Several people are injured as rival demonstrators clash in Chemnitz over a murder on Sunday.
Yemen conflict: UN experts detail possible war crimes by all parties
Experts point to attacks on schools, hospitals and markets, in which thousands of civilians have died.
Air pollution may harm cognitive intelligence, study says
Chronic exposure to toxic air has a bigger negative impact on older men, a new study in China suggests.
Ubisoft CEO Pictures the Future of Games
Yves Guillemot has big ideas about the future of gaming. Beyond just better graphics and more power for new systems, Guillemot sees a future where the concept of home consoles could change altogether, and games could embrace new technology to grow in major ways.
Speaking to IGN at Gamescom, Guillemot described a vision he’s laid out many times in the past: that the future of home gaming will arrive via streaming.
“Technology is actually going in that direction. The machines will be more powerful and the system to transfer data will be more efficient, so at one point, we will have a better experience streaming something than having to buy a machine and change the machine regularly,” Guillemot told IGN.
Secret Service Uses John McCain’s Old Code Name 1 Last Time In Touching Tribute
The late senator was honored by the agency that protected him during his 2008 presidential bid.
This pious crap from a George W. Bush flunky is perfect tribute to John McCain.
He signed a proclamation that orders flags to be flown at half-staff until the late senator’s body is interred.
Join Us for Four Days of Fortnite Streams This Week
We’re dropping four days of Fortnite livestreams on all of our streaming platforms starting Tuesday 8/28, so join us as we see how many Victory Royales we can get in a total of 8 hours of Fortnite streams.
The action begins Tuesday, August 28 from 1-3pm PT/4-6pm ET/9-11pm UK (Wednesday, August 29 from 6-8am AET). As always, you can catch the action right here on the front page of IGN.com, or you can find us on YouTube, Twitch, and Mixer.
PES 2019 Review
PES 2019 makes an interesting distinction. It’s not a game about football so much as it is a game about the guys playing football. And exactly how they play it – their behaviours, tendencies, and individual techniques – makes for a livelier game. No longer are you a massive deity in the sky moving generic pieces around a pitch, nor should you think of your team as a collection of stats. Here, players take on a life of their own.
The biggest development is a feature called Magic Moments. This refers to a set of 39 RPG-like traits that are distributed across the roster of players in combinations that give each of them their own personality. So, for instance, only gifted shooters like Kevin De Bruyne can hit ferocious rising thunder-bastards that rifle into the net, while Ronaldo’s headers are practically laser-guided. Magic Moments go further than merely adding new moves, though. They also offer effects such as fighting spirit (which gives players better performance when fatigued), super sub (where players improve if brought on in the second half), and man marking (which enables a player to more doggedly stick to opponents). What’s good is these animations happen automatically, whether a pinpoint cross or an acrobatic clearance off the goal line, triggering by themselves if you’re in the right time and place. This makes players feel as distinct to control as they are to watch.
Joker Movie Casts Alec Baldwin as Batman’s Father
Alec Baldwin has joined the cast of Joker and will portray Bruce Wayne’s father, Thomas Wayne.
Thomas Wayne has often been portrayed as stoic and egalitarian in other Batman adaptations, but it seems Baldwin has been tapped to deliver a different sort of interpretation.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Joker’s Thomas Wayne will be “a cheesy and tanned businessman who is more in the mold of a 1980s Donald Trump.” Baldwin, of course, plays now-President Trump on Saturday Night Live.
Baldwin is joining what looks to be a star-studded Joker cast, which includes Joaquin Phoenix in the title role as well as Academy Award winner Robert De Niro. Phoenix made headlines last week by expressing a care-free attitude toward how fans receive his portrayal of the Joker.
Strange Brigade Review
Rebellion may have made a name for itself with the realistic ballistics and gruesome, testicle-popping kills of the Sniper Elite series, but with Strange Brigade, it feels like the Oxford-based developer has found its over-the-top, tea-swilling, alliteration-obsessed voice.
Colonial British sensibilities are the order of the day for this third-person co-op shooter. The four playable characters from the secret arm of the Department of Antiquities feel ripped from the pages of a 1930s pulp novella. There’s Nalangu Rushida, an African tribeswoman; Frank Fairburne, sharpshooter and relative to the protagonist of the Sniper Elite series; the mild-mannered scholar Professor Archimedes De Quincy; and a Manchester-raised boxer and factory worker by the name of Gracie Braithwaite. Reminiscent of Rosie the Riveter, seeing her uppercut a teleporting demon after telling them to “leave it out” in a thick Northern English accent quickly cemented her as my favourite. An accident at a North African dig site sets the story up and, as is often the way with video games, you’ll resolve it by shooting lots and lots of undead.