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1. REDDIT THE SINKING CITY UPDATE
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The Department of Finance is reportedly looking for alternative fund sources.

It said negotiations bogged down after President Duterte bristled against foreign scrutiny on his human rights record. The Philippines is in the direct path of environmental devastation, so it's startling to learn that, for one, the Duterte administration had suspended a $36-million loan from Germany to fund climate change studies, according to Mongabay, a nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform. The rising temperature, the Nature report warned, could destroy entire ecosystems and, in fact, has already destabilised the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest and home to 10 percent of the world's species.Įvidence suggests that "we are in a state of planetary emergency," and the intervention period left to prevent irreparable damage to the planet has "already shrunk towards zero, whereas the reaction time to achieve net zero emissions is 30 years at best." "We might already have committed future generations to living with sea-level rises of around 10 meters over thousands of years," the authors said. These tipping points include ice collapses in West and East Antarctica and in Greenland that could add anywhere between three and seven meters to the sea level, and which could happen as early as as 2030 - 11 years away - if global warming is at 1.5 degrees Celsius.

"The costs will be high."Īnother report, "Climate tipping points - too risky to bet against," written by a group of experts from Europe and Australia and published last week in Nature magazine, outlined tipping points and how exceeding them could result in a domino effect that would be catastrophic for the planet. Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro was clear about the culprit: "These are the effects of climate change," he said in a tweet.

REDDIT THE SINKING CITY UPDATE

We’ve reached out to Frogwares, Nacon, and Valve for comment, and we’ll update this article as we hear back.The calamitous "acqua alta" (high tide) penetrated St Mark's Basilica and caused considerable damage to one of the world's most famous landmarks - only the sixth time the church was flooded in 1,200 years, again with four of those floods happening in the last 20 years. Nacon noted in its January statement that the legal battle is “still pending before the French courts for several months.” The game returned to the Xbox Store at the time, and is now back on Steam as well as the PlayStation Store it has also been available on Nintendo Switch. In October, the Paris Court of Appeal handed down an initial ruling saying that Frogwares unlawfully terminated its contract, and ordered Frogwares to “refrain from any action on the breach of this contract, refrain from any action that impedes this continuation.” That decision led Nacon, in early January, to ask distributors to begin selling The Sinking City again. At the time, Frogwares claimed in an open letter that Nacon owed the studio “ roughly 1 million euros” and had published misleading marketing that implied Nacon was the game’s developer. The game disappeared from most online storefronts in August 2020 due to a dispute over royalties.

REDDIT THE SINKING CITY SERIES

This development is but one of a series of conflicts between Frogwares and Nacon since The Sinking City launched in the summer of 2019. Frogwares has not confirmed this information itself, but recent customer reviews on Steam allege that the version of The Sinking City being sold there is not the most up-to-date iteration of the game. The listing on Steam is heavily discounted - $16 after the 60% discount, compared to $42.49 on Gamesplanet. (It no longer shows up there, but here’s a screenshot we took.) Image: Valve via PolygonĪt the moment, Frogwares’ official website links to not to the Steam listing, but a version up for sale on Gamesplanet. Publishers control what appears in a Steam listing, and it appears that Nacon wrote this post to alert potential customers that the game had returned to the platform.īut Frogwares used a clever tactic to sneak its message onto Steam: The News section of a product’s Steam page pulls tweets from sources including Frogwares’ official account, which is how the aforementioned tweet asking people not to buy the Steam version of The Sinking City. If you look at the Steam page for The Sinking City, you’ll see an announcement posted Friday morning saying that the game is “now available on Steam,” offering a 60% discount for the next week. More news soon.- Frogwares February 26, 2021 Frogwares has not created the version of that is today on sale on We do not recommend the purchase of this version.