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Shoot first, ask questions later

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‘‘ I would like to make my own witness statement,” said Christopher Pelkey as he stood before Judge Todd Lang in Arizona’s Maricopa County Superior Court, dressed slightly incongruously in a green hoo

What makes a novel of ideas?

Are open-world games one genre or many? And where are they headed?