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Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches – review

Daud is not supposed to be a squeamish man: he is, after all, the assassin who drove a knife into the heart of Dunwall’s Empress and made off with her quivering child during the opening scenes of...

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Saint’s Row 4 – review

There have, in the past, been two reasonable reasons to view the Saints Row series with some disdain or distaste. The first is in its plain and unapologetic mimicry of Rockstar’s more famous,...

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From Pong to PlayStation 4: The Rise of Mark Cerny

Mark Cerny’s soft voice and youthful looks belie the position of power he holds in the video-game industry. The 49-year-old Californian is the lead architect of Sony’s PlayStation 4, the company’s...

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Grand Theft Auto’s Bigfoot Hunters

Way out in southeastern Flint County, Back o Beyond is the most isolated area in San Andreas. Its trees loom conspiratorially, their branches knitted together, creating a sense of gloom. As night...

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Considering the Inhumanity of Halo’s Most Human Character

What is Cortana, the artificial intelligence that accompanies Master Chief through the Halo series? Is she a person or merely a thing? She speaks with the warmth and wit of a woman, and indeed her...

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Dispatches From a Realm Reborn

A girl lies prostrate on the cobblestones. Her body is contorted in a way that implies complicated internal injuries. In these early days following Final Fantasy 14′s relaunch, you often see these...

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Shelter – review

My first cub perished in the noonday sky, which is no place for a badger to die. We ran through the long grass, hiding from a predator in the clouds, its winged shadow black and circling. It knew we...

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Off-world Politics

The arrival of the internet brought with it unprecedented means of human connection, and the most extraordinary of all of these can be found within the worlds of online games. Here, in simulated...

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How Evil Should A Video Game Allow You To Be?

It was Vladimir Nabokov’s wife, Véra who rescued the manuscript of “Lolita” from a back-yard incinerator at Cornell University. Beset by doubt over the book’s subject matter, Nabokov hoped to burn the...

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Postscript: The Man Behind Nintendo

When Hiroshi Yamauchi dropped out of college in 1948, to replace his grandfather as the president of the Kyoto-based hanafuda playing-card manufacturer Nintendo Koppai, the company, founded in 1889,...

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