Dutch officials are set to prosecute a nursing home doctor for euthanising an elderly woman with dementia, the first time a doctor has been charged since the Netherlands legalised euthanasia in 2002. Dutch prosecutors claimed in a statement the doctor "had not acted carefully" and "overstepped a line" when she performed euthanasia. Officials first began probing…

Beaten, starved, electrocuted, strip-searched. This is the torture one member of China’s Uighur minority says she endured in detention camps in Xinjiang, a western province home to Muslim minorities. “My hands bled from their beatings,” according to Mihrigul Tursun, 29, a Uighur woman. “Each time I was electrocuted, my whole body would shake violently and…

The long road to recovery continues for The Master Chief Collection – three-and-a-half years after the game came out. In a post on Halo Waypoint, developer 343 Industries said the game’s first official update since it announced the renewed effort to improve the state of the Master Chief Collection should come out later this summer….

A British academic sentenced to life imprisonment by the United Arab Emirates and then pardoned has spoken for the first time since his release, thanking his wife for her "brave" support. Matthew Hedges was freed on Monday after a high-profile battle with the Gulf state ally, but officials persisted in calling him an MI6 spy…

Update, 5/4/18: Blizzard has announced that Hearthstone’s next expansion, The Witchwood, will release on Thursday, April 12th. Once players log into Hearthstone after The Witchwood’s arrival, they’ll be able to download three card packs and a random Class legendary card – all from the new expansion – for free. Blizzard also notes that it will…

Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire on Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that destroyed hundreds of structures. Driven by strong winds and dry conditions, the blaze dubbed the Camp Fire roared through the town of…

Overnight, Polygon reported Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 does not have a single-player campaign. Eurogamer sources have corroborated this story. Polygon sources said as Black Ops 4’s release date approached, “it became evident that development on the single-player campaign wouldn’t be completed”. Since then, according to Polygon’s sources, developer Treyarch has focused on expanding…

Donald Trump’s administration has argued in legal documents that it does have a constitutional right to ban CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House. Lawyers for the US justice department contended that the administration has "broad discretion" to regulate press access to the White House complex. It was a response to CNN’s legal request…

If you’re looking for an expert on immersive sims, speak to Randy Smith. The 43-year-old American game designer, who lives in Austin, Texas, cut his teeth on the Thief series while working at both Looking Glass and Ion Storm, the two studios considered to have birthed the genre. After Thief, Smith collaborated with Half-Life 2…