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Sarah is an Australian freelance journalist based in the North East of England. Her work has been published on Polygon, Eurogamer, TechRadar and in Wireframe Magazine. She loves to cover the intersections between technology and mindfulness, as well as research video game history and its many oddities. She also has a keen interest in art and how it is being nurtured through the medium of Virtual Reality.

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