New York's new hotels: From Central Park to Madison Avenue - The Independent
Formerly the 60 Thompson, this sophisticated hotel in Manhattan's hip SoHo district has been renovated and rebranded. Crowning the 97-room hotel is a rooftop bar open only to guests, members, and private parties. The decoration in the bedrooms matches the boho-chic public spaces, with geometric rugs, dark wood floors and venetian blinds, along with an assortment of plants, candles and books dotted around. Glass is the name of the game at the Baccarat, which opened in March as the first hotel branded with the French crystal company's name. It is awash with crystal chandeliers in the entrance hall, restaurant, and bedrooms, which also feature dark wood furniture, TVs hidden within smoked mirrors, and marble bathrooms. Doubles from $899 (£606 ), room only. It features twin rooms with chrome bunk beds, as well as more traditional kings and doubles. Colourful interiors are offset with retro desk lamps and cartoon-style images of the Manhattan skyline on the walls. Some of the rooms in the 21-storey tower have views of landmarks such as the Empire State Building and the One World Trade Center. 32 West 29th Street, New York (001 212 204 5750. thepaulnyc.
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Preview: Smash Hit Plunder - VRFocus
Its riotous gameplay doesn’t quite fall under ‘action’ when there are no enemies to slay and the grin-inducing mess that comes from carelessly tossing objects across a room won’t qualify for a ‘party game’ while it remains single-player. The result is one of Gear VR and indeed VR in general’s most curious and, much more importantly, fun upcoming videogames. Smash Hit Plunder’s objective is to do exactly that. Players are dropped into an environment, in this case an archaic keep, and must frantically throw just about anything they find into walls and across floors, gathering the precious loot that spills out in the process. The real fun starts when you first catch sight of an item to smash. Smash Hit Plunder cleverly starts off in a spacious environment that allows players to acclimatise to its controls before setting the clock running, meaning you can get used to looking at an item and pressing the touchpad to pick it up via a... Swiping the pad will then launch that object forwards, in most cases causing it to smash into pieces. Moving out of the practise room by intuitively swiping a door open, players are treated to the sight of a room literally littered with items to break.
Steve Mascord's Stupid Saturday NRL blog - Sydney Morning Herald
After St George Illawarra beat an injury-hit Manly 12-4 at WIN Stadium, Sea Eagles coach Geoff Toovey labelled the concussion crackdown "ridiculous". Earlier, Gold Coast broke through for their first victory of the year when they downed Cronulla - still winless as a result - 24-22 at Remondis Stadium. And Newcastle went 4-0 for 2015 by downing Penrith 26-14 at Hunter Stadium to start the day.