Italy’s far-Right interior minister on Sunday dismissed possible kidnapping charges over the illegal detention of more than 100 migrants as a "badge of honour" as he geared up for a clash with the judiciary. The group of 150 migrants finally left the Italian coast guard ship Diciotti yesterday after spending 10 days stranded at sea…
In the run-up to Nintendo’s announcement last night, a few of us were bandying around ideas about what it could possibly be. An Amiibo-focussed game, Nintendo’s own version of Skylanders? A streaming service that brought together the best in kids TV – so you’d always have an episode of In The Night Garden to hand…
The new James Bond film will likely not be released next autumn, it has been reported, after a series of delays before filming has even begun. The 25th installment, as yet unnamed, was due to be premiered in October 2019. Now sources are telling The Hollywood Reporter that it could be pushed back by as…
That weird Death Stranding trailer – the one with the thumbs up fetus inside Norman Reedus’ throat – is rendered in real-time on a PlayStation 4 Pro, developer Hideo Kojima said during the PlayStation Experience. No-one’s really sure what the trailer’s about. Well, that’s not true. Kojima, you presume, understands what it’s all about. And…
France’s most wanted gangster has been caught three months after he pulled off a spectacular, Hollywood-style jailbreak in a helicopter that landed in his prison courtyard. Redoine Faïd, 46, a career criminal dubbed the “jailbreak king” and who has compared himself to Scarface, was arrested along with three others in a dawn raid in a…
Dutch police have shot one of the Netherlands’ most notorious criminals, Frans Meijer, one of the kidnappers that adducted beer magnate Freddy Heineken for a £15 million ransom in 1983. Meijer, 66, was gunned down by a motorcycle cop in Amsterdam on Monday morning after fleeing with another man when he was challenged by police…
Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition is what Street Fighter 5 should have been when it launched back in February 2016: a fun, easy-to-get-into but hard to master fighting game that is, crucially, feature complete. Here’s what Arcade Edition, which is a free update for existing Street Fighter 5 owners or a game you can buy…
A teenager was killed and at least 10 others left injured after a series of violent gas explosions caused chaos in three towns north of Boston, Massachusetts. The unexplained blasts left dozens of building smoldering and spread fire, creating a scene that was likened to “Armageddon” by one official. Some 8,000 people were estimated to…
Outlast 1 and 2 are coming to Nintendo Switch early next year, Big Red Barrels has announced. The first-person survival horror games hit Switch at some point during the first quarter of 2018, the developer said in a post on Facebook. Outlast 1 came out on PC back in 2013, before ports for PlayStation 4…
The French military vehicle broke down in the unforgiving desert of northern Mali, 80 miles from the nearest base. Jihadists, bandits and armed villagers all criss-cross the arid plains, and attacks targeting French counter-terrorism forces are common. This time, however, following a commitment made by Prime Minister Theresa May to President Emmanuel Macron in January,…