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“STOP AVOIDING IT. POLITICS MAY JUST BE THE CHERRY ON TOP OF THE CONSOLE.”

We need politics in our games. There, I’ve said it. Death Stranding is the poster child for this social-commentary-as-entertainment. Its slow drag of delivering one parcel after another across a barren landscape under a ceaselessly grey sky had me reaching for my receipt and the phone number of the nearest CEX. I feel my eyelids drooping

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