Baldur's Gate, the award-winning fantasy game series, is being adapted into a TV series by the creator of HBO's "The Last of Us," Craig Mazin, according to BBC Technology. However, developers Larian Studios will not be directly involved in the project. Meanwhile, YouTube's revenue reached over $60 billion in 2025, surpassing Netflix's $45 billion, as reported by BBC Business. In other news, residents of Wellington, New Zealand, are facing an environmental disaster as millions of liters of untreated sewage flow into the sea, as detailed by The Guardian. Additionally, North Korea is reportedly executing schoolchildren for watching the South Korean show "Squid Game," according to Sky News. Finally, Venezuela plans to turn a notorious prison into a cultural center, a move criticized for potentially erasing the country's history of repression, as reported by The Guardian.
The upcoming "Baldur's Gate" TV series will continue the story where the game series left off, according to BBC Technology. The game, "Baldur's Gate 3," launched in 2023 and achieved monumental critical and commercial acclaim, selling over 20 million copies and winning all five major Game of the Year awards. While Mazin worked with "The Last of Us" creator Neil Druckmann for his previous adaptation, Larian Studios will not be directly involved in the new series.
YouTube's impressive revenue, revealed by Google, includes money generated through advertising and paid subscriptions, as reported by BBC Business. Hanna Kahlert, a senior analyst at Midia Research, noted that the announcement was "perhaps not a surprising one," given the platform's importance to digital natives. The platform has become "almost infrastructural" for digital natives, according to Kahlert.
In Wellington, New Zealand, a wastewater treatment plant failure has caused an environmental disaster, as reported by The Guardian. Residents have been advised not to enter the water, collect seafood, or walk their dogs on local beaches. The sewage leak is being addressed with repairs to the city's wastewater treatment plant.
Sky News reported that North Korea is executing citizens, including schoolchildren, for consuming foreign media, such as the South Korean show "Squid Game." Amnesty International has revealed the brutal punishments meted out to North Koreans who consume foreign media, after 25 interviews with escapees. Citizens also face being killed for listening to K-pop, a South Korean music genre. Interviewees have described a climate of fear in which the South's culture is treated as a serious crime.
Venezuela's plan to transform El Helicoide, a notorious prison, into a cultural center has drawn criticism, as reported by The Guardian. The building was originally designed in the 1950s as a drive-through shopping center but was never completed. Critics say the move erases Venezuela's long history of repression under the regimes of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
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