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Playing Red Dead Redemption 2 during a pandemic is a surprisingly moving experience. The game is a haunting meditation on time, death, and the persistence of the past.
Out for a stroll in Fallout 76.
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Video games were once thought to offer an escape from everyday life – but they often hold a mirror to what we do in reality.
Players of Red Dead Redemption 2 use a detailed topographic map to navigate the landscape.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 has been criticised for its portrayals of violence, but it could also be teaching players the lost art of reading a map.
Lin-Manuel Miranda (centre), Emily Blunt, Julie Walters, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson in Mary Poppins Returns (2018).
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Disney’s 1964 classic film had a suffragette theme, but it remains to be seen if the new version will celebrate votes for women.