Arts & Entertainment

Man to forget horrors of real world with nine-hour Call of Duty session

A MAN is to escape from the relentless coverage of war in Ukraine with a nine-hour session on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Murder without consequence: how life was better in The Sims

LIFE an unpredictable nightmare at the moment? Here's how it was superior when an entire simulated neighbourhood were your playthings.

Sexual Healing, and other songs that made your dad switch off the car radio

ON long car trips the radio was a minefield of inappropriate songs that your dad simply would not tolerate. Here are five that would have you travelling in silence.  

Five earworms you'll have stuck in your head thanks to clicking this story

THERE are earworms so powerful that they begin playing on loop in your head simply by reading their names.

Chuckie Egg starring Tom Hardy: ideas for films based on 1980s games

UNCHARTED, based on a PlayStation game, is a box-office hit so inevitably Hollywood will greenlight films based on these 80s classics.

Six TV shows where a live f**king animal was inexplicably the star

IN the past there was no CGI and actors were off their faces on booze and drugs, meaning animals had to step up and star in these classics.

I shagged a ghost, and other bollocks stories in downmarket women's magazines

PERUSING Take A Break and its ilk in Tesco? Brace yourself for these utterly insane stories.

Six concept albums that explain why people take the piss out of concept albums

HAVING a bunch of good songs should be enough of a concept for an album. But some bands decided it wasn't and pulled this bullshit instead.

Bluey, and other kids' TV shows you're praying will make up for your inadequate parenting

HAVING children really is a lot of work. Someone should have warned you. But when your parenting skills fail here are some TV shows that will hopefully pick up the slack.

The six 'favourite' albums you haven't played in years

REMEMBER that album you reckoned was the best you'd ever heard, but haven't bothered playing for years? Here are some currently gathering dust on your CD rack.