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hen the "yellow vests" first took to the streets, they basked in the approval of the overwhelming majority of French people, but after three months of violent protests, the tide appears to be turning. A poll suggested for the first time this week that most people — some 58 per cent — now want an end to the weekend protests. They are fed up with avoiding city centres on Saturdays for fear of getting caught in clashes between protesters and police, and they want to be able to shop or meet friends in cafés. The French supported the initial roundabout occupations because they saw them as justified protests over fuel prices and the cost of living, said Bernard Sananès, head of the Elabe polling institute. “But there’s a gulf between the roundabout demands and the Saturday protests.” The leaderless grassroots movement has widened into a more general revolt against a political class seen as out of touch with common people. The government has made concessions, while people have grown weary of watching TV footage of violence every Saturday, which has caused €30 million euros (more than £26 million) worth of damage in French cities. The French were horrified by the release on Friday of a recording of a “yellow vest’ figurehead, Christophe Chalençon, by an Italian TV show. “We’ve got paramilitaries ready to intervene because they also want to topple the government,” Mr Chalençon, whose face is not shown, is heard saying. Questioned about the recording, which French media pronounced authentic, Mr Chalençon, a blacksmith, denied being in “formal” contact with paramilitaries but told Le Parisien newspaper: “I only receive messages from armed people who say they’re ready.” More moderate “yellow vests” disowned his statement in a further sign of growing splits in the movement. Rival far-Right and ultra-Leftist factions fought with fists, rocks and sticks in a Lyon street last weekend. The image of the “yellow vests” has also been tarnished by accusations of anti-semitism, with offensive slogans appearing in Paris around the time of the protests last weekend and the government reporting a 74 per cent surge in offences against Jews. Benjamin Cauchy, a prominent “yellow vest” held talks with Jewish leaders in Toulouse this week and denounced anti-semitism. Several “yellow vests” appeared in court this week. Prosecutors called for Eric Drouet, a lorry driver, to be sentenced to a suspended prison term of one month for holding unauthorised demonstrations. He is to return to court in June on the more serious charge of carrying a weapon, a truncheon, punishable by a maximum jail sentence of 10 years. A former boxer, Christope Dettinger, was sentenced to a year in prison for punching and kicking a policeman, but will be allowed out during the day so he can keep his job as a municipal maintenance worker. A man who admitted driving a fork-lift truck into the door of a ministry during a protest was remanded in custody until his trial next month. Mr Cauchy suggested returning to the roundabouts and holding protests in cities on Sunday instead of Saturday. "Staging arches on Sunday will allow families to take their babies in prams out on the streets. I doubt Interior Minister Castaner will send cops out with water cannons and rubber bullets if we do,” he wrote in a Facebook post. Mr Droutet also called for Sunday protests.

