Month: December 2024

Warning: This article contains spoilers about some minor and unimportant Easter eggs in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.  Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a wild experience all the way through, but its wildest part has to be the time we spend at the headquarters of the cross-dimensional Spider-Society. During these scenes we encounter what feels like every ridiculous idea for a Spider-Person that Marvel has ever come up with. It’s delightful.

But the Spider-Society is hiding a bunch of other Easter eggs, too. In their efforts at policing the multiverse, the various Spider-Folk have captured a bunch of baddies who were in the wrong dimension. They hold them in a little jail at the Spider-Society until they can send them back to where they belong.

One of those misplaced bad guys being held by the Spiders is Kraven the Hunter. But this is not a comic book version of the character–it’s the version of Kraven who will be one of the antagonists of the Spider-Man 2 video game when it hits the PlayStation 5 later this year. If you saw t…

Colorado-based gaming company Century Casinos, Inc. (CNTY:NASDAQ) is set to enter the Reno market after reaching a definitive agreement to acquire Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada.

The $195 million deal with Marnell Gaming will see Century Casinos purchase a 50 percent stake of Smooth Bourbon LLC, the limited liability company responsible for the resort’s real estate, and 100 percent of the property’s operations manager, Nugget Sparks LLC.

Deal details:

In more detailed terms, for Smooth Bourbon, the deal represents $95 million and $100 million for Nugget Sparks, with the former which owns the land and building underlying the Nugget, to enter into a lease agreement for the property to the latter for an annual rent of $15 million. Century will also have a 5-year option to purchase the 50 percent remaining stake of Smoothe Bourbon for $105 million and 2 percent annually.

From humble beginnings:

Located in Sparks, Nevada, approximately three miles east of Reno, Nugget Casino Resort has been around for more than half a century, opening on March 17, 1955, as a 60-seat coffee shop …

Boyd Interactive, a subsidiary of Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming, has officially purchased Resorts Digital, the online gambling division of Resorts Casino in Atlantic City. The transaction, finalized on September 1, 2024, represents a strategic expansion of Boyd’s iGaming portfolio, although the financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed.

Resorts Digital, which has consistently outperformed the physical Resorts Casino, is a significant player in the online gambling space. Over the first eight months of this year, Resorts Digital generated $573 million in revenue, more than five times the $109 million earned by the physical casino during the same period, according to data from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.

Resorts Digital’s stellar performance:

Resorts Digital has maintained impressive financial success, with gross operating profits reaching $9.6 million in the first half of 2024, a 5.6% increase compared to the same timeframe in 2023. In stark contrast, the physical casino posted…

In the eastern American state of Connecticut and the Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment enterprise of the federally-recognized Mohegan Tribe has announced that it is to invest some $15 million into its giant Mohegan Sun property over the course of the next three years.

The casino operator used an official Thursday press release to detail that this cash will be used to fund a range of projects including the debut of a new 6,500 sq ft VIP lounge and bar within its Casino of the Earth area. The enterprise stated that this fresh section being designed by Rockwell Group is expected to open in the autumn complete with a dining element, a full bar and an ‘alluring fireplace.’

Opulent objective:

Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment noted that it is working with Rockwell Group in hopes of incorporating ‘Mohegan-influenced designs and elements’ into this coming space, which will be situated next to the venue’s already-popular Ballo Italian Kitchen and Bar and be subsequently joined by a non-VIP food and beverage offering. When finished, it asserted that the amenity is to ‘offer a dramatic and elegant atmosphere’ that is certain to create ‘th…

People are very eager to conquer a couple hundred floors of Tartarus. At least, that’s what the sales figures for Persona 3 Reload suggest. Atlus announced earlier today that its gussied-up remake of the first modern-style Persona game has sold 1,000,000 copies across the world since its release on February 2, making it the fastest selling game in the company’s history. It’s all down to Koromaru, if you ask me. 

For reference, Atlus announced back in 2021—marking Persona’s 25th anniversary—that the series had then sold a total of 15 million copies across all its versions during its lifetime. For a single entry in the series to do in one week a fifteenth of what every other game did in 25 years is, well, pretty impressive, if you ask me.

Atlus is clearly riding a couple of waves here. First and foremost is the game’s simultaneous worldwide release. Persona has been a strictly PlayStation series for ages, with Atlus stubbornly refusing to accept that people on other platforms also wanted to be magical Japanese teens. It’s been PS-only for so long, in fact, that I’m still a bit taken aback whenever I scroll through my Steam li…

Remember GlobalFoundries? AMD’s ex-fab business is still estimated to be the third biggest semiconductor foundry in the world by revenue, thanks to its manufacture of chips for smart mobile devices, automotive, aerospace and defence, IoT and data center uses.

Now the company has fessed up to shipping $17 million worth of products to Chinese company SJ Semiconductor between February 2021 to October 2022 (via The New York Times). The Bureau of Industry and Security says that GlobalFoundries sent 74 different shipments of wafers over the course of this period, and as a result it would impose a fine of $500,000 for breaching the ongoing US-China chip trade restrictions.

SJ Semiconductor was added to the “entity list” of export regulated companies back in December 2020 for its links to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). At the time, the US government said that SMIC was added “as a result of China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) doctrine and evidence of activities between SMIC and entities of concern in the Chinese military industrial complex.”

According to the BIS, GlobalFoundries voluntarily disclosed the breach of restrictions and co-ope…