Month: April 2019

Miitomo, Nintendo’s first smartphone game, will be shut down on 9th May. Nintendo hasn’t said why it is pulling the plug – although the social “Nintendo is shutting down Miitomo, its first smartphone game”

Tourists may soon get the chance to take the perfect selfie in the highly fortified border zone between North and South Korea, where the countries “North and South Korean border may soon open to tourists”

  A plan to create the world’s largest marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters was shot down when a key conservation summit failed to reach a “Plans for world’s largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctic blocked”

Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite will not feature at this year’s Evo tournament – sounding the death knell for the embattled crossover fighting game. Overnight, officials “For the first time, Evo won’t have a Marvel game”

A 48-year-old Italian vegan has been ordered to pay her mother compensation after threatening to kill her for making traditional Bolognese meat sauce. The smell “Vegan must pay €400 fine after threatening to stab her mother over ragu sauce”

How about a STALKER battle royale game? There’s one in development. It’s called Fear the Wolves and it’s made by Vostok Games, the studio formed “Former STALKER team announces Chernobyl-set battle royale game”

Click:extender over ip Donald Trump on Tuesday called Stormy Daniels "Horseface" in a Twitter tirade against the pornstar. It led to an equally forthright response “Donald Trump calls Stormy Daniels ‘Horseface’ and she accuses him of a ‘penchant for bestiality’”

Few settings have captured the imaginations of game developers and players like Chernobyl, the site of a reactor explosion in 1986 that created one of “Fear the Wolves turns STALKER into PUBG, spectators into weather gods”

Nicole Kidman has said being married to Tom Cruise gave her "protection" from sexual harassment in Hollywood. The Australian actress married Cruise in 1990, when “Nicole Kidman says being married to Tom Cruise protected her from sexual harassment in Hollywood”

I spent a couple of hours this week playing a preview build of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed DLC, Curse of the Pharaohs – which, as “Watch: We went hands-on with Assassin’s Creed: Origins Curse of the Pharaohs DLC”