We’ve just got our best look yet at Microsoft’s refreshed Xbox Live avatars via a freshly leaked video. The redesigned characters have been in development for a long time now – and while we’ve seen glimpses, this is our best, fullest gander yet (thanks, The Verge). Character customisation options include dozens of eye shapes, hair…
PUBG developer Bluehole has published a flurry of announcements over the past few days, with the headline addition being Update 9’s new kind of spectator mode, which will let you watch the player who killed you as they carry on through the match. The obvious inspiration, of course, is fellow battle royale rival Fortnite, which…
A top Republican Party campaign committee has confirmed it fell victim to a cyber attack during the 2018 election campaign. The attack on the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the campaign arm for Republicans in the House of Representatives, left the email accounts of high ranking members compromised for several months before the hack was…
Legendary flying ‘mon Lugia will return to Pokémon Go this month, for a limited time. Lugia will replace Rayquaza (finally) in raid battles from tomorrow and stick around until 2nd April. He has an improved flying move – Sky Attack. Could he also now be available in Shiny form as well? It seems possible… Lugia…
Video games development simulator Game Dev Tycoon now has an ultra difficult “Pirate Mode” where your software gets pirated. Emulating the real world problem of piracy, this advanced option will see reduced sales on all of your games. “Bankruptcy is likely”, you are told. Game Dev Tycoon originally hit the headlines – and found success…
Authorities ordered more than 10,000 people to flee from “catastrophic” wildfires moving across north-east Australia, as heavy rains in the south-east caused flooding that left at least two people dead. In the state of Queensland, a heatwave and strong winds fuelled a massive fire that destroyed homes and led to the evacuation of all 8,000…
A federal judge on Monday put a temporary halt to a Trump administration order denying the possibility of asylum to people who enter the US illegally. Donald Trump, the US president, issued the proclamation earlier this month as a matter of what he called national security as a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants…
Fortnite streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins currently makes around $500,000 a month. The 26-year-old former professional Halo player told CNBC his astonishing monthly revenue comes from a combination of factors that includes his mammoth 3.7m Twitch followers, 5m YouTube subscribers and millions of social media followers. The bulk of the revenue comes from Amazon and Twitch…
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on Thursday declined to come to Ukraine’s aid after its president appealed for help to block Russian aggression. Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, appealed to Nato on Thursday, asking for naval support in the standoff with Russia and accused the neighboring state of wanting to annex the Sea of Azov. Speaking…
Donald Trump will attend the funeral of former US president George H W Bush on Wednesday, capping days of public praise for the Bush family and ending a feud that has simmered at the heart of the Republican Party for years. Mr Trump is expected to sit in a row of the National Cathedral…