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Star Wars Battlefront II branded ‘online casino luring kids into spending money’
Game On with BEN COWLES
SIMON PARSONS is gripped by a psychological thriller that questions the the power of the state over vulnerable individuals
KEN COCKBURN assesses the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay for the experience of warfare it incited and represents
The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
BIG BUDGET video games are being inflicted with a new scourge — microtransactions, a business model where customers can pay small amounts of money to buy digital in-game items or to skip whole parts of a game they already paid £50 for.
Assassin’s Creed Origins, For Honour, Fifa 18, Madden 18, Middle Earth: Shadow of War, Call of Duty: WWII and many more titles this year are all trying to squeeze as much money from their players as possible. But none has tried quite so brazenly as Star Wars Battlefront II (SWBII).
Released last week (November 17), SWBII is a first-person shooter set in the Star Wars universe in which players blast it out online in huge 40 vs 40 battles as general grunts and cannon fodder from either the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire.
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