Sony Japan Studio is winding down, according to a report from VGC. The studio that made Ape Escape, Knack, and Gravity Rush did not renew the contracts for a “vast majority” of its developers for the next financial year, which starts April 1, the report said.
The site reported that Japan Studio’s localization and business staff are staying on board, while the Asobi Team–which made the Astro Bot games–will exist within Sony Japan as a standalone studio. Some affected Japan Studio developers will take new positions at Asobi and others are joining former Japan Studio employee and Gravity Rush director Keiichiro Toyama’s new Bokeh studio. Come from Sports betting site VPbet
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Read moreA long-delayed casino resort slated to appear on the Las Vegas Strip is set to finally complete construction work after securing a $2.2 billion loan from a group of banks and other investors.
Testament of Dedication
Fontainebleau Las Vegas, developed by a partnership between Fontainebleau Development and Koch Real Estate Investments (KREI), a subsidiary of Koch Industries, secured the financing with the participation of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Guggenheim Partners and VICI Properties.
JP Morgan Chase served as the administrative agent while Dustin Stolly and Jordan Roeschlaub of Newmark Group served as advisers for the financing. The property will be operated by a subsidiary of F…
Read moreSupplier of sports betting technology and solutions Kambi Group announced today it has signed an agreement to provide del Lago Resort & Casino in Waterloo, New York, with its on-property sportsbook solution.
New On-Property Partner
The agreement between Kambi and the land-based casino owned and operated by horse racing and entertainment operator Churchill Downs Incorporated (CDI) will see the leading supplier of sports betting technology provide its on-property betting solution and services to the casino in upstate New York.
Commenting on the new multi-year agreement, Kambi Group’s chief executive officer and co-founder, Kristian Nylén, could not hide…
Read moreMohegan, the leading gaming and entertainment operator, announced that its Inspire Casino at Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort in Incheon, South Korea, will open its doors for visitors on Saturday, February 3, 2024, at 8:08 AM. The massive casino resort is located adjacent to the Incheon International Airport and is expected to be one of the biggest resorts in Northeast Asia once it rolls out all of its amenities.
Previously, the entertainment resort commenced its operations on November 30, 2023, and started accepting hotel guests. Additionally, Inspire Entertainment Resort opened a number of restaurants along with Inspire Arena, a premium entertainment venue t…
Read moreAt CES 2023, Acer showed off its newest duo of high refresh rate Predator OLED gaming monitors, the Predator X45 and Predator X27U.
As a 1440p advocate, it’s always good to see more and more high refresh rate QHD gaming monitors getting announced. The Predator X45 is a massive 45-inch curved ultrawide UWQHD OLED, while the Predator X27U is a flat 27-inch QHD OLED.
Both monitors have a refresh rate of 240Hz and a .01 response time. Perfect if you need a monitor for competitive gaming but want a higher resolution to go with the speed.
Typically if you wanted higher refresh rates on a gaming monitor, you were stuck at 1080p. Not anymore. Acer and others are telling hardcore PC gamers they no longer have to make the compromise as long as they have the ca…
Read moreAI is undoubtedly the biggest technology topic of the last decade, with mind-bogglingly vast resources from companies including Google, OpenAI and Microsoft being poured into the field. Despite that the results so far are somewhat mixed. Google’s AI answers are often just straight-up dumb (and incidentally are behind a 50% increase in the company’s greenhouse gas emissions over the last five years), AI imagery and videos are filled with obvious errors, and the chatbots… well, they’re a bit better, but they’re still chatbots.
One man, however, both predicted this level of interest and certain elements of how AI is developing. The Guardian has a new interview with Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and computer scientist best-known for his 2005 book The Singularity is Near, wi…
Read moreIn March 2023, the landmark case Hachette Book Group Inc. v. Internet Archive ruled in Hachett’s favour. Now, over a year into an appeals process, the Internet Archive’s appeal has been shut down.
This all stems from a decision made at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. As lockdowns started to happen, and the public was no longer able to go to libraries—thereby giving them less access to books—the Internet Archive opened up its library to the public, where users could “lend” books (via Wired).
The National Emergency Library, as this scheme was called, operated from March 24 to June 2020, providing a “temporary collection of books that supported emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation”.