Autumn arts preview games

From a boisterous looter shooter to an offbeat adventure, superlative sports simulations to a 1960s-set Japanese psychological horror

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The boisterous “looter shooter” series returns, bringing ridiculously powerful weapons, a cool new hoverbike and a vast planet to explore, while dealing with the threat of a ruthless cosmic dictator known as the Timekeeper. It’s been five years since the last instalment, and developer Gearbox has massively updated the signature cartoon visuals to bring us the next generation of sci-fi comic book anarchy.
Released 12 September; PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch (3 October)

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The Occupant review – air crash survival thriller gets Rob Delaney’s voice for company

Ella Balinska is excellent alongside Delaney’s disembodied voice, but it’s a shame the film isn’t as sharply sketched as they are

Here is a survival sci-fi thriller in which Abby (Ella Balinska) is trying to save the life of her sister, who is stricken with apparently terminal cancer. Abby’s tenacious sense that the possibility of a cure exists is the major guiding force behind a narrative that goes to some strange and unexpected places. For most of the run time, Abby is trying to return home from the site of a helicopter crash in the remote wilds of of Georgia, where the odds of survival are minimal and her only companion is the disembodied voice of comedian Rob Delaney, who plays a pilot – or is he? – who has also crashlanded somewhere in the wilderness.

Delaney, best known for his work in comedies such as the excellent Catastrophe, gives an excellent voice-only performance, but it’s Balinska’s show, and she delivers the kind of turn that made Sigourney Weaver a legend in Alien: brave but vulnerable, strong yet struggling. Casting directors should sign her up asap.

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Handshakes and hope but little progress: a short history of Trump-Kim summits

US president is keen for a fourth meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but has little to show from the previous three encounters

Donald Trump’s unshakeable belief in his ability as a peacemaker has raised the prospect of another attempt to solve one of the world’s most implacable crises: North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear weapons.

During an occasionally fractious meeting with Lee Jae Myung in the White House on Monday, Trump did at least agree with South Korea’s liberal president on the need to engage with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un.

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Postal services around the world suspend deliveries to US: how will it affect you?

Suspensions from Australia to Europe come after Donald Trump removed a rule exempting parcels worth less than US$800 from his tariffs

Postal services around the world have stopped sending some mail to the United States as they ready for expanded tariffs, after Donald Trump removed an exemption on packages worth under US$800.

Carriers have been temporarily suspending services since Friday to avoid delivering packages after 29 August, when they will start to be charged full tariff rates for most parcels.

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TV tonight: the White House Farm murder case re-examined 40 years on

A two-part look at the grisly crime that led to Jeremy Bamber’s conviction for murder. Plus: hit social experiment The Jury returns. Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, Channel 4
In 1985, the Bamber family – Nevill and June, their daughter Sheila Caffell and her six-year-old twin sons – were found dead at their Essex home. At first, police believed Caffell was responsible for the murders before turning the gun on herself, but suspicion turned to her brother Jeremy Bamber. He was convicted in 1986 on five counts of murder and has been in prison ever since, but has always insisted he is innocent. The grisly, perplexing case of “the farmhouse of death” is scrutinised here by some of those who responded to and reported on the crime. Hollie Richardson

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