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Assassin’s Creed Shadows – what happens next? (Ubisoft) The Monday letters page discusses the most overrated games of recent history, as a reader thinks £5 for Mass Effect Trilogy is disrespectful. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk What’s next?I’m glad to hear that Assassin’s Creed Shadows is selling well, as I’m really enjoying it so far. That’s hopefully good news for Ubisoft in general, given their current trouble, but the obvious problem for them is that they’ve already got a gazillion Assassin’s Creed sequels and spin-offs in the work and as far as I know the one…

How long is too long? (Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Credits: AFP via Getty Images) The Wednesday letters page is unsurprised by Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ mostly good reviews, as one reader hopes for Xenoblade Chronicles X-2. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk Weekly quotaI’ve a question I don’t see asked much and that’s how many hours a week people play video games and what they think is healthy? I read today that the average is 8.6 hours, which is about 1.2 hours a day, and that seems to me to be reasonably okay. It’s a lot but…

It’s probably not going to be cheap (YouTube) The Friday letters page tries to guess what the Nintendo Switch 2 mice will be used for, as one reader struggles with the endless menus of Monster Hunter Wilds. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk Inflation issuesThere’s been a lot of talk lately about how the various PC handhelds, including the Steam Deck, aren’t actually very successful and have sales that seem miniscule compared to the Nintendo Switch. There are lots of reasons for this but one of the most obvious is that they’re more expensive, at £500 or…

Three consoles but no rivalries (Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft) A reader regrets the end of the rivalry between Xbox and PlayStation and suggests that console wars are actually good for everyone. For better or worse we are approaching the start of another generation of consoles. I think, overall, it’s for the best because, let’s face it, this generation has been pretty bad. Especially if you count the Switch as having been last gen. There’s been no shortage of great games but the people in charge of publishers have completely lost the plot, to the point where I’ve got no confidence in their ability…

Which console is best? (Metro/Sony/Nintendo) The Tuesday letters page tries to imagine what Nintendo will do for Splatoon 4, as a reader celebrates the French-ness of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk The contendersInteresting celebration of the Nintendo Switch’s eight anniversary and how we might be thinking about the Nintendo Switch 2 in a similar amount of time. I’m not going to try and predict how things will work out, because how could anyone know, but I am interested in the idea of the Nintendo Switch being the best console ever. I’m sure…

Should Sony be trying to copy Steam Deck? (Valve/Sony) The Thursday letters page is not shocked that so many people play so few games, as one reader hopes for a F-Zero announcement this month. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk PlayStation DeckI know it was said before that the Steam Deck had only sold a few million, but I had no idea that that whole type of handheld device was such a small piece of the overall gaming pie. Six million is an absolutely tiny amount overall. Even the Wii U managed to sell more than twice…

Super Metroid – a game without faults? (Nintendo) A reader names the five video games he thinks are almost entirely without fault and just as playable now as when they were first made. Before I start this, I want to address the obvious and say that nothing is perfect. So all the games I’m about to list do have flaws, but they’re small and unimportant that the overall impression is that they literally do not put a foot wrong. What I’ve realised in making this list is that the older a game is the easier it is to be flawless,…

The filmmaker behind The Brutalist has spoken about the realities of low-budget movies (Picture: Stuart Wilson/Bafta/Getty) Bafta-winning director Brady Corbet has said making his awards favourite movie The Brutalist for under $10,000,000 (£7,939,721) was ‘not a great way to operate’. His passion project, which was over seven years in the making, wowed upon its debut at Venice Film Festival and was even compared to last year’s garlanded movie Oppenheimer, the budget of which was around tenfold more. Corbet’s film tied with Conclave and four wins as the most awarded movie at Sunday night’s Bafta Film Awards, picking up best director,…

Linda Robson thinks ‘it would be fantastic’ to have a trans panelist on Loose Women Loose Women panelist Linda Robson thinks a trans panelist would be ‘fantastic’ on the popular daytime TV show. The host, 66, spoke to Metro on the red carpet of the TV Choice Awards and shared her hopes that the show may get the recognition it deserves during the event and her belief that the show has a bright future. When asked if she thinks it would be a good time for a trans panelist to join Loose Women, Linda is enthusiastic, saying: ‘Yeah it would…

