Nvidia has revealed a new range of ultra high-end, 65-inch gaming monitors designed for the living room, dubbed BFGDs – or Big Format Game Displays. Working initially in combination with Asus, Acer and HP, Nvidia’s technology features a 4K panel operating at 120Hz with G-Sync technology, paired with HDR functionality with 1000 nits peak brightness…
A lost Mick Jagger duet with Carly Simon has been found more than 45 years after it was first recorded. The song, apparently never heard in public, appears to have been recorded in 1972 and was found recently on a tape owned by Rolling Stones collector Matt Lee. Believed to be named "Fragile," at least…
Creative Assembly has issued a refreshingly frank update on the progress – or lack of – of Total War Warhammer’s development. The blog post revolves around Mortal Empires, the ambitious mode that combines the maps of Total War Warhammer and Total War Warhammer 2 into one mega campaign (for more on how it works, check…
A 10-year-old American boy was making a remarkable recovery on Wednesday after a meat skewer impaled his skull but missed his brain, in what medics called a "one in a million" accident. Had Xavier Cunningham landed fractions of an inch to either side after falling from a treehouse ladder on to the sharp metal spit…
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…