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 ...

So my crazy aunt once told me that videogames were a secret first strike weapon, created by the Japanese, to exact revenge on their defeat in World War II. Their diabolical scheme was to get American ...

The legend of Polybius has been around in gaming circles for years, and the idea of a game that was placed in arcades as a secret way to control behavior or run psychological experiments scratches ...