tarting your car with jump leads is simple: get another car alongside, connect up, start the engine and you're away. But I now know the downside. An apparently normal jump-start started a fire that could have killed me, wrecked my Aston Martin DB7 and BMW 730i, and burned down my garage. As it was, £2,000 of damage was done to the Aston and I now appreciate the need for adequate jump leads, the correct procedure and the potential for damage to both cars. Many Astons have starting problems. Their electrical systems drain a 12-volt battery if left for more than a few days, and only the newest ones have a sleep mode. In four years of DB7 ownership I have got through three batteries. I already had a trickle charger to plug into the cigarette lighter, which was fine except that I had to feed the lead through the window, which entailed leaving the alarm off. Aston Martin has now supplied a charger that feeds a socket in the boot and exits under the lid so the alarm can stay on. Last winter, however, I was without this device and my Aston's battery was flat just a day after a 200-mile run. With the car in the garage, I reversed the BMW up and took out my "heavy duty" jump leads. I connected them to both batteries, started the BMW, went into the garage and switched on the Aston. It didn't start, but flames and acrid smoke shot from its boot toward the BMW as the leads' coating melted, scattering gobbets of flaming plastic. The fire hazard was somewhat intensified by the paint store on one side of the garage and a heating boiler and shed full of dry firewood on the other. I was stuck at the back of the garage and to escape I would need to squeeze past both vehicles. I killed the DB7's ignition, broke the jump-lead connection (the crocodile clips were coming away from the wires) and ran past the Aston. I then drove the BMW clear, smothered the fire and shakily rang the RAC. The patrolman looked tearful as I explained how close two prized cars had come to destruction; he said I was lucky to get out alive. He reassured me I had connected the jump leads correctly, then diagnosed the causes of the fire. The leads might have looked superficially sturdy, but their aluminium cores could not handle the amps generated by a modern alternator. He also said the Aston's battery was too flat to cope with a hefty charge-up generated by the BMW, which had detected a flat battery and was belting out the amps to charge it up. He said that I should have connected everything without the cars started, then gone for a cup of tea while the battery acclimatised. I rang the AA's technical department to find out more. They first advised me the safe order to attach jump leads: clip the positive/red jump lead to the positive/red terminal of the flat battery, then the other end to the positive/red terminal on the good battery. After that clip the negative/black jump lead to the negative/black terminal on the good battery and the other end to the negative/black terminal on the flat battery. To be absolutely safe and avoid the very small risk of an explosion caused by a spark igniting the hydrogen coming off the charging flat battery, don't attach jump leads to that battery, but instead clip the red lead to a distributor box under the bonnet and the black to the engine. If you are trying to jump start an old, classic car, be very careful that you are dealing with the same wiring polarities, as many of them have positive earths. The AA also said that it is best to connect up, run the engine of the donor car, switch off after 10 minutes, disconnect the leads and then try to start the car with the poor battery. Remember to keep the jump leads clear of rotating engine parts and hot exhausts. The AA said it is best policy not to try to start the car with jump leads still connected and also to keep both ignition keys in your pocket, as occasionally, when systems kick in, they can activate the central locking. My BMW was almost unscathed, but the DB7 was taken away for evaluation and repairs; by chance its overhaul and MoT were due. The damage was superficial, except to the CD stack, but the fire had knocked out the electrics, so a new radio was needed, too. Aston Martin also fitted the beefiest battery it could find. I now have my DB7 back and I shall now use my trickle charger religiously, but I also have a set of very expensive copper-cored jump leads and two fire extinguishers in the garage. Better safe than sorry.

Scavenged luxury” is the phrase Elizabeth Emanuel uses to describe the nipped-waist jackets, wispy cotton shirts and intricately embellished silk gowns she’s leafing through in her Maida Vale studio. It’s a grey, drizzly afternoon and the boiler has just conked out – but in Elizabeth’s world, we’re in the imaginary decadence of ‘Paris 1902’, the title of the first collection in her latest couture design venture. “I don’t know what happened in Paris in 1902 but it looks so nice when it’s written down,” she muses, gesturing to a patchwork of hessian cloth with the phrase etched in graceful calligraphy. “It’s as if you’ve found the House of Dior after the apocalypse and you go in and raid it then...

he parents of the woman who died in the Wiltshire Novichok poisonings have said they have concerns about why former spy Sergei Skripal was settled in Salisbury. Stan and Caroline Sturgess, whose daughter Dawn died in the months after the nerve agent attack on Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia, spoke of unanswered questions about the case and said they were seeking "justice". The Russian state is alleged to have poisoned Mr Skripal with Novichok hidden in a perfume bottle on March 4 last year in Salisbury, with Charlie Rowley and Ms Sturgess falling ill months later in nearby Amesbury after coming into contact with the same nerve agent. Mr Sturgess, a retired bricklayer, told The Guardian: "I want justice from our own Government. What are they hiding? I don't think they have given us all the facts. "If anyone, I blame the Government for putting Skripal in Salisbury. "If they'd targeted Dawn specifically, it would be different. I don't care if they (the alleged attackers of the Skripals) are arrested or put in prison." Of Mr Skripal, he added: "I don't know where Skripal is and I don't know what I'd do if I met him. He's still got his daughter." Of the Skripals, Mrs Sturgess, a retired civil servant, told the paper: "It's sad they ended up in a coma but they weren't the true victims. (Skripal) took risks - he must have known there was a chance people were still after him." Both Mr Skripal and his daughter were critically ill after the alleged assassination attempt in which the nerve agent had been sprayed on a door handle at their home. Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who attended the scene, also needed hospital treatment and previously said he was "petrified" by the experience. He told Panorama last November: "I didn't understand how it had happened, scared because it's the fear of the unknown because it's such a dangerous thing to have in your system. Knowing how the other two (the Skripals) were or how badly they'd been affected by it, I was petrified." Last September, Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service said there was sufficient evidence to charge two Russian nationals named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov with offences including conspiracy to murder over the Salisbury nerve agent attack. It was subsequently reported by Bellingcat that Mr Boshirov was actually highly-decorated Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, and Mr Petrov was a military doctor called Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin. Both men told Russian state-funded news channel RT they travelled to the "wonderful" city in Wiltshire to see Stonehenge and Old Sarum after recommendations from friends. Russian president Vladimir Putin has previously denied the men identified by the UK were responsible for the attack. The Government has been contacted for comment.

