The Outer Worlds

Hotly anticipated videogame “The Outer Worlds” is set for release on Oct. 25, but the internet is already buzzing over pre-release reviews of the role-playing space game. “The Outer Worlds” is set in an alternate future, in which Theodore Roosevelt never became president of America and big business has dominated society for centuries. Now, megacorporations have begun colonizing other planets. Your character wakes up on a space ship in which other passengers are still in hibernation, and sets out to reach the nearest colony. The game’s developer — Obsidian Entertainment — claims that every choice a player makes matters, as it leads to different outcomes.

Time’s Matthew Gault wrote a lengthy review of the game in which he praised “the diversity of outcomes and the complicated nature of the choices it gives you.” He also compared the game to Obsidian’s hugely successful “Fallout” series.

Vice Magazine’s Austin Walker described it as “a warm game,” in his review. “If all ‘The Outer Worlds’ manages to do is soothe, then in a year like this one, I’ll take it,” he wrote. of Adel Abidin, a Baghdad-born artist who currently lives in Helsinki, Finland. The exhibition explores the artist’s identity as an Iraqi, as well as themes of cultural alienation and elusive experiences.

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