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| | | Fifa 23 review – EA's final Fifa game bows out gracefully | | by Keith Stuart Sep 27, 2022 | | PC, Xbox, PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch; EA Sports/EA
Fittingly, this year’s final edition of the perennial branded football sim at last achieves its aspiration of enjoyable realism They think it’s all over … The football sim series that has graced the gaming charts every year since its launch in 1993 is about to face the final whistle, thanks to a licensing tussle with Fifa. Next year, Electronic Arts will be revealing its annoyingly named replacement, EA Sports FC, but for now, we get to run out on to this heavily branded pitch one last time. It’s immediately clear the development team was determined to go out on a high, throwing in a range of vital updates. At last we get to play women’s league football, if only within the English and French premier divisions. Still, it’s fun to play as the stars of the recent Euro 22 tournament, making a mazy run into the box as Beth Mead or marshalling the Olympique Lyonnais defence with Wendie Renard, and it may be genuinely inspiring and educational for girls who have got into the sport through that glorious summer tournament. And there is full online cross-play between consoles of the same generation (PC owners are able to play against PS5 and Xbox Series X pals) in seasons and friendlies, as well as Ultimate Team, broadening your competitive base considerably. Continue reading... | | | | | Don't Worry Darling shows all publicity is good publicity at the box office | | by Catherine Shoard Sep 27, 2022 | | Olivia Wilde’s suburban thriller has opened strongly despite reports of backstage wrangles and being panned by critics Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde’s much-anticipated suburban thriller starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, has opened strongly in the UK despite – or perhaps thanks to – the considerable iffy publicity surrounding the film. Wilde’s film became the UK and Ireland’s widest-ever opener by a female director, debuting in 694 locations on its first weekend of release. It will shortly expand to 783 screens. Continue reading... | | | | | Marcello Magni obituary | | by Michael Coveney Sep 27, 2022 | | Italian actor and co-founder of the theatre company Complicité who was admired for the physicality of his performances The Italian actor Marcello Magni, who has died aged 63 of prostate cancer, was a co-founder of Complicité (originally known as Théâtre de Complicité) in 1983 and remained at the heart of one of the most interesting and imaginative producing operations in Europe, let alone the UK. Like his Complicité colleagues Annabel Arden, Simon McBurney and Jozef Houben, Magni trained in Paris at the school of the mime, mask and physical theatre expert Jacques Lecoq, and the techniques acquired there informed all the company’s work over the next 40 years. He was half a step ahead of them already, hailing from Bergamo in northern Italy, the home town of the first, mid-16th century Arlecchino (Harlequin). Continue reading... | | | | | |
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