7 h. ago Jack Black, Jason Momoa enter the Minecraft universe as the video game phenom hits the big screen

When Jack Black got the call to star in the “Minecraft” movie, the perks were plenty

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59 h. ago ‘I play video games almost every day’ – singer Amy Lee talks writing Devil May Cry’s killer track

With the new Evanescence song, Afterlife, revealed in anticipation of Netflix's new Devil May Cry series releasing next week, we spoke to lead singer Amy Lee to learn about how the unique collaboration came to be.

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67 h. ago Hugely successful Harry Potter video game expansion cancelled despite making billions

A planned expansion to Hogwarts Legacy, a video game set in the Harry Potter universe, has been cancelled after reportedly selling more than 34 million copies

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69 h. ago Hogwarts Legacy expansion scrapped by Warner Bros. as fans react to news

A major expansion to the hugely successful Harry Potter video game Hogwarts Legacy has reportedly been cancelled, however a sequel is still expected to be in the works

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3 d. ago Expansion to hugely successful Harry Potter video game Hogwarts Legacy cancelled

Hogwarts Legacy is one of the most highly-selling video games of all time

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4 d. ago Famous ape who mastered English and Minecraft dies after 'reshaping our intelligence'

An ape who had mastered the English language and could play the video game Minecraft has tragically passed – gamers have called the ape 'a true gamer to the end. Rest in peace Kanzi'

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4 d. ago Why we need to power up support for the UK video games industry

The UK is a global powerhouse in the video games industry, but more support is vital

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4 d. ago Assassin’s Creed makers fire back at Elon Musk by mocking his alleged cheating at online video games

After months of culture war outrage over Assassin’s Creed Shadows having a Black protagonist, its creator Ubisoft chose the way of the warrior

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7 d. ago ‘Sadistic’ double murderer who tortured French students sues jail bosses over broken Xbox

Nigel Farmer was jailed after two French PhD students were stabbed hundreds of times in a ‘horrific’ attack - but has whiled away his sentence playing video games

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7 d. ago ‘Sadistic’ double murderer who tortured French students sues MOJ after prison officers broke his Xbox

Nigel Farmer was jailed after two French PhD students were stabbed hundreds of times in a ‘horrific’ attack - but has whiled away his sentence playing video games

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7 d. ago Video games can’t escape their role in the radicalisation of young men | Keith Stuart

Those of us who spend our lives gaming can no longer deny knowledge that our online communities are awash with disturbing hate speech and violent rhetoricThere is a lot of attention on young men and toxic masculinity at the moment. It’s about time. The devastating Netflix drama Adolescence, about a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a girl after being radicalised by the online manosphere, has drawn attention to the problem through the sheer force of its brilliant writing and a blistering lead performance from teenager Owen Cooper. This week, former England football manager Gareth Southgate gave a speech about the state of boyhood in the UK, specifically about how young men, lacking moral mentors, are turning to gambling and video gaming, thereby disconnecting from society and immersing themselves in predominantly male online communities where misogyny and racism are often rife. There has been some kickback in the gaming press to the idea that games have provided a less-than-ideal ...

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9 d. ago Heathrow airport reopens but ‘huge impact’ on travel expected for days – live updates

Planes begin to land at airport but airlines said the closure would continue to have a “huge impact” on passengers in the coming daysHeathrow airport says “flights have resumed at Heathrow following yesterday’s power outage” and the airport is now “fully operational”.It added that and that hundreds of additional staff have been drafted in to help clear the backlog of flights.We can confirm that Heathrow is open and fully operational today. Teams across the airport continue to do everything they can to support passengers impacted by yesterday’s outage at an off-airport power substation.We have hundreds of additional colleagues on hand in our terminals and we have added flights to today’s schedule to facilitate an extra 10,000 passengers travelling through the airport.Given the importance of Heathrow I am surprised that the whole airport had to be shut for a day.I mean, you could understand disruption whilst you change over to alternate systems and so on, but such a complete failure o...

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1 week ago Assassin’s Creed Shadows updated after Japan’s prime minister addressed concerns in parliament

The video game has been criticised for its depictions of Japan

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1 week ago Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shape | Martin Kettle

Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drumAn Atlantic alliance without the United States? It sounds like a contradiction in terms – Hamlet without the prince. Yet this is the improbable, disjunctive world we now inhabit. It is the one in which our children and grandchildren will live their lives. Like it or not, the systemic shock launched by Donald Trump is our new reality. Absolutely nothing about Trump’s latest phone call with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday has changed that.Europe’s scramble to respond to Trump’s return to power was driven initially by the urgency of maintaining support for Ukraine. Most of the focus was diplomatic: keeping US military aid and intelligence flowing, shoring up damaged channels between Washington and Kyiv, engaging quietly with both Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to both encourage and deter, while moving very publicly to take up more of the security burden. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nicholas Prosper who murdered his family 'thought he was best friends with video game character'

Murderer Nicholas Prosper became obsessed with a child character called Clementine, which featured in a video game inspired by zombie apocalypse series The Walking Dead

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1 week ago Silent Hill f set in 1960s Japan revealed in eerie new cinematic trailer

Three years on from the game being announced, the debut trailer for ‘Silent Hill f’ has finally dropped

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1 week ago ‘We just tried to make what we thought was cool’: the story of Monolith Productions

As the 30-year-old studio behind many innovative and beloved video games shuts down, its founders, fans and designers discuss what made it so specialLate last month, Warner Bros announced it was closing three of its game development studios in a “strategic change of direction”: WB Games San Diego, Player First Studios, and Monolith Productions. At a time when the games industry is racked with layoffs and studio closures, the barrage of dispiriting headlines can be numbing. But the shutdown of Monolith cut through the noise, sparking fresh shock and outrage at the industry’s slash and burn approach to cost cutting. There are numerous reasons for this, but among them was a pervading belief that Monolith would be around forever. “I don’t think I ever really considered the possibility that it would shut down one day,” says Garrett Price, one of Monolith’s seven founding members.True to its name, Monolith was a singular presence. Founded in 1994, it was a prolific developer whose games d...

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2 w. ago New Nintendo Switch 2 leak reveals launch games and hints at release date

More details about the upcoming console will be announced in early April

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2 w. ago Steam Spring Sale bargain offers one of my favourite games of the year for less than £6

The Headliners is some of the most fun I've had playing video games in recent months, and it's cheaper than you may think in the Steam Spring Sale – here's why it's worth a look

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2 w. ago ‘I’d love to be a pedestrian in GTA 6’ – Phil Wang on the BAFTAs, GTA hopes and his gaming diet

Ahead of his second time hosting at this year's BAFTA Games Awards, we sit down with comedian Phil Wang to chat all things video games.

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