Board game review: New Angeles is the capitalist dystopia we need

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Welcome to a world of unimaginable wealth and rampant inequality, a world where monolithic corporations act as a law unto themselves, where automation and technological progress threaten to undermine the very foundations of society, and where frightened, forgotten, and furious citizens turn in droves towards political extremism.

This is Fantasy Flight's dystopian Android universe. While you could be forgiven for mistaking it for the world of 2017, it's actually a cyberpunk setting best known as the backdrop for the card game Android: Netrunner, which pits elite hackers against corporate security systems.

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