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So why is the Battlefield V release date delayed? The official statement from Oskar Gabrielson, the General Manager of DICE, doesn’t give a lot away. You have told us that you are seeing an increased focus on squad play come through, you are also feeling the difference in our revamped player movement and we are getting a lot of positive feedback for our improved weapons handling. You’ve also spurred us to make some meaningful improvements to the core gameplay experience, including adjusting the gameplay tempo, improving soldier visibility and reducing player friction. You’ll see a lot of these reflected in our Open Beta that starts on September 6… We’re going to take the time to continue to make some final adjustments to core gameplay, and to ensure we really deliver on the potential of Tides of War. One interesting element highlighted as improved for the closed beta is the long term player friction and why people might stop playing. So it’s clear DICE want the game to have a long online life. There’s a lot more detail, including changes to weapons and maps, a new focus on headshots more similar to Battlefield 3 than the most recent Battlefield One, and loads more. Speaking from experience, the biggest barrier to continuing with any Battlefield game has often been the menu and lobby system. No game is flawless, but getting a group of friends into a match on Battlefield One seems to take more messing around than anyone would reasonably expect, and every new addition to the options makes the menu system increasingly unmanageable. If DICE can finally fix that element, it might have a bigger impact on longevity than almost any other change they could make. Anyway, with the Battlefield V release date delayed, you can remove Ovtober 19th from your diary, and put November 20th in instead. And it’ll mean you can give Call of Duty a little more attention before Battlefield arrives to give it some new competion. Like this:

oodwood has announced significant changes for this year’s Festival of Speed, which takes place on July 4-7, with amendments to the site layout and the relocation of the road car paddocks to make way for a live action arena to showcase the most exciting cars, motorcycles and automotive technologies. In previous years, the Michelin Supercar Paddock has been located in the Cathedral Paddock alongside Goodwood House. This year it movesadjacent to the start line of the 1.16-mile hillclimb course that is the central feature of the Festival of Speed.

So, is there anyone… special, on the cards?’ We are in my grandmother’s best room. Songs of Praise plays on the television. She pours proper tea from a pot and pats an embroidered cushion on the sofa for me to sit down. The cushion says, 'In Christ alone my hope is found'. ‘There is, actually. I have a girlfriend. Well, a sort-of girlfriend – we haven’t had the talk yet. She’s a lesbian, although I think she prefers “queer”. I guess you could call me “bi”, but I hate labels; I just like who I like. Millennial of me, I know… Anyway, we’re seeing each other, but now she’s trying for a baby with her best friend – a gay man – and I get it because she’s 38 and her eggs won’t last for ever. Plus...

olice investigating a suspected OAP serial killer have revealed all three men in their 80s sustained similar "serious head injuries". The battered bodies of three elderly men in their 80s - including twin brothers - were discovered at their homes in Exeter, Devon, within hours of one another on Monday and Tuesday. Now, on Thursday afternoon, detectives said due to a number of similarities, they were treating the deaths as a "single multiple murder", suggesting they were dealing with a serial killer. Detective Chief Inspector Roy Linden, deputy head of major crime, said: "The investigations into these three incidents remain connected. "Due to the serious head injuries sustained by all three victims and the presentation of the properties and the age of the victims, we are treating this as a single multiple murder investigation." A 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the murders on Tuesday. Police said the "level of violence" used led officers to link the killings. Two of the murdered men were 84-year-old twins Dick and Roger Carter, who were killed in the home they had lived in all their lives. The other victim was Anthony Payne, 80, who lived alone. Detective Chief Inspector Roy Linden, deputy head of major crime, said: "The investigations into these three incidents remain connected. "Due to the serious head injuries sustained by all three victims, the presentation of the properties and the age of the victims, we are treating this as a single multiple murder investigation. "Following the post mortems, which were completed yesterday, is has been confirmed that all three victims sustained serious head injuries." Earlier on Thursday, police ruled out the three men had been shot dead amid reports an antiquated shotgun was discovered near one of the victims' bodies. A police spokesman, who refused to confirm nor deny the existence of the weapon, told The Telegraph that a gun was "not a factor" in the investigation. Asked if the shotgun belonged to the victim or if Mr Payne had a licence to carry the weapon, Devon and Cornwall Police said it would not divulge information that was not relevant to the investigation. Another police source told The Telegraph: "The injuries sustained by the victims do not indicate that they are connected to the use of a firearm."