New York Dolls co-founder and punk icon David Johansen has shocked fans with the revelation that he has a brain tumour and stage four cancer. The news first broke via a Sweet Relief Fund in the 75-year-old’s name seeking to raise money for his treatment and ongoing care. Leah Hennessey, the singer’s daughter, revealed the extent of her 75-year-old father’s health issues on the site. She wrote: ‘Five years ago at the beginning of the pandemic we discovered that David’s cancer had progressed and he had a brain tumor. ‘There have been complications ever since. He’s never made his diagnosis public, as he and…

The Traitors winner Leanne Quigley has shown remarkable restraint after her bank balance was boosted by five figures. The 28-year-old veteran bagged £47,300 after successfully banishing all the traitors with fellow faithful Jake Brown, 28, on the BBC show earlier this year. While Leanne has had an agonising wait until after the show aired to splash the cash, she confirmed to Metro at the TV Choice Awards that she had finally been paid last week. However, the mother-of-two revealed she had resisted the urge to go on a shopping spree and instead had yet to touch the huge sum to…

Viewers of the new BBC drama Virdee all have the same complaint about the detective thriller series. The new series, about turf wars in the dark criminal underbelly of Bradford, premiered tonight on the broadcaster. The series follows detective Detective Harry Virdee (played by Staz Nair) as he takes charge of an investigation into the murder of a young drug dealer. His ethics are soon tested when he enlists the help of his drug kingpin brother-in-law to track down the killer, creating a web of deception. As fans tuned into the show, they struggled to adjust to the camera angles which…

ITVX has quietly added Norwegian drama Partners in Law All three seasons of a gripping Scandi legal drama have now been added to a free UK streaming platform. Last week, Norwegian courtroom series Partners in Law (Aber Bergen) arrived on ITVX – ready and waiting to be binge-watched. The show follows newly divorced Erik Aber (Odd-Magnus Williamson) and Elea Bergen (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) who must not let their fractured relationship damage their successful law firm. Instead, the two defence lawyers must push their personal problems aside as they work together on numerous challenging court cases. Across social media, TV…

A Dolly Parton-themed musical had to be suspended mid-show in Manchester because of homophobic harassment, according to one of the actor’s in the production. One of the performers in the musical Here You Come Again, Stevie Webb, said that homophobic incidents at the show have gotten so bad the cast was at one point forced to leave the stage. Webb, who explained the story on TikTok to his 102.7k followers, said that last Wednesday the whole cast had to ‘leave the stage, because a woman was so disgusted there was a gay character.’ He wrote on TikTok that the incident…

How tempted are you? The Tuesday letters page is unimpressed by Sony’s compensation for the PSN outage, as one reader thinks a new God Of War game set in Greece is a bad idea. Risk takersIf there’s one thing that gives me confidence about the Nintendo Switch 2 launch it’s that they’re taking a ‘risk’. I know they only mean in terms of making lots of them, even though they don’t know if they’ll all sell, but as usual in the games industry, and I guess most everything else, it’s the smaller companies that take all the risks and…

 Paloma Faith has stunned fans by revealing she was once caught in an explicit sex act in the street. The icon, 43, took to TikTok to promote her new podcast Mad, Sad, and Bad. In honour of the podcast’s theme, she explained the ‘baddest’ thing she’s ever done. Reminiscing back to when she was 21, the singer revealed a truly shocking act she did in the middle of the street in Seville. She said: ‘When I was 21 I allowed someone to ***** in the street in Seville. And an old lady walked past and she looked at us.’ She…

Do you know who this 90s teen heartthrob is? He rose to fame in the hit NBC series Saved by the Bell, which won him a Young Actor award in 1991. But this child star looks very different now, as he made a rare public appearance on the red carpet for this year’s Critics Choice ceremony. Dressed in a white tuxedo jacket with a bow tie, the American actor looked every inch a distinguished gentleman as he beamed for cameras. But do you recognise him? Perhaps if we call him Zack Morris, that might help, as that’s the name…

