Month: December 2024

Players looking to dive into an open-world romp this upcoming weekend can download and play Far Cry 5 for free from August 5-9 on all platforms.

The entire game, both the full campaign and its online two-player co-op offering, will be playable this coming weekend. Pre-loading on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S is now available Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Whatever progress you happen to make will carry over to the full game if you decide to buy it. And if you do pick it up, the Standard and Gold Editions of Far Cry 5, as well as its season pass, will be heavily discounted during the free play weekend.

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Snoop Dogg and his son Cordell Broadus are starting Death Row Games, a studio built to support minority creators developing and publishing within Fortnite via its Unreal Editor. Death Row Games builds on previous business collaborations between the father-son duo.

As Afrotech reported, both Snoop Dogg and Cordell Broadus have conducted business in video games before. Snoop Dogg was a playable character in Call of Duty and Broadus was a creative director on the crypto gaming game Doge Dash. The pair have also collaborated in a variety of tech ventures, such as the NFT comic book SUPERCUZZ and an interactive dessert restaurant collaboration with Food Fighters Universe.

Death Row Games seeks to put underserved creators in creative control, albeit within Fortnite’s tools Come f…

As no winners were announced on August 1 Mega Millions jackpot drawing, the massive lottery prize increased to around $1.25 billion awaiting to be claimed after the next drawing scheduled for August 4, 2023. The latest winning combination contained numbers 8, 24, 30, 45, 61 and the yellow ball 12 but the round remained with no winning hand.

The Largest Prize Ever:

As reported by Associated Press, Mega Millions jackpot hasn’t been won since April 18 which made the prize progressively grow to reach the $1.25 billion level set for the August 4 drawing. This prize is reportedly one of the largest ever offered in the US history. It grew out of the August 1 drawing which offered the $1.1 billion prize but reportedly remained outstanding for the 30th consecutive time to fill …

Only a day after being licensed by officials in the western American state of Wyoming and the mobile-friendly BetMGM sportsbetting advance has now reportedly inked a deal to bring its services to afficionados on the island territory of Puerto Rico.

According to a Thursday report from the Caribbean Journal, the iOS and Android-enabled sports wagering innovation has signed an arrangement with the four-star La Concha Renaissance San Juan Resort property from Marriott International Incorporated that is to see its services made available to punters outside of the continental United States for the first time.

Increasing impression:

BetMGM is run by the Roar Digital enterprise established by American land-based casino operator MGM Resorts International in partnership with Bri…

In a significant development, the Native Village of Eklutna is preparing the groundwork for a groundbreaking gaming facility, marking a historic first outside of Southeast Alaska. This prospective 50,000-square-foot gaming hall is poised to reshape local entertainment and economic landscapes, contingent upon securing the necessary federal green light.

Project genesis and approvals:

The initiative, spearheaded by the Native Village of Eklutna, revolves around an 8-acre site in Birchwood, roughly 20 miles northeast of Anchorage. This land, long-held by a tribal family, might soon transform following an encouraging nod from the National Indian Gaming Commission this summer (pdf). This approval reverses pre…

Well well well. Well well well well well. Look who’s decided to leave behind the 2010s and make computers with a reasonable amount of memory for modern-day tasks. Apple’s been on a tear of announcing new Mac hardware this week, including a new teensy Mac Mini, but the biggest news, to me, is that the company renowned for selling very expensive laptops is now putting more than 8GB of RAM in them across-the-board. No more paying an extortionate $200 to upgrade to a reasonable 16GB!

Despite making generally fantastic laptops, there’s almost always something Apple will charge an eye-watering upgrade fee for, and for years that’s been an adequate amount of RAM. This criticism has been around for years, but it wasn’t until late 2023 that someone got an Apple VP, Bob …

Every morning I go through my email and find various announcements from game developers, publishers, and PR firms. There’s always lots of news about expansions, season passes, release dates, events, game updates, and betas, and they’re almost always perfectly straightforward: a few paragraphs of text and a link to a trailer, a Steam page, a website, or a presskit.

Almost always. Today I received a rather unusual email, not from a game’s PR but from a game’s character, and it hints at a mystery we’ll get to unravel later this month:

Dear associate,

The Seven Seas Company has reviewed and approved your request to partake in the upcoming Lanka trading expedition. You and two other associates will personally accompany yours truly on this mission.…

The Steam Deck has been one of the best handheld gaming PCs basically ever since it launched yet finding a rogue software problem isn’t unheard of. Valve has put out a new OS update that may just make the whole handheld a little better and squash a whole heap of bugs.

SteamOS 3.6.19 has just launched and Valve put out notes on what it has changed. As well as fixing a whole host of issues like “the frame limiter not properly applying in certain situations” or “a rare issue where sound output could be corrupted on certain boots”, it also improves general stability and comes with quality-of-life fixes.

Interestingly, this update is said to improve the speed of future OS updates and even improves the “reliability of certain microSD card usage scenarios”. This includes finding …