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Disco Elysium: Darkly hilarious video game about failed revolutions and enduring hope
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (920+ words) 2019s "Disco Elysium: The Final Cut" is a role-playing video game unlike any other, as it is defined by a unique focus on the ideological. Created by Estonian writer Robert Kurvitz, a self-described Marxist-Leninist, the fictional world of Disco Elysium takes…...
Is the video game industry the canary in capitalism's coal mine?
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (452+ words) In 1983, the video game industry crashed, plunging from an estimated global market value of $42 billion in 1982 to only $14 billion by 1985. It was catastrophic for what had seemed an unstoppable industry and, like most economic crashes, spawned many myths about its…...