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Miami Herald
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
New heist video game lets players reclaim 70 real African artifacts from museums
An independent video game studio from South Africa plans to release a game that allows players to take back 'real African artifacts from Western museums.' Nyamakop, the developers of 'Relooted,' call it an 'Africanfuturist heist game,' according to a June 7 news release from Mooncat Games. Set at the end of the 21st century, the game's plot involves the fictional 'Transatlantic Returns Treaty,' designed to facilitate the return of African artifacts from museums to their rightful owners. The treaty gets amended and museums are only obligated to return artifacts on public display, giving them a loophole to exploit, according to a press release from Nyamakop. The game features 70 artifacts that need to be repatriated, 'all of which exist in real-life and are of huge cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to the people they were taken from,' the studio said in the release. All the Western museums in the game, however, are fictional. One of the artifacts players must reclaim is a drum from Kenya. The people of Kenya believed the drum, which held great spiritual significance, had been destroyed, when it reality, it has been in storage at the British Museum for the last century, Ben Myres, the creative director of 'Relooted,' told Epic Games. The first Kenyan person to lay eyes on the drum in 2010 was a descendant of the king from whom it was stolen in 1870, Myres told the outlet. 'We want to give people information about how important these artifacts were to the people they were taken from,' he told the outlet. 'And then people can make their own decisions if they think the artifacts should stay in the museums or not.' Game experience Planning an escape route is just as important as the heist itself, according to the studio. The side scroller-style game allows players to recruit a team with skills that will complement the mission and time to 'case' the museums to plan their route, a process that involves a series of puzzles, creators said. When the artifact is removed, a countdown timer starts, triggering what 'should feel like you're in the fun, montage part of a heist movie,' the studio said. 'Relooted' does not yet have a release date. Nyamakop's first game, Semblance, launched in 2018. It was 'the first African developed IP to launch on any Nintendo console ever' and is ranked as one of Metacritic's top 100 best PC games of 2018, according to the studio.
IOL News
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
From drag queens to opera: Cape Town's theatre line-up this week
'Happy Days Are Here Again… Again!' presents two drag queens teamed up with a few iconic dancers and singers in a fun-filled feel-good comedy . Image: Facebook Belinda Boutique, played by Darryl Spijkers, is a quirky seamstress living in small-town Bonnievale with her pets, sewing machine and a fridge that flashes attitude. When her costume shop faces eviction, her fabulous drag friend Scrumpy Holly swoops in to help. Expect chaos, cheeky appliances, nostalgic laughs and a soundtrack from "Mamma Mia" to "Chicago". It's a sentimental and spicy local musical. Heads up: grown-ups only. Where: Playhouse Theatre, Somerset West. When: Tuesday, May 20, to Saturday, May 31 at 7.30pm. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Ad Loading Cape Town Opera's Aida returns with an all-African cast in a striking Africanfuturist setting. Set amidst war and cultural conflict, it tells the story of love and betrayal between an enslaved Ethiopian princess and an Egyptian commander. Where: Opera House, Artscape Theatre. When: Friday, May 23, to Saturday, May 31, at 3pm and 7pm. Aldo Brincat's "The Moon Looks Delicious From Here" is a moving solo performance exploring identity, heritage and sexuality. Set during apartheid, this autobiographical play follows a father and son navigating family, faith and politics while trying to belong in a fractured, volatile South Africa. Where: The Baxter Theatre. When: Tuesday, May 20, to Saturday, May 31, at 3pm and 7.30pm.
