A Chinese government official has declared the research of scientist He Jiankui, who said he created the world’s first gene-edited babies, a violation of Chinese law, and called for all related work to be halted. “The genetically edited infant incident reported by media blatantly violated China’s relevant laws and regulations,” Xu Nanping, a vice-minister for
It looks like wonderful vertical shoot ’em up Ikaruga is set for PlayStation 4. Gematsu spotted a PS4 listing for Treasure’s bullet hell masterpiece on the German video game ratings board, USK. Ikaruga came out on the Dreamcast back in 2002, before it hit GameCube in 2003. The Xbox 360 got a version in 2008,
Harvard is being sued for sexual discrimination over its attempts to clamp down down on single gender social clubs. A group of fraternities and sororities accused the elite university of violating their civil rights. This academic year Harvard began enforcing a policy aimed at stamping out single-sex organisations. It had stopped formally recognising them in
Halo is a great shooter, but it’s also a great editor. Via Forge, players have for years come up with impressive creations, but few are as big as this one. Forge expert C0naN 0007 built a player-scale replica of the RMS Titanic in Halo 5’s version of the editor. Using Tidal as the base map,
Police in Calais are using drones to locate migrants preparing to cross the Channel by boat, so that they can be arrested before they reach the water. In an escalation of security measures, the remotely controlled aerial vehicles have been seen flying low above the main Calais Migrant camp and sweeping across nearby beaches. Drones
Sea of Thieves offers players a vibrant, cartoon world of stories big and small – but perhaps none of them are as significant as the tale of developer Rare itself. It’s hard to believe that Kinect projects aside, it’s been over nine years since we last saw a full game from the studio. Much has
Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage, Alaska and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city. No tsunami arrived and there were no immediate reports of deaths or serious injuries, but significant damage
Deadly Premonition director Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro and Panzer Dragoon’s Yukio Futatsugi have launched their second attempt at securing backer funding for The Good Life, an intriguing open-world murder mystery game set in an idyllic English village. The original pitch failed to secure funding, but the team hopes its new campaign, which includes a more detailed
When Bluehole first announced it was adding a new Event Mode to PUBG I curled my lip at the idea. If you’ve invested as much of your time into a game as I have with PUBG, it’s easy to fear change. At its core the addition of this Event Mode feels like nothing more than
The issue of migration took centre stage in the race to succeed Angela Merkel on Thursday after one of the front-runners called for the right to asylum to be changed in the German constitution. Friedrich Merz, one of three contenders to succeed Mrs Merkel as leader of her Christian Democrat party (CDU) next month, called