I vividly remember finally nabbing that final star in Mario Galaxy 2. It had taken weeks of planning the perfect route, and timing each and every button press to guide Mario across that agonising collection of spinning platforms and deathly gravity traps. In a way, it was an oddly torturous experience, but–for that feeling of elation upon reaching the glorious golden star–an entirely worthy one. Sonic Lost World so desperately wants to capture that feeling. The trouble is, where Galaxy presented its more difficult challenges only to those who actively chose to pursue them, Lost World bombards you with arduous platforming trials at every turn.
The first level, for example, is a take on the classic Green Hill zones of past Sonic games. Long grass-covered cylinders and floating planetoids are home to complex spring arrangements and rolling spiked balls that leave just the tiniest of gaps for you to squeeze through. Then there are the enemies–some heavily armoured, others camou…
Fortnite Creative Mayhem is back to entice you to play more Creative mode, and you need not be compelled by the gameplay itself. There are three free Valentine’s Day-themed rewards up for grabs, though you may already have fulfilled the requirement for unlocking one of them, assuming you logged into the game during late January/early February. Here’s how to earn free new Fortnite cosmetics this month, including the Mace of Hearts Pickaxe.
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Creative Mayhem is a much broader Creative mode-driven tournament meant to add a bit of variety to the lives of players who tend to only play battle royale. Between now and 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET on March 12, you can jump into a particular Creative map and compete to submit one of the best speedrunning scores in the complex obstacle course.
Being in it to win it isn’t required to earn your fr…
It’s been two years since the Metal Gear movie was announced with Oscar Isaac donning the tactical gear and bandana of protagonist Solid Snake. Isaac has been in demand for years, and having joined the MCU and planning to do more Moon Knight, things get even more hectic for the actor. However, Isaac has made it clear since that he it’s still happening.
Isaac said that they were “searching” for the right story back in March with director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island), a notable Metal Gear super-fan, as well as a friend of series designer Hideo Kojima, who is set to direct the film. No sizable updates came out during the summer, but there’s still hope for this project to make it to the big screen.
While talking to ComicBook about his upcoming comic book project with Brian Buccellato and Christian Ward, Head Wounds: Sparrow, Isaac said that he wants to make it happen, not just for himself but for the fans, too.
“We want it to happen,” he said. “Be excited.…
Overwatch 2’s newest DPS hero, Venture, will be excavating their way into the game soon, and Blizzard has now given fans their best look yet at the archaeologists’ game-changing abilities. Come from Sports betting site VPbet
Venture is a highly maneuverable DPS who uses their Smart Excavator weapon to both deal damage and overcome enemy defenses. The weapon itself launches seismic charges that explode after a short distance.
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Bally’s Corporation announced the results of the fourth quarter of 2022, as well as the whole year. The company has a quarterly loss of $0.43 per share, which was unexpected.
Only during the previous year, the earnings were $0.02 per share.
The hope for 2023:
The earnings surprise was -304.76% during the quarter. Only a quarter ago, it was -96.43%, when it was expected to earn $0.28 per share, and the earnings per share were $0.01. During the last four quarters, the estimated earnings were surpassed twice.
Forbes’ 37th Annual World’s Billionaires List, which was published this week, features 28 individuals who have made their fortunes in the gambling industry. The majority of the individuals who made their fortunes through gambling businesses are from the United States, accounting for nine of the total. Japan and Hong Kong follow closely, with four and three billionaires, respectively. Sweden, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom each have two billionaires on the list. One of the most prominent names is Dr. Miriam Adelson, who inherited her fortune from her late husband Sheldon Adelson, the founder of Las Vegas Sands. Dr. Adelson is the wealthiest magnate on the list, with a net worth estimated at $35 billion. Her fortune increased by $7.5 billion from the previous year, thanks to th…Dr. Miriam Adelson Tops Forbes List of Wealthiest Gambling Industry Magnates
Casimba Gaming, a UK-based leader when it comes to online gaming solutions, is excited to reveal that it has officially launched the fresh online gaming website in Finland, the so-called Igni Casino, which represents an expansion of its geographic portfolio.
Igni Casino:
The Finnish PnP website mentioned above represents a Pay and Play iGaming site. Now, fresh members may sign up and win a welcome bonus of up to €200, in addition to free spins. In addition, real-time gaming may also be experienced, meaning that the said casino provides a real atmosphere where real-time gaming gets to meet iGaming.
Whether you are a beginner or a senior player, this site contains something for each group of players. In this sense, the site provides a wide range of live casino games, involving Blackjack and Roulette, which are known to be classics. Beside this, it also offers a variety of thrilling games like Speed Baccarat, Deal or no Deal Live, Monopoly Big Baller among others.
Do you still have an active Wordle group chat, but find the thrill of beating your friends/family/coworkers in one-off puzzles isn’t quite enough? The New York Times has just introduced Wordle Golf, a competitive ruleset for Wordle inspired by golf, where a group can compete over nine days to crown a definitive Wordle master.
Instead of assigning higher scores to earlier guesses, this competitive take on Wordle has been based on golf, where your goal is to get as few points as possible. The NYT points out that Wordle is a little easier than actual golf–especially when it comes to a “hole-in-one,” which in golf is a 12,500-to-one chance, while your chance of guessing the Wordle straight away is only a few thousand to one.
To play Wordle Golf, you’ll need to get a group together who all agree to play Wordle for nine consecutive days. Then, all you need to do is tally your scores from each day, with the winner being the person with the lowest score at the end. Your daily s…
Players can now create a gaming handle–a public username that can be used across all mobile games in the streaming service–for their Netflix accounts.
