The global case of life imitating art - "Deus Ex," a 2000 sci-fi action role-playing game, explores themes of conspiracy involving billionaires and officials aiming to unleash chaos for power. Amidst current tech magnates' dystopian rhetoric, the game serves as a reminder that reality diverges from gaming. The fallibility of tech elites suggests their catastrophic visions may lead to inevitable market failures rather than dystopia.
Category: Gaming
Game reviews and rants
Retro review: Syrian Warfare – a real-time tactics from Russia with hate
Squad 22: ZOV, a Russian strategy game, doesn't hide the fact that it's Russian militarist propaganda. But before that, there was Syrian Warfare, a Russian-developed pro-Assad agitprop released in 2017, masquerading as a genuinely good real-time tactics game. Not sure why I wrote this review, but here it is.
Retro review: People’s General
People's General, the weakest representative of the SSI's 5-Stars series, with atrocious graphics and crippled, illogical game mechanics, that the modding community later tried to salvage.
Retro review: Shattered Union
A turn-based strategy that makes the Second American Civil War semi-fun again, Shattered Union will provide some entertainment for two boring afternoons when you have nothing else to play and you just loved the TV series Jericho ang have nightmares about what four more years of MAGA might do to the US.