The Game Awards 2025 edition of the Day of the Devs digital showcase goes live on Wednesday, December 10 at 1PM ET on Twitch and YouTube. That's more than 30 hours before The Game Awards itself kicks off, which makes perfect sense. It is called Day of the Devs, after all, and if we're judging by past appearances, the event absolutely deserves its own full 24 hours in the spotlight.
More than any other major London theatre, Hampstead has been at the sharp end of recent funding struggles: its last artistic director Roxana Silbert quit in 2022 as a result of the venue losing all of its Arts Council funding. Still, the remaining team have limped on valiantly, in part helped by the patronage of the the late, great Tom Stoppard: annual revivals of his more obscure plays the last three Christmases have guaranteed bums on seats, and the rest of the programme has been no slouch.
I'm a bit of a bird nerd, so the hawk part is what first piqued my interest in this adaptation of Helen Macdonald's award-winning memoir about keeping a goshawk during the grieving process following the loss of her father. What surprised me was how much I responded to this sensitive and artful examination of grief, and how the work of training, caring for, and controlling the bird, seemingly a 24/7 undertaking, works as both a method-to-the-madness therapy and a poetic metaphor.