Firaxis has announced the first big expansion for strategy game Civilization 6. It’s called Rise and Fall, it costs £24.99 and it’s out 8th February 2018. The fancy trailer, below, shows poor old Sean Bean, Civilization 6’s narrator, die once again, this time from some bastard plague. Civilization 6 trailer fans will remember poor old…
Italy spent hundreds of thousands of euros in European Union funds to escort the Aquarius migrant boat to Spain after refusing it permission to land at Italian ports. The new populist coalition government in Rome used the turning away of the Aquarius to signal a new tougher anti-migrant stance shortly after the far-right League and…
With Brexit now less than a year away, the European Union finds itself under assault from a new populist revolution. This six-part series examines the major challenges facing the continent. From immigration to defence, economy to enlargement and, indeed, to the very meaning of democracy itself: ‘The Future of Europe’ is now at stake… On day three of the series,…
They don’t make them like they used to. Except, of course, when they do – such as with Inti Creates’ lovingly crafted homages to 8-bit classics. Or, indeed, to some of the games that are embedded deep within this developer’s blood; this is a studio, after all, formed from a team of Capcom veterans some…
Roy Moore, the former US Senate candidate from Alabama, on Wednesday filed a $95 million (£73 million) lawsuit accusing Sacha Baron Cohen of defamation for duping him into appearing on the actor’s Showtime television series "Who Is America?" Mr Moore, a Republican and former chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, also brought defamation claims against Showtime and…
The US government has announced a new plan to detain illegal immigrant children indefinitely with their parents. It proposed a termination of the so-called Flores Agreement, a court ruling that requires it to release minors after a maximum 20 days in detention. The move was the latest twist in a saga which saw 2,900 children…
For five days this week PlayStation 4 online multiplayer will not require PlayStation Plus. Now if only the Call of Duty: WW2 servers would work… It means online multiplayer will be open to all PS4 users from Wednesday 15th November, 10am GMT, through to Monday 20th, 10am GMT. PlayStation Plus usually requires a monthly subscription…
Click:gold buyers Auckland The leak of an arrest warrant which names one of the chief suspects in a stabbing that set off neo-Nazi riots in Germany this week has raised fears that the country’s police may have been infiltrated by the far-Right. The confidential document, which was shared by far-Right groups on social media, names…
Titanfall 2 made big headlines for Xbox One X during the preview period, when Respawn Entertainment’s Drew McCoy noted that the game’s dynamic scaler hit a maximum of 6K resolution during pre-production testing. The Xbox One X patch dropped last week, but it’s clear that something isn’t quite right with the upgrade. While enhancements are…
Over 100 African migrants forced their way into the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Wednesday after storming a barbed-wire border fence with Morocco and attacking police with caustic quicklime, a local official said. In the second assault on the Spanish border in a month, seven police officers were lightly injured when migrants threw quicklime and…