The Taliban on Monday appeared set to reject the Afghan government’s offer of another holiday truce and took nearly 200 passengers hostage when they ambushed three buses travelling to the capital. While Afghans were still waiting for the militants’ official response to president Ashraf Ghani’s proposal, two Taliban commanders said the leadership opposed a repeat
Capcom’s revealed some cool new costumes coming to fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite next month. My favourite is Haggar’s Metro City Mayor costume, which gives the old bruiser a nice shirt and tie. I also like Frank West’s Proto Man costume. Gamora gets a great classic costume, which looks much better than her default
Detective Pikachu, the bizarre crime-solving Pokémon spin-off for 3DS, is getting a worldwide release and a giant amiibo. The episodic game will finally see its second episode launch in Japan in March – and a Western release with both episodes included at the same time. Here’s the game’s talkative star in his new amiibo form,
One of America’s most prominent Republicans has joined criticism of the Neil Armstrong biopic ‘First Man’ for not depicting the moment he planted an American flag on the moon. Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who ran against Donald Trump for the party’s presidential nomination in 2016, said the filmmakers’ decision was “lunacy”. There was wider
After months of teasing, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has finally named its upcoming desert map and detailed some its various locales. Miramar, the new map’s final name, will offer a more varied landscape of locations and hotspots than the original Erangel. Two cities – Los Leones and El Pozo – make up much of the map’s urban
John McCain’s daughter has said her father embodied “American greatness” as she used his funeral to dismiss “cheap rhetoric” in a pointed rebuke of Donald Trump. As the president enjoyed a round of golf after a week dominated by the death of one of his most prominent Republican critics, Meghan McCain took a
The usually uncontested waters of the English channel were last night roiled by clashes between French and English fishing boats in a rapidly escalating row over scallops – and Brexit is the underlying cause. In scenes that will have the tabloids dusting off old tropes about the battle of Agincourt – where Henry V bravely
Near the end of tonight’s The Game Awards 2017, Sea of Thieves got another new trailer. But there was something unexpected at the end: a 20th March 2018 release date! It was a sudden and surprisingly low-key reveal clustered in among other ads and trailers, for a game which has now been shown at three
Seven shots rang out as a massive male wild boar crashed out of thick woods outside Anduze, southern France, tore across a track and lurched to a halt, stone dead. Seconds later, Jean-Marc Budet, 56, emerged from the dense scrub with three baying hounds and wearing an orange T-shirt emblazoned with the words: “Hunter and
Final Fantasy 15 is getting an all-new Royal Edition which bundles together all of the pre-existing DLC as well as introducing a bevvy of new features – and it releases on PC at the same time as on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, marking the debut of Final Fantasy 15’s Windows edition. An all-new dungeon