Hearthstone’s 2018 release schedule will take the form of three more big expansions, developer Blizzard has revealed. After years of alternating between 100-plus card expansions and smaller, narrative-driven single-player “Adventure” drops, 2017 has seen a…
An American police officer who says she mistook her neighbour’s apartment for her own when she fatally shot him has been arrested on a manslaughter charge. Amber Guyger was booked into the Kaufman County Jail, in Dallas,…
The Overwatch team has been talking a lot about toxicity recently, with game director Jeff Kaplan explaining that negative behaviour from players is starting to have a real impact on the game and its development.…
Unqualified retirees and trainees are filling a gap left by teachers exiting the profession due to rising class sizes and difficulties with foreign languages of new pupils, teachers groups in Germany have warned. The “dramatic shortage”…
The founder of the Haqqani network who was feted by America as an anti-Soviet Afghan resistance hero in the 1980s only to become one of its most wanted enemies has died. Jalaluddin Haqqani went from…
In recent interviews, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has given the impression the top farming sim’s single-player mode is effectively finished. Last month, in a reddit AMA, Barone said he had “no plans” for…
A German actress has become the latest to accuse the film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. Using the pseudonym Emma Loman, the actress filed a civil lawsuit against Weinstein in California on Monday alleging…
Hailed as a watershed moment for Asian American representation in Hollywood, the new romantic comedy ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ has been given a more muted reception in Singapore, the setting of the colourful tale of glamour…
Midway through Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, series protagonist BJ Blazkowicz falls to drinking moonshine and talking politics with a lefty firebrand in the sealed-off, waterlogged remnants of New Orleans. The man – a rebel general…
America’s most prestigious ballet company has become embroiled in a sexual harassment row as one of its dancers sues the company over a “fraternity-like atmosphere” that left ballerinas vulnerable to abuse. Barely a week before…