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  "id": 18662,
  "title": "20 years ago, Dead Rising showed a different path for open worlds, and more games should pinch its ideas",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/20-years-ago-dead-rising-showed-a-different-path-for-open-worlds-and",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-07-31T13:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20-years-ago-dead-rising-showed-a-different-path-for-open-worlds-and-more-games-should-pinch-its-ideas"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Photojournalist Frank West is heli-dropped into the Willamette Parkview mall, following a tip-off that there’s something sinister going down in the sleepy Colorado town. Impressively undeterred by the sight of people eating each other by a school bus during his fly-by, he instructs his pilot to drop him off on the mall roof and return for him in exactly three days. The rest, more or less, is up…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}