PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Xbox One continues to throw up some fascinating discoveries, including the inclusion of a PC-style settings screen that displays resolution and graphics options. The menu itself is non-functional, but suggests that the base Xbox One version of the game runs at 1080p on PC’s very low settings. Meanwhile, accessing the same menu…
It seems a shame to end Nintendo’s extraordinary 2017 on a bum note, but here we are. The Champion’s Ballad, the second expansion pack for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, is a workmanlike add-on that gives you a little bit more of one of the best games in years, without giving you…
The head of the United Nations’ environmental agency has been strongly criticised for his frequent flying in a report raising doubts over his environmental concerns. Erik Solheim, a 63-year-old Norwegian former environment minister, spent 529 of his first 669 days in the job travelling, according to a draft UN report obtained by Norway’s Aftenposten newspaper. …
Russia and Israel risked a military confrontation on Tuesday after a Russian reconnaissance plane with 15 people onboard was mistakenly shot down by allied Syria forces that were targeting Israeli jets. Russia’s defence ministry said that Israeli F-16 pilots were using its Ilyushin Il-20 turbo-prop aircraft signal as cover while carrying out strikes against targets…
Warner Bros. has announced yet another version of Injustice 2. Injustice 2 – Legendary Edition includes the NetherRealm fighting game and all downloadable playable characters released so far as well as the premiere skins available from the Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition. The DLC characters are Darkseid, Red Hood, Starfire, Sub-Zero, Black Manta, Raiden, Hellboy, Atom,…
Pokémon villains Team Rocket have turned up in Pokémon Go with a new, dastardly scheme to steal your money – by selling their uniform as premium cosmetic clothing. You can now dress your Pokémon Go avatar in the clothes of either classic Team Rocket or Rainbow Rocket from last year’s Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra…
Lego enthusiasts from around the world have stepped in to help one of their own after burglars stole the young Frenchman’s giant collection of Lego sets that had taken him 14 years to build up. The Lego community set up an online fundraising page that within hours gathered thousands of euros when they learned of…
Gunmen shot dead a policeman guarding health workers as Pakistan began another nationwide vaccination drive. The policeman named Mohammad Sarfraz was shot dead in the Bajur region of the country’s north west on the first day of a campaign to vaccinate 39 million children under 5. Anwarul Haq, a local official, told Associated Press that…
Pope Francis has likened abortion to “hiring a contract killer” in some of his strongest remarks yet on the subject. It was not fair to “take out a human life to solve a problem”, he said. “Is it fair to hire a contract killer to solve a problem? It is not fair. We cannot take…
Some 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, a justice ministry official said Monday The warning came as volunteers began to dig mass graves for the bodies of more than 1,000 victims in an attempt to prevent an outbreak…