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Have we already played the Severance video game?


Watching Severance makes me realise what games do better than other mediums - and the effect they're having on them.

There's a play and a film that goes for a similarly disorientating experience, based on the same topic, called The Father, for which actor Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar. I love that we live in a world where the people making major TV shows know games well enough that they would play The Stanley Parable at all. The incredible success of The Last of Us and Fallout TV shows, and the animated series of Castlevania and soon Devil May Cry, have proved video games' value in financial terms, as intellectual property ripe for adaptation.

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