If you want to understand the new Saudi Arabia, don’t start with oil. Start with a video game.
The 39-year-old crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman — better known as MBS — grew up obsessed with video games, and he continues to play every morning, despite his heavy workload and five young children. His favorite game, Final Fantasy XVI, features a young heir to the throne who must retrieve a stolen crystal and discover he is the “True King.”
Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia and the son of the current king has transformed his conservative nation at breakneck speed. EPA
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“Videogames squeeze the brain to think,” the prince told veteran journalist Karen Elliott House, according to her
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