MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films
Dystopias, Wild West villainy, cut-throat piracy. Sign me up
BEN COWLES'S fingers are twitching at the prospect of what's in store for gamers in 2018
Red Dead Redemption II
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JOSEPHINE BARBARO welcomes a diverse anthology of experiences by autistic women that amounts to a resounding chorus, demanding to be heard
PAUL BUHLE recommends an eminently useful book that examines the political opportunities for popular anti-fascist intervention
PETER MASON is entertained by the autobiography of Charlie Harper, one of punk’s most enduring figures
JAMIE BRITTON reaches for the sick bucket as he is forced to engorge detail after detail of the Royal Family’s wealth
STEVE JOHNSON picks his favourites from the many memorable albums of the year, and one stunning new festival
FOR video gamers, 2018 looks set to be just as good as last year, provided not too many titles are delayed in the coming months.
That's what's happened to Compulsion Games’s We Happy Few, a first-person survival game set in a dystopian version of the 1960s which I enthused about in this column last year. Hopefully, we’ll get our thumbs around it soon.
Another game that was pushed back into this year is Rockstar Games’s open-world, Western-action Red Dead Redemption (RDR) II, a prequel to one of the best video games ever created.
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