Monthly Archives: April 2019

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Xbox One patch promises "slight" frame-rate improvements

There’s a new Xbox One patch for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds which targets small improvements to the game’s frame count and adds an aim acceleration slider. Other changes include a buff to weapon damage when firing on vehicles, and other unnamed PhysX and VFX enhancements. The defining word of the patch notes is “incremental” – the description […]

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Japanese politician kicked out of meeting for sucking cough drops

The Japanese politician who was censured for bringing her baby to work has been kicked out of another local government meeting – this time for sucking cough sweets. Yuka Ogata, 43, attracted global headlines when she was ordered to leave Kumamoto Municipal Assembly in southern Japan last year after bringing her seven-month-old baby to work. Ms […]

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Snazzy 3D replays will make the PUBG 1.0 release this week

Fancy 3D replays will be a part of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ glitzy 1.0 release this week, on Wednesday 20th December. The replays record what’s going on around you so when you die – assuming you do, of course – you can replay what went down, seeing things from your killer’s perspective, which sounds grisly, and with […]

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Marine Le Pen ordered to undergo psychiatric tests for tweeting images of Isil atrocities

French far-Right leader Marine Le Pen has refused to undergo court-ordered psychiatric evaluation for tweeting photos of Isil atrocities, angrily comparing the demand to methods used by totalitarian regimes. Ms Le Pen was stripped of her parliamentary immunity and then charged in March with “distributing violent images” for tweeting three gruesome pictures showing killings by the […]

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Real-life Destiny 2 loot crate has an in-game emblem, costs £58

There’s a real-life Destiny 2 loot crate. It looks like this: Inside the £58 box is a raft of items, including an in-game emblem called Recurrent Resplendence. It looks like this: We don’t know exactly what’s in the loot crate (it wouldn’t be a loot crate if we did), but the company behind it, the […]

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Russia to jam signals in Syria and supply regime with more advanced anti-missile technology after plane was shot down

Russia has said it is to supply its ally Syria with more advanced anti-missile technology, and jam radar signals in the eastern Mediterranean, after a deadly incident of friendly fire. Moscow will send newer S-300 surface-to-air missile defense systems to Syria within the next two weeks, Sergei Shoigu, defence minister, said in a statement on Monday. The […]

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PlayStation VR is getting a fascinating 2D action game

Pop-Up Pilgrims is a PlayStation VR exclusive from Dakko Dakko, the studio that previously made such offbeat gems as Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails, The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character and Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims (if experience has taught this studio anything, Pop-Up Pilgrims suggests it’s how to craft a […]

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Brazil’s far right presidential candidate

As Brazil prepares to vote for its next president on Sunday, we take a look at the country’s controversial yet leading candidate Jair Bolsonaro.  

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Off Grid is about the principles of hacking

In the mid 1990’s, after what lawmen rather fancifully described as a “countrywide hacking spree” across the United States, a man called Kevin Mitnick was arrested. He was charged with 25 counts of computer-related crimes which, legend has it, included hacking into NORAD, North America’s aerospace defence system, inspiring the ’80s flick War Games along […]

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Shock poll predicts Merkel’s Bavarian sister party CSU could lose power for first time since Second World War

A key ally of Angela Merkel faces historic losses in regional elections in Bavaria next month, according to the findings of a shock new poll. The Christian Social Union (CSU), which has governed Bavaria since 1946, has lost almost a third of its support, the poll for ARD television found. The findings will send shockwaves […]

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