The best video games of 2025 so far

From the return of Mario Kart to smash-hit architectural puzzles, an emotional football game and monster-hunting, we look back at the best offerings from the past six months• See more of the best culture of 2025 so farTell us your favourite video game of 2025 so farThis unexpected smash-hit puzzle game has you exploring a mysterious mansion with rooms that are different every time. Faced with a closed door, you get to choose what lies beyond it from a small selection of blueprints, drafting as you go. Crammed with devilish logic problems, memory tests and other conundrums, it’s got thousands of players drawing their own maps on graph paper, just like the ZX Spectrum days. Read the full review. Keith Stuart Continue reading...

Comments

Culture

Most ‘unpredictable’ horror movie of the decade is now streaming on Netflix

Metro

Comments

Culture

Most ‘unpredictable’ horror movie of the decade is now streaming on Netflix

WMATA train operators arrested, accused of healthcare fraud scheme

Bonnaroo 2025 cancelled after just one night due to severe storms days after co-founder’s death

Marlee Matlin reveals how she relied on mentor Henry Winkler after tumultuous relationship with William Hurt

Skins star unrecognisable as he reunites with cast 12 years after show ended

Eerie sci-fi series dubbed ‘freshest British drama in years’ launched 10 years ago

'Wait Wait' for June 14, 2025: With Not My Job guest Chris Perfetti

Pope Leo's video address to be played at Chicago's White Sox ballpark

The National Weather Service issues Alaska's first ever heat advisory

Mexico's president calls for no ICE raids during Mexico-Dominican Republic soccer match

Rylan Clark says he begged Celebrity Gogglebox editors to cut out risqué ‘career-ending’ remarks

Love Island star jailed for 14 years after role in huge drug smuggling ring exposed

2 Men Are Sentenced in Theft of Golden Toilet

Made In Chelsea star pays tribute to ‘lovely friends’ killed in Air India crash

Australian man shot to death at a villa on the tourist island of Bali

How Prime Video's 'Burn Bar' is changing the way we watch NASCAR

King Charles III marks Air India tragedy with moment of silence during annual birthday parade

David Beckham, Gary Oldman, Elaine Paige and others honored by King Charles III

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez to spotlight Venice's artisanal heritage during upcoming nuptials

‘We’d hold hands and cry’: Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers’ wife opens up about his final months for the first time

Keira Knightley reflects on negative consequence of Pirates of the Caribbean role

Star Wars boss Kathleen Kennedy addresses concern over ‘illegal’ screening of original film

The degrading moment the ‘best TV show’ crossed a line and never looked back

Watch: Idris Elba unveils celebratory stone at old college

Mood swings fuelled Heston Blumenthal's genius. But the highs got higher and the lows got darker

Gary Oldman and Strictly hosts join Beckham in honours

I made Sleep Token's masks on my mum's kitchen table

Love Island’s Georgia Harrison: 'I re-read my MBE letter three times'

One student reflects on how their dad inspires them

Molly Recommends 2 Very Male New Novels

Pop star Robbie Williams named as new Fifa Music Ambassador

Jarvis Cocker is Britpop’s ultimate comeback king in scintillating Pulp show

Tess Daly almost missed MBE after error in letter

Churchill won the war but lost the peace - was that inevitable?

30 years on, I watch Braveheart for first time. It would bring a tear to a glass eye

10 exhibitions to see next - including work from a top Scottish sculptor

Top Chef finalist Shuai Wang cooks Chinatown BBQ with a Lowcountry flair

10 years after the deadly church shooting, a new history of 'Mother Emanuel'

Pop star Robbie Williams named as new Fifa Music Ambassador

Reëxamining Victimhood in Guatemala

A Very Elon Father’s Day

Lessons of Later-in-Life Fatherhood

EastEnders to hold back release of next episode as new boss shares statement

Eamonn Holmes says he has worked with ‘so many horrible’ co-stars

Rylan says Celebrity Gogglebox editors had to cut out ‘career-ending’ conversations

What if being Mr. 305 was a state of mind?

I played the new Resident Evil — and a whole lot more. Here are my thoughts

Book Review:

Trying to Sell a Conservative Book? Go on a Podcast.

A Decade of Bruising Labor. A 6-Mile Work of Land Art.

At National History Day, Students Get Competitive About the Past

Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Busy Caring for a Pony, Pig, Donkey and Malamute

Lenny Henry fights back tears reflecting on mother’s death during tour

No more Edinburgh Book Festival for me – where did it all go wrong?

Noel Gallagher gave me his Oasis Wonderwall guitar - after Liam smashed up mine

Abbott Elementary's Chris Perfetti talks getting notes from mom and loving Wait Wait

The Grammys tweak rules to create two new categories for 2026

The 7 best ‘explosive’ Australian thrillers free to watch in UK

Fern Britton: ‘Newsrooms used to be misogynistic. We really were more resilient to it’

The five best historical novels of all time, according to Kate Mosse