The good news is EA DICE has bitten the bullet and is reworking the Star Wars Battlefront 2 progression system, having turned microtransactions off amid a storm of controversy in November. The bad news is we don’t know how and we won’t know more until March. “Your feedback has been essential here, and we are…
The US Senate is the upper chamber on Capitol Hill. There are 100 Senators, two from each state, and Republicans currently hold a razor thin majority with 51 seats. The US Senate writes and passes laws but has a number of other powers and responsibilities, from ratifying treaties with other countries to overseeing investigations of officials…
Xbox Live members without a Gold membership can play online multiplayer for free until the end of the weekend. The offer is live now and ends on Monday, 19th February at 8am. The event coincides with Ubisoft’s hugely popular multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six Siege and >NBA 2K18 both being free to play until Monday 8am….
A fisherman in New Zealand pulled an 18-month-old baby from the sea alive after the boy went missing from his campsite where he was staying with his parents. Gus Hutt, who was fishing at a beach near a holiday park in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island, thought he was pulling a doll from…
The Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has passed four million players. It’s an incredible milestone for a game which launched barely a month ago, and which just passed the three million player milestone a fortnight back. In celebration, all Xbox One players who own the game as of 31st January will be gifted 30k…
Emmanuel Macron has provoked a row by ordering that ceremonies in France marking the centenary of the end of the First World War next month must avoid commemorating it as a military triumph. Sixty heads of state and government including US President Donald Trump are to attend ceremonies in Paris on Armistice Day, November 11. The French…
Donald Trump once claimed black people were "too stupid" to vote for him and regularly used explicitly racist language before coming into office, his former lawyer has claimed. Michael Cohen, who served as the president’s lawyer and fixer for a decade, claimed he witnessed Mr Trump making derogatory comments about black people throughout the 2016…
When we think of in-game advertising, the first thing that springs to mind is seeing logos for big brands in video games. Adverts for the likes of Coca-Cola, Nike and McDonalds. What most don’t expect to see in their video game is an advert for the NHS. But that’s exactly what Football Manager 2018 players…
When Bill Clinton was running for president his strategist James Carville had a sign put on the wall at campaign headquarters reminding everyone the election was about "the economy stupid". In 2018, despite presiding over a booming stock market, low unemployment, and major tax cuts, Donald Trump has decided next month’s US midterm elections are not…
A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the rape and kidnapping of a British backpacker in Australia after holding her captive during a brutal 900-mile road trip across the outback. Appearing via video in a court in Cairns in north Queensland, Marcus Allyn Keith Martin pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and one count…