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Three men accused of torturing and killing kangaroos are being hunted by police in Australia, just days after a man was arrested for intentionally mowing down emus in another high-profile animal cruelty case. Police in Western Australia on Wednesday released images of the men wanted for questioning over separate incidents in June and May during which […]

Assassin’s Creed Oranges owners will notice a 3GB update being piped to their consoles and/or PC today. It contains a selection of handy updates and changes. First up, for folk who’ve noticed the game has struggled loading textures at a distance (we’re looking at you, 2D trees), there are various fixes on the way to […]

A third-person action-RPG with XP loss on death, bonfire mechanics and a taste for the grotesque, Code Vein has been billed as Bandai Namco’s in-house alternative to the Souls series, trading Bloodborne’s fetid strain of European Gothic for a world of anime vampires. Witness the marketing tagline, “prepare to dine”. So it’s a slight shock […]

As the death toll rises along the tsunami-battered coastline of Sulawesi, it may have been the devastating earthquake, rather than the huge waves, that caused many of the casualties.  Balaroa and Petobo were two villages that escaped the wall of water that engulfed much of Palu and Donggala. But the sheer force of the magnitude 7.5 […]

How do you follow a game like Knights of the Old Republic, the most famous original Star Wars tale a video game has ever told? Forget about Obsidian’s sequel for a moment and imagine it was BioWare staring at a piece of paper wondering how to follow a twist like Revan’s. Because once upon a […]

Four officers from the Taiwanese military will drape the flag of the Republic of China over the coffin of a British officer who has died in Leeds, 77 years after Nationalist Chinese troops came to the aid of his beleaguered unit in Burma.  Gerald Fitzpatrick, who served as a captain in the King’s Own Yorkshire […]

South Africa’s top court ruled Tuesday that private, personal cannabis use was legal in a landmark case that pit law enforcement agencies against marijuana advocates and the judiciary. Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, delivering the Johannesburg-based Constitutional Court’s unanimous verdict, declared the law banning marijuana use in private by adults "unconstitutional and therefore invalid". "It […]

Square Enix has announced “a new Tomb Raider game”, by which it probably means Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but it sounds like it won’t feature tonight at The Game Awards or tomorrow at PlayStation Experience. “Square Enix is excited to share some big news with you next year,” a statement read. “Honestly, we wish […]

A veteran Indian environmental activist died on Thursday, after a 15-week hunger strike aimed at protesting the state of the Ganges river, saying his death was part of his “final learning”. Professor G D Agarwal, 86, a former environmental sciences professor, who adopted the spiritual name Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand in later life, had been […]

Hitman’s second location, Paris, will be free over Christmas and into early next year. You’ll be able to nab the French capital and all of its content from tomorrow, 15th December, until 5th January 2018. Also included is the game’s Holiday Pack, helpfully set in Paris, where you have to track down thieves stealing Santa’s […]