Editor's note: Jeff Minter's Polybius is out now, but the origins of that mythical game go back decades, and venture to some dark places. The Polybius story has everything. Shady government agents ...

According to legend, a mysterious new arcade game swept through Portland in 1981. It was incredibly addictive; people lined up for hours just to get a shot at playing it, even fighting over who got to ...

What it’s about: A secret government program to control your mind, maaaaan! At least, that’s the paranoid notion at the heart of a conspiracy theory from the early 2000s that posits that the same ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is a guest post by Timothy R. Ferguson founder and president of The Institute for Anacyclosis, a ...