Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been patched – the game’s first update of 2018. The headline features are a new map for Blast mode – on the eye-catching red/salt planet of Crait – and a new Hero ship for Starfighter Assault in the form of Iden Versio’s modified TIE fighter. Battlefront 2’s microtransactions are still…
Donald Trump has rejected an official conclusion that around 3,000 people died due to the devastating hurricane that hit Puerto Rico a year ago. Mr Trump said the death toll had only been 18 when he visited the US territory shortly after the storm, and claimed the higher figure had been inflated by Democrats to…
Two British tourists were killed within hours of arriving on the holiday island of Majorca when their taxi was swept away by floodwaters of ‘Biblical proportions’. At least 10 people died when torrential rain storms deluged the town of Sant Llorenc, about 40 miles east of the capital, Palma, on Tuesday evening. Lloyd Milen, the…
The sheltered Thai cove made famous by the movie "The Beach" will be closed indefinitely due to the damage caused by millions of tourists, which has left it looking "overworked and tired". The news comes as authorities in the Philippines also moved to restrict visitors to Boracay, a tiny island once regarded as the world’s…
Someone, somewhere at Disney is still updating the 2005 version of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 – the one defunct developer Pandemic made over a decade ago before it was shut down. Online multiplayer suddenly returned to the aging shooter back in October, just prior to the arrival DICE’s shiny new Star Wars: Battlefront 2 launching….
Six siblings of a Republican Congressman standing for re-election have taken the extraordinary step of releasing an advert urging people not to vote for him. Paul Gosar, from the most conservative wing of the Republican Party, is standing in Arizona for re-election to the House of Representatives in November. The Congressman has been known to…
The first of EA’s adjustments to the loot box ecosystem in Star Wars Battlefront 2 have gone live but they’re insignificant and skirt the bigger issue. In other words, the loot box system remains the same. What’s changed is the speed at which you can earn things. End-of-round credit pay-outs have been upped across the…
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has removed sewing needles from its stores to prevent them being inserted into strawberries and other fruit following an outbreak of food sabotage across the country. As the government introduced tougher jail sentences for saboteurs, Woolworths said it had removed sewing needles from its shelves to protect its customers. “We’ve taken…
President Bashar al-Assad has made an unprecedented offer of amnesty for military deserters and draft dodgers in the hope of encouraging Syrians to return home. In a decree issued on official social media feeds, the government said they will not receive any punishment but would still have to serve the mandatory two years of service….
NBA Playgrounds on Nintendo Switch has been due a big update for months and, happily, it has now arrived – although not as a simple patch. To get NBA Playgrounds’ latest version you’ll need to download a fresh edition of the whole game, which has been re-released as NBA Playgrounds: Enhanced Edition. As spotted by…