A Belgian mechanic destroyed a multi-million pound fighter jet after he accidentally fired a Vulcan cannon while carrying out repairs at an air force base. The £15m plane quickly caught fired and exploded, according to Belgian broadcaster RTL. The mechanic was working with a colleague on two F-16s in a hangar near the control tower. It…
It’s been over three months since Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds arrived on Xbox One and Xbox One X. Released as an early access ‘game preview’, what was immediately clear was that PUBG’s console implementation had profound issues in nearly all areas: presentation was lacking, textures possessed severe streaming problems and frame-rate was sub-optimal, to put it generously….
The hunky-looking Fallout 3 remade in Fallout 4 overhaul, the Capital Wasteland Project, has all of a sudden cased development. A conversation with Bethesda, owner of Fallout and maker of the games, revealed a legal minefield the Road to Liberty modding team had not foreseen – much of it revolving around reusing audio and voice…
Donald Trump on Saturday announced the US is to pull out of a landmark nuclear agreement with Russia, accusing the Kremlin of violating its terms. Mr Trump did not offer specific details on how Moscow had violated the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, but during the past four years America has repeatedly argued that Russia…
Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has condemned international sanctions on his country as the work of “hostile forces” to impede efforts to improve the living standards of his citizens. Mr Kim was quoted in North Korean media as insisting that he would defy the “brigandish” sanctions on his regime in a message calculated to…
It’s that time again – time for pre-orders for another hotly anticipated amiibo to be set live and then inevitably sell out. Get your clicking fingers ready, because this time it’s everyone’s buddy Solaire from Dark Souls. The Solaire amiibo was announced in the last Nintendo Direct. Both Dark Souls Remastered for Switch and the…
Nestled in the mountains, the door that leads to Vault 11 is the kind you see hammered onto a shack. It is rotting wood and nails and spider webs clinging on to existence like the people of Fallout’s post-apocalyptic Mojave Wasteland. The Brotherhood of Steel have sent us here to find a differential pressure controller,…
The fiancée of Jamal Khashoggi, the murdered journalist, said she would not accept Donald Trump’s invitation to the White House because she did not believe the US president was sincere in getting to the truth about his death. In her first television interview since Mr Khashoggi’s disappearance, Hatice Cengiz said she felt Mr Trump’s invitation…
Six people, linked to the far-Right, were detained on Tuesday in connection with a "violent" plot against Emmanuel Macron, the French President, officials said. The six, who were not identified, were picked up by anti-terrorism units in the eastern French regions of Moselle and Isere and the northern region of Ile-et-Vilaine, officials added. The arrests followed reports of…
It is now just a few weeks until the US midterm elections – a major date in the American political calendar. The result will shape the course of Donald Trump’s presidency, reveal the mood of the country and give an insight into the long road towards the 2020 presidential vote. First, the fundamentals. The heart…