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“China’s flood control network has a pecking order of protection giving priority to big important cities like Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, with the lowest order of importance being rural areas. Under China’s system, at the bottom are the ordinary people in the city and those in the countryside whose interests are not respected,” he said.

Baldur’s Gate is estimated to clock in at around 100 hours on a first playthrough. Review copies were distributed this past Sunday morning; this first draft you’re reading was due the following Wednesday. I am, sadly, not a Time Wizard (yet), so I’m going to do my best to help you make a day one buying decision based on what …

Ben Affleck had packed almost a century-worth of “Batman” mythos into a shelved DC script, according to former storyboard artist Jay Oliva. Oliva, who left DC in 2017, teased in a recent interview with Inverse that Affleck’s take on “Batman” would have been an unprecedented interpretation of the Caped Crusader superhero. “I can’t really say too much other than it …

Team, We’ve worked toward this release date for well over a year, and soon we’ll experience a full product launch. Of all the stretches, the home stretch can be the hardest, so I want to share some learnings from past launches to help you stay motivated through the next phase. We can do this! First, and most important: I need …

A Russian court is expected to issue a verdict on Friday in a trial of Aleksei A. Navalny, the jailed opposition leader, on charges of supporting “extremism,” a ruling that could extend his time in prison by up to two decades. Mr. Navalny, whose anticorruption investigations criticizing the Kremlin drew popular support and infuriated Russia’s top leadership, is already serving …

Baldur’s Gate 3 presents many opportunities for you to lay waste to your opponents. One facet involves Illithid Powers, where you unleash your true potential as the Absolute. However, enabling these abilities does require points. Our guide discusses how you can get Mind Flayer Parasite Specimens in Baldur’s Gate 3 so you can unlock new skills. Likewise, please be reminded …

Donald Trump has apparently had real problems hiring lawyers to represent him in the criminal indictments he’s accumulated over the last several months, though he has always managed to find one by his arraignment dates. And in his latest indictment — stemming from the investigation into the disgraced ex-president’s role in the Jan. 6 attack — Trump is represented in …

Nicalis just announced that the long-awaited major update for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth has gone live. We’ve been following news around The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and its potential updates for a while now. I’ve even been checking the App Store page for the update every few hours in the hope that it goes live following it being submitted …

This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.“You don’t know me. You don’t know what the fuck I want.” Of all the words that are spoken in The Passenger, an often tense yet throwaway thriller just on the cusp …

South Korean police have detained a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife in the city of Daejeon. The stabbing follows a separate, apparently random attack on Thursday in which 14 people were wounded near a busy subway station in Seongnam. Officials at the Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency did not immediately release the personal details of …