3 d. ago ‘Don’t you besmirch Super Mario Bros!’: how video game adaptations became prestige TV

From The Last of Us to Fallout, the days of ropey dramas stemming from consoles is over. Television insiders open up about why high-end shows and gaming now go hand-in-handTwo teenagers plan how to dispatch their latest undead enemy: a kill-shot to the head, or a knife in the side of the neck? One of them throws a glass bottle, distracting their prey. Then she goes in for the kill with all the breezy confidence of a kid playing a video game on easy.It’s a rare moment of playfulness in the second-season opener of The Last of Us, a show that generally takes its storytelling deadly seriously. While the wildly lucrative Minecraft movie strip-mines its IP for laughs, this celebrated HBO series, adapted from the PlayStation titles of the same name, is as focused on taut character drama as the thrills and spills of the zombie genre. Continue reading...

Culture

5 d. ago Death Row man picks firing squad in second execution after failed plea for clemency

Mikal Mahdi, 41, was sentenced to death for the brutal slaying of an off-duty cop in South Carolina in 2004 after he'd already fatally shot a convenience store clerk in the head

Events

1 week ago Big tech whistleblower Suchir Balaji 'was shot twice' in the head in 'suicide' as parents make bombshell claims

Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead on November 26 only a month after revealing the company's dubious methods of training ChatGPT. His parents claim his death wasn't a suicide.

Events

2 w. ago Woman recalls terrifying day estranged husband shot her seven times over divorce request

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: Tina Davis, 58, was shot in the chest, head, left forearm, left thumb, left shoulder and right hip. She continues to undergo therapy to regain mobility and function

Events

2 w. ago ‘This is no isolated event’: attack on Palestinian director brings rising settler violence into focus

Activists fear unprecedented levels of violence, with the apparent backing of Israeli authorities, part of drive to force Palestinians out of the West BankIt was around 6pm, just after its Palestinian residents had finished their daily Ramadan fast, dozens of masked Israeli settlers, armed with batons, knives and assault rifles, entered the West Bank village of Susiya in the rural Masafer Yatta area of the south Hebron hills. Among them were a group of Israeli soldiers who escorted the settlers into the village where Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, lives.About three weeks after appearing on stage at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles to accept the Oscar, Ballal has become the victim of the very violence shown in his film. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Four alpacas are 'executed' after being shot in the head with a rifle in small village

Horrified Dawn French was alerted to the bloodbath in the morning and rushed to the horrific 'murder scene' at her six-acre field in a small Cambridgeshire village.

Politics

3 w. ago Man shot in the head and killed during London attack is named

Police rushed to Waverley Road, Tottenham, at 8.45pm on Thursday, March 20, following reports that two men had been shot.

Events

3 w. ago Man dies after being shot in the head during double London shooting

Police were called to a double shooting in Tottenham, London, after a man in his 20s was shot in the head, while another man, who was also in his 20s, was shot in the leg

Events

3 w. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby executed

Wendell Arden Grissom was executed by lethal injection nearly two decades after he shot Amber Dawn Matthews in the head as she shielded her friends newborn baby

Events

3 w. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby has been executed

Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025 on Thursday, March 20, giving a lethal injection to a confessed killer who had said in his first interview with police that he wanted the death penalty

Events

4 w. ago 'I still love you son, it's not your fault okay?': How Nicholas Prosper's father stood by son after lad murdered his family

Raymond Prosper uncontrollably sobbed as he heard the horrific details of how his son shot his sister, brother, and mother in the head.

Events