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Cartoonist: Noah Van Sciver Publisher: Fantagraphics Publication Date: September 2026

Valve’s continued push into the hardware spacecontinues with the release of the Steam Frame, a spiritual successor to the Valve Index and a marked improvement for standalone VR headsets everywhere.

In the 2010s, Valve was at the forefront of a virtual reality revolution that looked to some like it would upend the gaming industry. The Valve of six to ten years ago seemed committed to being a major player in the world of PC-connected VR headsets, first through its “strategic partnership” with HTC on the…

People: Jack Lowden Kristin Scott Thomas Saskia Reeves Hugo Weaving Gary Oldman OliRiver (Jack Lowden) and his fellow horses scramble to survive and uncover why. byLeila Latif|Published on14th September 2026 at 11.43am Follow Empire on Google

Umiko Chino, sixty-five, has come to the end of the mourning period for her late husband and she feels restless. She’s always been interested in films but the old VCR machine is on the blink so she ventures out to the cinema. There she happens to encounter Kai, a student, who notices that she watches…

Kiera and Steven on toilet disposal duty. Photograph: channel 4Kiera and Steven on toilet disposal duty. Photograph: channel 4 Review

Lou’s Lagoon combines a lot of elements that individually all appeal to me. There is reand 3D platforming elements, a large world to explore, and you even get to fly a plane. But wrapping all that together is a big task

Shiny Entertainment was a growing superpower in the 90s. Earthworm Jim put them on the map, and MDK became a PC staple, often mentioned in the same breath as Quake. After MDK and the criminally overlooked Wild 9, Shiny began developing Messiah, a surrealist action game that boasted experimental dynamic real-time tessellation. They effectively invented…

Mahershala Ali stars in “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.”Credit: Orion / Amazon MGM Studios

The Southbank Centre’s new immersive Yuja Wang experience is this weekend’s big draw. It also makes an unintentional case for live music.