Offworld Trading Company is right at the other end of the strategy games spectrum from Civilization, though its designer, Soren Johnson, also worked on Civ IV. While Civ spans the history and some of the future of humanity, chronicling the progress of mankind, Offworld Trading Company is all about making a fortune by exploiting our red neighbour, Mars. It’s an RTS crossed with a management game, one in which victory is not achieved by throwing tanks at enemies, or demolishing their bases. Instead, your weapons are resources and cash, which you use to mani[CENSORED]te the marketplace not just to simply get rich, but to completely screw over your competitors. That’s if you haven’t made a temporary alliance with one of your rivals, of course – though you might end up closing deals with one hand while holding a dagger in the other. You might not expect an economic strategy game to be very aggressive, but Offworld Trading Company encourages you to be just as hostile as a warmonger. When you’re eyeing up menus, planning what to build next, what to sell, which company to launch a hostile takeover against next, it’s easily as thrilling as when you’re sending infantry across artillery-pummelled fields or launching sneak air attacks against an enemy stronghold in Company of Heroes or StarCraft II.

he London Classic Car Show returns to ExCel London this week, with a plethora of historic cars to suit all interests and budgets, including live domonstrations of significant vehicles on the Grand Avenue that runs through the centre of the show halls. This year, The Grand Avenue celebrates Motoring Firsts and the 60th anniversary of the Mini. Among the 60-odd cars taking part in the demonstrations will be a collection of rare and outstanding Minis, along with F1 cars raced by Sir Stirling Moss, a history-making Bentley and many more including some of the pioneering models that helped cement the car's place in our affections. Surviving cars from renowned chase movie The Italian Job will be reunited in a special exhibit to mark the film’s 50th anniversary. The highlight of the surviving models will be the film’s pair of Jaguar E-Types – the dark blue Fixed Head Coupé (registered 619 DXX) and red 3.8L Roadster (848 CRY). The coupé was in the owner’s possession for almost 20 years before a friend spotted that it could be the car featured in the film. Further investigation proved positive and it has now been restored to its original factory specification. Originally a demonstrator and raced in 1961, the red Roadster was sold to model Richard Essame in 1962 who landed a part in the film as one of the Mini Cooper drivers. Essame drove the car to location in Italy, where the production team saw it and thought it would be ideal for the film and purchased it from him. Rounding out the three originals from the film is the Aston Martin DB4 Convertible (163 ELT) that was supposedly tipped over a cliff by a bulldozer. Despite its apparent demise, this 1961 convertible was switched for a Lancia Flaminia during filming, allowing the DB4 to survive the cliff scene. Unfortunately, the iconic red, white and blue Minis made so famous by the production no longer exist, but identical replicas will be featured to celebrate the film’s anniversary. A hundred years of Citroën innovation will also be celebrated, with a selection of vehicles that have made the boldest marks on the automotive industry since 1919, from the vintage Type A through to modern classics.

ou know it's Valentine's week when the press releases on how Britain is having sex now, start flooding in. Cue the latest research from dating experts Match, showing that a third of single Brits would be open to having a polyamorous relationship. Furthermore, more than a third (36 per cent) of us think it's possible to be in love with more than one person at the same time, and one in eight (12 per cent) consider monogamy to be old-fashioned. Oh, and men are more open to a polyamorous relationships (43 per cent versus 19 per cent of women).

27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of three men in their 80s were found in two properties in Exeter, Devon and Cornwall Police said. The deaths of the three men, one aged 80 and two aged 84, are being treated as suspicious and are being formally linked, the force spokesman said. Police said the deaths were "unprecedented in the city" and admitted it had "shocked us all". The body of an 80-year-old man was found at an address in Bonhay Road at around 3pm on Monday a house near St David's Railway Station in Exeter - a busy road which runs north from the town centre to the station, parallel to the River Exe. While the house remains behind a police cordon, a handwritten note stuck to the front door reads: "Elderly man, 80 years of age, wants accommodation for himself and his pet cat." He asks for any replies to be posted through his letterbox. A day later, the bodies of the two 84-year-old men were found after officers were called to a property in Cowick Lane at 1pm on Tuesday. The second house is a mile and a half away from the first, and some houses on Cowick Lane sell for more than £1million.