Sinéad Keenan is returning to our screens in Unforgotten – but she is not the only member of her family who is a TV star. The 47-year-old’s sister Gráinne Keenan, who is an actress, has starred alongside her in the ITV crime drama too. Their brother Rory Keenan also caught the acting bug – and has appeared in multiple hit TV shows including Peaky Blinders. He is also married to a Hollywood star wife. And the showbusiness connections do not end there as Sinéad’s husband works in the TV industry as well. Here is everything you need to know about…

Dancing On Ice has eliminated the fourth celebrity in the first dreaded skate-off of 2025 – and fans have called the departure ‘criminal.’ Former footballer Anton Ferdinand, 39, and Love Island star Chris Taylor, 34, went head to head as they tried to impress judges Oti Mabuse, Christopher Dean, Ashley Banjo and Jayne Torvill. All four judges unanimously decided to save Anton and Annette Dytrt, sending Chris and partner Robin Johnstone home. After Chris’s exit was revealed host Holly Willoughby said: ‘You’ve been brilliant, and I feel like you’ve loved this even though this partnership hasn’t been long, it’s been…

Jonny Fairplay announced Saturday that his grandmother has died…this time for real. Fairplay was responsible for one of the most infamous moments in reality TV history, a moment that would shape reality TV for decades to come. The reality star has shared that his grandmother, Ellen Jean Hauser, has died at 90 years old, over two decades after he lied about her death to avoid elimination on Survivor. ‘I’ll miss her every day,’ Fairplay told Entertainment Weekly of his beloved grandmother’s death. ‘It’s easy to think she was just part of one of the biggest lies in TV history, which made me famous, but I…

Dancing On Ice viewers said ‘they were not prepared’ for an X-rated joke Stephen Mulhern made on the ITV show. On X, fans expressed their surprise the presenter, 47, was not ‘more careful’ about the remark made around 6.30pm on a family programme that airs pre-watershed. His co-host Holly Willoughby, 43, also dropped her jaw when she realised the nature of Stephen’s joke. The Deal or No Deal host made the ‘inappropriate’ quip as Holly introduced Love Island star Chris Taylor and his partner Robin Johnstone’s performance to JVKE’s song Golden Hour. ‘Right, it’s time for our next couple who…

It’s happened again (Sony) The Monday letters page is frustrated at Rocksteady’s wasted decade after Batman: Arkham Knight, as one reader is confused by Xbox’s next gen plans. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk It happened againSo PSN was down for most people over the weekend and… what a disaster that was. Not only did multiplayer not work – which I’m sure most people can live without for a while – but lots of single-player games didn’t work and I hear even disc drives didn’t work, because for some reason they have to check online too.…

Gino D’Acampo has denied the allegations Gino D’Acampo is facing allegations of inappropriate and intimidating behaviour. Dozens of people have come forward to speak about their experience working with him over a period of 12 years. The investigation by ITV News found that at least one production company that worked with the celebrity chef were aware of concerns that were raised but continued to work with him. His behaviour has been described by some people as ‘unacceptable,’ ‘distressing’ and ‘horrendous’. D’Acampo has ‘firmly denied’ the allegations, and said they are ‘deeply upsetting’. The Italian chef, 48, is best known…

Will we ever get Back to the Future 4 with Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox? A screenwriter for Back to the Future issued a savage response after being questioned on a possible fourth sequel. The sci-fi classic was released July, 1985, and followed Michael J Fox as teenager Marty McFly, alongside eccentric scientist Dr Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown (Christopher Lloyd), as they embarked on adventures while traveling through time. They later reprised their roles for two sequels, in 1989 and 1990 – while the movies also sparked a Broadway musical. However, if you’re hoping to see Marty and the…

A tense thriller with a seriously impressive 91% Rotten Tomatoes score has just landed on Amazon Prime Video. Arctic is a survival drama film starring Mads Mikkelsen that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, before being released in cinemas the following year. It follows a man stranded in the Arctic Circle as he awaits being rescued, living out of his crashed plane. He’s forced to withstand the brutal weather conditions, with his only hope of being saved coming from a distress beacon, which eventually catches the attention of a helicopter. However, his chance of recovery fails when the…