With grown-up children scattered around the world, an inconvenient snowstorm and a vegan dinner gaffe, Christmas 2024 was looking bleak – so thank goodness for the ultimate party game The older my kids get, the harder it is to keep them part of Christmas and the old traditions. Our youngest daughter is off travelling, which …
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From the grisly Space Marine 2 to the glorious Metaphor: ReFantazio, it’s time for Pushing Buttons subscribers to share their games of the year Happy Christmas, Pushing Buttons readers! My sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s read the newsletter this year, and to all our new subscribers. Writing this newsletter and reading your correspondence …
A returning classic, a Love Island send-up and an answer to the age-old question: can you fry eggs atop Mount Everest? The year’s best games that might have passed you by • More on the best culture of 2024 PS4/5, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games broke through in 2019 with the …
Members are in limbo as Lupin Lodge is on the market after nearly 90 years – with next buyer likely to require clothes After nearly 90 years as a historic nudist resort, California’s Lupin Lodge is up for sale – and its next owners are likely to require guests to wear clothes. The 112-acre Silicon …
Joe Cocker and Colin Crouch respond to a letter by a 94-year-old man who wrote that adults as well as children should avoid smartphones In wishing to ban smartphones, Tim Watson (nearly 94) throws the baby out with the bathwater (Letters, 20 December). Being of a certain age myself, I remember when nobody in my …
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Despite newer artists having viral moments, app users also enjoyed old school acts including Bronski Beat and Sade This was the year that Gen Z had their ‘Brat summer’, or so we were led to believe. Inspired by the hit album by pop sensation Charli xcx, the trend was seen to embody all the messiness …
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Bar some glitches, I think a tipping point has been reached – except when it comes to virtual gigs I’m writing this from a room that’s slowly orbiting the Earth. Behind the floating screen in front of me, through a giant opening where a wall should be, the planet slowly spins, so close that it …
The 76-year-old is part of a trend of ‘silver influencers’ whose success in the face of adversity resonates strongly. Could she be Elon’s secret weapon in China? Maye Musk is a busy woman. As well as being the mother of the world’s richest man, she has been jetting between various glamorous events – many of …
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A timeline of events in the year of Elon Musk shows how omnipresent he has become, how his X feed has become as unavoidable as Donald Trump’s was Hello, and welcome to Techscape. I’ve been pondering screen-time and isolation after I suffered through a recent bout of Covid. Even a few days of seclusion coupled …
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Exclusive: Guardian testing reveals AI-powered search tools can return false or malicious results if webpages contain hidden text OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool may be open to manipulation using hidden content, and can return malicious code from websites it searches, a Guardian investigation has found. OpenAI has made the search product available to paying customers and …
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