I'm feeling a bit pipped this morning—got turfed out of bed at seven o'clock and all that.

But shooters, sims and real-time strategy games ascended as the industry grew and mouseless home consoles made the genre's mechanics awkward.

[T]he artist has returned to create new forms of expression, to resacralize, re-enchant, remythologize.

Beowulf tasted the beaker on the hall-floor; no need had he to be ashamed of that bounty giving before the archers. There are not many instances of men giving to others at ale-bench four treasures gold bedight in friendlier wise.