You may have watched a joust before -- presented as a curious spectacle for a local fair, or as part of the entertainment at a kitschy historical tourist attraction. But you've never seen jousting as it happens at St Ives Medieval Faire's World Jousting Championship. There, it is a serious, dangerous, competitive sport, practised with all the pomp and chivalrous ceremony of the jousts that took place more than 500 years ago.

The medieval FPS hack-and-slash is coming to next-gen consoles, according to the latest information from European authorities.

Let's say you're cool with the violence of mixed martial arts, but feel like it's missing something. The kind of thing you can only really get from two medieval dudes covered in armour beating the shit out of each other with swords.

Nearly all the Scrolls games talk up great battles, but you never actually get to fight one. Now there's a Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms mod to change that.