Liberation

At the end of the second world war, around 250,000 German refugees were left stranded in Denmark. What responsibility, if any, did Danes have, after five years of brutal Nazi occupation, to look after them? That’s the question at the heart of this intelligent drama-thriller from Anders Walter. It’s a film that’s as morally complex as it gets, with some nailbiting moments; I watched a couple of scenes through my hands. What’s really interesting is that it doesn’t strike a triumphant note anywhere; no scene of flag-waving…

Ever found yourself with a killer podcast idea, only for it to fizzle out once you realize all the hoops you have to jump through just to make it? Learning an audio editing tool is a skill of its own and, while getting your audio masterpiece online has never been easier, today’s listeners are savvy and won’t tolerate subpar sound and editing for long. These are all problems that Adobe’s browser-based new Podcast tool aims to solve. Adobe Podcast, formerly known as Project Shasta, is a cloud-based audio production tool. As…

Stories such as Liberation Day, Love Letter and Ghoul seem to represent aspects of the current political climate. Was that something you wished to work through in your writing?Honestly, not really, or not consciously, anyway. My approach is to try to lose control of a story and then see what it wants to tell me. It doesn’t surprise me that politics leached into the stories – it’s very much on my mind these days – but I’ve found that my stories get more interesting if I don’t know, overtly, what it is I’m trying to…

“The land of the short story is a brutal land, a land very similar, in its strictness, to the land of the joke.” George Saunders was writing about the unforgiving nature of the short form, but he might as well have been referring to the worlds in which his characters are trapped. Why is such a nice man so mean to the nice people he invents?In interviews, Saunders comes across as a benignly thoughtful regular guy, a practising Buddhist who constantly tries for kindness. Some part of his writing day, however, is spent…

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been 50 for less than a month, but she`s already loving this new decade. "It`s fantastic," Paltrow said. "I feel really inspired by turning 50. I used to care so much what people thought of me. (Now) I don`t care. It`s so nice. What I think it really means to not be caught up in what other people think is it means that you`re close to yourself."During the panel at the event, celebrating the modern wellness brand and featuring pop-up stations by Vie Healing, goop Beauty, makeup artist Jillian…

Writers to admire queue up on the back cover of George Saunders’s new book in an earnest arms race of praise. “He will be read long after these times have passed,” Zadie Smith says. “George Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time,” Khaled Hosseini suggests. “He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless,” Jonathan Franzen insists. “We’re lucky to have him.”It is hard to imagine Saunders himself not cracking up at all that solemn hyperbole. Do the nine, often wonderfully absurd, short…

Players will be able to ‘access, play or redownload’ Ubisoft has released a second update regarding the status of Steam release Assassin’s Creed Liberation and its incoming inaccessibility. In a statement printed by IGN, the publisher announced that players who own Liberation on Steam will still be able to access, re-download, and/or play the Assassin’s Creed III spin-off once it is removed from the Steam service in September. “As stated in our support article, only DLCs and online features will be affected by the…

Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD owners on Steam won’t lose access to the game on September 1st, Ubisoft clarified today after a notice on Valve’s storefront suggested the title would become unplayable later this year. “Current owners of those games will still be able to access, play or redownload them,” a spokesperson for the company told . The confusion around Liberation HD’s playability stems from an announcement Ubisoft made earlier this month. In a move designed to free up resources for its newer and more popular…

In an unprecedented blow to game preservation, Ubisoft has delisted Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD from the Steam store, and starting on September 1, 2022, it will be completely unplayable, even if you own it already. The news comes after Ubisoft recently shut down online servers for 15 games such as Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Far Cry 3, and Assassin’s Creed 2, rendering their multiplayer modes unplayable. Earlier in 2022, Ubisoft shut down online services for over 90 games. A notice on the…

Requiescat in pace Ubisoft has quietly removed 2014 release Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD from the Steam platform, rendering the title inaccessible for purchase. Furthermore, the Steam page is also apparently suggesting that, as of September 1, players who have previously purchased the spin-off title will no longer be able to play it. Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD is a remastered edition of the 2012 release Assassin’s Creed Liberation, which is itself a spin-off of Assassin’s Creed III. Set against the backdrop of…