Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. “Programming” in board games—where you lay down instructions in ...

Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

The Code: Rover Control (ThinkFun) is a code programming game. It includes the instruction book, challenge booklet, solution booklet and four different terrain map levels. It also has 40 challenges ...

Some people slander retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children involved too — ...