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What happens when a South African video game challenges centuries of colonial storytelling? In this piece, archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Lauren Powell explores Relooted, an upcoming game by Nyamakop that turns the traditional "tomb raiding" narrative on its head. Through archaeology, museums, repatriation, and African history, she unpacks how gaming can become a powerful tool for reclaiming cultural heritage, restoring context to stolen artefacts, and reimagining who gets to tell Africa's stories.

The phenomenon of AI Cannibalism, technically known as Model Collapse, refers to a degenerative process that occurs when generative artificial intelligence models begin to be predominantly trained on data produced by other AIs. This feedback loop creates a "curse of recursion," where the nuances of original human information are lost, resulting in a convergence towards a simplified, homogeneous, and often hallucination-filled reality.

The industry prides itself on being fast-paced, proliferating new ideas and constantly shifting, yet it stays rooted in decades-old biases. In this piece I wanted to highlight the women whom I wasn't taught about, connect their absence in history books to present ideologies, and touch on the link between TFGBV (tech-facilitated gender-based violence), gender norms and misogyny.