41 h. ago South of Midnight review – a snackable gothic fairytale adventure direct from the Xbox 360 era

The latest title from Compulsion Games is wonderfully inspired in the way it looks and sounds, yet greatly disappoints with how simple the act of moving through it turns out to be.

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41 h. ago South of Midnight review: A fresh, emotional action game that shines on Xbox

Xbox Game Pass is getting a cracker of a new title here on day one as South of Midnight offers a brilliantly fresh console hit combining several classic gameplay tropes

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44 h. ago Borderlands 3 arrives on Xbox Game Pass with South of Midnight on day one in April's first game drop

Xbox Game Pass decided that the day of the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct would be the right day to drop a new collection of games – it was wrong, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth paying attention to.

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50 h. ago Lucy Letby barrister to hand over ‘fresh’ evidence to Criminal Cases Review Commission

Lucy Letby, 35, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted across two trials at Manchester Crown Court

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68 h. ago Lucy Letby's legal team are poised to deliver 'fresh evidence' to commission reviewing killer nurse's case

Mark McDonald (right) said he would be presenting the 'fresh evidence' to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, at its headquarters in Birmingham at 12pm.

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5 d. ago ‘Unbelievable’ Nico O’Reilly ‘changed the game’ as Man City prospect shines in FA Cup

O’Reilly came on at half-time and grabbed two assists as City came from behind to beat Bournemouth

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7 d. ago Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia review – a fresh start

(Down the Road)The bluegrass star and band reconvene with a new co-vocalist on this slick yet understated set drawing on old-time roots and more recent concernsArcadia is big news in US roots music. In the 14 years since Union Station’s last LP, its Grammy-winning members have not been idle. Singer and fiddle player Alison Krauss, for one, has released solo outings and a second Robert Plant collaboration. Key foil Dan Tyminski (guitar, vocals), meanwhile, remains focused on his solo career. So Arcadia marks a fresh start with co-vocalist Russell Moore (ex-IIIrd Tyme Out). “His pitch – he’s just a laser beam,” said Krauss in the New York Times.The two swap lead vocals across 10 tracks whose often mournful subject matter naturally harks back to times past. The production may be slick but rings with understated eloquence. The banjo-driven Richmond on the James records the dying words of a civil war soldier; Krauss’s pristine vocal hovers above the fray, surveying blood and feeling. Moo...

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9 d. ago Snow White 'review bombed' by livid viewers as Disney reboot suffers fresh disaster after struggling to fill cinemas

The remake of the 1937 classic had a promising start with a budget of more than $270million (£210million) and a star-studded cast, with Rachel Zegler taking the title role.

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3 w. ago The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’

A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtainIn, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I was about to go to Moscow. “A Russian friend of mine would dearly like the latest volume of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. I don’t suppose you’d smuggle it in for him?” I did, of course, disguising it rather feebly by wrapping it in the dust jacket of the most boring book I owned: Lebanon, A Country in Transition. A customs official at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport flicked through it briefly, but even though the text was in Russian he didn’t spot what it was about. Two nights later, near the entrance to Gorky Park, I handed over the book to a shifty character who seemed to be a supplier of forbidden goods to the dissident community. He gave me a small 18th-century icon in exchange for it.It’s only now, all these years later, that I’ve realised I was almost certainly a rather n...

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