Monthly Archives: April 2019

Splatoon 2 gets new hairstyles, plus new music, modes and maps

Nintendo has just released details of a series of major updates coming to Splatoon 2, with new modes, maps and music all inbound. Most importantly, perhaps, is the ability to be able to change gear between rounds without having to quit out of the lobby – a lingering problem from the first game on Wii […]

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Guardians of the Galaxy cast come out in support of fired director James Gunn

A Hollywood director who was fired by Disney for a series of offensive tweets sent a decade ago should be reinstated, his cast have said. James Gunn was removed from franchise Guardians of the Galaxy last week, after the publication of tweets in which he joked about paedophilia, Aids, September 11 and the Holocaust. The […]

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MH370: The story so far as Malaysia releases final report into mystery of flight’s disappearance

It is arguably the biggest mystery in aviation history: What happened to  Flight MH370? Malaysia is releasing a long-awaited report into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which vanished with 239 aboard en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Relatives of people aboard the flight, who were given the official investigation team’s […]

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BlizzCon 2017 leak: HOTS damn it’s time to Hanzo main

UPDATE: It’s official – Hanzo and Alexstrasza are coming to Heroes of the Storm. Alexstrasza can transform into a dragon, and Hanzo can be a nimble scout assassin. Blizzard also announced a raft of changes coming to HOTS in the 2018 gameplay update: performanced-based matchmaking, voice chat, a new camera, laning improvements, a stealth rework […]

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How the devs behind Driveclub plan to bring the arcade racer back to life

Let’s take a second to salute Driveclub, the PlayStation 4 launch title that missed the launch, and then stalled upon its final release thanks to a number of technical gremlins and design oversights. Despite that drama, it flourished into something quite remarkable – a muscular racer with a touch of Project Gotham Racing’s flair to […]

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US, Japan and Australia sign infrastructure agreement to counter China’s belt and road

Australia and Japan have joined with the United States to create a scheme for investing in countries across Asia and the Pacific in an apparent attempt to counter the growing influence of China,  whose massive Belt and Road Initiative could involve as much as £760 billion of spending over the next decade. Describing the scheme, […]

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Noctis from Final Fantasy 15 coming to Tekken 7

Hot on the heels of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guest starring in Injustice 2 comes the news that Noctis, star of Final Fantasy 15, is coming to Tekken 7. Noctis is due out as a DLC character at some point in spring 2018, Bandai Namco said. You can see him in action in the […]

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Mutant mosquitoes: Can gene editing kill off malaria?

Deep in the basement of a bland-looking building on Imperial College’s South Kensington campus is a humid, windowless suite protected by two steel doors and an electronic security system. It is called the ‘Insectary’.  Inside, thousands of mosquitoes are kept in small cubes of white netting, which are themselves stored in eight large stainless-steel cubicles […]

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Chinese authorities filmed smashing coffins and exhuming bodies in ‘barbaric’ crackdown on burials

Officials in southeast China have smashed thousands of coffins, some of which were exhumed, as it intensified a campaign banning  people from burying their dead. The “zero burial” policy in Jianxi province, where people regularly splash life savings on expensive coffins for themselves, was introduced six months ago to cut down on land being used by burials. Over […]

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Melania Trump praises LeBron James hours after Donald Trump’s online swipe

Melania Trump, the first lady, distanced herself once again from her husband on Saturday, praising the basketball player LeBron James for his work with disadvantaged children hours after President Donald Trump directed a Twitter broadside at the star. In June, Mrs Trump said she hated seeing children separated from their families at the border – […]

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