Big new version numbers typically mean big new changes – but this isn’t the case for Nintendo’s fancy-sounding Switch update 5.0. Install the update and you’ll be able to add Facebook and Twitter contacts to your Switch friends list – a useful feature. Digital software bought online will start downloading faster with 5.0 installed –…
The candidates vying to succeed Angela Merkel as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrat party (CDU) will face a gruelling schedule of eight regional hustings in as little as two weeks, it was announced Monday. At the end lies the prize of leading Germany’s most powerful political party — and possibly the chancellorship. Mrs Merkel told…
The UK has said it will expand trade relations with Iran in the face of US warnings that European firms face "painful" consequences if they continue to do business in the country. Speaking hours after sweeping new sanctions went into force, Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, warned businesses not to use a special…
As many British visitors to France have learned to their discomfort, if you ask a local, “Parlez-vous anglais?”, the answer is often “Non”. Such a response, perhaps accompanied by a dismissive Gallic shrug, may prompt the appearance on the traveller’s face of what the novelist P.G. Wodehouse described as “the shifty hangdog look which announces…
Overnight and this morning, Canadian rapper Drake played Fortnite with streamer Ninja and helped smash Twitch’s concurrent viewers record. Drake, playing on a PlayStation 4, joined forces with hugely popular Fortnite Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who was playing on a PC, and after some technical issues managed to play the Battle Royale portion of…
Isil-allied Boko Haram jihadists have killed another kidnapped female aid worker in northeast Nigeria, the government said, a month after one of her colleagues was murdered. Three female health workers were kidnapped during a Boko Haram raid on the remote town of Rann, in Borno state, on March 1 that killed three other aid workers and eight Nigerian soldiers….
Below has finally re-emerged after an indefinite delay – and developer Capybara Games says it’ll be out at some point in 2018. I’ve had my eye on Below ever since its eye-catching announcement during Microsoft’s E3 2013 press event. Its reveal trailer teased a mysterious, menacing action-adventure game viewed from a top-down perspective, with the…
Theresa May is expected to rebuff a request from Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, for Britain to relax sanctions on Pyongyang when the two leaders hold talks at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Belgium on Friday. Mr Moon is on a nine-day tour of European capitals and has already held talks with Emmanuel Macron, the…
How Sonic the Hedgehog was conceived to help Sega compete against Nintendo in the early 90s was discussed during a postmortem for the original game at this year’s Game Developer Conference. Most of the talk was about Sonic’s appearance came to be. Though the decision to make Sonic a hedgehog was seemingly a straightforward one…
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, made a secret trip to Oman, the Israeli government announced on Friday, in the clearest sign yet of the warming ties between Israel and the Gulf Arab states. Like most Arab countries, Oman does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel and it is rare for an Israeli leader to visit any of…