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...It has earned this stature for its cultural influence but also its economic heft: GTA V and its online component are the single most profitable entertainment product ever, generating more than $7.7bn to...
...In Cyberpunk 2077 you’re a rebel hacker roving around a megacity controlled by corporations and in Grand Theft Auto V you’re pitted against the villainous billionaire Devin Weston....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...But the V&A wouldn’t give permission; neither would the Royal Albert Hall....
...So when playing as the Allies in multiplayer shooters such as Call of Duty: WWII or Battlefield V, you might, counterfactually, not win the war....
...One mod for GTA V adds an LGBT pride parade to the fictional city of Los Santos, while a forum called The Black Simmer helps black Sims players find clothing, skin tone and hairstyle mods that enable them...
...In 2017 the game’s creators handed curation over to artists, asking Frank Ocean to create a radio station for GTA V....
...Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time by Jenny Uglow Faber & Faber, £20, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The Bureau of Past Managementby Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender, V&Q Books £12.99 Hans Frambach works at the Berlin bureau that gives the novel its title, whose mission is to help the country...
...Military simulator Arma 3 recently launched its new Art of War campaign, which features a museum filled with art made by the game’s community, while institutions ranging from the V&A to Tate to the British...
...GTA V is, by most estimates, the most profitable media product of all time....
...Next I try Curious Alice, a custom-built “VR experience” created by the V&A with game production company Preloaded....
...BrolyLegs, a competitive Street Fighter V player with arthrogryposis, a condition which means he cannot use his arms or legs, expertly manipulates buttons using his nose and cheek, regularly beating able-bodied...
...Roughly 25 per cent of the outstanding shares in Social Capital Hedosophia V, the fifth Spac set up by Palihapitiya and his partner Ian Osborne that will soon merge with fintech company SoFi, have been sold...
...new possibilities for the arts, writes Tom Faber. 5....
...They might respond: How many times do institutions like MoMA, The Smithsonian or the V&A have to spotlight gaming before the medium is taken seriously?...
...John Lanchester’s new novel ‘The Wall’ is published this week by Faber Who best predicted the future with their dystopian novel — George Orwell or Aldous Huxley? We want to hear your thoughts....
...Homo Faber: Crafting a More Human Future celebrates the Renaissance ideal of “man as maker”....
...Classical music and opera by Richard Fairman Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, edited by Kate Bailey, V&A Publishing, RRP£25 A strong coffee table is needed for this handsome volume....
...First, it was DB1's Carsten Kengeter's departure that left Joachim Faber clinging on to his job as chairman of the board....
...The Southwark Mysteries, about the prostitutes known as “Winchester Geese” who were buried at London’s Cross Bones burial site; and the legendary comic book creator Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Yet this year, Johannes Faber was confidently selling the important but relatively obscure Otto Steinert beside Walker Evans....
...Her daughter, Valerie, went to London and became secretary to the chairman of Faber and Faber, T.S. Eliot, whom she eventually married....
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