Month: December 2024

On the heels of its latest content deal, British online and mobile casino software provider iSoftBet has released its newest title, Raging Dragons, for a two-week exclusivity period with partners ahead of the game’s network-wide launch.

Within the 5-reel, 3-row, 243 payline video slot, players are transported to a mystical world where the reels are ruled by dragons. The Asian theme is one that is familiar to the developer and extremely popular with fans.

Game features:

During gameplay within the base game, players are challenged to secure Wild Multipliers that fall on reels 2, 3, or 4 and lead up to a multiplier of 3x. A Fortune Spin can be triggered on any spin, and when it is, a lucky red envelope opens and a prize of either 8x, 88x, 888x, or 8,888x a player’s stake is revealed.

Meanwhile, landing at least three Bonus Scatter symbols activates the extra spins mode, where players must choose from five separate options, and where they must also select higher multipliers with fewer spins, or an intriguing Mystery Choice.

During the extra spins mode, Wilds can land on all five reels and always feature a multiplier. Each and every win ca…

Letting minors gamble could cost a pub in Melbourne almost AU$ 222,000 ($149,850) after the Victoria gambling regulator got tipped, investigated and charged the venue.

Six Occasions of Letting Gambling by Minors

The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) announced Friday that the staff at the Preston Hotel allowed a 16-year-old access to electronic terminals on six occasions last year – in May and September – which the minor used to place bets, reported The Guardian.

Glorija Kuzman, director for Gambling at the VGCCC, outlined that “all gambling operators – including venues and the holder of the statewide Wagering and Betting license – have an irrefutable legal requirement to do everything they can to stop children from gambling.”

“One of the most serious harms is minors gambling,” she said, deeply concerned with the violations.

The VGCCC charged the pub located in north-east Melbourne with 15 charges among which six counts of allowing a minor to gamble, six counts of failing to supervise its electronic betting terminals an…

The Persona games being about the struggles and experiences of teenagers is cool and all, but what if the series cast four elderly women living in a Miami house share instead? That’s the pressing question developers Joey Pagano and Chris Lindgren have set out to answer in their upcoming parody game The Golden Girls Take Manhattan DX.

“What started as a joke has quickly spiralled into a playground of ideas meant to explore just how much we can push our skills and retain our sanity with our own brand of humour,” an introduction on Pagano’s developer site reads. “Simply put, this is Persona 5’s gameplay replaced with the context of The Golden Girls. There is no reason for why we used that coat of paint other than ‘how far can we take this joke.'”

It looks like the project has been in the works for a few years, with the site touting a playable demo arriving in the summer… of 2021. It doesn’t appear to have ever come out. But thanks to a trailer that went live over on The Golden Girls Take Manhattan DX Twitter page over the weekend, this is my first time (and I imagine many others) seeing just what the hell this is.

Pagano’s website calls it a Persona …

Following the EU’s approval last week, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has given its blessing to the proposed union between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The decision was reported by Seeking Alpha late last week, and confirmed by Activision Blizzard today in a statement sent to PC Gamer.

“We’re glad to see China join dozens of other major countries in welcoming more competition in the gaming industry,” wrote an Activision Blizzard spokesperson. “SAMR has unconditionally approved our merger with Microsoft, using facts and data to reach the correct conclusion. We are committed to the Chinese market, with many of our amazing players and employees based there, and we look forward to bringing them new choices and benefits as part of this deal.”

Last month, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority opted to block the acquisition over concern that aquiring Activision Blizzard would give Microsoft too much power in the emerging cloud gaming market. The surprise decision is being appealed, but Microsoft may have a hard time overturning it while keeping its current deal intact. Approval from the EU and China doesn’t hurt, but along with the UK roadbloc…

The Roblox Developers Conference is underway, and at the keynote address CEO and co-founder David Baszucki came out all guns blazing. We’re gonna have a billion daily users! 10% of all global gaming revenue! We already have your children! OK not the last one, though he might as well have, and you can read all about Roblox’s rude health and even ruder goals here.

There was an element of pie-in-the-sky about some of the keynote. But one of the genuinely impressive touches came when Baszucki gave a flourish in the direction of AI, which Roblox has been gradually integrating into its creator development tools for years. It has a tool that helps automate creating textures, for example, but apparently we ain’t seen nothing yet.

Roblox is developing an AI “3D foundational model” that will be open source and create 3D assets through text, video and 3D prompts. Baszucki describes this as an “incubation project” with around 40 dedicated employees, and says they’re only three months down the road on it. He then shows an overhead view of a map being created through simple text prompts, then becoming a desert, then prompted into becoming a forest scene (with both a text and ima…