They played one extra match on this tour, making the total of 21 games, including four tests against South Africa, with the British Isles winning three of them.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

In June 2009 the British media reported that Argentina were lobbying for the 2013 British and Irish Lions Tour to Australia to incorporate a series of games in Argentina.

* Blitz Games, British computer games company

The oldest roots of crokinole, from the 1860s, suggest the British and South Asian games are the most likely antecedents of what became crokinole.

* Faster Than Light ( software publisher ), a British video games company

Often these games were recreation for British soldiers on postings.

Development work was carried out by Flare, with assistance from British games programmer Jeff Minter.

The Arms Park was host to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958, and hosted four games in the 1991 Rugby World Cup, including the 3rd / 4th place play-off.

* 2007 – Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer ( b. 1954 )

In recent decades the game of pool ( both the British and American versions ) has increased in popularity as well as other table based games such as snooker or Table Football also becoming common.

The team also decided to not include American influence in the game like some of the modern 3D Sonic games, instead choosing a more British based influence.

Tales of the Reaching Moon was a British fanzine dedicated to the fantasy world of Glorantha and producing material for fantasy role-playing games based there.

Based in North Vancouver, British Columbia and established in 1988, Taito Software released Taito games exclusively for home computers and consoles.

Ultima is a series of fantasy role-playing video games from Origin Systems, Inc. Ultima was created by Richard Garriott, a. k. a. Lord British.

What is left becomes known as Britannia, a realm ruled by the benevolent Lord British, and is where the later games mostly take place.

The protagonist in all the games is a canonically male resident of Earth who is called upon by Lord British to protect Sosaria and, later, Britannia from a number of dangers.

White Dwarf is a magazine published by British games manufacturer Games Workshop.

Worms is a series of artillery strategy computer games developed by British company Team17.

Kumaritashvili was the fourth athlete to die while in preparation for a Winter Olympics competition, following speed skier Nicolas Bochatay, 27, who died while preparing for the Albertville 1992 games, British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski and skier Ross Milne, 19, who both died in the run up to the Innsbruck 1964 games.

* A British cavalier named The Black Prince appeared in Age of Empires II map editor and is one of the random names for the Britons ' commander in random map games.

Wargames also feature a range of scales, from games that simulate individual soldiers, to ones that chart the course of an entire global or even galactic war.

They were very simple games, and in some ways just provide a context for shooting spring-loaded toy cannons at toy soldiers, but " in his Appendix to Little Wars, Wells speaks of the changes required to convert his admittedly simplistic rules into a more rigorous Kriegspiel.

The games are televised, complete with color commentary discussing tactics, soldiers ' personal backgrounds, and slow-motion replays of their deaths.

The two teenagers, too young to become Red Cross nurses like their mother and elder sisters, played games of checkers and billiards with the soldiers and tried to uplift their spirits.

* Military simulation, where individual soldiers or units are not directly controlled by the player are often real-time tactics games.

After his entry to Rome, Septimius recognized Pertinax as a legitimate emperor, executed the soldiers who killed him, and not only pressured the Senate to deify him and provide for him a state funeral, but also adopted his cognomen of Pertinax as part of his name, and also for some time held games on the anniversary of Pertinax's ascension and his birthday.

Troops often play cards to pass the time, and seeing the names, faces and titles of the wanted Iraqis during their games will help soldiers and Marines in case they run into the wanted individuals in the field, Brooks said.

In certain games that were somewhat less civilised, such as among soldiers after a battle, human skulls are known to have been used.

In 1901, managed by William Butler of the Ohio Medical University, the Panhandles played two games against the Columbus Barracks, a team consisting of local soldiers.

Very popular with the soldiers he led into battle, and in the camps he shared with his soldiers, he reportedly competed with them in the athletic games which they played during their leisure time.

At least until the 5th century BC ( Pindar's time ) the winners of the Isthmian games received a wreath of celery ; later, the wreath was altered such that it consisted of pine leaves .< ref >“ As he was marching up an ascent, from the top of which they expected to have a view of the army and of the strength of the enemy, there met him by chance a train of mules loaded with parsley ; which his soldiers conceived to be an ominous occurrence or ill-boding token, because this is the herb with which we not infrequently adorn the sepulchres of the dead ; and there is a proverb derived from the custom, used of one who is dangerously sick, that he has need of nothing but parsley.

Besides interacting with the soldiers and officers coordinating the war games, Lt Gen Ghosh witnessed various battle manoeuvres by infantry troops, mechanised infantry, tanks, artillery, Heliborne troops and surveillance equipment.

Athletic exercises by free citizens ( no longer required to serve as soldiers since Marius ' army reform ) were partly replaced by gladiatorial games performed in amphitheatres.

In the later games in the series, the artificial intelligence ( AI ) of the enemies and fellow soldiers has been notorious for being below or above current FPS expectations.

Examples of this include Velvet-Strike ( a project designed to allow players of realistic first person shooter games to use anti-war graffiti within the game to make an artistic statement ) and Dead in Iraq ( an art project created by Joseph DeLappe in which the player character purposely allows himself to be shot and then recites the names of US soldiers who have died in the Iraq War ).

It has since become mainstream, and is found in many games such as < cite > Rome: Total War </ cite >, where it is exploited to simultaneously display thousands of individual soldiers on a battlefield.

Meanwhile, Vitellius arrived in Lugdunum, where, according to Tacitus, he formally declared himself Imperator, punished unreliable soldiers, and celebrated with feasts, and with games in the amphitheater.

During the First World War, the stadium was used by American soldiers for games of baseball and, in 1981, matches of cricket's Lambert & Butler Cup were held there.

Wells, a pacifist, was the first to publish detailed rules for playing war games with toy soldiers.

Meanwhile, the young soldiers befriend a local mute Chinese boy with whom they play games of catch.

The story centers on two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon ( Blood Gulch ), in a parody of first-person shooter ( FPS ) games, military life, and science fiction films.