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Watch the Nintendo Switch Nindies Spring 2018 Showcase here

Nintendo has a long lineup of Switch indie game announcements to make – and here’s where you can watch it all unfold. The Nindies (yes, that’s Nintendo Indies) Showcase for spring 2018 will broadcast this afternoon at 4pm UK time. Across the pond, that’s midday Eastern or 9am Pacific. We’re expecting firm release dates for […]

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The Elder Scrolls’ Summerset Isle has come a long way in 24 years

Earlier in March, Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls Online’s new upcoming expansion is set on the mysterious Summerset Isle. It’s an interesting choice of setting for a number of reasons. For one, the island, which is situated in the southwest corner of Tamriel, is the the home of the magic-loving High Elves. As such, it’s […]

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‘Split decision’: How US newspapers reacted to the midterm elections

The Democrats took back the House but the Republicans strengthened their majority in the Senate – a mixed bag of results that were reflected on the country’s front pages on Wednesday.  Ending eight years of Republican control that began with the tea party revolt of 2010, Democrats picked off more than two dozen GOP-held districts in suburbs across the nation […]

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds back tears in emotional national apology to child abuse victims

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has issued a national apology to thousands of victims of institutional sex abuse, admitting the state utterly failed to stop "evil, dark crimes" committed over decades. "This was done by Australians to Australians, enemies in our midst, enemies in our midst," Morrison said in an emotional address to parliament, designed as a belated apology […]

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Tomb Raider film review – a new kind of game-to-film failure

For decades, film adaptations of video game properties have sucked – but to be fair to their beleaguered makers, they have faced some intractable problems. Early video games had great name recognition and more than their fair share of iconic imagery, but their lead characters were vacant mascots and their action often defied rational explanation, […]

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Geoffrey Rush would ‘look at me and lick his lips’, actress at centre of defamation case tells court

Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush touched his co-star on the breast and humiliated her with sexual innuendo during a production of "King Lear", the co-star told an Australian court on Tuesday, as News Corp defended publishing some details of her claims. In Australia’s first defamation case of the #MeToo era, Rush is suing News Corp’s Australian arm […]

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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets a release date

Beamdog’s Enhanced Edition of BioWare’s quite-old-now role-playing game Neverwinter Nights will be released 27th March on Steam. It’s $20 but for that you get both NWN expansions – Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark – plus paid modules Kingmaker, ShadowGuard and Witch’s Wake. If you splash out on the $40 Deluxe Edition you […]

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Man shot after stabbing police officer in the neck in Brussels

A police officer was stabbed in the neck in the centre of Brussels on Tuesday morning by a man who was reported as having shouted “Allahu Akbar”  before launching his attack. The knifeman, 33,  was shot three times by another officer outside a police station close to Brussels’ world famous Grand Place, a Unesco world […]

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Burnout tops chart for first time in 13 years

Burnout Paradise Remastered has earned the franchise its first chart top spot in over a decade. The much-missed smash ’em-up racing series last hit number one with Burnout Revenge, back in 2005. However, Burnout’s best ever week of launch sales still belongs to Burnout 3: Takedown back in 2004. Kirby Star Allies for Nintendo Switch, […]

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Hundreds of ‘flash frozen’ turtles washed ashore in New England

More than 200 frozen turtles – many of them dead – have been washed ashore in New England, victims of a sudden cold snap, according to staff at a nearby wildlife sanctuary. Sea turtles are cold blooded creatures that normally migrate to warmer waters to survive the cold winters of America’s north-eastern coastline. However, in […]

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