Month: December 2024

Macau is known as a thriving gambling hub located along China’s Southern coast. The region is home to over 50 physical casinos, with 33 in Macau, 13 in Cotai, and another 5 in Taipa. The casinos in the area bring in billions, boosting the local economy, supporting employment, and offering visitors and locals entertainment. In fact, in 2023 it was reported that the gross revenue generated from gaming in Macau totalled over 22 billion. 

With gambling being such a mammoth part of the local economy, it’s no surprise that thousands work in the gambling sector. However, due to recent wage hikes and limited online wagering options in the area, employment numbers have dropped. 

During the last quarter of 2023, the Statistics and Consensus Service reported that there were 51,711 individuals employed full-time in the gambling industry in Macau. When compared to similar reports from the last quarter in 2022, a decrease of over 400 employees is seen. Additionally, in 2023 dealers totaled 23,359, which was also down by 362 employees when compared to the year before.…

Following a two-month postponement and an improved pitch, for so-called the biggest casino deal in Florida history, the Florida Gaming Control Commission on Wednesday, February 8, granted conditional approval for the sale of the gambling license from Miami-based Magic City Casino to an Alabama-based Native American tribe, Poarch Band Creek Indians.

Completion of a multimillion- dollar purchase:

This resolution by Florida regulator will permit the PCI Gaming Authority, operated by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, to finalize the multimillion-dollar purchase of a casino owned by the Havenick family and its West Flagler Associates to manage slot machines, poker and electronic casino games in Miami.

However, the buying price was not revealed, but attorney John Lockwood, who represents both sides of the purchase agreement, aka West Flegler Associates and PCI Gaming, told the commission that “it will be a cash deal.”

In this regard, and with data available form 2019 when PCI Gaming Authority purchased the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for $1.3 billion, analysts estimate this purchase deal to be worth nearly $600 million. Continue Reading

“Ever notice that swinging the sword downward put you at a big disadvantage?” Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone asked earlier this week on Twitter. “It’s always bugged me, but I had tuned it that way so that the area of effect would match the visual. For 1.6, I decided that game feel is way more important than precise visual accuracy.”

I will admit that melee combat is not the first thing that leaps to mind when I think about Stardew Valley. It’s all about festivals and farmer’s markets and bringing in the crops and finding a life mate and hats and cats and hats on cats—but combat? 

Well, yes, that’s all part of the farm life too. And that’s not entirely inaccurate: Farmers typically pack heat in one form or another, although explosive ammo and bombs are a rarity, at least around my neighborhood.

Of course, this particular patch is strictly about melee combat, not shooting things or blowing them up. 

• Extend the area of effect of downward facing melee attacks.

Barone confirmed in response to an inquiry that the fix is for “every weapon, including clubs and daggers,” but won’t have an impact on things like picks or…

Ask yourself this: What could be dodgier than a radio station giving its human hosts the boot and replacing them with a cohort of three alarmingly photogenic Gen-Z AIs? If you answered ‘having those three zoomer AIs interview another AI, this one imitating a Nobel prize-winning writer who died 12 years ago,’ then congratulations, you may have a future ahead of you at Polish station Radio Kraków, which is in hot water for doing just that (via Onet.pl).

On Monday, Radio Kraków announced that it was overhauling its OFF station. Since 2015, the station had broadcast (all following quotes are machine-translated) “a playlist as well as original music programmes and a two-hour morning programme, in which the most time was devoted to cultural and social events in Kraków with the participation of Kraków artists and people associated with the Kraków club scene.”

But it’s 2024 and, apparently, that doesn’t bring in the ears these days. In its place, declared the station, listeners would henceforth hear “the AI-created voices of three hosts—model representatives of Generation Z.”

These would be 20-year-old Emilia Nowa, “a…

We’re still processing all the details surrounding AMD’s new FSR 3 scaling technology and its new Fluid Motion Frames feature. But one of the more interesting elements was a game-agnostic version of Fluid Motion Frames designed to be compatible with all DX11 and DX12 games.

The problem was that this particular take on Fluid Motion Frames is limited to AMD’s latest RDNA 3 GPUs, like the new Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT. That’s a pity. Because a technology that’s equivalent to Nvidia Frame Generation but works on older GPUs would be great.

However, AMD’s graphics boss Scott Herkelman says that this feature could be coming to not only RDNA 2 GPUs, otherwise known as the Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards, but perhaps even older cards, too.

Speaking to Club386, Herkelman said RDNA 2 support would depend how well the industry receives Fluid Motion Frames tech in general.

“If there is good reception of AMD Fluid Motion Frames and gamers believe it to be worthwhile, we’ll take it to the next step and see if we can enable it on RDNA 2. If that goes well, then maybe older generations, too.”

Herkelman also said that he’d prefer to see all the various scalin…