20 h. ago Virtual Monopoly, Uno and Yahtzee over the real thing? No thanks | Dominik Diamond

When our family board game night got cancelled, I sampled digital spins on the classics instead. I’m not sure I should have bothered – with one exception I don’t play video game versions of board games. Why would you? The whole point of video games is to be faster, more visually arresting, and less reliant on other humans than old games played with dice and cards. But a recent family board game night was derailed by clashing schedules and family civil war, so I spent a Saturday night trying them out on the iPhone instead.I started with Uno because that is the old family staple. We still use the Simpsons Uno set we got decades ago. It is simple and comforting, the chicken soup of card games. The iOS version is a different consommé altogether. A three-minute time limit for each round means it is as much about avoiding mistakes as it is about tactics. I like this development, but I miss the family banter (and ruthless switching allegiances) of our real-life family version. It’s not the...

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3 d. ago Ladbaby Mum flooded with compliments as she debuts weight loss transformation

LadBaby Mum Roxanne Hoyle has wowed fans by showcasing her slimmed down figure in a playful dance video that showed off her newfound confidence

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4 d. ago Out of Words – crafting gaming’s most unusual love story from clay and glue

Most games want you to save the world. This stop-motion adventure wants you to hold someone’s handStop-motion adventure Out of Words was one of the most striking reveals at this year’s Summer Game Fest. While most games are built from code, Out of Words is made from clay, fabric, and glue: a love story literally crafted by hand that even caught the attention of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima (“The biggest praise we could imagine,” game director Johan Oettinger says.)Oettinger dreamed of making a stop-motion video game since he was 12, when he first played 90s point-and-click claymation game The Neverhood. After years working across films, commercials and installation art, Out of Words became the project to merge these two lifelong passions. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Man United boss Ruben Amorim gave teary goodbye to players as dressing room video released

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1 week ago Some airports refuse to play Noem video on shutdown impact, saying it's political

Some airports around the country are saying they won’t play a video with a message from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown and its impacts on operations to screen travelers

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1 week ago Assad's new life in luxury 1,000ft Moscow skyscraper revealed: How exiled Syrian ruler 'spends his days playing video games' in plush flat and country villa

The deposed leader, branded the 'Butcher' for killing his own people, has found a new life in a plush tower after he was toppled in December, bringing an end to 24 years of dictatorship.

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1 week ago Donald Trump moans about Putin, gushes over 'cute' Barron and jokes about being shot in video with grandchild Kai

Donald Trump turned from President to doting grandfather in a new video filmed by his teenage granddaughter Kai, where they played a round of golf together.

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1 week ago Ballad of a Small Player’s Colin Farrell and Edward Berger admit they have ‘terrible’ poker faces

Colin Farrell and Edward Berger admitted they would be “terrible” in a game of poker at the premiere for Ballad of a Small Player.

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1 week ago Mum's urgent warning as son chokes on item invisible to hospital X

Holly Morrison says her 10-year-old son Michael was playing video games when he began to choke

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1 week ago ‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick

A decade after her debut became a cult hit, the US author talks about the true crime that inspired her latest novel, #MeToo overreach and being married to an addictChris Kraus regards the late success of her first book, I Love Dick, with ambivalence. A work of autofiction, first published in 1997, it chronicles Kraus’s infatuation with a cultural theorist named Dick, a doomed, one-sided love affair that nonetheless pulls Kraus, a depressed, 39-year-old failing film-maker languishing in a sexless marriage, out of her personal and artistic rut. After a slow start, the book became a cult classic and in 2016 it was made into an Amazon Prime Video TV series, with Kraus played by Kathryn Hahn. “To me, success would have been like a long review in the New York Review of Books, not being a character on a sitcom,” Kraus says now. Her commercial success was a financial boon, of course. “But who can stand by a book they wrote 20 years ago? It was massively embarrassing to go out and support th...

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2 w. ago Colin Farrell ‘lived in casino’ to play gambler in Ballad of a Small Player

Colin Farrell has revealed that he “lived in a casino” to get in character for his role as a gambler in Ballad of a Small Player.

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2 w. ago Anyone who plays mobile phone games urged to avoid costly mistake

Most of us rely on our mobile phones for communication, entertainment and work, but a common mistake could be causing you a problem, and you may not even realise

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3 w. ago Chad Powers review – Glen Powell gives one of the most magnetic and magical performances in memory

This goofy sports sitcom may sound like a Ted Lasso retread, but Powell turns a wacky premise into something funny, moving, deliberately uncomfortable and totally irresistible. What a feat!You don’t have to look too hard at Disney+’s new sitcom to see the stitches. This is a flagrant Frankenstein of a show; a grab bag of elements from things that are already incredibly popular. It’s a good-natured sports comedy in the mould of Ted Lasso. Its star is Glen Powell, a man with the fairly miraculous ability to unite both warring sides of 2025 America. It shamelessly lifts the plot of Mrs Doubtfire (the second highest grossing film worldwide in 1993, fact fans) and, according to the credits, it is based on a funny video of an American football player that went viral in 2022.It is thin gruel indeed, the sort of programme you imagine gets created after a particularly desperate ChatGPT session. And yet, despite this, Chad Powers is actually good. Better than good, in fact. It’s a funny, touc...

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4 w. ago Father of Kalamazoo player at center of viral video pleads with school board: ‘Please don’t take my son’s education away’

The boy’s father says his son has become the target of racist abuse on social media after the video was seen by 6 million people

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4 w. ago Dallas ICE shooter, 29, spent SEVENTEEN THOUSAND hours playing video games before opening fire

Joshua Jahn, 29, opened fire on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention camp in Dallas about 7am on Wednesday before killing himself. He became a loner video game addict before attack.

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4 w. ago Kyle Lowry's new role: NBA analyst for Prime Video, even while still playing for the 76ers

Kyle Lowry is joining Prime Video as an NBA analyst while continuing his playing career with the Philadelphia 76ers

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