German Truck Simulator. Bus Driver. U-Boat Simulator. Ski Region Simulator. London Underground Simulator. Street Cleaning Simulator. These are all names of real simulation video games that you can currently buy for PC, and the sorts of games that receive notable ridicule from many U.S. gamers. And yet, despite the mockery and oodles of mocking videos you can find on YouTube, these seemingly niche simulation titles keep on coming. In some cases, such as with the Farming Simulator series, there are multiple releases every single year across multiple platforms, with the year usually attached to the end of the name -- much in the same way that EA's po[CENSORED]r FIFA Soccer franchise goes about its business. The question remains then: Who exactly is buying these games, and is there really so much demand that yearly releases are necessary? SCS Software, a development studio from Prague, Czech Republic, is one of the biggest studios making truck simulators right now. Its latest releases include Euro Truck Simulator 2, Scania Truck Driving Simulator, and German Truck Simulator. Pavel Sebor, the owner of SCS, tells me that his company has been living "pretty much hand-to-mouth" for quite a while now, and it's simply down to a hardcore community backing that the studio is able to march onwards. "We started doing these games on a shoestring budget 10 years ago with teams of 3-4 people, and over the years we have managed to build a small but very devoted fan community, people who keep coming back and supporting us over the years," he explains. Sebor believes he knows the reason why there aren't exactly an abundance of U.S. developers and publishers jumping at the chance to build simulation games like his. "That fact that we are an Eastern European company paying Eastern European wages definitely has been a factor in sustainability of SCS Software in the genre," he notes. "I don't think any Western publisher would touch a game in a genre where games typically sell on the order of tens of thousands of copies with a 10 foot pole, but as we are self-financing and self-publishing the games, we can control our own destiny and keep considerable chunk of the revenue to keep us in black numbers." SCS also builds its own technology, and continually bumps up its tech and asset library year by year, meaning that it can more easily build on top of its legacy incrementally, rather than starting from scratch each time. This helps keep the budget on each new title down. Who's buying? Being careful with your budget is all well and good, but if no-one is willing to buy your games, then it doesn't matter how you juggle your cash. Fortunately, there are very specific types of people who seem to love these sorts of simulation games, and SCS has seen its audience grow and grow over the years. "When it comes to audience, we know we have basically two distinct groups of players, with a big hole between them," explains Sebor. "There are kids 8-12 playing the games - players who are not yet into FPS or other core genres, but are captivated by the idea of driving these big vehicles. I guess every boy at age 7 or so wanted to drive a cement mixer or garbage truck or something similar," he adds. And then there's the strong 35+ male audience -- "basically people who have some professional, or should I say emotional, ties to trucking or transportation industry typically," Sebor notes. He continues, "We have very little traction in the age group in-between, everybody there is too busy fragging each other in Call of Duty. We have more adult players than we have pre-teen and teen players really." In fact, the truly intriguing thing about this hardcore adult audience that SCS is attracting is that these players are hugely demanding when it comes to the fidelity and depth of the simulation, which causes SCS's output to be pushed "dangerously deeper into the niche corner." That fact that we are an Eastern European company paying Eastern European wages definitely has been a factor in sustainability of SCS Software in the genre," he notes. "I don't think any Western publisher would touch a game in a genre where games typically sell on the order of tens of thousands of copies with a 10 foot pole, but as we are self-financing and self-publishing the games, we can control our own destiny and keep considerable chunk of the revenue to keep us in black numbers." SCS also builds its own technology, and continually bumps up its tech and asset library year by year, meaning that it can more easily build on top of its legacy incrementally, rather than starting from scratch each time. This helps keep the budget on each new title down. Who's buying? Being careful with your budget is all well and good, but if no-one is willing to buy your games, then it doesn't matter how you juggle your cash. Fortunately, there are very specific types of people who seem to love these sorts of simulation games, and SCS has seen its audience grow and grow over the years. "When it comes to audience, we know we have basically two distinct groups of players, with a big hole between them," explains Sebor. "There are kids 8-12 playing the games - players who are not yet into FPS or other core genres, but are captivated by the idea of driving these big vehicles. I guess every boy at age 7 or so wanted to drive a cement mixer or garbage truck or something similar," he adds. And then there's the strong 35+ male audience -- "basically people who have some professional, or should I say emotional, ties to trucking or transportation industry typically," Sebor notes. He continues, "We have very little traction in the age group in-between, everybody there is too busy fragging each other in Call of Duty. We have more adult players than we have pre-teen and teen players really." In fact, the truly intriguing thing about this hardcore adult audience that SCS is attracting is that these players are hugely demanding when it comes to the fidelity and depth of the simulation, which causes SCS's output to be pushed "dangerously deeper into the niche corner." "Simulating driving a real truck with all it takes would make our game unplayable for non-truckers, so we need to remember the balance between simulation depth and accessibility," adds Sebor. When it comes to the question of not who, but where these people are, Sebor says that Germany, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe are the sweet spots for simulation games. "Even though the average purchasing power is very different between say the UK and Poland, we actually sell more copies in Poland than in bigger Western Europe countries," he notes. "We also have lots of fans in developing market countries like Brazil or Turkey, and incredible number of players in China, but it's really hard to actually sell any games in those markets." Meanwhile, the Farming Simulator series is a very similar story. Marc Schwegler, associate producer at Giants Software in Germany, tells me that the main audience for its annual farming series is kids, especially boys who love tractors. Oh, and farmers, of course

