UPDATE 23/10/17 6.10pm: Warner Bros. has confirmed that Lego Dimensions is no more. “Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, and The Lego Group would like to thank fans for their ongoing support of Lego Dimensions,” the company said in a statement posted to Twitter, “After careful consideration, we will not be producing new expansion packs…
President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to shut down the government if Democrats refuse to back Republican demands to fund a border wall with Mexico. Mr Trump has endured a series of setbacks in his efforts to tighten the US immigration system and deliver on his election pledge to build a wall along the southern…
Bungie will rework the rewards system for future iterations of Destiny 2’s Iron Banner event, following fan feedback. Iron Banner debuted in Destiny 2 earlier this month with several changes from Destiny 1. It no longer featured power advantages for players of a higher level. It also spat out random rewards using Destiny 2’s blanket…
Taliban fighters overran a northern Afghan army base, officials said Tuesday, killing at least 17 soldiers with dozens feared captured in a stinging blow to security forces already struggling to push insurgents from eastern Ghazni. The fall of the base in Ghormach district of volatile Faryab province came with security forces – who have struggled to…
Aretha Franklin, the multiple Grammy award-winning singer whose career spanned seven decades, has died aged 76. The Queen of Soul – best known for hits such as Respect, Think and I Say a Little Prayer – passed away in Detroit on Thursday after battling ill health for several years. The cause of her death was advanced pancreatic cancer, her publicist Gwendolyn Quinn…
A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer. As I have mentioned multiple times this month, Black Friday 2017…
The head of China’s government-run Buddhist association quit his post on Wednesday amid an investigation into allegations that he coerced several nuns into having sex with him. Xuecheng, a Communist Party member and abbot of the Beijing Longquan Monastery, is one of the most prominent figures to face accusations in China’s growing #MeToo movement. In…
Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former prime minister, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday after being hit with new charges linked to a multi-billion-dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat in May Looking tired as he appeared in court, Mr Najib was charged with three counts of money-laundering over claims he pocketed 42 million ringgit (£8 million)….
A Russian woman worked as a spy inside the United States embassy in Moscow for over a decade before she was discovered, it has been reported. The woman, who had her security clearance revoked in the summer of 2017, had access to the secret service’s intranet and email systems, according to The Guardian. Those files…
Kenya’s wildlife minister is under pressure to resign following the death of ten rhinos last month in a calamitous relocation project, after it emerged that he had been warned of the dangers of the project on three separate occasions. Najib Balala, the Cabinet Secretary for Wildlife and Tourism, had sought to deflect blame for one…