Oli Welsh has been covering the business and culture of video games for two decades. He started out writing for Edge and other publications (specializing in MMOs and Blizzard, as cover for his World of Warcraft playtime) before joining Eurogamer, where he worked for 14 years as reviews editor, deputy editor, and editor-in-chief; Eurogamer won many Games Media Awards during his tenure. At Polygon, he writes about film and TV as well as games, and provides news, analysis, and criticism on the entertainment we love and the industries that make it, all from his home in London. He loves role-playing, racing, puzzles, tactics, exploration, storytelling, Nintendo, mysteries, spies, fantasy, reality, cars, and classic cinema. He wanted to be a movie critic when he grew up, and now he’s definitely grown up, and occasionally is one. He considers this a win.
Partake Foods founder, Denise Woodard, says storytelling has been a big part of her company's success.
Denise Woodard
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Denise Woodard, founder and CEO of Partake Foods. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
Camiel Neghli ensured it was a baptism of fire for new Preston manager Graham Alexander as his late strike sealed a 1-0 win for Millwall at Deepdale.
It was coolness personified from the Dutch-born Algerian, who slotted Luke Cundle's cut-back into the far corner from just inside the box for what turned out to be a 79th-minute winner.
Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari will do "whatever it takes" as a team to beat Max Verstappen in Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix.
Verstappen will start on pole for the second weekend in a row with Charles Leclerc on the front row and Hamilton in behind in third, with all three drivers desperate to win their second races of 2026.
Chelsea thumped Bournemouth 5-1 in a stunning show of their attacking firepower to go fifth in the early Premier League table.
Stunning strikes form Jordan Henderson bookmarked the scoring at Stamford Bridge as Xabi Alonso's side bounced back from their bad loss at Brentford before the international break in style.
Ashley Hay scrambled in a stoppage-time winner on his comeback from injury to secure Dundee a 2-1 victory at Falkirk in the Scottish Premiership.
The striker, out since early August with a ligament sprain, converted from close range after latching on to Ethan Hamilton's free-kick in the first minute of added time.
Burnley's first win of the season, and their first away from home since February, sent Watford fans into open revolt as the Clarets cruised home 4-0 at Vicarage Road.
While Alessio Dionisi's fifth defeat in six games cranked up the pressure on the Hornets head coach, counterpart Nicky Hayen's first three-point haul lifted Burnley off the Championship seabed.
Matt Renshaw struck a career-best 190 to guide Australia to 390 all out on day two of the first test against South Africa at Kingsmead on Saturday, as the home side reached 27-1 in reply before play was ended prematurely by bad light.
A man has died after being attacked by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, police have confirmed.
South Yorkshire Police said it had been called at 13:35 BST to reports of a man entering the tiger enclosure at the attraction near Doncaster. The tiger then attacked the man and he died at the scene, the force said.
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson share their opinions on Steely Dan, that other technically daunting band from the Seventies, in our new interview
Rush and Steely Dan have nothing and everything in common. They each specialize in technically daunting recordings that other musicians envy; they’ve both recorded great songs about the emptiness of the suburbs (“Subdivisions” and “Deacon Blues”). Their lyrics are anomalously cerebral for rock, usually in very different ways, though Donald Fagen and Walter Becker‘s line about the chess piece in “Dirty Work” (“like a castle in its corner in a medieval game”) could easily be Neil Peart’s. Rush’s musical complexity leaned towards proggy adventures with time signatures and song structure, while Steely Dan were more inclined to wedge wild stacks of jazz chords into pop songs. Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, of course, played every note on their albums, whereas Becker and Fagen eventually prided themselves on seeking out world-class session musicians.
