Monthly Archives: April 2019

When Sam Fisher realises he’s the last stealth video game hero

Once upon a time, Sam Fisher and Solid Snake were top of the gaming tree, stealth operatives in their prime. Times change, of course. Fisher hasn’t starred in a Splinter Cell game since 2013’s Blacklist, and the future of the Metal Gear Solid series looks uncertain after series creator Hideo Kojima left Konami to go […]

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Three dead after shooter opens fire in Florida yoga studio

A gunman killed two people and wounded five others at a yoga studio in Florida’s capital before killing himself Friday evening, officials said. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo told reporters Friday night that the man shot six people and pistol-whipped another after walking into the studio, which is part of a small Tallahassee shopping centre. […]

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FBI investigating sexual harassment smear against Robert Mueller

Robert Mueller has asked the FBI to investigate a smear campaign against him, amid claims that women were being paid to accuse him of sexual harassment. The campaign was reportedly orchestrated by a man "with a British accent", who rang a woman to entice her to make the false claim. “When we learned last week […]

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‘Torture’ of Russian ‘whale jail’ as 100 Orcas and Belugas captured in Pacific bay

Prosecutors are investigating whether more than 100 whales crowded into tiny enclosures on Russia’s Pacific Coast are being held illegally. Eleven Orca and 90 Beluga whales are being held in what local media have dubbed a “whale prison” in a bay near the city of Nakhodka. It is the largest number of sea creatures to […]

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Congo fever spreads in Afghanistan as displaced farmers move livestock from drought-ravaged land

Cases of a deadly tick-borne fever are increasingly sharply in Afghanistan as a severe drought forces farmers to move infected livestock around the country. September saw 90 reported cases of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) with the disease so far killing nearly one-in-eight of those infected. The toll has jumped from only 244 cases last year […]

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Middle-earth: Shadow of War ripping out microtransactions and loot boxes

Loot boxes (War Chests) and nearly everything associated with them are being ripped from Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The ability to spend real-world money on game gold will be removed – for good – 8th May, and gold, War Chests and the Market will be permanently removed 17th July. The slightly different Loot Chests will […]

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Why Below has taken half a decade to make

“Making a game is obscenely challenging,” Nathan Vella, boss of Toronto, Canada developer Capybara tells me over the phone. “It’s a little bit physically challenging, but it’s always mentally challenging. Making a project pushes you. The metaphor I always use is – I don’t know if you’ve ever been to the desert or somewhere ridiculously […]

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A Way Out review – humdrum crime with a co-op twist

A Way Out, the new game from the Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares and his team Hazelight Studios, absolutely insists on being played co-operatively by two players. Not just two players, but two friends. The action is followed using a clever, dynamic split-screen display that keeps the two player characters in view at (almost) all times, […]

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Trump says US to start cutting Central America aid as he declares migrant caravan ‘national emergency’

Click:Cosmetic glass jar Donald Trump on Monday said he had alerted the military and federal border authorities that a US-bound migrant caravan from Central America was a national emergency, and that the United States would begin curtailing aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Trump, in a series of posts on Twitter, gave no other […]

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Turkish police searching for missing journalist found fresh coats of paint in Saudi consulate, Erdogan reveals

Turkish investigators searching the Saudi Arabian consulate where journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing have found fresh coats of paint, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Police and prosecutors on Monday inspected the consulate building in Istanbul for over eight hours and on Tuesday widened their search to include the Saudi consul’s residence, a short distance […]

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