On iOS, players will need to download Royal Pirates or LuckyLuna and follow directions for creating a username. On Android, players can navigate to the games tab in the Netflix mobile app and choose “Create your Netflix game handle,” option.
The U.S. District Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a New York man against three Atlantic City’s gambling companies in September 2022. After compulsive gambler Sam Antar accused Borgata casino, its parent MGM Resort International and its online partner Entain of plying him with offers to continue gambling despite their alleged awareness of Antar’s addiction, Judge Madeline Cox Arleo dismissed a lawsuit on January 31, 2024 reportedly saying that the New Jersey legislature does not impose an obligation to casino operators to exclude compulsive gamblers.
Judge’s Rationale:
As reported by Associated Press (AP), the judge explained her decision writing that New Jersey casino law “pervasively regulates the responsibilities of casinos as they relate to compulsive gamblers, but is notably silent on whether casinos or online gambling platforms may induce people who present with compulsive gambling behavior to patronize their bu…
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Things have been getting a little weird on the Starfield subreddit recently—players assembling their own spaceships from paper-clipping style cutouts, others desperately trying to find spoons in gameplay trailers—but one staggering feat dropped on the front page yesterday that’s left me speechless.
A user by the name of Gokamo has assembled a 1,000 page document on the game, titled: “An Attempted Complete Starfield Compendium, by Gokamo (god help me)”. One might think an entire novel’s worth of info on an unreleased game is overkill—but Gokamo’s created a seriously impressive dive into Starfield’s development lore, dating back to the game’s reveal in 2018.
The compendium goes through several “arcs”. The first arc alone covers the initial announcement 5 years ago, as well as some leaks, a ship customisation survey, the first episodes of “Into the Starfield”, a Reddit Q&A from 2021, and more.
The rest is a chronological archive of St…
Sausage weapons are old news. Torches are finally in, thanks to cRPG Bro’s latest creative Baldur’s Gate 3 build.
The so-called “Torch Lord” build shares some methods with cRPG Bro’s sausage build from last year: torches are a perfect vessel for stacks of elemental damage types. Add the Shillelagh cantrip from druids and a paladin’s Smite, and you’ve got a character powerful enough to survive Honor mode, Baldur’s Gate 3’s most brutal difficulty setting, with just a pair of torches in your hands.
There are a number of key spells to pick up as you level up, which cRPG Bro explains in the video, but the most important ones enhance your flimsy torch damage way higher than its base 1d4 damage. A quick multiclass into druid gives you Shillelagh to double the torch’s damage, and Divine Smite, from paladin, further buffs it.
Your elemental damage also comes from specific gear, like Broodmother’s Revenge for poison damage, and the Strange Conduit Ring for psychic damage. La…
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A competitive Tekken 8 match ended in controversy this weekend after a rogue controller connection caused a potentially game-winning combo to be dropped, leading to a match reset which ended in a loss for the would-be winner.
DreamHack Dallas saw nearly 500 Tekken players descend on the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center this weekend, vying for a $50,000 prize pot and a spot at the Esports World Cup in Riyadh this summer, which itself is boasting a huge $1 million prize pool. Two of those players were Korean pro Kim “JDCR” Hyun-jin and Filipino pro Alexandra “AK” Laverez, who were duking it out on the winners side of the top 64. Both players had won one game apiece and were both one round away from winning the third and final game to continue their run on the winners side.
JDCR had smacked AK with a helluva combo on a 90% health lead, carrying his opponent to the wall ready for the final killing blow. But right before he could do it, the PlayStation 5 controll…
The people have spoken, and they’ve said… pretty much what you expect. The Steam Awards results are in, and the final tally of December’s voting process hasn’t produced many surprises. Elden Ring nabbed the main Game of the Year trophy (hey, good choice), and the other ten awards went to a thoroughly unshocking set of games, with one possible exception. Here are those results in full:
- Game of the Year: Elden Ring
- VR Game of the Year: Hitman 3
- Labour of Love: Cyberpunk 2077
- Better with Friends: Raft
- Outstanding Visual Style: Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Most Innovative Gameplay: Stray
- Best Game You Suck At: Elden Ring
- Best Soundtrack: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
- Outstanding Story-Rich Game: God of War
- Sit Back and Relax:
EA’s Andrew Wilson sure likes his bold claims. When he ascended to the CEO throne he declared that EA was gonna be “The world’s greatest games company.” Earlier this year he was imagineering a world in which 3 billion people were creating EA’s games using EA’s AI tech. Now he’s saying the next Battlefield is gonna be absolutely massive. So massive that it’s “one of the most ambitious projects in our history.”
That quote comes from Wilson’s prepared remarks regarding EA’s Q1 2025 financial results, released yesterday. The company had a good year, reckon the execs, who say releases like EA Sports College Football 25 and strong live service performance have “delivered Q1 results above expectations.” They’re also very excited about Madden, EA Sports FC and, of course, Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
But it’s the Battlefield hype that catches my eye. The series has endured a rocky road recently: An entire studio dedicated to singleplayer Battlefield stuff got laid off in a flash e…
Google researchers claim that, in an experiment simulating what happens when you leave a bunch of code strings alone for millions of generations, they’ve observed the emergence of “self-replicators” from what began as non self-replicating code chunks. New Scientist rather implausibly claims this “could mirror—or at least shed light on—the emergence of actual biological life.”
Hm. This is one of those studies where the experiment and findings definitely feel consequential, but at the same time need some heavy caveating. Google has not somehow simulated the emergence of life as it happened on Earth. What its researchers may have possibly done is suggest a new theory for how non-living molecules could come together to form living molecules, ie, how biological life ever began at all.
The news comes from a recently published paper titled “Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction.” The raw material for the …