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Rally up

he next time you’re walking down a street with friends, try playing a round of “corporate exorcism” game Skcubrats. You score points by shouting out corporate signs backwards. First player to ten wins. Alternatively, keep going until capitalism crumbles. Skcubrats is one of the lighter entries in Casual Games For Protesters, an archive of physical games to play at rallies and marches. The goal is to make “participating in social change [feel] exhilarating, social, intellectually and physically stimulating, liberatory and fun” – though, as the creators acknowledge, “context is crucial”. It’s

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