7 h. ago Wales Women handed tough lesson by the Netherlands in Euro 2025 opener

Wales went down 3-0 to the Netherlands in their opening Euro 2025 game in Switzerland

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13 h. ago England have gamechangers galore but must find another way to win Euros again | Emma Hayes

In Beever-Jones, Hampton, Russo and James, Sarina Wiegman has a core of quality players in a squad brimful of experienceI would always rather enter a competition as champions than underdogs because you’ve got something to hold on to. Once you win, you know what winning looks like. England know how to do it and as the defence of their European title gets under way on Saturday do not underestimate how powerful that feeling is.When you are the holders, the most important thing to get right is your internal hunger and understand you’ve got a target on your back in every fixture. To counter that, you have to find another level in yourself because a title cannot be won the same way you won it before. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Spain dazzle, Ada delivers and England prepare for France – Women’s Football Weekly

Faye Carruthers is joined by Tom Garry, Sophie Downey and Tim Stillman to review the opening games of Euro 2025 and preview England and Wales’ tough starts in Group DOn the podcast today: Euro 2025 is officially under way, and it’s Spain who’ve set the pace with a dominant 5-0 win over Portugal. Elsewhere, Italy edges Belgium to stake their claim as dark horses, and Ada Hegerberg’s 50th international goal helps Norway stun hosts Switzerland.There’s a shock win for Finland over Iceland, Vicky López announces herself on the big stage, and we learn a lot about cheese, fondue, and Swiss wine along the way. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Former GTA boss behind MindsEye disaster makes bizarre claim and blames 'saboteurs' for flop

MindsEye was touted as one of 2025's most anticipated games but turned into a bit of a disaster. And now former GTA lead Leslie Benzies, behind the game, has made an usual claim

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35 h. ago Euro 2025 live: England build up to opening game against France and Lauren James update

England take on France on Saturday evening while the action continues today with two games from Group C

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48 h. ago PlayStation Plus free PS4 and PS5 games for July 2025 confirmed with huge name added

The PS Plus free games list for July 2025 has been confirmed and will be headlined by the dungeon crawler Diablo 4. Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming additions for PS Plus members.

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55 h. ago Minutes silence to be at women's Euros as tributes pour in to "champion player" Diogo Jota

Portugal's women's team will pay their respects to tragic compatriot Diogo Jota ahead of their game against Spain at Euro 2025 after Uefa confirmed a minute's silence will be held at matches

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3 d. ago Tony Hawk's latest title shreds onto Xbox Game Pass in July's first games lineup

The Xbox Game Pass July 2025 update has dropped, and it's led by the return of a classic series that players have been waiting to see make its way back to the service

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3 d. ago Three Ubisoft chiefs found guilty of enabling culture of sexual harassment

Former staff likened offices of video game company in Paris to ‘boys’ club above the law’Three former executives at the video game company Ubisoft have been given suspended prison sentences for enabling a culture of sexual and psychological harassment in the workplace at the end of the first big trial to stem from the #MeToo movement in the gaming industry.The court in Bobigny, north of Paris, had heard how the former executives used their position to bully or sexually harass staff, leaving women terrified and feeling like pieces of meat. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago From Pong to Wii Sports: the surprising legacy of tennis in gaming history

From the lab-born Tennis for Two to the console classics of Nintendo and Sega, the sport has been a constant, foundational force in gaming’s riseWith Wimbledon under way, I am going to grasp the opportunity to make a perhaps contentious claim: tennis is the most important sport in the history of video games.Sure, nowadays the big sellers are EA Sports FC, Madden and NBA 2K, but tennis has been foundational to the industry. It was a simple bat-and-ball game, created in 1958 by scientist William Higinbotham at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, that is widely the considered the first ever video game created purely for entertainment. Tennis for Two ran on an oscilloscope and was designed as a minor diversion for visitors attending the lab’s annual open day, but when people started playing, a queue developed that eventually extended out of the front door and around the side of the building. It was the first indication that computer games might turn out to be popular....

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3 d. ago Donkey Kong Bananza: gorilla finds his groove with Mariah Carey on his shoulder

For his first Nintendo Switch 2 appearance, DK goes on a rhythmic rampage, powered up to new hulking heights by singing sidekick Pauline. It’s big, brash and impossibly enjoyableWhile searching for gold in the dingy mines of Ingot Isle, a severe storm sweeps dungaree-donning hero Donkey Kong into a vast underground world. You think he’d be distraught, yet with the subterranean depths apparently rich in banana-shaped gemstones, DK gleefully uses his furry fists to pummel and burrow his way towards treasure. From here, the first Donkey Kong platformer since 2014 is a dirt-filled journey to the centre of the Earth.Much like the Battlefield games of old, Bananza is built to let you pulverise its destructible environments as you see fit. That seemingly enclosed starting area? You can burrow your way through the floor. Bored with jumping through a cave? Batter your way through the wall instead. There’s a cathartic mindlessness to smashing seven shades of stone out of every inch of the gro...

