15 h. 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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38 h. ago Amazon Prime Day 2025 dates confirmed as mega shopping event returns with huge deals

A range of deals will be available on everything from beauty gadgets and trainers to mobile phones and laptops

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40 h. ago Huge 2025 game from legendary developer gets staggering delay as fans call for it to be cancelled

Bungie's next big project, Marathon, has been delayed indefinitely, and it sounds as though the studio is going back to the drawing board - but same fans just want the team to cancel it

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55 h. ago Lola Young & More Huge British Names Honored at 2025 ASCAP London Awards: Full Winners List

Lola Young & More Huge British Names Honored at 2025 ASCAP London Awards: Full Winners List  Billboard

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3 d. ago Tony Bellew issues update after worrying Soccer Aid exit as he pleads with fans

The former boxing champ was lined up to play for the World XI side as the huge charity match returned for 2025

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3 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Gorka Marquez drops huge names for 2025 line

Strictly Come Dancing fans are eagerly awaiting the line-up for the 2025 series, and it looks as though one I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! winner could be swapping bugs for the ballroom.

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5 d. ago Parklife 2025 LIVE: Thousands head to Heaton Park for day one of huge music festival with big headliner

More than 80,000 people will be heading to Heaton Park today

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6 d. ago Which tram to get for Parklife 2025 as 50 Cent and Charli XCX headline huge festival

Metrolink services will be busier than usual

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9 d. ago Florian Wirtz conspiracy theory as Liverpool fans worry over transfer announcement delay

Liverpool fans have a conspiracy theory as to why Florian Wirtz hasn't been unveiled as a Red and it has to do with their upcoming Adidas deal

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1 week ago Love Island 2025 couples in full as show returns with huge twist

Love Island 2025 is back and the first couples have been confirmed - but which singles have been paired up with who? Here's the first couples of the new series

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1 week ago Love Island 2025 first look with huge new twist and format change

Love Island launches tonight as 12 brand new islanders hope to find love in the Mallorcan villa this summer

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1 week ago James Bond fans believe Daniel Craig's replacement will be much younger star as new actor's name is thrown in the mix

James Bond fans are speculating over who will replace legendary Daniel Craig in the new 007 First Light game.

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2 w. ago BBC Radio 2 In The Park 2025 ticket prices and how to book for huge music festival

The festival will be held in Chelmsford's Hylands Park this September

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2 w. ago Predicting England’s Euro 2025 squad after three huge shocks

Sarina Wiegman is preparing to name her 23-player squad as the Lionesses embark on their bid for back-to-back Euros

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2 w. ago WWDC 2025: Everything Apple is expected to announce at huge live event

Apple is about to hold one of its biggest events of the year – and launch some of the most substantial changes in its history.

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2 w. ago Britain's Got Talent 2025 winner Harry Moulding teases 'huge' King Charles twist for Royal Variety performance

The magician shared how it felt to win the final and his hopes to include King Charles in his Royal Variety performance

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2 w. ago Giro d’Italia winner Simon Yates hails ‘huge moment in my career’

Lancastrian claims second Grand Tour victory‘I’m in disbelief I have managed to pull it off’Simon Yates reflected on a “sweet success” he had been targeting for much of his life after a spectacular and decisive coup in Saturday’s final mountain stage ensured he would ride to victory in the Giro d’Italia on Sunday.At 32, the Lancastrian had not been tipped to add to his sole Grand Tour victory, the 2018 Tour of Spain, but in the mammoth stage over the Colle Delle Finestre, he confounded those expectations to win the sport’s second most prestigious race, after the Tour de France. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Coldplay 2025 tour: How to buy tickets on resale and with VIP now

Coldplay will tour the UK in 2025, with a huge ten-date residency at Wembley Stadium in London, as well as a number of other stops across the country - and here's how you can get your tickets

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2 w. ago ‘As we explored, we noticed this huge cow’: Jennifer Newitt’s best phone picture

High above a Swiss mountain village, an American holidaymaker found herself enchanted It was the last day of Jennifer Newitt’s holiday in the Swiss Alps, and she and her husband were hankering after one more excursion before their flight home to the US. High above Wengen, the village they were staying in, they noticed the Grindelwald–Männlichen mountain gondola cableway. Despite pouring rain, sunshine was forecast for later in the day, so they decided to give it a go.“The rain stopped shortly after we arrived at the small cable car station, and we began the 15-minute walk to the summit. Because of the conditions, we had the mountain to ourselves for a while. As we explored, we noticed this huge cow.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago George RR Martin is done with fans still complaining about Winds of Winter delay: ‘You have given up on me’

Author says he is producing adaptation of late friend Howard Waldrop's novella

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