RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up
A LAN party at the 2004 DreamHack with hundreds of players
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World
Marijam Did, Verso Books, £16.99
CAN video games be a force for good in the world, or are they the virtual precursors of our own destruction? Is there time to course correct, to instigate revolutionary changes in the industry, or are we racing ineluctably towards the worst digital culture has to offer?
These aren’t easy questions. But they do need asking — and as developers and players, we’re encouraged to hold ourselves accountable.
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