21 h. ago Punchdrunk's new live action video game is searching for early access players

Everything to know about how to become a part of this IRL multiplayer stealth survival game set in space

Sport

27 h. ago ‘It’s high stakes, high adrenaline’ – Punchdrunk head into space with video game influenced new show

‘It’s high stakes, high adrenaline’ – Punchdrunk head into space with video game influenced new show  Time Out Worldwide

Culture

28 h. ago Married teacher raped boy after luring child to her home for 'play dates'

Alley Bardfield took an 11-year-old pupil home for 'play dates' and gave him money before sharing naked pictures of herself and the boy on social media.

Society

35 h. ago Only an actual genius can solve this 'fiendish' puzzle in less than 30 seconds

A tricky riddle is leaving the internet baffled as only a true genius can solve it in less than 30 seconds - but will you get it correct? This devilish puzzle ought to be child's play

Politics

3 d. ago Ludocene is the ‘Tinder for Games’ app that just might help solve the issue of game discoverability

With thousands of new games releasing on Steam and digital console storefronts each year, Ludocene aims to make finding your next favourite video game a lot less intimidating.

Politics

3 d. ago Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

Locarno film festivalBen Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adultsEnglish experimentalist Ben Rivers offers up another challenging, intriguing cine-poem, this time on the nature of existence and the end of the world. It is opaque but with flashes of strange brilliance, an adaptation of The Word for Snow, a one-act stage play by Don DeLillo from 2007 that reflected on the climate crisis.A child called Moon (Moon Guo Barker) wanders around a strange world, entirely peopled by other children, except for one eerie monochrome sequence in which Moon sees adult figures in some kind of underground tunnel, frozen in attitudes of dismay similar to the citizenry of Pompeii. In the course of her travels, bookended by clambering out of a crashed car and finally driving happily off, Moon has dreamlike encounters with these children who speak with the tongues of a...

Politics

4 d. ago ITV Emmerdale star announces she's pregnant with third child in touching post

Former Emmerdale star Paula Lane, who played Ella Forster, has announced she's pregnant with her third child, sharing the news in a moving social media post.

Politics

5 d. ago 'I felt compelled to keep the city's story alive': Mimi Martin on the origins of her Hong Kong protest play

After moving to Hong Kong as a child, playwright and performer Mimi Martin witnessed the state crackdown on protest first-hand. She explains how it informed her one-woman Fringe play Youth in Flames

Events

6 d. ago 7 of MrBeast’s wildest video ideas so far as he pitches ‘real life Hunger Games’

MrBeast wants to do Hunger Games “in real life” - with $1m prize 😱

Politics

6 d. ago 'My son is obsessed with McDonald's – so I came up with perfect parenting hack'

As a parent, it can be hard saying no to your kids when they ask for certain things like junk food or the latest video game. But one mum has come up with the perfect hack

Politics

6 d. ago Forever young? I’m another year older but I’ll never stop playing games

My love for video games has never wavered, I have no intention of growing up and moving onIt is my birthday this week. And while that may not sound like a worthy subject for Pushing Buttons, bear with me.I am now 54 – and so officially in my mid-50s – and I still write about video games for a living. I play video games every day; I work in a home office where I’m surrounded by video games. When I’m not playing them, I’m probably thinking about them. But at times like this, I think: maybe should I stop someday? Is there an upper limit on how long someone can do games journalism? Certainly I only know of a handful of people my age who are still writing about games on a full-time basis. Some of my friends outside the industry still play games, but usually only one or two a year – EA Sports FC, maybe, the latest blockbusting narrative adventure, Nintendo with the kids. If you’re not careful, life has a way of shepherding you away from your interests. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago The Xbox Rog Ally handheld release date may have just leaked

The ROG Xbox Ally is a custom-tuned Asus console designed around a new handheld-friendly Xbox interface

Politics

7 d. ago Fuming mum screams 'I will kill you' to child who 'offended her daughter in a playground'

Footage of the horrifying incident showed the middle-aged mum cornering the child, whose name has been changed to Olya, under a jungle gym while shouting at her and aggressively gesturing

Events

9 d. ago The Trolley Solution: the internet’s most memed moral dilemma becomes a video game

Indie developer’s take on the ethical conundrum about choosing who to save from an oncoming train may be gimmicky, but with its charm and bite-size levels, it’s ideal for the social media eraIn 1967, British philosopher Philippa Foot unwittingly created one of the internet’s most regurgitated memes. A runaway train is hurtling towards five people tied to the tracks. You can pull a lever to divert the train to a different track to which only one person is tied. Do you intervene to kill the one and spare the five?What if one of the tracks twisted into a really cool loop-the-loop? Or the trolley was replaced by a bloodthirsty Thomas the Tank Engine? Or the whole dilemma was clumsily altered to comment on the political controversy of the day? Originally formulated as a reflection on moral decision-making, the trolley problem found a second life in the 2010s as a well of inspiration for variously silly, irreverent and self-referential trolley-based memes. Now, it may be entering its thir...

Politics

9 d. ago 'I felt like I was stuck in a video game in this impossible city'

The Hong Kong Tourism Board reports a 14 percent increase in UK visitors to Hong Kong in the first half of 2025, compared to the same period in 2024. With 169,000 UK travellers making the journey in just six months

Politics

9 d. ago I bought a children's toy, but the instructions were in Chinese...can you figure out what it is supposed to be?

Doctor's kits, construction tools, and kitchen sets are often very common items in the toy aisle. Without an instruction manual, it can be difficult to discern what exactly your child is playing with.

Politics

9 d. ago Bundee Aki reveals he missed birth of fifth child to play in first Lions Test

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Politics

1 week ago They targeted children online with the most depraved of intents but they were being watched too

They are some of Wales' most sickening paedophiles who targeted children at their most vulnerable, but they soon had an unwelcome knock on their doors

Events

1 week ago ‘Not funny’: sex toy tossed on WNBA court for second time this week

Sex toy tossed on court during Sky-Valkyries gamePlayers, fans call behavior immature and dangerousA sex toy was tossed onto the court during a WNBA game for the second time this week.Video showed the sex toy out of bounds under a basket after a whistle was blown to stop play during the third quarter of the Golden State Valkyries’ 73-66 victory over the Chicago Sky. An official then kicked it aside before it was picked up and removed. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Punch bags, penny pushers and Hillbilly shootouts: the 10 best classic seaside arcade machines

A trip to the seaside isn’t complete without a jangling cup of 2p coins or an overconfident uncle nursing a sore hand. Here’s a rundown of the top nostalgia-inducing gamesThe seaside day trip remains an almost essential component of the school summer holidays, and although the big beachfront arcades have changed a lot over the last decade, they are still a magnet for small kids with handfuls of change, as well as adults hoping to spy an old Space Invaders cabinet in the back. As a child of the 1980s, coin-op video games were an obsession, but what really fascinated me were the older machines, the electro-mechanical oddities that hung on into the digital age. Here are 10 of the best – please add your own in the comments. Continue reading...

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