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Grand Theft Auto 5, one year on
Los Santos mirrors the world as you want to see it, writes Simon Parkin
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The man who made a game to change the world
"Every MMO is a political statement. I should know: I designed them that way."
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Jade's Empire
From the archive: Ubisoft Toronto's first lady Jade Raymond on sexism, robots and why Bobby Kotick should be funding more meaningful games.
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Meeting Mikami
From the archive: Japan's master of horror on the evil within and the evil without.
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A league of their own
From the archive: Backstage in the League of Legends phenomenon, and front seat at its world championships.
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Hironobu Sakaguchi: Fantasy Man
From the archive: He bet his career on a game and hit the jackpot, then bet it on a film and lost it all. What happened to Final Fantasy's father?
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Blurred lines: Are YouTubers breaking the law?
From unmarked advertorial to paid social network promotion, Simon Parkin investigates the ethics and legality of YouTube.
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The Rise and Collapse of Yoshinori Ono
From the archive: How Street Fighter gave the Capcom director a life and then almost took it away again.
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The video game assassination of JFK
The game that re-opened one of America's deepest wounds.
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The power and politics of Make it Rain
What the latest mobile sensation says about humans and the games we play.
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Nolan Bushnell: Gaming's absent father
From the archive: Simon Parkin goes in search of Atari's founder.
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Namco's great free-to-play gamble
Tekken, Soul Calibur and Ace Combat work to repair the image of a business model.