Society

'Hell is this Maths Room. Not a Biblical Hell: for that you require penitential flames, fallen angels and a man with the head of a goat. Nor is it the claustrophobic Hell of the city; for that to work properly you really need a carcinogenic atmosphere to choke on, too many people with too little understanding of the concept of...

In Japan, monsters are big business. Since 2005, one of the most successful video game franchises in Japan has been CAPCOM's dinosaur battler Monster Hunter. As the game has got bigger so have its monsters. Many creatures are now so complex that would-be Hunters are required to band together in teams to have any hope of bringing down the largest...