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Roblox, James Bond and a billion-dollar multiplayer – here are the most-read gaming stories of 2025 | games

Roblox, James Bond and a billion-dollar multiplayer – here are the most-read gaming stories of 2025 | games

✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Games,Culture,Roblox,Sega,Grand Theft Auto πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: WWith the best games of the year (yours and ours), I'd like to highlight some of the work we've done in covering them. Reviewing the best-performing articles we published in 2025, I see a picture of a mixed year: lots of great works and games that captured the imagination and the world's attention, but also growing anxiety about their place in the real world, and the political conditions they reflect. And a lot of (justified) anxiety about Roblox.But first:…
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“A hell of a lot of fun!” Your favorite podcasts of 2025 | Podcast

“A hell of a lot of fun!” Your favorite podcasts of 2025 | Podcast

✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Podcasts,Television & radio,Culture πŸ’‘ Key idea: Bad advice by Bill NighyI found this podcast a few weeks ago and finished the first season in no time. My father recently passed away, and I often feel sad. Bad advice has helped me feel lighter. I laughed out loud at the questions and at Bill's dry answers. I love the taboo part of words (such as 'hub' and 'like', when used as fillers in sentences), while the book suggestions at the end are as close to perfect as…
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Ofcom urged to investigate GB News interview with Trump over claims of inaccuracy | GB News

Ofcom urged to investigate GB News interview with Trump over claims of inaccuracy | GB News

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: GB News,Ofcom,Regulators,Donald Trump,Television industry,US television,Television,Culture,US news,Media,Television & radio,UK news,World news πŸ’‘ Key idea: Britain's media regulator Ofcom is under pressure to investigate a GB News interview with Donald Trump after complaints that it contained misleading and inaccurate claims that the network failed to challenge.The right-wing channel claimed to have conducted a β€œglobal exclusive interview” with the US president in November, in which Trump asserted that human-caused climate change was a β€œhoax,” that London had no-police zones and that the capital had β€œsharia law.”Trump made other claims…
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A Picasso painting worth 1 million euros is for sale for 100 euros in a charity auction Pablo Picasso

A Picasso painting worth 1 million euros is for sale for 100 euros in a charity auction Pablo Picasso

πŸ’₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Pablo Picasso,Art and design,Culture,France,Charities,Europe,World news,Alzheimer's,Health πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: His works are consistently ranked among the most expensive works of art in the world, with his paintings reaching more than $100 million at auctions. But you no longer need to be a millionaire to own a Picasso painting - for 100 euros, anyone in the world has the opportunity to own a painting by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.The French charity Alzheimer's Research recently announced that it will raffle off Picasso's 1941…
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‘Being annoying is worse than being evil’: the high-octane, low-culture genius of indie duo Getdown Services | music

‘Being annoying is worse than being evil’: the high-octane, low-culture genius of indie duo Getdown Services | music

πŸš€ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Music,2026 culture preview,Indie,Pop and rock,Culture,Bristol πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: IIt's a Saturday night in Camden, London, and Getdown Services fans are sipping a beer before "Britain's best band" plays one of their final gigs of the year. The Electric Dance Floor is seeing a lot of activity, even though this is the second show here in a month. There's no shortage of twenty-somethings with shaggy hairstyles to explain why the duo lives up to their mantra. β€œIt's fun, which is what we need right now…
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Why was Minecraft the most important movie of 2025?

Why was Minecraft the most important movie of 2025?

πŸ’₯ Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: This blockbuster film, based on a brick-and-mortar video game, took first place at the US box office β€” and with the chaos of Chicken Knight, its colorful presentations pointed to the future of cinema.Oppenheimer is a cerebral drama in which Cillian Murphy plays the scientist who invented the atomic bomb. Minecraft is a film adaptation of the video game with Jack Black singing a song about "lava chickens". But the two films have a lot in common. What's clear is that they each grossed…
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Salt Road and the most scandalous books of 2025

Salt Road and the most scandalous books of 2025

πŸ’₯ Read this insightful post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: Getty ImagesVirginia Giuffre's poignant posthumous autobiography, "Nobody's Girl," details the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle (Image source: Getty Images)But 2025 was also the year the memoir attracted attention for the wrong reasons. Journalist Olivia Nuzzi's much-publicized "American Anthem," which, among other things, details her "digital affair" with Robert F. Kennedy, has been described by critics as "absolutely awful," "hate-reading," and "intolerable tautology." Despite producing hundreds of columns of coverage, the book sold fewer than 1,200 copies in its…
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How the fascist “Lord Haw Haw” was tried for treason

How the fascist “Lord Haw Haw” was tried for treason

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: βœ… Main takeaway: It was an ignominious end for a man who had become a household name in the United Kingdom when war broke out in September 1939. British citizens had expected Hitler to launch a disastrous attack immediately, but when that did not happen, the tense calm was dubbed the Phoney War. In those early days, the main danger on the home front was not air raids, but sprained ankles. To hinder German bombers, the government imposed a blackout. By Christmas 1939, a Gallup poll found that…
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12 of the best TV shows you can watch in January

12 of the best TV shows you can watch in January

✨ Read this insightful post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: The Beauty premieres January 21 on Hulu in the US and January 22 on Disney+ in the UKApple TV11. ShrinkageWith Harrison Ford as the lead character, this sophisticated comedy has one of the best ensemble casts on television, along with the rare ability to be funny and poignant while avoiding any sentimentality. The plot has evolved from its early focus on Jimmy (Jason Segel) and his unorthodox psychological methods as he deteriorates following the death of his wife. In this third season, Paul (Ford), Jimmy's friend…
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Avatar Fire and Ash: Harmony is no longer guaranteed in James Cameron’s trilogy – discuss with spoilers | film

Avatar Fire and Ash: Harmony is no longer guaranteed in James Cameron’s trilogy – discuss with spoilers | film

πŸ’₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Avatar,James Cameron,Science fiction and fantasy films,Culture βœ… Key idea: FFor more than a decade, James Cameron's Avatar films have been built on the reassuring idea that the universe is alive, connected, and spiritually pure. Part of the fun of getting to the end credits for one is the comforting feeling that we don't look like all those evil humans who want to destroy the gorgeous, bioluminescent utopia of Pandora featuring a giant blue cat and navel-gazing whale creatures. Cameron wants to remind us that if we…
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