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BEN COWLES'S fingers are twitching at the prospect of what's in store for gamers in 2018
Red Dead Redemption II
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
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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