Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’s nuclear disarmament cutscene was suddenly unlocked over the weekend on PC – and publisher Konami says it has no idea why. For more than two years, MGS5 players have known about the hidden cutscene, which was designed to be unlocked if all players worldwide choose to disarm their…
Residents of Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, turned to looting on Sunday as they struggled to survive in the aftermath of a deadly 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that has so far killed 832 people. Looters were spotted taking items from the badly damaged Ramayana shopping mall and plundering fuel stations. One earthquake survivor…
Exports of prosecco to Britain have fallen for the first time in a decade, as the market reaches saturation point and consumers develop a taste for homegrown English fizz. Exports of the Italian sparkling wine dropped by seven per cent in the first half of this year after nearly a decade of booming sales, according…
This weekend saw the world’s best Rainbow Six Siege players battle it out in the game’s 2018 Invitational tournament – and Ubisoft was on hand to detail what was next for the game. Rainbow Six Siege has, if you’ve not already heard, quietly become one of Ubisoft’s biggest games. This weekend, Ubi boasted that Siege…
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, wrestled with the demons of his country’s colonial past this week by acknowledging that the country carried out systematic torture during the Algerian war of independence. After six decades of secrecy and denials, it was a historic first for a country that long refused to even admit that the brutal…
Set in an enchanting, storybook world, Moss is an interactive fairytale of grand adventure, bravery and friendship. Now, that might sound like the blurb from every fantasy game you’ve ever played, but Moss is different. This is a game that oozes charm from its every pore, and from the very first moment that you’re introduced…
Britain has halted aid to rebel-held parts of Syria over concern extremists are profiting from shipments through a “terror tax”. The UK decided to suspend deliveries to the Syrian opposition stronghold of Idlib last week following reports an Islamist group was benefiting from levies they were imposing on trucks at the Turkish border. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS),…
The interview with actress Drew Barrymore published in EgyptAir’s inflight magazine was strange from its opening lines. After detailing how the 43-year-old had been divorced several times and was “unstable in her relationships most of her life”, the article speculated that her “behavior is only natural since she lacked the male role model in her…
Super Seducer, a game where you use multiple choice methods to win dates with women, has had its PlayStation release pulled. The game presents players with live-action clips starring British creator and Russell Brand knock-off Richard La Ruina. In each scenario there are right answers and wrong answers to pick and watch play out. For…
Japan’s coast guard has launched a search mission to find an island off its northernmost coast that has unexpectedly vanished – taking Tokyo’s territorial claims with it. The strategically significant island is assumed to have disappeared under the chilly waters of the Sea of Okhotsk between the northern tip of Japan’s Hokkaido region and Russia, having been eroded by winds and snow….