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Resident Evil Revelations
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Revelations is an extended remake of last year’s handheld game, which adds HD textures, new bits of plot, and appearances from series stalwarts Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield. It draws heavily on Resident Evil’s golden era with wood panelling that could be from the original game and a selection of familiar monsters to kill. Sadly, the action feels wooden too, while the dialogue and voice acting a [...]
Resident Evil: Revelations – review
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Revelations is an extended remake of last year’s handheld game, which adds HD textures, new bits of plot, and appearances from series stalwarts Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield. It draws heavily on Resident Evil’s golden era with wood panelling that could be from the original game and a selection of familiar monsters to kill. Sadly, the action feels wooden too, while the dialogue and voice acting a [...]
New reality for Hezbollah supporters
The workmen had been busy in the room where Hezbollah honours its dead. In one corner of the martyrs’ cemetery in south Beirut, four women shrouded in black sat cross-legged near a new grave, reading from the Qu’ran. Metres away, the yellow flag of the militant group covered a freshly covered hole in a white marble floor. The scent of burning incense wafted across the room.
Another grave, its concrete seal barely dry, had been partly completed nearby. There were seven fresh holes in all; and the grave digger was never far away [...]
Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis On The Move – review
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Guide a miniature robotic Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong or – Mario’s main squeeze in the original Donkey Kong – Pauline to each level’s exit by dragging and dropping pieces of pipe. It’s a modern twist on ancient favourite, Pipemania, and while it starts with a gentleness that’s almost patronising, its puzzles quickly acquire the power to bend minds, adding bombs, magic tiles, pivoting corners, springs, catapults, warp pipes and conveyer belts. Four modes and [...]
Why are so many Guantanamo inmates from Yemen?
24 May 2013
Last updated at 16:55 ET
By Jasmine Coleman
BBC News
More than half of the detainees at Guantanamo come from Yemen
US President Barack Obama has lifted a moratorium on the transfer of Yemeni prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay as part of a renewed push to close the detention camp.
Nearly 800 detainees have passed through the centre since it was set up under the Bush administration in 2002 to hold “enemy combatants” from the war in Afghanistan – [...]
DIY drones: don’t confuse homemade UAVs with military killing machines
“It was always a dream to build one, after having built helicopters in my bedroom for a while. I mostly like flying for fun, seeing whether I can get the device to auto-stabilise. As opposed to a plane or helicopter, you don’t need a lot of knowledge to control them. They fly themselves. Something like this – you can put in a backpack and carry it with you.” Electronic circuit designer Matt Lloyd is talking about building his first quadcopter, a type of drone popular with the growing number of DIY drone makers in the UK. [...]
At least two killed when airplane on mercy flight crashes, authorities say
EPHRATAH, N.Y. – A small airplane operating as a volunteer Angel Flight crashed into a pond in upstate New York on Friday evening, killing at least two people, authorities said.
Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said the flight’s two passengers were found dead and investigators are searching for the pilot, who is missing. Officials did not immediately identify the passengers or pilot.
The Piper PA 34 airplane originated in Massachusetts and crashed about a half-mile west of Caroga, N.Y., just after 5 p.m. Friday, Federal [...]
Warnings over flagship projects
25 May 2013
Last updated at 00:16 ET
The decision to award the £5bn West Coast Main Line franchise – currently run by Virgin – to FirstGroup was scrapped
More than 30 of the coalition’s flagship schemes, including Universal Credit and the West Coast Main Line scheme, are at serious risk of failure, a government annual report has warned.
The Major Projects Authority (MPA) has given 32 projects a red or amber/red rating, meaning they are deemed unachievable or in doubt.
Red projects include two £7bn aircra [...]
Estrada pitches Brewers over Pirates
Milwaukee, WI – Marco Estrada tossed seven-strong innings of one-run ball as the Milwaukee Brewers edged the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1, in the opener of a three-game set at Miller Park.
Estrada (4-2), who was perfect through 4 2/3 innings, scattered four hits
and struck out eight without issuing a walk to earn the win.
Alex Gonzalez drove in both runs with a two-run double in the second inning.
Aramis Ramirez and Carlos Gomez scored one run apiece for the Brewers, winners
in two of their last three games.
Francisco [...]
The future of virtual reality: want to conquer vertigo or have a go at surgery?
Ever wondered what it would be like to tightrope walk above the city, dissect a human heart, and jump out of a plane at 10,000 feet – all in one afternoon? These are just some of the experiences on offer in a basement in east London, as part of the Digital Shoreditch festival next week, where the latest developments in immersive visualisation will be on show.
Stepping into the subterranean test space of 3D technology company Inition, it feels like you have entered the gadget-strewn lair of James Bond’s Q branch. Its bright white wal [...]
French army to begin Mali pullout
25 May 2013
Last updated at 00:14 ET
France says troop numbers in Mali will be down to 1,000 by the end of the year
France is set to begin the first major stage of its military withdrawal from Mali, four months after sending troops to push Islamist rebels out the north.
A convoy of 80 lorries will leave a French base outside the capital, Bamako, and drive south to Ivory Coast.
France began withdrawing some of its 4,000 troops from the country in April.
They plan to gradually hand over to the Malian army and a UN peacekeep [...]
Paul George wins battle with Lebron James as Pacers beat Heat in Game Two
Indiana Pacers 97-93 Miami HeatSeries tied 1-1
For the second straight game in the Eastern Conference finals, LeBron James and Paul George played a personal game of anything you can do, I can do better. But this time it was the Indiana Pacers who beat the Miami Heat.
The pair were rarely more than a couple of feet away from each other on the court, with the closing seconds of the third quarter a microcosm of the James-George tussle. First George shimmied to break past James into the paint for a dunk that also drew a foul from Chris Birdma [...]
Stories from Around the Web (Week Ending May 24, 2013)
Inside Google’s Secret LabA bit light on detail and insight, but they got more out of Google than anyone else has.—Tom Simonite, IT editor
Revenge, Ego and the Corruption of WikipediaA deliciously twisted story of one author’s efforts to manipulate his own page, and those of his rivals, on Wikipedia; the piece raises questions about impartiality and oversight on the online encyclopedia.—Will Knight, online editor
Who’s Your Daddy? The Perils of Personal GenomicsTurns out the most common finding from 23andMe tests is not health-related. — [...]