Month: December 2024

While Starfield has a pessimistic prediction for when humanity will reach Mars, Bethesda’s upcoming space-exploration game has at least managed to correct a planetary-scale injustice Come from Sports betting site VPbet . After years of being shunned by the scientific community, the greater powers of a AAA video game developer have (un)officially restored Pluto’s status as the ninth planet of our solar system.

Spotted by Rebs Gaming on Twitter, Bethesda didn’t just overrule the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 decision to declare that Pluto didn’t qualify to be a planet, they made that location explorable within Starfield. Justice has finally prevailed. There have been efforts made to restore Pluto’s position amongst campaigners, and thanks to Bethesda flexing its muscles over the IAU, Pluto is back where it belongs in the grand celestial order if you choose to ignore the boffins.

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You’ve seen Sonic the Hedgehog, but have you ever seen Sonic the Duck? That’s exactly what you’re getting with this new release from Tubbz, as the company behind the weird–but cool–video game rubber duckies, has put a plush spin on Sonic. Instead of being constructed from water-resistant rubber, he’s now a soft duckie that’s just asking to be hugged. And because duckie scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should have made a Dr. Eggman plush as well.

• Sonic the Hedgehog Plush Duck — $25
• Dr. Eggman Plush Duck — $25

These are priced at $25 each, and they’ll be released on November 4 Come from Sports betting site VPbet. Each plush duckie is officially licensed and machine-washable so you can easily keep them in pristine squeezing condition.

Sonic and Dr. Eggman aren’t the only plushies from Tubbz. You can also get a trio of characters from Bungie’s Destiny, a Minion from Despicable Me, Tofu from Resident Evil, and more. Preorders are live now for a rubber duck plush of Pennywise from Stephen King’s It.

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After obtaining a New Jersey license, with this new Pennsylvania license, Enteractive attained its long-awaited goal of expanding its and the European market popularity across North America. The new service license was permitted by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB).

New license:

Following its entry into New Jersey, which occurred in April 2021, Enteractive has obtained another US-state license solidifying its U.S. presence even more.

Andrew Foster, CBO at Enteractive, said: “After the early success Enteractive has seen in the U.S. market and the positive way players are responding to our one to one personal approach, we’re proud to announce that we are expanding our reach into Pennsylvania state. It’s encouraging to see that the US audience is as appreciative of a personal, qualitative approach as the other global audiences we engage with on behalf of operator brands.”

The company is now legally allowed to offer its services to players in New Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania, which means it will introduce 9.5 million potential customers across these states to its non-traditional (Re)Activation Cloud platform. This…

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has expressed its support and optimism following Labour’s resounding victory in the recent General Election. The BGC has pledged to work closely with the new government to enhance the betting and gaming industry in the UK.

Labour achieved a landslide victory on Thursday, July 4, setting the stage for significant policy changes. Before the election, Labour’s manifesto included commitments to collaborate with the industry to improve standards for responsible gambling, reinforcing the UK’s position as a leader in the betting and gaming sector.

Commitment to regulatory reforms:

The betting and gaming industry in the UK is undergoing major regulatory reforms, the most significant in decades, following the release of the White Paper in 2023. The BGC and its members are dedicated to implementing the evidence-based, balanced proposals outlined in the White Paper. These reforms aim to elevate industry standards while ensuring businesses are well-positioned for economic growth.

The comprehensive reforms, endorsed by both the BGC and Labour, include several critical measures:

– A statutory levy to address …

Macau Casinos are doing quite well in 2022, as the most recent earnings figures have been released, showing an increase for February. In total, the region generated MOP$7.76 billion ($964 million) for the month, which is a more than 6% increase from 2021. When compared to January, the total is boosted even more, by over 22%.

Details of the Improved Result

For Macau, February was a successful month. The region saw a successful Spring Festival holiday as operators saw a steady stream of visitors during the week. Visitor totals are looking up, with Inside Asian Gaming reporting that the Public Security Police force indicated that Macau saw over 37,000 visitor arrivals on Saturday. This is the highest single-day total since 2022 began.

Despite the high numbers, COVID-19 still plays a negative role in the region’s ability to welcome guests. The region is still closed to visitors from Hong Kong, which cuts down on regular visitor numbers. Hong Kong is currently under a major outbreak, the first of its kind since the pandemic began.

Macau also has tight border controls when it comes to mainland China, another area where the bulk of its visitors come…

You wouldn’t normally pick one of Alienware’s most powerful rigs as a value proposition. But a perfect storm of season sales and a spike in Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU pricing has left this Alienware Aurora R15 looking like quite the relative steal with $600 sliced off for Cyber Monday and a final sticker price of $3,299.

A key contextual touch point here is that RTX 4090s alone are going for about $2k right now, what with the rush to important a boat load of them into China before export restrictions prevent any further examples of Nvidia’s most powerful gaming GPU from heading that way—legally at least.

Moreover, head over to Newegg and you find that the very cheapest pre-built PC with an RTX 4090 is only a couple of hundred dollars cheaper. And that’ll be from a PC builder you’ve never heard of in a generic case.

• We’re curating all the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals right here.

This particular Alienware has 32GB of RAM and a somewhat small 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD? Plus an Intel Core i9 13900KF CPU. Oh, OK, Intel now does 14th Gen desktop CPUs. But the 14900K is a major disappointment and…

If you’ve ever wondered “What plant is this?” or “Why does my dog look like that?”, you’ve probably thought about testing out ChatGPT. If you have tried it in the last week, you will have joined 1.9999 million others (give or take), according to recent information.

According to Axios (via TweakTown), ChatGPT owner OpenAI claims that its chatbot has grown from 100 million weekly active users in 2022 to 200 million in 2024. To put these astronomical figures into perspective, Reddit, one of the world’s biggest groupings of geeks, enthusiasts, and answers to all the nonsense questions you have throughout the day, is said to sit at around 260 million users a week.

This is not only a sign of how much the AI chatbot has grown but the internet as a whole. At its very peak, MySpace, practically the biggest social media network in the world at one point, had 100 million users a month. Though it’s often made fun of for its slow decline and specific angsty teen aesthetic, it has had and still has a huge influence on the internet.

ChatGPT has seen a meteoric rise over the last few years and it makes sense, given it’s essentially what Siri, Alexa, and a dozen other smart a…

When it comes to creeping us out, games that aren’t classed as horror games have a real advantage over those that are. Horror games are supposed to be scary, so we brace ourselves, and when a big scare finally comes it can feel like a relief. In non-horror games, however, we’re less likely to flinch at the first hint of strangeness, so unease can grow inside of us without us even being aware of it—a trap set behind our defenses that springs open the moment we finally realize that something is off, chilling us to our cores.

Talking to the PC Gamer team about this, multiple people said they knew that things like this had happened to them in games, but that they couldn’t remember specifics—I choose to interpret this to mean that they were creeped out so bad they blocked it out. Below, read the unsettling moments in non-horror games we did remember, and share your own stories in the comments. Happy Halloween! 🎃

🍃 The whispers of Black & White

Whenever a villager died in Black & White, the fun-but-flawed 2001 Peter Molyneux god game, a spectral voice would whisper ‘deeeeeeeeeath’. Perhaps because it was barely loud en…