Month: December 2024

In the Netherlands and the state-owned Holland Casino has announced that it held a special ceremony of Friday evening to officially celebrate the opening of its new 118,400 sq ft Holland Casino Utrecht property.

The casino operator used an official Saturday press release to detail that construction of the facility in the Transwijk district of the nation’s fourth largest city began in 2019 with the venue having subsequently welcomed its first punters from September of last year. However, the company also revealed that it was not able to hold an opening ceremony at that time owing to local regulations brought in to help stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, which was linked to the deaths of some 22,650 Dutch citizens.

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Holland Casino explained that it now has 14 casinos spread across the Netherlands with the ceremony to mark the opening of its Holland Casino Utrecht facility having come some three months after it officially inaugurated its compatriot Holland Casino Venlo venue. The company disclosed that its Chief Executive Officer, Petra De Ruiter, joined with approximately 1,200 other guests to mark the premiere …

MGM Resorts International’s gaming business is doing quite well in 2022, so much so that the company may be looking to expand into new areas. Recent acquisitions of the Aria and Cosmopolitan helped the H1 revenues grow by over 56%, leading chief executive of the company, Bill Hornbuckle, to suggest that new territories may be on the agenda.

Acquisitions Help with Bottom Line

MGM Resorts just completed its acquisition of The Cosmopolitan in May, with the Las Vegas playing an integral role in performance so far. The Aria was acquired in September after MGM purchased the 50% CityCenter Holdings interest held by Infinity World Development Corp. The City Center development includes the resort, Veer Towers residential area, and Vdara hotel.

MGM also recently offloaded the Gold Strike Tunica, selling to the Cherokee Nation Entertainment Gaming Holdings in Mississippi. The sale came in at $450 million. For its online operations, MGM Resorts has been busy acquiring LeoVegas. The company is paying $607 million to obtain the brand.

This deal is not completed, though. In a recent earnings call, Hornbuckle stated that it should be concluded by the end of …

The strangest things will just drop onto the internet’s collective lap. As highlighted on Twitter by MegaDriveShock, a whopping 272 page PDF of classified Sega of America documents from the mid-90s has simply materialised on the Sega Retro wiki, a community-ran database full of info that aims to “cover everything possible about Sega from the 1940s to today.” 

One fascinating nugget of gaming history inside is an email sent by Tom Kalinske—former CEO of Sega America—on the subject of the Sega Saturn console. The Saturn was a flop in the US, unfortunately releasing just before the Nintendo 64 a year later and coming with a host of troubles otherwise. As MegaDriveShock mentions in the Twitter thread: “The retail margin was only 6%! Meaning retailers made only $15 per Saturn sold.”

In the email itself, Kalinske wrote: “We are killing Sony. In every [store in Japan], Saturn hardware is sold out and there are stacks of Playstation. The retailers commented they can’t compare the true sales rate because Saturn sells out before they can measure accurately. […] I wish I could get all our staff, sales people, retailers, analysts, media, etc. to see and unders…

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It’s not a good time for cheap graphics cards. ‘Wait, but I thought this was a graphics card deals page?’ It is, but we’re in the calm before the storm. Black Friday won’t kick off until later this month and in the meantime we’ve noted only a few changes in GPU prices, with some even increasing by a couple dollars. You’ll still find some cards worth buying below, mostly AMD models, but if you want the best deal on a graphics card, wait around for Black Friday.

We’ll be updating this page with the best early Black Friday graphics card deals in the lead up to the event. Black Friday lands on November 29, 2024.

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With millions of people around the world affected by the apparent bug in CrowdStrike’s Falcon software—bringing down IT systems in media, hospitals, and airports around the world—there’s a good chance it will go down in the annals of tech history as being the worst outage ever, putting it ahead of the likes of 2016 Dyn DDoS cyberattack, Facebook’s server woes in 2021, and Canada’s biggest IT failure ever in 2022.

While it’s not fully clear exactly how or why millions of PCs went into an endless BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) cycle overnight, the culprit appears to be a bug in a security update for a piece of software developed by CrowdStrike, called Falcon. Somewhat ironically designed to prevent malware and other cyberattacks, it’s a salient reminder that the modern world is almost entirely reliant on client computers, servers, and the Internet.

So much so, that malicious actions or simple mistakes can lead to enormous IT problems, affecting millions. The worst cases that came to my mind, when reading about today’s global outage, are ones that affected countless folks in many countries. One of the most notorious was the Dyn DDoS attack in 2016.

Dyn …