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Nov 2, 2024 | 
ft.com | Duncan Fyfe
It was 1675, and there was a new boy in Stockholm. The city was full of them at that time of year: cute boys, strong boys, big large boys.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
ft.com | Duncan Fyfe
In 1998, the then science minister, Lord David Sainsbury, appointed Lara Croft, tomb raider, as an ambassador of British scientific...
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
ft.com | Duncan Fyfe |Matt Vella
This story is part of the FT Weekend Magazine’s puzzle special issue. For a version of this story you can print and play, click here.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
ft.com | Duncan Fyfe
The first biography of Claire Clairmont, Claire Clairmont: Mother of Byron’s Allegra, published in 1939, was unsentimental about its...
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
remapradio.com | Duncan Fyfe
When Warren Spector was a producer at Origin Systems in the 1990s, he had a business model. “I would start up four projects, two internal and two external, and I’d kill two projects every year that weren’t going well,” he says in Jason Schreier’s book Press Start: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry. “I would tell people that’s what I was going to do.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Duncan Fyfe
If Franz Kafka had lived to give notes on Playing Kafka, a new video game adaptation of his work, a big one might have been: where’s the sex? What this interactive version of The Trial has in branching narrative, it lacks in sexuality: one can imagine the author-cum-playtester apoplectic at the absence of sadomasochism and lust. Overall, the choices made in this literal and lightly interactive adaptation seem calibrated to what is appropriate to leave running on a museum iPad.
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May 23, 2024 | 
remapradio.com | Duncan Fyfe
I. “One of my teachers recently passed away, and I wanted to make a little joke at his funeral… and say Press F to pay Respects. Would that be rude?” began a question on Reddit. Fellas, is it rude to eulogize a teacher with a video game meme? Is it rude to dunk on Call of Duty before the bereaved? “Yeah, best not to meme at a funeral,” one Redditor replied. “Saying it quietly to yourself would be fine, I guess,” said another.
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May 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Duncan Fyfe
Can a video game writer do her best work at the industry’s biggest scale? Well: Meghna Jayanth is fine where she is. Last year, with Outerloop Games, she released Thirsty Suitors,a fluorescent fusion of messy flirting and sick skating; coming up next is All Rise, a climate action courtroom drama.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
remapradio.com | Duncan Fyfe
The creator of Prince of Persia has written a memoir, but he is not its chief subject, nor is his most famous creation. Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, a graphic novel-style memoir by Jordan Mechner, is a family saga told over a hundred years of European Jewish diaspora. It is as much a biography of Mechner as it is his father, his grandfather, and Lisa Ziegler: Mechner’s great-aunt, and the book’s romantic hero.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
ft.com | Duncan Fyfe
“Mesdames et messieurs, I know what you want!” cried the young man to the passing pedestrians on the Paris streets.
