Rare’s jolly old pirate game Sea of Thieves has become Microsoft’s fastest-selling new IP of the Xbox One generation, and is already the best-selling Microsoft Studios game on Windows 10. More than a million people played on launch day, and more than 2 million in launch week. There’s a bit of confusion surrounding the wording…
On the banks of Pyongyang’s River Taedong parents snap memories of their children on locally-made smartphones and young couples, the women in bright, traditional chima jeogori dresses, are trailed by wedding photographers. The capital of the world’s most reclusive dictatorship is showing creeping signs of modernisation, with an apparent emerging middle class who can purchase…
As Italy wrestles with how to manage the effects of mass tourism on places like Venice and Florence, a clifftop village in the south of the country has caused controversy by charging visitors to enter its historic centre. Tourists have to pay €5 (£4.40) to enter the cobbled heart of Polignano a Mare, a spectacularly…
Update 2:29 PM: Looks like Simplygames has now raised its price to £24.85. The game is still available for £19.85 at ShopTo, though. Get it while you can. Original Story: One of the biggest, somewhat underground, successes of last year’s games releases, Nier Automata, is currently discounted on PS4. While Nier Automata may not have…
A woman has been charged after a "complex" investigation into an Australian strawberry scare where needles were found stuck into the fruit, police said on Sunday, in a crisis that sparked nationwide panic. Queensland state authorities offered a large reward and the national government raised jail terms for such crimes after sewing needles were found in plastic…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government appears to have survived a major political crisis after one of his coalition partners backed down from threats to bring down the government and trigger early elections. The Israeli government looked to be on the brink of collapse Monday morning after Mr Netanyahu refused demands from the Jewish Home party to…
George H W Bush dies aged 94 His son, George W Bush, leads tributes Trump cancels G20 press conference Obama and Clinton praise legacy of service Theresa May hails "true friend" of Britain Obituary: A former US president who triumphed in Iraq before election defeat George H W Bush no longer feared death before his passing and hoped…
Update: Stock of the games seem to be going in and out, which can make it harder to claim this deal with everything in the basket. As an alternative, you can add an Xbox One X to your basket along with The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein 2 and an extra controller and your total will…
Warplanes attacked opposition-controlled areas near Aleppo on Sunday after the Syrian government blamed rebels for a suspected gas attack that sent scores of people to hospital. The airstrikes were the most serious violation of the Russia and Turkey-led ceasefire since it began on 17 September, which halted a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold of Idlib,…
President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether he can bar transgender people from serving in the military – escalating a row which was expected to play out in a series of courts, over many months. Mr Trump announced in a series of tweets in July 2017 that he wanted to…