This bizarro action game is all about bringing guns to the swordfights of medieval Europe, and I’ve never been more down for anything in my entire life

What you need to know Developer Redemption Road Games and publisher tinyBuild have announced Kingmakers, a game about a modern soldier who time travels back to the Middle Ages to alter history and prevent an apocalypse. The game blends real-time strategy with third-person shooter action, allowing you to seamlessly switch between commanding your armies and […]

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A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis

Using an unblemished femur from the same burial site as a control, his lab extracted degraded DNA present in the bone, sequenced it, and identified strings of nucleotides that resembled portions of reference genomes for T. pallidum. The group verified the sequences’ identities by generating a kind of family tree that linked the found sequences […]

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Easily Distracted? You Need to Think Like a Medieval Monk

Medieval monks were, in many ways, the original LinkedIn power users. Earnest and with a knack for self-promotion, they loved to read and share inspiring stories of other early Christians who had shown remarkable commitment to their work. There was Sarah, who lived next to a river without ever once looking in its direction, such […]

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Apex Legends’ latest hero Newcastle is a ‘medieval celebrity’

Apex Legends: Saviors, the latest season for the ongoing battle royale game, is gaining another Legend for players to use. Newcastle arrives as part of Apex Legends: Saviors, the same season that’s bringing a dead sea monster and IMC Armories to the Storm Point map. Newcastle is designed as a duality, simultaneously a bright-eyed, optimistic […]

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