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4 d. ago Squid Game season three breaks Netflix viewership record with 60.1m views

Final season of the smash series scores a new record for the streaming platform in the first three daysThe third and final season of the hit Korean series Squid Game has broken records to become the biggest-ever TV launch for Netflix.Over its first three days, the series racked up more than 60.1m views, a new high for the streamer, with more than 368.4m hours viewed. The second season launched with 68m views but over a four-day period last December. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Xbox Game Pass July 2025 lineup is revealed and it has huge advantage over PlayStation Plus

Xbox Game Pass titles for July have been revealed, and it continues a strong trend — and the arrival of a big day one launch keeps Microsoft's service clear of its PlayStation rival

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4 d. ago Moonlight Peaks: your chance to live as a tiny vegan vampire

Dracula’s daughter seeks a more peaceful life making plant-based blood substitutes in this Stardew-Valley-inspired, gently creepy farming gameWhat if you were a tiny, vegan vampire? That’s the question posed by Moonlight Peaks, the gen Z-coded, achingly TikTok-ready supernatural life sim. Inspired by the popularity of “cosy games” such as Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, Moonlight Peaks drapes you in the cape of Dracula’s daughter, who has fled her father’s corpse-ridden home to start a new, peaceful life.Soon, she settles among werewolves and witches in the supernatural farming town of Moonlight Peaks, where she grows crops and rears animals instead of subsisting on the blood of innocents. Both cosy and creepy, the game has you creating your own plant-based blood substitutes, befriending the town’s residents and fixing a whole host of problems left in daddy Dracula’s wake.Moonlight Peaks is out on PC in 2026 Continue reading...

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5 d. ago July 2025's biggest new game releases for console and PC – Tony Hawk, Donkey Kong and more

July is here, and that means new video games to continue playing throughout Summer – here are our picks across all platforms, including Nintendo's first big Switch 2 game since the console launched

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5 d. ago PS Plus Essential July 2025 games release time, and when you can download the PS5 and PS4 games

PS Plus Essential subscribers have been treated to an impressive line-up of games this month, with Diablo 4 set to be available to download for free very soon

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7 d. ago Former Lionesses keeper pinpoints 'essential' decision for Sarina Wiegman on eve of Euros

Sarina Wiegman has lost three experienced England stars in the lead-up to the 2025 European Championships, with just one warm-up game to go before the tournament

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8 d. ago Squid Game final season review – an ending so WTF it entirely beggars belief

After a wild new player is forced to join the game without consent, the action gets even more operatic and bloodthirsty. But if you can get on board with the twists – and that’s a big if – you will not believe what happens in the last minute The two main talking points of the third and final season of Squid Game are both massive spoilers. This means that I won’t be able to mention the final minute of the whole thing, which contains a moment so WTF and genuinely surprising that I bet my editor a serious amount of money she wouldn’t be able to guess what happens. She couldn’t, thankfully, but such reckless gambling is the sort of behaviour that would land me in Squid Game in the first place, so it just shows that nobody here has learned any lessons from it whatsoever.Nor should I talk about another key development, though in this case, it becomes so central that it needs to be mentioned somehow. So, vaguely speaking, a new player is forced to enter the games, without being capable of ...

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9 d. ago Ryan Reynolds' Wrexham find out Championship 2025/26 fixtures and big first game

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have discovered their Wrexham future as the Championship and EFL fixtures have been released - with a tricky away day to start

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9 d. ago A real issue: video game developers are being accused of using AI – even when they aren’t

Generative AI is causing new and unusual problems for developers as players become more sensitive to the use of artificially generated ‘slop’ imagesIn April, game developer Stamina Zero achieved what should have been a marketing slam-dunk: the launch trailer for the studio’s game Little Droid was published on PlayStation’s official YouTube channel. The response was a surprise for the developer. The game looks interesting, people wrote in the comments, but was “ruined” by AI art. But the game’s cover art, used as the thumbnail for the YouTube video, was in fact made by a real person, according to developer Lana Ro. “We know the artist, we’ve seen her work, so such a negative reaction was unexpected for us, and at first we didn’t know how to respond or how to feel,” Ro said. “We were confused.”It’s not wrong for people to be worried about AI use in video games – in fact, it’s good to be sceptical, and ensure that the media you support aligns with your values. Common arguments against ...

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