28 h. ago Keeper review: An odd Xbox game where you play a lighthouse exploring beautiful lands

Double Fine have come up with an amazingly beautiful video game on the Xbox consoles that aims to let you interpret the story in a gentle puzzle title with no humans

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30 h. ago Keeper review – an artistic and visually arresting adventure through the mind of Double Fine

Double Fine has put together an astoundingly beautiful and cinematic puzzle game that isn't afraid to surprise and delight you in equal measure.

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8 d. ago The Adam Clery Football Column: Get a newsletter that unpacks the beautiful game’s absurdities and oddities

Offering witty insights and tactical deep-dives, Adam Clery’s new email offering makes sense (and fun) of football’s biggest talking points

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9 d. ago Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story – exhilarating record of game

London film festival Brathwaite’s empowering images of African Americans in the 1960s gave a new generation a fresh template for representation, brilliantly honoured hereThere have been some fascinating documentaries about photographers: Tish Murtha; Martin Parr; Vivian Maier. Maybe the movie documentary form is something that naturally comes alive when showcasing particularly vivid still images. Here is another outstanding example, from writer-director Yemi Bamiro, about the remarkable career of Kwame Brathwaite, a photographer, musician and African American activist who was a unique politico-aesthete. With his brother Elombe, he virtually invented the phrase “Black Is Beautiful” in the 1960s by photographing the Grandassa Models in Harlem: young African American women who became the sensational template for beauty, doing away with the usual cosmetic products and the usual white standard of femininity.Black Is Beautiful became a radical rallying cry, an inspired three-word prose po...

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9 d. ago Liverpool go to work and Diogo Jota is not there. Why wouldn’t that affect them? | Max Rushden

We know so little about players’ personal feelings. It means everyone’s analysis of the game is fundamentally superficialA couple of weeks ago, Liverpool seemed on course to win the Premier League for the second season running and probably the Champions League too. The Reds’ run of winning without being that good made it feel inevitable. Winning when not at your best is, after all, a sign (™) of a title-winning side, Clive.But then Liverpool continued playing not particularly well and started losing. At the same time perennial second-placed, high-performance cowards Arsenal, who have an excellent defence and now at least two very good players in every position, started to close the gap. Arise Sir Mikel. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?

I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the causeThere are many reasons to feel guilty. I’m a nature writer who preaches about the importance of wild childhoods, and my daughter has been made chronically ill by one trip to the countryside. I’m a journalist whose job it is to interrogate information and yet I didn’t demand better answers for her from NHS doctors. But the guilt is most painful when I remember a freezing wet day in October 2021.Milly’s U10s football club were playing the league’s top team. Milly, player of the year the previous season, a whirl of blond energy across the pitch, had lost her enthusiasm for the beautiful game. That morning, she really didn’t want to play: she was tearful and exhausted. There was nothing obviously wrong: no cough, sickness, temperature. Her twin, Esme, was playing but without Milly the team were a player short. I told Milly they needed her. Stoic...

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3 w. ago Chelsea remain a puzzle under Enzo Maresca but the vital next step is obvious

Chelsea under Maresca have shown they can beat anyone, but their progress and structural consistency is being held back by a pattern of glaring issues, writes Adam Clery

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