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Fiction about mind control

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops IIICall of Duty: Black Ops III, the 2015 shooter from the studio Treyarch, was built by a team that once looked at its own progress and saw almost nothing. In March 2026, creative director Jason Blundell recalled that moment. When the…
  • The Stanley ParableThe Stanley Parable begins with an office worker known only as employee 427. Stanley sits in a building and presses buttons whenever a screen tells him to. He never speaks, and his job is to follow instructions without asking why. Then one…
  • Call of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Black Ops sold more than 5.6 million copies within 24 hours of going on sale in November 2010. That total beat the record set by Modern Warfare 2 by roughly 2.3 million copies. Treyarch built the game and Activision published…
  • Brave New WorldBrave New World is a dystopian novel by the English author Aldous Huxley, published in 1932. It is set in the year 2540. Its London has no mothers and no fathers. Citizens are produced in bottles, sorted into ranks before birth, and kept…
  • Call of Duty: GhostsWithin 24 hours of Call of Duty: Ghosts reaching stores in November 2013, Activision had shipped $1 billion worth of copies to retailers. The publisher still counted the game as a letdown. Ghosts was the tenth major Call of Duty release…
  • She-Ra and the Princesses of PowerAn orphan raised as a Horde soldier finds a magic sword in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
  • 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…
  • Mother 3Mother 3 is a role-playing game that took twelve years and four consoles to finish, and then never left Japan. In the run-up to its release, people who phoned the Japan Post heard the game's main theme, "Love Theme", while they waited on…
  • Code GeassCode Geass is a Japanese anime television series produced by the studio Sunrise, and its premise rests on a single dangerous gift. The gift is called Geass, and it is the power of absolute obedience. Whoever receives it can issue a command…
  • Kill la KillKill la Kill is a Japanese anime series about a teenager whose clothes have minds of their own. It was created and produced by the studio Trigger. Its heroine is Ryuko Matoi, a vagrant schoolgirl searching for the person who killed her…

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