Monthly Archives: April 2019

Call of Duty: WW2 gets its first big update

Call of Duty: WW2 has its first big update – but it doesn’t fix the game’s troubled social space. Sledgehammer’s first-person shooter has got off to a rocky start performance-wise, with connection issues and server problems marring what is a solid and fun multiplayer experience (I like War mode in particular). The launch troubles were […]

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Russia’s GRU: The murky spy agency behind the Salisbury poisoning, a failed coup and US election hack

Theresa May has claimed Sergei Skripal was poisoned by his former employer – Russia’s most shadowy intelligence agency with a reputation for buccaneering and aggressive operations.  Unlike the FSB and SVR, the civilian agencies that emerged from the break-up of the KGB, the GRU, or main intelligence directorate, has never been a civilian outfit – it […]

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Donald Trump blames China for stalled talks with North Korea

Donald Trump, the US president, has accused China of undermining US talks with North Korea, which have hit an impasse in recent weeks over slow progress on denuclearisation.  In a series of tweets, he also asserted that there is “no reason at this time” to spend money on war games with South Korea but warned […]

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Unpatched, the disc version of The Witcher 3 runs at 60fps on Xbox One X

If you put your disc of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in your Xbox One X and play the game unpatched it will run at 60 frames per second. The Witcher 3 was one of the only games to ship with an unlocked framerate. Simply what you’re seeing, then, is the extra grunt of Microsoft’s […]

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Venice priest proposes ‘decency tax’ on brides with plunging necklines

Click:澳洲風扇燈 Brides showing too much decolletage should be made to pay more for their wedding ceremonies, an Italian priest has proposed. Cristiano Bobbo says he has noticed wedding dress necklines plunging lower and lower over recent years. Father Bobbo says brides who display too much flesh at the altar should be subjected to a sort […]

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The new trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding is sci-fi craziness at its best

Hideo Kojima took to the stage at The Game Awards to reveal a new trailer for Death Stranding and it’s… well, I’m not sure what it is. The video stars a virtual recreation of The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus, who along with some other characters faces off against mysterious invisible monsters. At one point […]

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Man charged with threatening to kill Boston Globe staff he called ‘enemy of the people’

A man who threatened to shoot staff at The Boston Globe in messages repeating Donald Trump’s claims that journalists are the "enemy of the people" has been arrested by the FBI.   Robert Chain from Encino, California, repeatedly called the Globe’s newsroom between  August 10 and August 22 to make threats to the paper, prosecutors […]

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Hundreds of endangered sea turtles found dead trapped in fishing nets off Mexican coast

About 300 endangered sea turtles were found dead off the southern coast of Mexico on Tuesday, trapped in fishing nets, shortly after more than 100 dead turtles were recovered. Fishermen in the southern state of Oaxaca discovered the turtles in the seaside community of Barra de Colotepec, said Heliodoro Diaz, the coordinator of the state’s […]

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Offline bots arrive in Friday the 13th so now you can play alone

Offline bots have arrived for Friday the 13th: The Game, so now you don’t have to venture into the hit-and-miss world of other people online. The bots are a free addition for all platforms and work on every map of the game, and let you live out your murderous horror fantasy of being Jason Voorhees […]

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Six-year-old British-born boy left stranded and ‘stateless’ after Home Office revokes his passport

A six-year-old boy born in Britain to a British father may be left stateless after immigration officials declared his passport and citizenship of this country a mistake.  Leeds-born Mohamed Bangoura, who is due back at school in Sheffield next week, is stranded in Belgium after the Home Office denied him permission to board a flight […]

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