Month: December 2024

Publisher Bandai Namco has announced that worldwide sales for SoulCalibur VI have now reached two million copies in total since the game originally launched on October 19, 2018.

Like many fighting games of the modern era, SoulCalibur VI’s sales were augmented by the release of additional characters and levels through downloadable content, with characters such as Hwang and Setsuka being added to the roster. Players could also create their own warriors through the game’s extensive character creation mode, which often resulted in some hilarious and disturbing creatures appearing in online matches. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

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American digital entertainments firm Allied Esports International Incorporated has announced the signing of a revised arrangement to offload the entirety of its poker-related operations to a newly-established entity known as Element Partners LLC.

The Nasdaq-listed company used an official Monday press release to detail that the proposed undertaking would see Element Partners LLC immediately hand over $90.5 million in cash so as to acquire the equity in its Club Services Incorporated subsidiary, which handles all of its poker interests including the World Poker Tour (WPT) gaming and entertainments brand.

Opposing offer:

Allied Esports International Incorporated revealed that it inked a similar understanding worth up to $78.25 million in January but was forced to reconsi…

An online real money game development studio, Hacksaw Gaming, is to debut in the North American market. The company announced that the new market entry is facilitated through partnership with the operator Caesars Digital, an online vertical of a leading casino and entertainment company Ceasars Entertainment. Under the new partnership, the fast-growing provider will supply content to the operator’s platform in the regulated iGaming province of Ontario, Canada.

New Market Launch:

Hacksaw Gaming‘s popular content will be rolled out on the Caesars Palace Online Casino and Caesars Sportsbook & Casino online platforms in Ontario. The gaming library will include player-favorite titles to help the provider establish the brand in the new market and set the foundation …

The latest data by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has shown that the casino properties in Atlantic City managed to bring as much as $211.6 million from in-person gambling last month.

In-Person Gambling Continues Annual Recovery

The results were up 15% on 2022’s results, but they still trailed behind pre-pandemic levels. Retail betting results are not the only strong performers, with horse tracks, sports betting, and online gambling partners all performing strongly in the month, producing a total yield of $436.8 million, or up 14.5% year-over-year.

However, casino executives are not as optimistic about the results. At a time when smoking is a hot-button topic in Atlantic City…

Opinions on Starfield are all over the place, but two criticisms are pretty widely shared: One, the maps aren’t very good, and two, it’s a bit disappointing that there aren’t any ground vehicles to explore planets with.

In an interview with Bloomberg this week, Todd Howard responded to a question about that absence of ground vehicles, saying that the idea was considered, but that the dev team preferred knowing “how fast [players] are seeing things” on planets through on-foot exploration. He also pointed out that, hey: you can fly.

“In one sense, you do have a vehicle, which is you obviously have your spaceship, you can go around in space,” added Howard. “But then on the surface you do have a jetpack which you can upgrade, which is super fun, new experience for us. A…

Eagle-eyed users have spotted a test application on SteamDB suggesting that Valve is experimenting with Arm64 support for Proton, the software that enables Windows games to run on Linux systems.

The changelog for ValveTestApp3043620 lists several popular games—including Left 4 Dead 2, Garry’s Mod, Kerbal Space Program and more—with added tags like “proton-arm64”, “proton-arm64e” and “protonarm64ec-vanguard” (via Notebookcheck).

This has led to some speculation that Valve could be preparing support for certain games to run via Proton on Arm64 devices like Android smartphones and tablets, or potentially even an Arm64-based version of Valve’s ever-popular Steam Deck.

While the prospect of Steam games running on your phone is a tantalising one (and an Arm-bas…