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What is Paralives? The creative life simulator game that could rival The Sims

With players leaving EA’s series once life there felt like a grind beset by ethical concerns, this quirky new sim promises a better life elsewhereFor 26 years, the life-sims genre has been dominated by one series: The Sims. Originally designed by Will Wright, creator of Sim City,

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Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the worl

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sicknessIn October 2016 I was in hospital. I had been ill for 11 years with something I called chronic

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‘The song got us signed but I hated it’: how Haircut 100 made Fantastic Day

‘In the early days, we hopped on every bandwagon going – punk, ska, mod, everything. Fantastic Day was always there, just in different styles. The original was more Talking Heads. I preferred that’If I’d been sitting down when I wrote Fantastic Day, it would have been a different

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‘An absolute triumph’: first reactions to Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey are ecstatic

Following the film’s premiere, critics are already calling the historical epic a best picture Oscar contender. Here’s what they had to sayThe Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour version of Homer’s epic poem, world premiered in London on Monday night, and critics who saw the f

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Aliens, chimps and a pregnant man: iconic British adverts – in pictures

They may have been unethical, potentially dangerous and somewhat sexist … but each of these classic adverts, from the PG Tips chimps to the Tango slapper, caught the public’s imaginationBaldy Man, Gold Blend flirters and mash-mad Martians: TV’s golden age ads Continue reading...

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‘I was a self-centred, entitled little horror ... arguably I still am’: cult psych rocker

Armed with a new album inspired by ‘dead English blokes’, the revered musician discusses writing nasty songs about his neighbours and how he’s finally made it in Nashville aged 73‘I owe a lot to a dead man’s cock.” So begins the first song, a propulsive piece of Lennonesque power

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No to Half Man, yes to Matthew Rhys: this year’s biggest Emmy surprises

This year’s nominations saw a huge showing for Apple breakout Widow’s Bay but Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer follow-up and the final Stranger Things season struggledThe Pitt, Hacks and newcomers Widow’s Bay and Pluribus lead 2026 Emmy nominationsEmmy nominations 2026: the list of k

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‘Soul of the community’: Sabelo Mlangeni’s groundbreaking photography – in pictures

The South African photographer, whose images arise from being embedded in queer and rural communities, has been named the winner of the James Barnor prize Continue reading...

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Brian Potter, British songwriter behind hits for Glen Campbell, Take That and more, dies a

Versatile Essex-born hitmaker known for Rhinestone Cowboy, It Only Takes a Minute and many more had been living with Alzheimer’s diseaseBrian Potter, one of the most versatile and successful British producers and songwriters of his generation, has died aged 87. He had been living

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Jack White: Frozen Charlotte review – brutal, squalid blues-rock that just about sells its

(Third Man)Following the superb No Name, White continues his fan service with stripped back songs and nasty, anarchic riffs – though it all ends up feeling a little sameyIt’s a strange thing to say about one of the most prolific artists of his – or any – generation, but: Jack Whi

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‘We didn’t develop heads until we’d evolved an arse. I like that’: Chris Packham’s epic od

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get sick of him holding up rocksIt’s impossible to meet Chris Packham without gettin

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‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Irelan

The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and tickets are already on sale for 2036In 2036, the actor Samuel West will take to

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