Ten great video games about evil corporations
by Keith Stuart from Technology | The Guardian on (#68G50)
Take a break from news about real-life megacorps raking in billions while we all struggle to pay our gas bills, and revisit gaming's most evil companies
Squaresoft's environmentalist fable pitches a small group of eco-rebels against the might Shinra Electric Power Company - part energy supplier, part terrifying interplanetary dictatorship. The designers were prescient in their imagining of a multifaceted company equally adept in weapons, genetic engineering and politics, and with its own 24-hour news channel to help with propaganda.
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