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How gaming grew up

A slew of artistic independent games are supplanting the big studio brands. <span style="color: #333333;">Peter Hoskin reports on this boardroom-versus-bedroom battle</span>

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

Sometimes a guy feels abstracted from the world. He visits Europe’s finest galleries, but the paintings seem to hang like corpses from the walls. The great symphonies fail to stir his interest, let alone his soul. So he goes home, pours a large whisky and does the only thing that’s left for him — he buys a PlayStation.

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