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Heist shooter Payday 2 will crack open on Nintendo Switch early next year – on 23rd February in the UK. North America will get the game just a few days later on 27th February, meanwhile. Payday 2 will be getting a digital and physical launch – prices for which are still to be confirmed. There’s […]

A Swedish nationalist party with neo-Nazi roots made major gains in elections on Sunday, robbing the mainstream centrist parties of a majority and pushing the country towards a hung parliament.  Sweden Democrats, which has blamed a recent surge in rapes, sex attacks and riots on immigrants, is set to secure 18 per cent of the […]

Rocket League’s physical version will launch in the UK on 26th January priced £35 – far higher than on other platforms. In North America it will arrive a little earlier, on 16th January, for $40. Online, you can pick up a boxed copy of Rocket League on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for £19.99. This […]

Russian news reports say a member of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot has been hospitalised in grave condition for what could be a possible poisoning. Relatives told the Meduza online news portal that Pyotr Verzilov had been undergoing emergency care since Tuesday.  They said he fell ill after a court hearing for Veronika Nikulshina, a fellow member of the […]

It has become the health trend of 2018, with an array of athletes and  celebrities ditching dairy and other animal products in favour of a vegan  lifestyle.  But it appears the health movement is increasingly facing a backlash – with  food producers ditching the word "vegan" and replacing it with "plant  based".   Britain looks […]

Police in northern Spain launched an investigation after a dead wolf’s head and tail were left in a public swimming pool in a protest by farmers over attacks by wolves on their livestock. The Guardia Civil’s wildlife protection unit is trying to find out who dumped the grisly remains at an open-air pool in the […]

The PlayStation remasters continue: this time it’s Patapon 2. The rhythm-action game comes out on PlayStation 4 with a 4K maveover in 2018, Sony said. Here’s the official blurb: “With a whole slew of new features, including eight drum rhythms, new Patapon types and evolutions, brand new mini-games and the ability to create your own […]

Police in Venice have been accused of being overly zealous after ordering an acclaimed British artist to pack up his easel and stop painting in St Mark’s Square. Ken Howard, OBE, was painting one of his favourite views of the piazza when two police officers approached him and told him to move on. The 86-year-old […]

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, once said he would take a "bullet" for the president.  But instead of shielding his former client, Mr Cohen painted a target on his back on Tuesday and pushed him into the firing line.  The brash New Yorker’s bombshell admission in court that he paid hush money to […]

The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is using the “tactics of fascism” and “belongs on the dunghill of history”, rival MPs charged on Wednesday as they rounded on the party in parliament after weeks of simmering tensions over far-Right protests. Alexander Gauland, the AfD leader, tried to use a budget debate to criticise Angela […]