till date

MW2 has a spectacular campaign, decent multiplayer and grindy gameplay.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The best of a bugged world

Welcome to the 9th generation of Pokémon.

Bangladeshi art director credited in ‘God of War Ragnarok’

Tanvir M N Islam is a Canada-based, Bangladeshi artist who has worked as an Art Director in Sony’s latest game, “God of War Ragnarok”.

COVER STORY / For the Love of the (Unpopular) Game

How do these players and athletes fuel their passions and dreams?

September 21, 2016
September 21, 2016

US sprinters Gay, Bailey eye bobsled role

Veteran sprinter Tyson Gay is making a bid to force his way onto the US bobsled team after entering this week's National Push Championships in Canada.

September 18, 2016
September 18, 2016

BD officials not dreaming of medals

Bangladesh will send a 23-member team to take part in five different disciplines of the 5th Asian Beach Games, scheduled to

September 15, 2016
September 15, 2016

'Huge' gender pay gap in sport not closing: study

The huge gulf between how much male and female athletes are paid is not likely to narrow in the foreseeable future.

August 30, 2016
August 30, 2016

Shakil outguns Shahadat

South Asian Games gold medallist Shakil Ahmed grabs his first gold medal in domestic circuit.

August 16, 2016
August 16, 2016

Phelps hails role inspiring his own defeat by Singapore's Schooling

Michael Phelps has acknowledged a "small part" in his own dramatic Olympic defeat by Singapore hero Joseph Schooling but bears no grudge.

August 13, 2016
August 13, 2016

Stunning Phelps, Schooling wins Singapore's first gold

In just one performance, Singapore's Joseph Schooling beats swimming great Michael Phelps, takes home his city state's first Olympic gold medal and becomes an instant millionaire.

August 11, 2016
August 11, 2016

Aussie teen stars as Ledecky motors on

Australia's new teenage swimming sensation Kyle Chalmers wins the blue riband Olympic 100m freestyle gold, as golf heads for a controversial return to the Games after 112 years.

August 11, 2016
August 11, 2016

Rio Olympics 2016: Shaymoly bow out

Archer Shyamoly Roy makes a predictable first-round exit from the recurve bow event of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

August 10, 2016
August 10, 2016

Indians immune to Olympic fever

Around a giant screen showing the Olympics in a central New Delhi park, young Indians chat, take selfies or snooze in the late afternoon heat, glancing only occasionally at the heroic sporting feats on display.

August 6, 2016
August 6, 2016

Let the games begin

Brazil unfurls a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pounding beat of samba, bossa nova and funk.