A 23-year-old British backpacker died after being bitten by a sea snake while working on a fishing trawler near a remote island off northern Australia. In a rare accident that marked the first known death from a sea snake in Australia, the man was bitten as he hauled up a net on a boat near Groote
Splatoon 2’s superstars Pearl And Marina are getting their own amiibo in the not-too-distant future, with the two members of fictional band Off the Hook soon to be immortalised in plastic. Well, I say fictional band – Off the Hook made their first live appearance this weekend just gone, with a performance at this year’s
Donald Trump has strongly defended his embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but for the first time indicated he could withdraw his support amid allegations of sexual misconduct. With the Senate preparing to hold a key hearing on Thursday that could determine whether Republicans can salvage his nomination, the US president said he would watch
The US military is to be deployed to the border with Mexico, it was reported on Thursday, with James Mattis, the defence secretary, poised to sign deployment orders sending 800 troops to the region. The move is being seen as a response to a "caravan" of 7,000 Central American migrants, which is edging its way north
Bayonetta 2 sold fewer physical copies at launch for Nintendo Switch this week than it did when it arrived on Wii U. The Platinum-developed Bayonetta 2 (which includes a copy of Bayo 1) landed fifth in the UK chart – the game’s highest chart placing to date, albeit one achieved with fewer physical sales. Perhaps
The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for an EU-wide ban on single-use plastics such as straws, cutlery, cotton buds and balloon sticks. The European Commission, the 28-nation EU’s executive arm, proposed banning such items that it said account for 70 percent of the waste in the oceans and beaches. "Today we are one step closer
The WarGames video game reboot launches later this month. It’s the next game from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, who has penned a six-episode interactive video series that kicks off on iOS and Steam on 14th March, with an Xbox One version due out afterwards. Barlow’s WarGames is a reboot of the 1983 film about
An arts centre in Hong Kong hosting the city’s annual international literary festival has cancelled appearances by Ma Jian, the exiled Chinese writer said on Thursday, in the latest example of China tightening its control on freedom of expression. Ma, who now lives in London and whose books are banned in China, was due to promote
A CV outlining the achievements of a five-year-old child has gone viral in China highlighting the highly competitive nature of the country’s private school system. The 15-page document, which describes the child as “confident” and holding “rich and varied experience”, gained tens of thousands of shares and comments after being posted on Chinese social media
I’ve been playing a lot of Blades in the Dark recently – it might just be the best pen and paper role playing game I’ve ever encountered. Blades is an RPG in which the players form a fledgling criminal gang in the grimy industrial city of Duskvol, pulling off daring heists and trying to stay