Zimbabwe on Sunday inaugurated a president for the second time in nine months as a country recently jubilant over the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe is now largely subdued by renewed harassment of the opposition and a bitterly disputed election. The military-backed President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who again took the oath of office, faces the…
It looks like a game from a bygone era. The 2D graphics are basic in the extreme. There are no animations to speak of. The viewpoint is top-down and staying that way. Its user interface rekindles memories of Windows 95. It is fiddly, abstruse and hugely complex. It is a slow burn of a video…
Aretha Franklin’s open casket has gone on display in Detroit, giving thousands of her fans an opportunity to pay their final respect to the singer at the start of a four-day period of mourning. Franklin died on August 16, aged 76, at the end of a long battle with pancreatic cancer. She left neither a will…
Earlier this week, Take-Two’s brand new label Private Division was named publisher of Obsidian’s big and secret, in-development role-playing game. Take-Two, the parent company of 2K and Rockstar, is a big name, and what big names have been doing recently – Activision Blizzard, EA and Warner – is pushing loot boxes in their games. The…
Donald Trump has provoked record high levels of disapproval among American voters in the week after one former aide was found guilty of fraud and another admitted making hush payments to women. Sixty percent of respondents to a new poll said they disapproved of his performance in office – the highest number of his presidency…
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The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service set off a major political row on Friday when he directly contradicted Angela Merkel over last week’s far-Right protests in Chemnitz. Hans-Georg Maassen said he had seen was no evidence to support claims neo-Nazis had hunted foreigners through the streets during the protests. That put him at odds with…
I remember not being very taken by Mass Effect’s main theme, the first time I heard it. Next to what I’d read about the game, a tale of alien liaisons and sizzling gun battles amid the stars, the title music seemed dreary, the wrong kind of spaced-out. A decade later, I listen to it while…
A Swedish nationalist party with roots in neo-Nazi movements is set to bring the once-unthinkable idea of leaving the EU onto the country’s agenda, as polls suggest it could win up to a quarter of the vote in elections this weekend. Sweden Democrats, which blames migrants and refugees for a recent rise in rapes, gun…
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s front-running far-right presidential candidate, underwent emergency surgery on Thursday after he was stabbed during a campaign event. The 63-year-old lawmaker has "a wound in the abdomen that has been caused by a sharp instrument," said the Santa Casa hospital in the southeastern city of Juiz de Fora, describing his condition as "stable." In…