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...

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6 d. ago Sam Warburton: Why I left Cardiff Rugby board and the ambitious ideas I proposed

Warburton says he's optimistic about the club's future, but says the situation around the ownership of the Cardiff Arms Park is still problematic

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8 d. ago Today's rugby news as Sam Warburton resigns and Arms Park match moved due to 'exceptional circumstances'

The latest breaking rugby news stories from Wales and beyond

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9 d. ago Troy Deeney makes surprising view clear on vile Man Utd chants about Phil Foden's mum

Phil Foden was subjected to vile chants from sections of the Manchester United crowd but Troy Deeney has suggested that the reaction has been blown out of proportion

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2 w. ago Sam Warburton corrects Ben Kay live on air as Welsh Lions chances given blunt answer

Sam Warburton doesn't think there will be many Welshmen on the Lions tour.

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2 w. ago Myanmar earthquake: woman trapped for days pulled alive from the rubble

Brief moment of relief as rescue workers carry a woman from the rubble of a hotel in Mandalay after a five-hour operationMyanmar earthquake: What we know so farA woman trapped beneath the remains of a hotel building for nearly 60 hours after a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar was pulled alive from the rubble on Monday, officials said, in a rare moment of hope for rescue teams scrambling to find survivors.Rescuers, many of them unequipped volunteers, have spent days trying to free people from buildings collapsed following Friday’s huge earthquake, which killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago My brain could explode at any moment thanks to a rare condition that's made me a prisoner in my own body

Amber Ford, 31, from South Lanarkshire, Scotland, was diagnosed with up to three aneurysms in her brain after an MRI scan in 2024 - but her symptoms started six years earlier.

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3 w. ago Sam Warburton and crowd blown away by rare moment as kicker left stunned

Wales legend Sam Warburton was hugely impressed by Will Muir's determination.

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3 w. ago Kieran Culkin's wife shares rare insight into marriage and moment she knew he was 'The One'

Jazz Charton has opened up about her marriage to Oscar-winning star Kieran Culkin and shared details of their early dating years and moment she knew he was 'the one'

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3 w. ago Sam Warburton stunned as monster tackle on England star 'one of the biggest hits' he's ever seen

Sam Warburton was initially concerned about the legality of the hit

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