Last year we made the case that Wii U ports for Switch are a very good thing – a chance to bulk up the library of Nintendo’s new hybrid console with an array of quality games that never quite got the exposure they deserved. We wrote that piece based on Platinum Games’ teasing of Bayonetta
Yesterday, Sega announced it had launched the demo version of Yakuza 6 for PlayStation 4. Unfortunately, in North America at least, Sega accidentally released the full version of Yakuza 6 instead. While labelled as a demo, this trial version is deliberately the entire game – a 30GB download – so if you go on to
Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist, was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and his body was "dismembered and destroyed", a Turkish prosecutor said Wednesday. The statement from Irfan Fidan, the chief Istanbul prosecutor, is the first official confirmation from Turkey that the journalist’s body was cut to pieces after
The man arrested on suspicion of making and sending 12 pipe bombs to opponents of Donald Trump is a registered Republican who drove a van plastered with images of the US president’s face, and has a long history of criminal behaviour. Cesar Sayoc, 56, has been arrested at least 10 times, according to the Florida
THQ Nordic, the company behind the Darksiders and de Blob re-releases, has bought Koch Media, owner of Saints Row and Dead Island publisher Deep Silver, in a deal worth 121m euro. For that, THQ Nordic gets all of Deep Silver’s studios and games, such as Volition (Saints Row), Dambuster (Homefront) and Dead Island. It also
Had she not panicked at the final moment, Aisha Aminu’s last act would have been to kill herself and as many others as possible. Kidnapped last year by Boko Haram, the 15-year-old was conscripted into its army of child suicide bombers, with orders to blow herself up in a busy marketplace. But when her Boko
Donald Trump, the US president, has criticised the rapidly mounting global condemnation of Saudi Arabia after a key Senate ally accused the kingdom’s crown prince of ordering the murder of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator and confidant of the US president, said he wanted to “sanction the hell out of Saudi
Afghan voters faced shambolic polling arrangements and Taliban violence as the country turned out for its third parliamentary elections since the extremist regime was ousted in 2001. Insurgent bombs and gunfire killed or wounded at least 130, with one blast leaving dead in the north of the capital, Kabul. Confusion over how to use new
Ubisoft has announced a bizarre trio of DLC packs coming as part of Far Cry 5’s season pass. The first DLC will be set in Vietnam and pit you against the Viet Cong. The second will be a B-movie-inspired zombies pack. The last will be set on Mars, where you fight alien arachnids. As a
Since the announcement of Far Cry 5, details of its map editor and multiplayer portions have been surprisingly thin on the ground. I’m a big fan of that kind of stuff though, so during a trip to try out the campaign, I badgered the developers for a bit more info about Far Cry Arcade and