A man who was hit on the head by a 13lb cat that dropped from an eighth floor balcony in Turin in northern Italy is suing the pet’s owner for personal injury. The 56-year-old man was strolling along a street when the fat feline fell from the balcony of its owner’s apartment and landed on top…
It’s been six weeks since Nintendo launched Animal Crossing smartphone spin-off Pocket Camp worldwide and I wrote about everything the game lacked. It felt like there was something missing from Pocket Camp – a feeling the app had failed to replicate what had made Animal Crossing so good on GameCube, Wii and 3DS before. Pocket…
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, on Monday said preserving European Union unity was more important than forging a close relationship with post-Brexit Britain, and hit out at what he called US President Donald Trump’s "aggressive" isolationism. Mr Macron, who met Theresa May, the prime minister, for talks on Britain’s departure from the EU during the summer holiday, said he…
Driver San Francsico, one of the greatest racing games of all time, is now available to play on Xbox One via the system’s backwards compatibility service. It sounds like hyperbole, but I’ve never been able to play or enjoy another racing game quite as much, since. And, as Eurogamer petrolhead Martin Robinson just said to…
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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