Clocking in at just under a minute, this Assassin’s Creed Origins video is but a morsel of a trailer. Still, amongst all the bombastic gameplay and review score braggery we usually see in promotional trails, it’s well worth highlighting. Created by Hong Kong-based Paperbox Creations, it shows Origins main character Bayek leaping into battle, after…
A suicide bombing claimed by the Taliban killed three Czech soldiers on patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the deadliest assault on Nato troops for many months. "Three Resolute Support service members were killed by a suicide bomber during a combined, dismounted patrol with Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan," Nato’s Resolute Support mission said in a statement. In…
UPDATE: Beamdog has responded, and I’m afraid while it was exploring an idea called Planescape: Unravelled, ultimately the idea didn’t amount to much. Here’s what Beamdog founder Trent Oster sent me: “The Beamdog creative and art teams often explore concepts, pitches, and designs touching on different Dungeons & Dragons and unique settings. This was the…
A worker at a nonprofit organisation in the US that houses immigrant children separated from their parents at the border has been arrested on suspicion of molesting a 14-year-old girl at its one of its facilities in Phoenix, police said Wednesday. Southwest Key, which operates the facility, declined to say whether the 14-year-old girl was…
Creepy-looking live action interactive game Erica has been announced for PlaySation 4. It’s coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayLink from Sony London Studio and Flavourworks, and offers choice-based gameplay with a style which looks close to Heavy Rain. It’s intriguing, although how it will all feel in play remains to be seen. No release date…
Thousands of children were molested by hundreds of "predator" priests in Pennsylvania over 70 years while senior Catholic church officials and the Vatican took part in a "systematic" cover-up, according to a landmark report. It identified 301 clergymen and 1,000 victims but added that the "real number" of abused children might be "in the thousands"…
Investigators released a report on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday, saying the Boeing 777’s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible. The 495-page report draws no conclusion about what happened aboard the plane that vanished with 239 people on board en route…
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan tried to overrun a key provincial capital and stormed parts of the city before they were beaten back by air strikes and government reinforcements. Clashes continued in Ghazni throughout the day and fighting temporarily closed the main highway linking the north and south of the country. Afghan forces said they remained…
Egypt has adopted a law that threatens to jail anyone who browses censored websites, after having already blocked dozens of sites belonging to human rights groups and critical media. The law, ratified by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the president, on Saturday, gives courts the power to block websites deemed a threat to national security. The decision may…
Several gunshots were fired at the US embassy in Ankara from a vehicle on Monday, amid rising tensions between Turkey and Washington. An unidentified assailant or assailants fired six bullets at an embassy security gate from a passing white vehicle around 5.30am local time, three bullets hitting an iron door and a window, the Ankara governor’s office said…