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‘Tactical Espionage Operations’ is what Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain aims to provide – and it does so in spades. In this Voice Retrospects, I take a look back at Hideo Kojima’s final entry into the iconic Metal Gear series!

The mobile network operator becomes the first in the UK to reintroduce roaming charges for those travelling to European destinations since the agreement of a trade deal between the UK and EU in December 2020.

Exploring unpublished materials and responses to societal issues, Nicola Abram’s Black British Women's Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics has received the Theatre Book Prize for 2021 by the Society for Theatre Research.

Take a look at our biggest takeaways from this year’s Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. While the schedule of game releases is undoubtedly going to be hectic as 2021 draws to a close, the biggest winner by far is Xbox Game Pass!

An unabashed look at the impacts of pornography addiction, Jerk is a comedic representation of growing up that shines at this year’s Brighton Fringe.

Featuring stellar performances from Isaac Hesketh and Oliver McFadden, Echo / Chamber takes Euripides’s Greek tragedy, The Bacchae and brings it firmly into the digital and social media age.

I May Destroy You received the BAFTA for Best Mini-Series, while Coel herself won the BAFTA for Best Actress for her role in the show, dedicating the award to intimacy director Ita O’Brien. 

MEETING is a Zoom drama (‘Zama’) that is about ‘the most awkward meeting imaginable on Zoom’, and for its 14 minute runtime, this feeling of awkwardness is by and large the main takeaway from the show.

The deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, will see Amazon acquire a catalogue of more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows, including titles like Robocop, The Silence of the Lambs and Vikings, among numerous others. 

The pilots will be trialled across different regions in England, with funding from a £12 million pot to be made available to provide services for those who need to self-isolate in areas with higher rates of coronavirus infections.

Campaigners have called for the proposed Environment Bill, which returns to parliament on 26 May, to be strengthened in order to deal with the ongoing global plastic waste crisis.

A special edition published by the UK’s oldest literary periodical, The London Magazine, Untitled, 2020 fuses new commissioned prose and poetry creations with older works that coalesce to form a reflection on 2020 as a whole.