WASDOne of the main showcases for UK gaming has been cancelled, reflecting the wider struggles of an industry which has seen a series of job cuts and studio closures.The WASD expo – which is usually held in London in April – is a shop window for British talent, with a particular emphasis on smaller, independent game-makers.But its organiser has now gone into liquidation.Co-founder David Lilley told the BBC “increasing costs and less demand for stand space means running events is just not viable for us anymore.”There had been speculation about the event’s future after the WASD website disappeared from public…
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The neocons are working overtime to release countless aid to Ukraine before Donald Trump takes over in January. Bloomberg has reported that the Biden Administration The Biden administration is committed to ensuring “every dollar we have at our disposal,” in a message championed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken rushed to Brussels after Trump’s victory to discuss how NATO and the EU can drain America for additional funding ahead of Trump’s term. “The purpose of this visit is to focus our efforts on ensuring that Ukraine has the money, the munitions, and the mobilized forces to fight effectively…
Longtime Democrat strategist and former Bill Clinton staffer James Carville recently ripped his own party for the loss they suffered in the 2024 election. In a bizarre twist of fate, Carville offered some common sense commentary here. He suggested that the liberal elitists in the Democrat party skewed their view of the country and made them out of touch. Mediaite has details: Democratic strategist James Carville unleashed on Democrats after Vice President Kamala Harris’s election defeat to President-elect Donald Trump and slammed Washington-based Democrats for what he claimed was a misguided embrace of identity politics… He said: “What you’ve done…
Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue of 2024 has just been unveiled and a lot of people are asking the same thing: Who is Lisa – or rather, who is Lalisa Monobal?Social media has been in a tizzy over the inclusion of the young starlet, best known as one-fourth of K-Pop’s BlackPink, sharing space alongside major players in the acting game, such as Nicole Kidman and Jonathan Bailey. So, who exactly is Lisa and why is she on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue?Article continues below advertisementLisa From BlackPink Is One Of The Biggest Names In Music At The MomentMEGALisa of…
TOKYO: An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan’s struggle to cope with misbehaving visitors amid a boom in inbound tourism. Japan welcomed nearly 27 million visitors through September, a record pace, and their spending added 5.86 trillion yen (US$37.5 billion) to the economy. But incidents of vandalism, public drunkenness, and “overtourism” at popular sites have sparked debate about how to handle the flood of visitors and those who flout the rules. Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest of a 65-year-old American on Wednesday (Nov 13) on suspicion of carving alphabetical characters into…
As United States President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, TikTok could be in line for a reprieve from the very leader who led the charge to ban the embattled video-sharing platform. Under a law signed by US President Joe Biden in April, ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the wildly popular app, was given nine months to divest its stake in the company or face a ban on national security grounds. The deadline for the sale – January 19 – is the day before Trump’s inauguration. On the campaign trail, Trump, who signed an executive order seeking…
When Connor McDavid entered the NHL at the start of the 2015-16 season he did so with enormous hype that that almost seemed impossible to reach. He has not only reached it, he has arguably exceeded it in becoming the most dominant offensive player in hockey and already one of the all-time greats. He achieved a major career milestone on Thursday night when he recorded his 1,000th career point in the NHL, the fourth fastest player to reach that mark. That point came on a second period goal against the Nashville Predators to tie the game.Have a look at the play:…
Scammers are emboldened by AI and the opportunities it presents—for ripping people off who consider themselves tech-savvy. From spoofing caller IDs to creating fake people for video calls, bad actors are using technology to fleece people out of their hard-earned money.Reddit is full of thousands of stories of people getting scammed, and Bravo’s Andy Cohen even fell for a bank scam earlier this year that cost him “a lot of money” he told the TODAY show.”I consider myself a smart, functioning member of society,” Cohen said, at the time.Related: Andy Cohen Lost ‘A Lot of Money’ to a Highly Sophisticated…
The two Proba-3 spacecraft will work together to create an artificial solar eclipseESA The European Space Agency (ESA) is aiming to create an artificial eclipse in space with its upcoming Proba-3 mission, which will help study the sun and demonstrate extremely precise formation flying, down to just a millimetre. Scheduled to launch on an Indian PSLV-XL rocket on 4 December, the mission comprises two spacecraft. After launch, they will be placed into a highly elliptical orbit around Earth that comes as close as 600 kilometres to the planet, but as far as 60,000 kilometres from it. One spacecraft, called the…
A spider monkey belonging to a Dallas-area influencer had a disease caused by malnutrition when police took him from his owner over the weekend, officials said. The monkey, named Jorgie Boy, was taken from his owner, Brandi Botello, on Saturday morning after Dallas police officers responded to a single-vehicle accident. The driver was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated, police said in a statement. Police did not identify the driver in the statement. Botello told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth that she was charged with DWI but maintained that she was not driving. She said that at the time of…