Last week, Blizzard set tongues wagging with an apparent tease for a Diablo game on Nintendo Switch. The image – of a Diablo night light being repeatedly switched on and off – felt fairly deliberate. But then, after hours of fan excitement, an official response emerged from within Blizzard apparently designed to dampen down the…
A year ago, Fallen London and Sunless Sea developer Failbetter Games successfully pitched Sunless Skies on Kickstarter. The upcoming project was funded in four hours and its crowdfunding campaign concluded with nearly 400 per cent of the money needed to smash its financial target. In September last year, Failbetter won a GamesIndustry.biz award for being…
An early warning system that might have prevented some deaths in the tsunami that hit an Indonesian island on Friday has been stalled in the testing phase for years. The high-tech system of seafloor sensors, data-laden sound waves and fiber-optic cable was meant to replace a system set up after an earthquake and tsunami killed…
Britain has granted asylum to 29 Syrian “White Helmets” civil defence volunteers and up to 70 family members, The Telegraph has learned. The first family has already been resettled in the UK, while the rest are due to move early next month. A total of 98 White Helmets and 324 of their relatives were evacuated…
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…
Click:Printing Machine Manufacturer 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…
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…