Sea of Thieves, the upcoming shared-world pirate game from Rare, has a mysterious kraken which roams the game world before popping up to attack ships. Rare has kept this mechanic close to its chest so far, showing off a kraken fight in video form to press but not releasing footage or screenshots. Now, images of…
South Korea has proposed that all weapons be removed from the Joint Security Area, the sector around the truce village of Panmunjeom in the centre of the Demilitarised Zone that has divided North and South Korea since 1953 and was less than a year ago the scene of a daring defection by a North Korean…
Donald Trump apparently wants some face-to-face time with members of the video game industry following the tragic Florida school shooting last month. “Next week [President Trump will] also be meeting with members of the video game industry to see what they can do on that front,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in…
Saudi Arabia is to admit journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in its consulate in Istanbul in a botched interrogation, according to reports on Monday night. Officials from the kingdom were expected to lay out a series of events which blamed intelligence operatives, and shielded Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince, from responsibility over the journalist’s…
UPDATE 28TH FEBRUARY 9AM GMT: Another day, another tease, and it’s more schematics for equipment. This time there’s a design for a shield which looks a lot like Reinhardt’s – check the lion’s head in the centre – only smaller, given the measurements supplied and the words “kompakt!!” scribbled next to it. The similarities to…
Detectives dubbed him “the King of the Castle” after he used forged death certificates to evade capture while living the high life in a Burgundy chateau surrounded by works of Salvador Dali and a vintage Rolls Royce Phantom. Yesterday, Europol announced it had caught a “high-profile” Ukrainian fugitive on October 5 who had been enjoying a…
Sandra Day O’Connor, a pioneer in the legal profession who made history in 1981 by becoming the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court and remained on the bench for a quarter century, announced on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with dementia. "Some time ago, doctors diagnosed me with the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s…
Remember Inside Xbox? In the days of Xbox 360, the console’s official video show was a fixture of its dashboard. Now, Microsoft is reviving the dormant brand for a live monthly broadcast “that will highlight breaking announcements and a peek behind the curtain of Team Xbox”. Familiar faces such as Major “Larry Hryb” Nelson, Graeme…
President Donald Trump has said the US would get answers on the missing Saudi Arabian journalist “by the end of the week”, as pressure mounted on the kingdom over gruesome new details of the suspected murder. Mr Trump said he “did not like” that Riyadh was “guilty until proven innocent” and would wait for a…
The death toll from fierce storms battering Italy has risen to 11, civil protection authorities said on Tuesday, as wild weather caused schools to close and trapped dozens of tourists in the north of the country. With ferocious storms lashing the country, winds reached up to 110 mph in some areas, toppling trees and causing flooding….