The tabletop RPG scene has been shrunk down to the size of a thimble with this exciting new roleplaying game. Fairies RPG allows players to explore the world from a new view, battle treacherous house-cats and use magic to swiftly get out of sticky situations. Sit around the table with your Storyteller as Fairies RPG brings in 7 fairies to choose from, over 150+ unique spells, and tons of news items and environments to explore in this vast world. The Fairies RPG book comes with 104 pages of packed content, story telling, character sheets, equipment, and creatures for you to fight. Pre-Orders for the game have been opened at https://fairiesrpg.com, with our release date of February 14th, 2019. Pick up a copy now and save 20% on your order with coupon code FAIRIESRPG2019.

The Last Remnant Remastered Update Version 1.01 has been released on the PS4. This is the first patch for the game which was released exclusively for the PS4 back in December of last year. The Last Remnant Remastered Update 1.01 fixes some integral issues that fans have been complaining about, although Square Enix is quite late in providing a fix. One of the issues fixed is where the game wouldn’t unlock certain trophies after their perquisites had been fulfilled, certainly angering some avid trophy hunters. The other major issue was when the game wouldn’t display state increases in battle. The Last Remnant Remastered Update Version 1.01 PS4 Patch Notes Fixed an issue where certain trophies were not unlocking even when meeting the necessary criteria Fixed an issue where the character stat increases after battle were not being displayed in the UI. These increases were correctly reflected in actual in-game calculations, and this was purely a display issue. The Last Remnant Remastered is available now exclusively on the PS4.

Fancy trying a modern military shooter on the PS4 without having to pay for it? Well, free-to-play FPS Warface is now available on PlayStation 4. The game was original released by Crytek for the PC five years ago, and has been evolving ever since. That included a brief period with an Xbox 360 version. But now there are fully-blown console versions for 2018, and the Sony hardware gets Warface first. An Xbox One release is still planned for later in the year, but no exact date has been set. You are here: Home / Blog / Free-to-Play FPS Warface Is Now Available On PlayStation 4 Free-to-Play FPS Warface Is Now Available On PlayStation 4 September 22, 2018 By DanThornton Leave a Comment Fancy trying a modern military shooter on the PS4 without having to pay for it? Well, free-to-play FPS Warface is now available on PlayStation 4. The game was original released by Crytek for the PC five years ago, and has been evolving ever since. That included a brief period with an Xbox 360 version. But now there are fully-blown console versions for 2018, and the Sony hardware gets Warface first. An Xbox One release is still planned for later in the year, but no exact date has been set. We covered the early access launch of Warface on the PS4 recently. And now the full game is available, with squad-based co-op and PvP modes across a variety of maps and locations. Choose from the four classes included in the game, and then choose which equipment and weapons you prefer. Paid Starter Packs are also out now to improve your Rifleman, Sniper, Medic or Engineer with weapons, cosmetics and bonus items. Assuming you’re a PS4 owner (or have a PC), you can download the game and dive right in. The PvE battle against the AI-controlled Blackwood faction includes The HQ, Anubis, Blackout and Earthshaker raids. And the human vis human fighting runs across six different modes and 19 maps. So there’s already plenty to experience.

