Star Wars Battlefront 2 is now out in the wild, but the negative response to its controversial progression systems shows no signs of going away. Over the weekend, EA responded to the conversation on reddit – in a comment which is now one of the all-time top downvoted posts on the site. Commenting on a…
More than 70 people have fallen ill in a suspected mass overdose near Yale University, an incident that underscored America’s drug problem which has caused a record number of fatalities. The first cases were reported on Tuesday evening when emergency services attended three suspected overdoses of a virulent batch of synthetic marijuana at New Haven Green near…
France has just become a country of red, white and now blue wine with the launch of a completely natural, turquoise-coloured variety of its favourite tipple. Blue Nun may be a total no-no in the land of Chateau Lafite but a wine sold "in the colours of the sea" is now on sale in Sète, a…
Sony’s announced the PlayStation Plus titles for November. First up is Worms Battlegrounds, which came out on PlayStation 4 in 2014. Next is Bound, from indie studio Plastic. This platformer supports both PlayStation VR and PS4 Pro. There are a couple of bonuses: 2016’s PSVR exclusive Until Dawn: Rush of Blood and PlayLink title That’s…
Pokémon’s upcoming live-action Detective Pikachu movie will star up-and-coming actor Justice Smith, Variety reports. Smith can currently be seen in Baz Luhrmann’s Netflix series The Get Down (which recently got overlooked for a second season). You may have also seen him in the big-screen adaptation of John Green novel Paper Towns. He’ll next star in…
An aristocrat is suing the French state for €351 million (£314 million) in damages for allegedly depriving his family of the throne of Monaco in order to stop it falling into the hands of a German. Louis de Causans says that in the early 20th century France threatened to annex the wealthy Mediterranean principality if it did…
The government in Japan has devised a novel way getting rid of – or delaying, at least – that Monday feeling: letting workers take the morning off work. Under plans dubbed ‘Shining Monday’, the Ministry of Economy is pushing forward its drive to improve the work-life balance by giving workers a lie-in Shining Monday is…
Nintendo Switch just got its first video-streaming app outside of Japan: US TV service Hulu. You can download Hulu from the Switch eShop now if you have a US-registered account. Setting up a US account is easy – Switch is region-free – although you’ll need a US-registered IP address and Hulu subscription to watch anything…
Turkey and the US said they were racing find a diplomatic solution to avoid “a serious massacre” in Syria’s Idlib province ahead of a critical summit on Friday which is likely to decide the fate of the rebel stronghold. The world had been bracing for weeks for Assad regime forces to attack Idlib, where around…
It might not catch on like lemon or blackcurrant, but an Italian ice cream expert has come up with a sorbet made from snail slime. Alessandro Racca, a master of sorbet and gelato making, concocted a strawberry sorbet which relies on snail secretions as one of its primary ingredients, along with sugar and a little…