6 h. ago Death Stranding 2 early access release time, and when you can play Sam Porter Bridges' new chapter

The Death Stranding 2 early access release time is almost upon us, meaning the next chapter in Sam Porter Bridges' story is almost here. PS5 and PS4 players can download the game from a specific time, here's everything you need to know.

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10 h. ago Death Stranding 2: On the Beach review in progress – plodding and gripping in equal measure so far

The follow-up to Hideo Kojima's passion project is similarly bloated and meandering, but it's made up for by amazing cinematic set pieces and particularly poignant moments of gameplay.

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46 h. ago When I think about the burglar menacing my mother, the memories are slippery. She wasn’t chirping. She was screaming

Natasha Sholl was four ( or perhaps five?) when a man entered her family home wielding a knife ( or a box cutter? or a screwdriver?)My mother is chirping, like a small bird. I laugh. What a fun game. And when I run through the house to find her, there is a man in a balaclava with a knife to her throat. She is not chirping. She is screaming. The expectation of one thing when the opposite is true. And yet in my memory it is still a chirp, not a scream.When I think about the robbery, even now, decades later, it is my toes that tingle. My ankles. I was four at the time. Or five. I do not remember. Time, what a slippery thing. My friend Hayley was over to play. Sometime after the chirping, the man with a knife to my mother’s throat told us to go upstairs to my room and not to open the door. I do not remember this happening but, when I reverse-engineer the events, I know it to be true. Until it’s not. Maybe it was my mum. Maybe my mum had told us to go to my room and not to come out. What...

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63 h. ago Death Stranding 2 fans 'work out big twist' for Elle Fanning's character before release

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach will be released for PlayStation 5 on June 26, and fans are already convinced they know what the big reveal will be for Elle Fanning's character

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3 d. ago British & Irish Lions v Argentina live: Latest updates as Tadhg Beirne restores hosts’ lead in Dublin

The quadrennial tourists play on Irish soil for the first time as they take on the Pumas at the Aviva Stadium

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3 d. ago British and Irish Lions v Argentina live: Latest score and updates as Bundee Aki try gives hosts lead

The quadrennial tourists play on Irish soil for the first time as they take on the Pumas at the Aviva Stadium

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3 d. ago Fries with everything: fans swelter on Headingley’s Test return as Jaiswal tucks in

Queues for water refills and ice creams surpassed even those for beer at a sun-baked ground offering unseasonably hot sustenanceAfter two years without a Test here, 23 in which India’s red-ball side had visited only once, seven months since the last tickets for the first three days were snapped up and six in which the sum total of England’s action in this format had been a low-key three-day win over Zimbabwe, it is fair to say that Leeds was ready for this. Or at least, in classic Yorkshire fashion, that it would be ready in its own sweet time.Play started with the stands barely half-full and television commentators feeling they had to remind viewers the day was actually a sellout. That much was swiftly evident, but as India’s batters settled in for the long haul there was no need for anyone to hurry. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago British and Irish Lions v Argentina live: Latest updates from opening tour match in Dublin

The quadrennial tourists play on Irish soil for the first time as they take on the Pumas at the Aviva Stadium

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3 d. ago Get ready for Death Stranding 2 with huge deal on the first game before Steam Summer Sale

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is one of this year's most anticipated video game releases, and if you've yet to play the original, then you're in luck...

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4 d. ago ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to spaceHideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Aus...

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6 d. ago Stars align as Raducanu to pair with Alcaraz in mixed doubles at US Open

Top players to vie for increased prize of £740,000Couple Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa will team upThere will be a sprinkling of stardust at the US Open mixed doubles later this summer with Carlos Alcaraz partnering British No 1 Emma Raducanu in an event many top players have decided to give a try for the first time.Jannik Sinner will play alongside the world No 9 Emma Navarro, while British No 1 Jack Draper will partner Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen. Novak Djokovic, meanwhile, has agreed to play with his Serbian compatriot Olga Danilovic. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Bavuma’s brave team make giant leap for South African Test cricket | Andy Bull

With World Test Championship win, the Proteas have made a strong case for Tests to gain greater prominence at homeSouth Africa lost their shot at winning this World Test Championship in 2022, when their board announced the team were going to play 28 games in the next four years. They lost it for a second time during the spring of last year, when they packed their reserve team off to play a series against New Zealand because their centrally contracted players had to stay back and play in a franchise tournament.They lost it a third time when the team were bowled out for 138 on Thursday morning and they lost it a fourth when they let Australia’s tail put on 134 runs for the last four wickets, leaving them needing 282 to win. Finally, after they had just about run out of ways to lose, they won. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Schoolchildren burst into brilliant Welsh national anthem at Japanese train station

It's the first time Wales will play Japan since November 2016.

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1 week ago Liam Gallagher admits huge regret over Oasis split ahead of reunion tour

The Oasis singer, 52, said his time away from the legendary Britpop band has been “a waste of our precious time” as Oasis prepare to play reunion dates.

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1 week ago UN to vote on resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire, hostage release and aid access

The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and the opening of all Israeli border crossings for deliveries of desperately needed food and other aid

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2 w. ago Women and men diverge more than ever on support for abortion rights, poll shows

Gallup poll found 61% of women identify as pro-choice, while only 41% of men do so, in three years after fall of RoeThree years after the fall of Roe v Wade and months after an election that heavily focused on the fight over abortion rights, men and women have never diverged more on their support for access to the procedure, according to new polling from Gallup released Monday.Sixty-one percent of women now identify as “pro-choice”, but only 41% of men say the same, Gallup found. The same percentage of women identified as “pro-choice” in 2022, just after the decision to overturn Roe was leaked, but at the time, 48% of men also did so. Prior to Roe’s collapse, men and women were never more than 10 points apart from one another on the issue, according to decades of Gallup polling. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Wary' Emma Raducanu opens up on coping with her stalker ordeal as she returns to play in the UK for the first time since being left in tears in Dubai

The 2021 US Open champion pulled off one of the great underdog stories in the history of all sports when she won her maiden Grand Slam title as a qualifier in New York as a teenager.

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2 w. ago Scott Morrison sought advice to obstruct Nauru asylum seekers from accessing abortions, documents reveal

Advocate claims Abbott government was concerned asylum seekers and refugees were using medical transfers as a back door to get into AustraliaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastScott Morrison overrode medical advice in the case of an asylum seeker in offshore detention trying to access an abortion, and had previously sought advice that would effectively prevent access to terminations entirely, ministerial advice reveals.Documents released under freedom of information laws show Morrison, in 2014 as immigration minister, had sought advice to deny the transfer of women to a hospital on the Australian mainland to access termination services before 20 weeks’ gestation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Wales international left heartbroken amid wild promotion celebrations

Sam Davies and Grenoble were hoping to make it third time lucky in the Pro D2 play-off final, but underdogs Montauban spoiled their day

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2 w. ago The ‘shocking’ truth behind Aryna Sabalenka’s French Open destruction of Iga Swiatek

Sabalenka won 19 of the final 21 points to power over the finish line against the three-time defending champion, and will play Coco Gauff in Saturday’s final

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