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Alice and Steve review — dated, uncomfortable comedy fails to convince

Alice and Steve follows two university friends of more than 30 years. Alice (Nicola Walker) is on her second marriage, to Daniel (Joel Fry), ten years her junior; they have a teenage son and have raised her daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith), who at 26 returns home after a breakup.

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It Is Officially the End of an Era for HBO’s Most Divisive Series

Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive. You sense

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Steven Spielberg Returns to Sci‑Fi with Disclosure Day

Steven Spielberg is back in the sci-fi arena with Disclosure Day, his first feature in the genre since 2018's Ready Player One. The film premieres Friday, June 12, marking the director's return after the better part of a decade away from science fiction while he worked

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Life on Mars? Revealed David Bowie's Songwriting Ability

David Bowie moved through many eras, building worlds and characters and constantly pushing boundaries that changed not only rock 'n' roll but music as a whole. His fourth studio album, Hunky Dory, contains some of his most enduring work while also showing how inventive his songs could be.

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Games Workshop finally shows The Emperor's current state

The Emperor looms over Warhammer 40k’s setting. He sits on the Golden Throne, an ancient life‑support device that must consume thousands of psykers every day to keep running, and his psychic presence guides starships across the warp. John Blanche’s 1987 illustration “The Emperor Sits Upon His Golden

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Which Taylor Sheridan World Do You Belong In?

The Taylor Sheridan Universe quiz asks ten questions to reveal which of his shows you belong in: Yellowstone, Landman, Tulsa King, or Mayor of Kingstown. It frames each world as brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Questions probe where your power comes from, who

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How a simple morning-evening rota changed our parenting

When my second child was born in 2021 I realised I needed a new system. Coming out of lockdown, I was tired and overwhelmed; we had built a mini unit in the UK while our families lived in the US, and I started a literary agency as soon as my

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Ella Purnell's first Fallout experience was 'scary graphics' on New Vegas

Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher recalled Ella Purnell's first Fallout experience before leading the Prime Video adaptation, saying Thatcher tried to create Purnell in the game and Purnell replied, "Turn it off! It's scary graphics." Thatcher added that Fallout: New Vegas has an uncanny look.

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Which iconic universe do you belong in?

A personality quiz asks which of five legendary universes you belong in: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Star Trek. Eight questions probe what gives your life meaning, the kind of world you want to inhabit, how you prefer conflicts resolved, who you want

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The Lost Wild preview: Jurassic Park meets Alien: Isolation

The Lost Wild is an upcoming first-person horror game revealed during Sony's June 2026 State of Play and set to launch in 2027. Developer Great Ape Games appears to meld Jurassic Park and Alien: Isolation into a stealth-focused survival title, and a live demo at Summer Game Fest

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Which Sci‑Fi Hero Are You? An Eight‑Question Quiz

A sci‑fi personality quiz pairs you with one of five iconic heroes — Paul Atreides, Captain Kirk, Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley or Max Rockatansky — by asking eight short questions about leadership, crisis response and what you'd sacrifice. The questions probe leadership under pressure, strengths in crisis (prescience, improvisation,

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How I made friends after moving from a small town to a big city

My family moved from Bright, a country town of fewer than 3,000 people, to the Gold Coast, a city of close to 740,000. Leaving the easy, familiar network of friends you meet through school and work was a shock, and my husband and I only had a handful

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How to open Scatty's chest in Gothic Remake

Scatty's chest sits inside his hut, the building down to your lower left when you're talking to Fingers. The hut has a long red banner by the door, weapons on the wall and a noticeboard outside. Scatty runs the arena and leaves for it in the

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Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie?

Ten questions will figure out which one. Five Oscar Best Picture winners — Parasite, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Birdman and No Country for Old Men — offer five completely different visions of what cinema can be and what it can do to you. The quiz asks what kind of film

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I moved to Europe and earn 67,000 Euros a year — I still feel worthless

A 25-year-old living in the Netherlands wrote that after 15 years of planning to leave their home country they finally made it to Europe 1½ years ago and now work in tech sales, earning 67,000 Euros a year. After rent, food, and bills there isn’t much left, and

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Rivage is a time-loop puzzle game where power forces the reset

Miranda Vigneau wakes aboard the A.R.E.S. space station above the planetary candidate VESTA to find her crew gone and the station behaving oddly. Ominous logs scattered around the facility offer pieces of a mystery you must stitch together as you explore. Aiding your progress is the K9

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Lost in a downpour, a man with a rainbow umbrella helped me

It was bucketing down, absolutely pouring. I was on my way to a birthday dinner but got lost in central Sydney’s labyrinth of streets, so I ducked into an internet cafe to look up directions to the restaurant. I then wrote those directions down by hand – such were the

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Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In?

Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz: Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for. Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown You

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Signet City: Citizen Sleeper creator's hand-drawn, fungus-infested RPG

From the creator of Citizen Sleeper comes Signet City. Developer Jump Over the Age, led by Gareth Damian Martin, unveiled a dark, moody RPG set in a British city overtaken by a mega-fungus. The world premiere trailer at the PC Gaming Show is hand-drawn by Martin. It follows a punkish

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Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game turns Minesweeper into a deckbuilder

Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game reimagines Minesweeper as a card-based deckbuilder. Revealed at the PC Gaming Show, the game from Giant Light Games and published by Behaviour traps you in an elevator with a terrible felt puppet that repeatedly executes you. Gameplay puts a table of cards before

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Lovecraftian horrors and hard choices in roguelite climber Ascenders

Climbing games have become a trend, and Ascenders: Beyond the Peak was outlined at the PC Gaming Show by the creative director of developer Ludogram. You build a team and plan a route up a deadly mountain, but the ascent is far from simple—monsters, Lovecraftian horrors and the mountain

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Two mods already ease Gothic Remake's punishing lockpicking

The Gothic Remake's progression system rewards investment with smoother combat and steady improvements, but its lockpicking mechanics have been widely criticised as tedious and unrewarding. Developer Alkimia Interactive says it is "monitoring the sentiment" and notes the minigame becomes easier once you add skill points. In

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Troy Denning wrote Operation: METEORITE prequel for Halo: Campaign Evolved

Halo: Campaign Evolved isn't just a ground-up remake of one of the most formative first-person shooters; it's also expanding the story with a prequel titled Operation: METEORITE. During today's Xbox Showcase 2026 for Summer Game Fest, footage showed the new prequel missions that send

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Jack of Blades Returns to Fable in February

A darker story trailer for the Fable revival returns the series’ most notorious antagonist to the spotlight and sets a firm release date: February 23, 2027. The trailer opens with Isabel of Wraithmarch addressing the camera and narrating her origin—acquiring her "powers" while trying to save her

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Netflix's Narnia Reboot May Be Hurting Itself by Choosing Movies

Netflix now holds the rights to all seven of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia novels, a rare and prestigious piece of fantasy intellectual property, but the streamer has opted to adapt the books as feature films rather than a television series. That choice risks compressing stories first published between 1950 and