Twitter vows to act more swiftly after banning Leslie Jones abuser

Twitter bars Milo Yiannopoulos for good after Jones quit the network following tweets that left her in ‘personal hell’

On my radar: Sandy Powell’s cultural highlights

The British costume designer on Bowie, Broadway hit Hamilton and the fascinating things you can find on Instagram

Pokémon Go movie ready to be caught

Phenomenal success of new mobile game has led to renewed interest in the Japanese franchise with a deal reportedly in the offing

Game plan: Hollywood dusts off Sega’s Rent-a-Hero for new movie

The latest video-game-to-movie adaptation will update an obscure Sega Mega Drive title from 1992 about a young superhero for hire

Gundam trashes Edmonton: how the city became worthy of being blown up

Forget New York, let alone Tokyo: the wildly popular Japanese anime show Mobile Suit Gundam has rather bizarrely chosen quiet Edmonton, Alberta as the backdrop for its two-part season finale

Apple wins patent on technology to stop fans filming gigs

Infrared device would be able to block fans using their iPhones to record shows, films and other live events

Miracle of technology: story of Jesus to be released in virtual reality

Viewers can feel like they were sitting on the hillside during the Sermon on the Mount or right beside the crypt during the resurrection in VR re-enactment

Minecraft film release date blocked in for 2019

Developer of the bestselling video game defends lengthy production schedule for the expected live-action adaptation

Tetris gets trilogy as story ‘too big’ to fit into single film

The adaptation of the iconic videogame, first announced in 2014, is becoming a trilogy – but not for financial reasons, says producer Larry Kasanoff

Viral video: Ricky Gervais mimics the stars, and Ronaldo loses his cool

The Office comedian does impressions from Robert de Niro to Kim Kardashian, plus Selena Gomez does Carpool Karaoke, in our online video chart

The CGI monsters of Independence Day will never haunt the imagination

The best horror films suggest threat and withhold bogeymen. Give me a card-and-goo Alien, not the virtual-reality beasties of the Independence Day sequel

The Warcraft movie: one of the most successful stinkers of all time

The adaptation of the computer game bombed in the US and has been panned by critics – but has grossed more than $378m so far. So who’s paying to watch?

Lonelygirl15: how one mysterious vlogger changed the internet

Bree was a funny, friendly 16-year-old video blogger with a strange family. But all was not what it seemed. Ten years on, we revisit YouTube’s first viral hoax