Month: December 2024

Several Nintendo Switch exclusives are getting big price cuts at Amazon today, with Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and more all on sale for $40 or less. Switch exclusives don’t often see promotions like this, so be sure to swing by and check out the discounts while you can. If Amazon runs out of inventory, you can hop over to Best Buy and GameStop–which are offering similar promotions on both physical at digital versions of the games.

Splatoon 3 is still slated for a Summer 2022 arrival, so now is a great time to catch up on the action with Splatoon 2. The paint-filled, third-person shooter offers a variety of competitive multiplayer modes and a fun single-player campaign, and snagging the game for just $40 is a nice deal.

Breath of the Wild 2, meanwhile, was delayed to 2023, giving you more than enough time to check out the original and explore the sweeping open world of Hyrule. Arguably the largest Zelda game to date, Breath of the Wild gives you the freedom to tackle its quests a…

This is why Crown London Aspinalls has now decided to go after one of its high rollers, Lester Hui, who raked up almost £600,000 ($730,000) in gambling debt on the night of February 9, 2016. He has not made any efforts to honor this payment over the past years, prompting the luxury property to settle matters in court.

Hui Seeks to Have Debt from Crown London Aspinalls Dropped

In a lawsuit filed by the property, Aspinalls alleges that Hui signed the casino a check which was ultimately bounced, prompting the property to seek a way to get its money back. Hui, though, has been willing to put up a fight. He argued that Aspinalls had not honored its obligations under the license issued to the property by the UK Gambling Commission.

He alleged that Aspinalls had broken its social responsibility pledge by purposefully getting him drunk all throughout the night while he played double chance baccarat, and continued to spiral further into debt. Hui even named the…

Chinese real estate firm Landing International Development Limited has reportedly released its financial results for 2020 showing that it suffered an overall loss of about $272.65 million owing mainly to a steep coronavirus-related drop in visitation to its giant Jeju Shinhwa World development.

According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, the Hong Kong-listed firm revealed that this figure was nevertheless largely flat when compared with the previous twelve-month period as higher non-gaming revenues such as those from the leasing of retail space supplanted a deterioration in gaming receipts.

Detrimental decline:

Landing International Development Limited has run the Landing Casino within the 617.7-acre Jeju Shinhwa World since April of 2017 and reportedly also saw its aggregated revenues for 2020 decrease by 3.4% year-on-year to approximately $101.34 million. The source detailed that this came as annual receipts from the South Korean property’s 59,2017 sq ft foreigner-only casino plunged by 12.5% to a loss of slightly beyond $65.51 million.

Complicated circumstances:

Located on Jeju Island some 20 miles southwest of Jeju International Airport, J…

Native American casino operator Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise has announced the signing of a deal that is to see it launch a mobile-friendly online sportsbetting service for aficionados located in the western state of Arizona.

An enterprise of the federally-recognized Navajo Nation, the firm used an official Thursday press release to detail that the exclusive alliance with the Hard Rock Digital enterprise of fellow casino proprietor Hard Rock International will allow it to premiere a Hard Rock Sportsbook-branded online sports wagering advance for Arizona by the end of the year.

Prominent player:

Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise is responsible for Arizona’s Twin Arrows Casino Resort venue as well as the Northern Edge Navajo Casino, Flowing Water Navajo Casino and Fire Rock Navajo Casino facilities in the neighboring state of New Mexico. The operator stated that its parent tribe is ‘the largest federally-recognized Native American nation in the United States’ courtesy of an enrolled membership of approximately 400,000 people in addition to some 17.28 million acres of land.

Recent room:

Brian Parrish serves as the Interim Chief Executive Officer…

We’ve all been there: right at the end of character creation in the latest big RPG, staring at our choice of character class and wondering which is best. The good news is that there is no best class for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. And I don’t mean that in the wishy washy “pick which class suits your playstyle way,” it’s more genuinely true than most other RPGs.

The Veilguard has done a lot to really cut down on the fundamental differences between warriors, rogues, and mages in The Veilguard. All three, even the mages, have survivability at close range, plenty of AOE, and status effect application. On top of that, your party members are all just AI helpers, and you’re almost always going to be the center of attention in a fight, meaning there’s way less emphasis on party composition and more on making sure your crew brings skills that can apply or detonate the status effects in your own kit.

I got together two other PC Gamer writers with a lot of hours stacked in Veilguard already to compare and contrast our experiences with each class. Turns out that spellblade mages kind of feel like warriors, and both rogues and warriors are great at applying necrotic damage.

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On January 9, 2024, a now-deleted tweet from @SECGov, the X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, declared that the SEC had granted “approval for Bitcoin ETFs for listing on all registered national securities exchanges,” causing the price of Bitcoin to jump by more than $1,000. The SEC, however, had done no such thing. As SEC Chair Gary Gensler tweeted minutes later, the SEC’s X account had been hacked; the fraudulent tweet was posted as part of a scheme to manipulate Bitcoin prices.

The hacker responsible for that scheme, according to the FBI, is Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old Alabama man who was arrested earlier today under allegations of working with co-conspirators to take unauthorized control of the SEC X account with a SIM swap (via The Verge).

According to the indictment filings, Council—aka “Ronin,” aka “AGiantSchnauzer,” aka “@Easymunny”—allegedly worked alongside other hackers to gain access to the personal information of a federal employee with access to the @SECGov account. Council then used his convenient ID card printer—something only upstanding citizens have in their homes—to print an ID card pairing his fac…