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Now the NPD results for May are in, and while many games have held on from April, one notable title is absent. It seems that sales for Battlefield Hardline have declined fairly drastically, as the game debuted at the top of the NPD charts in March, dropped to third in April, and is completely missing in action in May. Unfortunately for EA and Visceral, Battlefield Hardline just doesn’t have the same staying power as previous games in the franchise....

If you asked a dozen sportsmen and women about the Endangered Species Act, you’d likely hear both praise for its successes and dismay over its failures. What you would not hear, though, are calls for more species to walk the dim, dusty path toward extinction. We all support America’s outdoor heritage, and that’s true regardless of our politics or ideology. As President Teddy Roosevelt once cautioned, “I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us....

That’s not to say their debate is over. Like countless other families, the Lees are hashing out divergent political views ahead of the most significant presidential race in South Korea’s short democratic era. In the run-up to the Dec. 19 election, Koreans are arguing over kimchi, shouting at their televisions and lobbying undecided relatives. Unlike the last presidential contest in 1997, which took place against the backdrop of a financial crisis, this election season arrives amid robust economic growth and widespread prosperity....

China’s entry would open a huge market where which foreign companies could sell, argued our elected officials, and the benefits would accrue to everyone—including in China, where the authoritarian state and centrally planned economy would liberalize. And, for good measure, this change was presented as inevitable. If we didn’t approve the deal, the Washington Post editorial board argued, others would, to our disadvantage. Just think of the money to be made....

WWE fans will have something to cheer about after Undertaker was featured in the promotional poster for WrestleMania XXX amidst rumours about him not competing. WWE and Undertaker are still yet to confirm his participation in the event but the appearance in the promotional posters comes as good news for the fans. Taker has been suffering from various health problems and featured in the last WrestleMania after intensive workouts and treatments....

While Animal Crossing is designed to be an open-ended game with a variety of ways to play, the game can be challenging when it comes to paying off Tom Nook’s hefty debts, foraging for materials across the island, gaining bells and Nook Miles, dealing with villager requests, and more. Players who find the game to be a grind might find the advice and hard-learned lessons from fellow Animal Crossing: New Horizons players to be helpful during their next playthrough....

People talk about value funds, but you really have to look at the manager’s approach and see ff he really is a value investor. Here’s our approach: we try to value what a business is worth today and buy its stock at a 30 to 50 percent discount to that price. Compare this with a growth investor, who has to predict future earnings to determine a stock’s worth. We have no ability to predict the future, but we do have a pretty good ability to value a business today based on its current cash flows and earnings, the cash on its balance sheet and the value of comparable businesses....

Nevertheless, The Walking Dead: The Final Season is going out in true Telltale spirit, leaving fans with a narrative that could only be achieved by this company. While it could be picked up by another developer, it’s unlikely to exactly fit Telltale’s style, but devoted fans will still likely love to see an official ending to Clementine’s story - if nothing else. This second episode begins where the first left off and builds cohesively upon the last episode....

When players are out exploring the biomes of Minecraft, they have a chance to run into a very special and mysterious passive mob known as the Wandering Trader. This fellow shares a similar appearance to villager mobs but is garbed in his own unique blue and gold robe. Minecraft players who locate this traveling salesman can exchange their precious emeralds for various exotic and difficult to obtain items. Buying items from the Wandering Trader is usually a much safer way to acquire these items than the other in-game alternatives....

Actually, though, a lot has changed–and not just because Hizbullah had transformed itself from the 1980s terrorist organization that trafficked in hostages and car bombs into a disciplined militia that was able to absorb everything the Israelis threw at it the past three weeks, only to emerge from the rubble and dare it to keep trying. There is another, even larger reality this time around: today the battle is not just over some hardscrabble hillsides in southern Lebanon, but for public opinion in a far more polarized and interconnected world....

In a study published recently in the journal Nature, scientists tested 6- and 10-month-old babies to see how smart they are about judging people by how they act toward others. The babies, it turns out, prefer those who are helpful rather than unhelpful toward a third party (that is, not the baby himself). The findings suggest that children evaluate those around them far earlier than previously thought, deciding “who is friend and who is foe, who is an appropriate social partner and who is not,” write graduate students Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn and psychology professor Paul Bloom of Yale University....

The game is not short of its challenges though, and among all of the bosses, the hardest you’ll have to face is the Wild Hunt. Coming in multiple installments during the game as each member faces off with Geralt at various stages, you’ll want to defeat this despicable group to protect the one they’re hunting: Ciri. RELATED: The Witcher 3: 10 Things That Are Way Harder On Death March...

As of Sunday, December 29, The Witcher 3 peaked at 94,651 concurrent players. This makes it the 7th most-played game on Steam, just below Destiny 2 and above Team Fortress 2. But more importantly, it makes it higher than even its launch concurrent players. During its launch month, Steam says The Witcher 3 peaked at 92,268. The closest its come otherwise is during June 2016, after the launch of the huge Blood and Wine expansion, when it reached just under 54,000....

However, it was all for the best as it allowed fans to meet Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra), and Cirilla, also known as Ciri, of Cintra (Freya Allan) at the same time. Season 1 of The Witcher shows Yennefer’s backstory. This allows fans to know more about her character. And as she is a compelling character, viewers are likely glad to get a greater insight into her....

The Witcher first premiered in December 2019, rapidly gaining traction as Netflix’s most popular fantasy series, though season two took much longer than expected after several pandemic-related delays and even injuries to star Henry Cavill forced a two-year wait. Nevertheless, while no official release window has been disclosed as of now, this announcement bodes well for those anticipating yet another December premiere in 2022. RELATED: The Witcher 3 Fan Making Awesome Real Life Bestiary...

The Witcher is an adaptation of the fantasy book series by the same name, authored by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Though the video game franchise is more well known, the series instead sticks closer to the books and is considered an adaptation of those works. It has been a huge success for Netflix and stars Man of Steel actor Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, a “Witcher” or beast hunter....

The irony seems lost on the cadets: Mexicans often struggle to distinguish cops from criminals. During his campaign to dethrone the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has ruled Mexico for the past seven decades, Vicente Fox pledged to restore the rule of law and weed out dishonest police and other public officials. Five months after his July victory, he finally takes office this week, and the race begins to fulfill his promises....

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Every inch of the Xbox One Elite controller makes it feel like the luxury product it’s been marketed as, and as soon as I held it in my hands I knew it was something special. Immediately noticeable is the weight and texture of the peripheral, making it feel like a true evolution of the now infamous input device. As many are sure to immediately point out, however, there’s more to a pro-level controller than something that simply feels nice in your hands....

“Why do you at NEWSWEEK continue to try to destroy the housing market?” writes Bill T. “All you do is report news that hurts our economy [and] destroys confidence.” “All you [write] about is the foreclosure rate,” writes B. C. from Colorado. “What about the rate of people NOT foreclosing who are in a home they wouldn’t be in” if they hadn’t obtained a subprime mortgage? “When are the mass media going to report on housing in areas of the country where the ‘bust’ really hasn’t occurred?...