Would you like to hear a Tale of Terror or a Sky-Story? Relay some Salon-Stewed Gossip or pass on a Savage Secret? The names given to the various forms of currency exchanged across Sunless Skies give you a good idea of what sort of game it is. This is a world where words flow like water and stories hydrate whole planets. Where a turn of phrase is just as likely to unlock a door as the turn of a key. Sunless Skies is a narrative-heavy adventure where every dramatic event is conveyed through beautifully written text. A delicate, customizable layer of "rogue-lite" action and survival encases a beating heart of vivid location descriptions, verbal flights of fancy, and giddy, spiraling story paths. Developer Failbetter Games has cleverly built upon the foundation of Sunless Sea, designing a sequel that improves core mechanics and spins its world into imaginative new orbits while easing the avenue of entry for new players. You're welcome here as long as you love words. The British Empire, headed by Empress Victoria, has boarded its steam-powered engines and, improbably, made for the stars. There, amid the floating drifts of rock snaking across the sky, it has founded New Albion and, by remaking the Sun, it hopes to start again. It's an eccentric vision of outer space as alien territory where polar winds blow through ice-crusted canyons, hive-shaped asteroids drip honey, and myriad fungal spores glitter like stars. You play the captain of Her Majesty's Locomotive, the Orphean, newly inherited after the untimely death of the previous captain, and your ambition is to travel the stars seeking fame, fortune, or the truth. Dotted around the New Wilderness, which is composed of four maps you may travel between once you've earned the appropriate permits, are dozens of busy ports and isolated homesteads. You pilot the Orphean between them, revealing new points of interest on the top-down 2D map and working to ensure you've packed enough fuel and supplies to make it to your destination. While docked you can repair and re-supply your engine, purchase any available upgrades, and visit the bazaar to claim prospects and earn additional revenue through trade. Once that admin is out of the way, you can take your time to explore. Each port is well-stocked with fascinating locations and idiosyncratic characters. Buy a ticket to Polmear & Plenty's Circus and enjoy a show where the clowns can't juggle and the trapeze artist has lost their partner. Encounter an Inadvisably Big Dog at Port Prosper while seeking to aid the establishment Stove-pipes in their civil war against the revolutionary Tacketies. Travel to Hybras in search of a lost filmmaker and discover an entire colony of seniors has mysteriously vanished. There's a new captivating story to be found every step of the way. As you follow each new narrative thread you're called upon to make choices and meet certain requirements. You might find a dying captain whose engine ran aground. Do you: end his suffering, return him home for one last glimpse of London, or escort him and try to complete his final, failed mission? There's something odd about that Repentant Devil you picked up at the previous port, but you'll need to track down some tea before he'll open up to you and reveal his true motivations. The decisions you make can see you gain or lose favor with a host of rival factions as you chart a course through the political struggles of this new frontier. Every time you are presented with a path of action or choice to make, it's always clear how you have unlocked it. Some are based on having the correct items, purchased at a port or found in an earlier part of the story, while others provide a percentage chance of success depending on one of your character's core attributes. Actions you cannot yet take are grayed out but visible, allowing you to note that you need to find another Vision of the Heavens to make that selection or come back later once you've increased your Hearts attribute and boosted those odds in your favor. It's a clever setup in that you always have the information you need about your immediate options and enough of a nudge towards how to open up new sets of paths. Between ports, however, things can slow down. Exploring an uncharted region of the map can be tense, especially as you venture into the outskirts and encounter some of the more dangerous enemies. It's also never less than beautiful to look at. But combat is simplistic and, much of the time, completely avoidable anyway. And while puttering the often long distances between points of interest, there's not a great deal to do beyond pinging your bat scout to identify random resource deposits and just watching the maze-like scenery wash by. Popping up from time to time, and helping to enliven long journeys, are incidents involving the various officers you've recruited on board and your crew. Like the cast of a Mass Effect, each named officer--and like everyone in this world they all sport wonderfully evocative titles like The Incautious Driver or The Incognito Princess--has their own storyline to follow and they serve up some of the best questlines in the entire game. You'll want to check in with them whenever you can and prioritize their next steps.

