Month: December 2024

It’s not every day you get to see Eleven, Vecna, Hopper, and the Byers brothers hanging out in the same room Come from Sports betting site VPbet. But thanks to Season 5 of Netflix’s Stranger Things officially entering production, a new photo shows the cast and crew reconvening in preparation for a return to Hawkins, Indiana.

Netflix posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) the first image of Stranger Things 5, adding “this is a code red.” The show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, are there, along with Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna, Henry Keel), David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan Byers), and Noah Schnapp (Will Byers). Other members of the main cast are pictured as well, such as Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers) and Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler).

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The trio of large gambling-friendly facilities in the eastern American state of Massachusetts reportedly had a disheartening January as their aggregated gross gaming revenues fell by about 28.2% year-on-year to stand at slightly over $57.6 million.

According to a Tuesday report from The Herald News newspaper citing official figures from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, business at the MGM Springfield, Encore Boston Harbor and slots-only Plainridge Park Casino was hurt by a coronavirus-related social distancing requirement that continues to prohibit them from operating at more than 40% of their maximum capacity.

Public purse:

Nevertheless, the newspaper reported that the three properties still managed to generate approximately $16.7 million in taxes last month, which was lower than the around $21.7 million chalked up for the same 31-day period in 2020 but 15.6% higher than the roughly $14.6 million recorded for December.

Decided domination:

The Herald News reported that the 671-room Encore Boston Harbor property from Wynn Resorts Limited brought in nearly two-thirds of the state’s aggregated gross gaming revenues for January…

Greentube is the software development vertical of the international gaming giant NOVOMATIC but also the parent of 14 subsidiaries across Europe and Nothern America. Its Interactive Gaming Manufacturer License in Pennsylvania will make the Greentube’s content available for operators and partners in the Keystone state which last month generated the third largest iGaming revenue in the US.

The latest US expansion follows the 2022 entry into the regulated market of Connecticut, New Jersey, and Michigan. The Pennsylvanian market entry was announced in January 2023 and this post has now been checked. The Keystone state expansion therefore testifies to the  developer’s strategy rolling out according to schedule and the footprint steadily expanding to soon have most US jurisdictions covered.

Thrilling Gaming Supplies:

One surely should not question the quality of the Greentube’s portfolio of titles selected for the new expansion. The company confirmed that the player favorite gems like Diamond Cash™ and Thunder Cash™ series have already been designated for the new launch and accompanied with brand new titles including the in-d…

The 466 casinos in the American state of Nevada reportedly posted over $1 billion in aggregated gross gaming revenues for June as a sign that they are continuing their recovery from the most hurtful effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

According to a report from G3Newswire citing official information from the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the impressive performance was driven by local-facing gambling venues and a record haul from slots. The source detailed that the period additionally marked the fourth consecutive month casinos in ‘The Silver State’ had seen their combined receipts break the billion-dollar mark.

Double delight:

The figures from the Nevada Gaming Control Board reportedly showed that the western state’s June aggregated gross gaming revenues tally of slightly over $1.19 billion represented a more than two-fold rise on the $566.93 million recorded for the same month on 2020 while being on a par with the $1.23 billion chalked up for May.

Sole setback:

Michael Lawton serves as a senior analyst for the Nevada Gaming Control Board and he reportedly explained that the June tally was also in excess of 14% better than …

The annual Warhammer Skulls event is always a fiesta of good news for Warhammer tragics, whether that’s announcements of whole new games like Mechanicus 2, expansions like Forges of Corruption for Boltgun, or additional details like the separate co-op campaign for Space Marine 2. But there’s usually a freebie to go along with it, and this year it’s Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War, which will be free to keep on Steam and Epic for the next week.

I wasn’t too hot on Gladius when it first launched in 2018, but the combat-focused Civ-like has seen a string of updates and expansions since then, and that’s done a lot for its scope and variety. These days it’s sitting on a respectable Mostly Positive user rating on Steam, and there’s DLC to let you play as factions like the t’au, tyranids, and Chaos space marines, as well as smaller packs that add units to those factions. The newly released Demolition Pack adds 11 more, including arco-flagellants, wraithlords, and burna boyz. (That last one is for the orks, if the name didn’t give it away.)

This year’s other freebies are a digital goodies bag at GOG that contains wallpapers and discount codes, a set of dice f…

Post Prime Day, I happened to spot a deal on a gaming PC that just felt a little too good not to grab. Coming with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super, I’m very happy with its performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and the litany of mid-’00s RPGs I’ve been nostalgic for. While I don’t regret my purchase, recently leaked Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks suggest the reliable 7800X3D will be knocked off the top as the best gaming CPU.

As pointed out by Igor’s Lab, noting leaked Geekbench stats, the CPU manages to achieve a single-core score of 3339 and a multicore score of 18658 in Geekbench 6.3.0. These scores work out to be around 25% better than the previous model.

These Geekbench results were first logged on October 26 and used the Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero motherboard, alongside 32 GB of DDR5 RAM.

German website Benchlife.info also reports that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D would have a clock of 4.7 GHz and a boosted clock of 5.2 GHz, which matches those found in Geekbench. It’s a touch slower than the Ryzen 7 9700X, at 5.5 GHz, though that’s not a major concern for gaming.

X3D chips are specifically and pointedly good for gaming, due to the …