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Fiction about gangs

  • Grand Theft AutoGrand Theft Auto was voted one of Britain's top 10 designs in 2006. It sat beside Concorde and the Spitfire.
  • Mafia (series)The Mafia video game series has sold more than 34 million copies over its lifetime. Four mainline games sit at its core, joined by a remake, a remaster and two spin-offs for mobile devices. Not one of the cities in these games exists on a…
  • Peaky Blinders (TV series)Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight's British crime drama, left a mark that the Office for National Statistics could measure in baby names. In 2018, the name Arthur entered the top 10 boys' names for the first time since the 1920s. Ada jumped…
  • Yakuza (franchise)By 2024, Sega reported that the Yakuza series, known in Japan as Like a Dragon, had sold a combined 27.7 million units since its debut in 2005. Those buyers were playing games about organized crime. In the same games they could also sing…
  • Durarara!!A headless rider on a black motorcycle searches Ikebukuro for her stolen head. She is a dullahan from Irish folklore.
  • Absolute BatmanAbsolute Batman is an American monthly comic book series from DC Comics, and its hero is a 24-year-old blue-collar civil engineer named Bruce Wayne. He works for a living by day. At night he fights crime as Batman, using armor and…
  • Cyberpunk: EdgerunnersCyberpunk: Edgerunners pulled in 14.88 million hours of viewing during its first week on Netflix, and that was enough to put it in the service's top ten. The animated miniseries premiered on the 13th of September 2022. It follows David…
  • Cyberpunk 2077Cyberpunk 2077 broke a record within hours of its midnight GMT launch on the 10th of December 2020. More than one million people played it at once on Steam, and one million viewers watched live on Twitch. Together, the figures doubled the…
  • DishonoredDishonored, a 2012 action-adventure game from Arkane Studios, begins with a murder its hero cannot prevent. Corvo Attano is bodyguard to the Empress of the Isles. Assassins restrain him by magic and kill her. Corvo is framed for the crime…
  • Starfield (video game)Starfield is a 2023 action role-playing game from Bethesda Game Studios, and it lets the player land on more than 1,000 planets. That scale raises a few questions. Why did a studio tied to Skyrim and Fallout 4 turn its attention to space?…

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