esco knows more about customers than the NHS does about its patients, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock urged the health service to embrace new technology in order to provide personalised care and save lives. And he warned that the health service does not even keep basic records on which devices have been implanted into patients, nor track their medical history properly. Speaking at the launch of a report on how the NHS needs to plan for a digital future, he said that the health service was a decade behind modern businesses, in several respects. “We want to harness the power of technology to shape it as a force for good in order to deliver better for the NHS and to save lives,” he told the event in London. “Right now, Tesco has a more sophisticated and more efficient technological system than the NHS. They know who you are from the loyalty card to where you shop, from store IDs to what you buy, and the items scanned at the checkout. “That wealth of information means…they can shape the offer with a personalised service in order to deliver for you the customer,” he said. “And they’re delivering groceries. The NHS doesn't have anything like that yet.”

e white Cupra Ateca sits outside, ready to go back to its maker. (No, don’t worry, it’s not being sent off to the scrapheap – just being collected by a friendly chap called Dave so that it can be cleaned and sent back out to another motoring hack). It’s the first day since it arrived that there hasn’t been snow on the ground. Which has made this an interesting week to have such a car in on test. Because, as the fact this Seat doesn’t wear a Seat badge may have signalled to you, this is the go-faster Ateca; a car that’s very important for Seat, as it spearheads the company’s new sub-brand, Cupra, under which Seat will sell all of its performance models.

yes closed, the sun beating down. You’re on a sunbed somewhere toasty, chatting with friends, pausing occasionally to summon up the effort to find the glass beside you that’s filled with something cool and fizzy. One of my favourite games to play during such sybaritic moments is to imagine your own restaurant. You can conceive of the location, décor, wines and menu. Those lying around the pool can argue about the relative merits of their establishment. It is the perfect fantasy pastime. Because you can chat about the glassware and crockery, the clothes the staff might wear, the wine list and the chairs, safe in the knowledge that you will never be so foolish as to attempt to make the dream a...

2019 is fast approaching and as such there’s a slew of new video game titles slated or expected to launch during the upcoming year. If you’re looking for what video game titles are worth checking into before they make their way onto the market then let us lend a hand. In this particular list, we’re going over our top picks for the third-person video game titles launching in the coming year. Take a look at our picks below and as always, let us know if we missed a title by dropping us a comment!

ritain may not be be able to expand its F-35 fighter jet fleet unless a black hole in the Ministry of Defence budget is plugged, MPs have warned. A scathing report by the Public Accounts Committee has exposed how the MoD is staring at a £7 billion funding gap, which could double over the next 10 years. Under scrutiny is the F-35 fighter jet program, which is supposed to deliver some 138 F-35 Lightning aircraft over the coming decades. Britain has already signed a contract for the first batch of 48, which are estimated to cost £9.1bn by 2025, including support such as training and maintenance. But the committee say that there remains uncertainty on the plans for F-35 beyond the procurement of the first 48 jets, with clarity on future support and maintenance costs dependent on the results of current trials.

f you’re a lover of old Citroëns, as I am, the chances are the arrival of the C5 Aircross will be bittersweet. This is, after all, the first range-topping Citroën to be launched for more than 60 years without the company’s trademark hydropneumatic suspension system even available as an option. It also completes a transformation in the company’s range that has left it without a single traditional saloon or estate model; instead, Citroëns – at least in the UK – are either SUVs, MPVs, vans or small hatchbacks. And yet, the Aircross arrives with left-field styling, a clever suspension system of its own designed with comfort in mind, and an emphasis on practicality – all principles central to the best models the company’s ever produced. For the die-hard fans, then, there’s promise here, even if it comes in a shape few will recognise. The thing is, for most of this new model’s buyers, all of this is of little consequence. What will matter more is how well the C5 Aircross can cope with the daily challenges a modern family SUV must face: how spacious and versatile it is, how cheaply it can be run, and how easy it is to live with. Its Citroën-ness, or lack of, will realistically make little difference. Those buyers will be able to choose from two petrol and two diesel engines, each of 128bhp and 178bhp respectively. The two more powerful units are only available with the new Aisin-sourced eight-speed automatic, and while the 128bhp diesel gets a choice between the two gearboxes, the entry-level petrol can only be had as a manual. You can’t get four-wheel drive, but you can add Citroën’s Grip Control system, which tempers the throttle electronically and applies the brakes to make the use of the traction available.