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Laser League, the all-new future sports game from OlliOlli developers Roll7, is getting a PC open beta this coming weekend. The beta will run from Friday January 26th at 5pm GMT through to the early hours of Monday January 29th (at 6am GMT, to be precise), and will be freely available to download on Steam. […]

We’re only two days into 2018, but already there’s a game which won’t be making it out this year: Psychonauts 2. Double Fine’s crowdfunded adventure game sequel has been delayed, the developer has sadly confirmed. When will Psychonauts 2 now arrive? Double Fine does not yet want to say. “We do know about how long […]

With Brexit now less than a year away, the European Union finds itself under assault from a new populist revolution. This six-part series examines the major challenges facing the continent. From immigration to defence, economy to enlargement and, indeed, to the very meaning of democracy itself: ‘The Future of Europe’ is now at stake…. It could be […]

Tsai Ing-wen, the Taiwanese president visited Nasa’s space centre in Houston on Sunday, in a move that indicates deepening ties between Taipei and Washington, but which is expected to infuriate Beijing.  The trip to the Johnson Space Centre in Texas marks the first time a sitting leader from the self-ruling island has entered a US […]

Grey Alien Games is the definition of an outsider game developer. A husband-and-wife team based in rural Dorset, Jake Birkett and Helen Carmichael work alone with support from tiny publishers and overseas contractors. Jake isn’t a refugee from AAA development, but a veteran of the unfashionable PC casual gaming scene of the last decade, when […]

Two thieves who stole an antique diamond and ruby-studded solid gold lunch box worth over £2million from a museum in southern India ate like royalty out of it for days before being arrested earlier this week, police have said. The men would order takeaways, empty the food into the majestic three tier-lunchbox that they had pilfered from the Nizam Museum in […]

At least one person has been killed and dozens have been arrested in Uganda as the government intensified its crackdown on opposition supporters on Monday. Police fired tear gas and opened fire on demonstrators in several locations around the country who were protesting the alleged beating of detained opposition MP and musician Robert Kyagulanyi, also […]

A knife attacker on Friday stabbed two people at Amsterdam’s Central Station before being shot by police in a suspected terror attack, Dutch police said. The suspect was identified late on Friday evening as a 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit. "We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive," Frans […]

A former adviser to Donald Trump, whose remarks in a London pub set off the investigation into possible collusion with Russia, has been jailed for 14 days after lying to the FBI. George Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty last year to not being truthful with agents investigating whether members of the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia […]

Xbox One’s unloved camera accessory just died another death – the adaptor which let it work with Microsoft’s current Xbox One models has now also been discontinued. Kinect itself was canned in October. “After careful consideration, we decided to stop manufacturing the Xbox Kinect Adapter to focus attention on launching new, higher fan-requested gaming accessories […]