Core War - the Ultimate Programming Game

The Core War Tournament Weekend will be held on 9–10 November at the Retro Computer Festival in Cambridge, UK, to celebrate 40 years of Core War.

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We are saddened to report A. K. Dewdney passed away following a brief illness. Kee inspired countless readers through his Computer Recreations columns in Scientific American.

Lamp of Murmur by Guillermo Calvo Arenaza claims first place in the Seventh CoreWarUCM Tournament, live at the Universidad Complutense Madrid.

Assembly is a new web-based programming game inspired by Core War and released as open source by Louve Hurlante. The code is available on GitHub.

Google Groups are ending access to Usenet. Sign up to a free Usenet server (e.g. Eternal September or Solani) to use a newsreader (Pan or Thunderbird) to access rec.games.corewar.

Azathoth is the new king of the 94nop-Koenigstuhl, pairing a Sunset-style paper with a self-bombing stone.

A titan falls - Monster_Human_Grunt is a stone/imp which entered the 94nop hill in January 2006, surviving 2289 challenges before being pushed off today, making it the third oldest warrior of all time.

Tolypeutes is the new king of the 94nop-Koenigstuhl, combining an Armadillo-style stone with an Impfinity-launch and a new qscanner. Congrats to Roy van Rijn.

There's a new best counter graph for the top-50 of the Koenigstuhl 88, 94nop, pspace, 94x and ICWS hills. Each warrior is connected to the opponent which beats it with the highest score.

Terry Newton has released his latest evolver, YabEvolver, which uses a 2-dimensional soup. Warriors battle a neighbour with the loser being replaced by an evolved copy of the winner.

Koenigstuhl is now home to seven Battle Royale (sequential push off) hills. Hullab3loo and Lithobolia C yvfp are the first to claim first place on the 94nop and 88 Battle Royale hills.

pMARS 0.9.4 is now available, with support for read/write limits, updated docs and bug fixes from Joonas Pihlaja, Terry Newton and Björn Günzel.

The Corewar Global Masters finals are over. Congratulations to Roy van Rijn and Inversed who take first and second place in the grand final - the tiny survival elimination round.

The Corewar Global Masters Tournament has been announced by Christian Schmidt, with three rounds and a grand final to be streamed live on Twitch. Deadline 6pm CET on 7th Feb 2022.