LONDON (AP) – Where most people saw a crumbling, rust-stained hunk of concrete and steel, Paddy Roy Bates saw a kingdom. Bates, who has died aged 91, occupied an abandoned wartime fort in the North ...

Sega is giving UK fans of its upcoming Persona-esque role-playing game Metaphor ReFantazio the chance to become a member of the royal family of the world's smallest (but unofficially recognized) ...

Where most people saw a crumbling, rust-stained hunk of concrete and steel, Paddy Roy Bates saw a kingdom. Bates occupied an abandoned wartime fort in the North Sea and declared it the sovereign ...

SEGA is offering Metaphor: ReFantazio fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become real-life nobility. SEGA is running a competition that will see one lucky fan crowned the Hand to the Sovereign ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Ahead of Metaphor ReFantazio's release on October 11, Sega has announced that it'll give one fan in the UK the chance to become a royal member of the ...

A born swashbuckler, Paddy Roy Bates fought in the Spanish Civil War as a teenager, faced a Greek firing squad in World War II and had a German stick bomb explode in his face. But the sturdy Brit ...

As countries go, Sealand isn’t much. It’s cold, cramped and utterly devoid of natural resources. In fact, the entire nation state is confined to a 6,000-square-foot steel deck and a pair of hollow ...

Ryan Lackey's bedroom had already driven men to madness. As the head of HavenCo, an ultrasecure Internet data center housed in a rusting North Sea naval fort seven miles off the English coast, Lackey ...

Every year, I try to get my gallerist, Ellie Rines, a birthday gift that she will remember. She’s incredibly frugal and pragmatic but also very fun, loves a good prank, and values relationships and ...

But even on Sealand, some seven miles (11 kilometres) off the coast of southeast England, visitors have to show a negative Covid-19 test. The micronation of Sealand ...