Month: December 2024

The theme park game Planet Coaster: Console Edition is getting new DLC packs themed around Ghostbusters and another based on other movie-themed content.

Ghostbusters DLC

Due out later this week, the Ghostbusters DLC pack comes with one new flat ride, one new coaster, and a variety of decorations and other Ghostbusters-themed content. The new ride is called the Ghostbusters Experience, and it puts players into the ECTO-1 as they try to capture as many ghosts as possible. The new coaster is called RollerGhoster, and it’s a children’s ride where the Slimer takes guests around a track.

There are “hundreds” of new scenery pieces and sounds that players can use to customize their park around Ghostbusters as well. These include a very tall Stay Puft marshmallow man and haunted hotels. There is also a narrative campaign element to the DLC pack that even has Dan Aykroyd and William Atherton lending their voices to reprise their characters, Raymond Stantz and Walter Peck.

This content has been available on PC for a year already, but it’s only just now coming to the console edition of Planet Coaster.

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The first trailer for the highly-anticipated expansion for Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree, has finally arrived, giving us a look at many of the new bosses preparing to challenge you as well as some of the content’s main antagonists.

As correctly predicted by many when first announced, Shadow of the Erdtree will feature Miquella, brother of infamously brutal boss Malenia, as well as their mother, Queen Marika. There’s mention of the player joining Marika in the shadow realm, which might explain why so many of the areas featured in the gameplay look so different to what you might remember from The Lands Between. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

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The representative body of national casino associations and individual operators of licensed land-based casinos in Europe, the European Casino Association (ECA), announced today it has appointed Tiina Siltanen as Vice Chair of the association.

ECA Annual General Meeting

The appointment of Siltanen was approved at the ECA’s Board Meeting that was held in Finland on December 15, in conjunction with the first anniversary of the Veikkaus Casino Tampere, where directors gathered to discuss the association’s preparations for the ECA Annual General Assembly slated to take place during ICE London in February.

During the meeting, ECA Chairman Per Jaldung outlined the importance for the association to strengthen its leadership going forward and be able to face the various challenges in front of the casino sector such as illegal gambling and the promotion of the industry globally.

“I am therefore pleased that the Board has unanimously approved the appointment of Tiina Siltanen as the Association’s Vice Chair,” Jaldung said, announcing that he would be “stepping down as Chair…

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As reported by the daily newspaper “The Japan Times,” the government is projected to approve a plan by Osaka Prefecture and the city of Osaka to officially open Japan’s first integrated casino-resort in 2029, government sources said today.

Re-emergence of development plans:

The intention to develop a casino-resort came to light after the lifting of travel restrictions in place throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting several local governments to reconsider the idea of luring tourists to a so-called integrated resort (IR), which consists of a big hotel, conference halls and gambling zones.

In this regard, the central government will convene a task force meeting as soon as possible, which is Friday, April 14, where Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and relevant ministers are anticipated to officially approve the Osaka IR plan, sources said.

Furthermore, sources said: “The Osaka prefectural and city governments aim to open the facility between the fall and winter of 2029 on the artificial island of Yumeshima in Osaka Bay.”

In addition, the sources said that “Nagasaki Prefecture has also submitted …

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High-profile Bulgarian media companies have raised their voices in opposition to a proposed ban on gambling advertising, expressing concerns over its potential impact on media revenue streams and journalistic freedom. They criticized the government for lacking foresight, alleging that some parties would use the situation to influence the media space before the upcoming elections.

The Changes Could Do More Harm than Good

The new bill calls for a prohibition on gambling advertisements across various media platforms, including television, radio, newspapers, and online sites. While outdoor advertising in specific locations would still be permitted, the proposed ban has drawn criticism from media industry stakeholders who believe the bill does not aim to protect consumers but to suppress freedom of speech.

Former prime minister Nikolai Denkov highlighted the threat the ban poses to media outlets, emphasizing the significant revenue loss and i…

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When V started coughing up blood during a conversation with Johnny Silverhand, I thought Cyberpunk 2077 was really trying to drive home the urgency of my ticking time bomb of a brain. Throughout the next quest, and the one after that, my entire field of vision kept pulsing with the glitchy blue effect that highlighted Johnny popping into a conversation. It felt like a bit much, but I was really getting into the roleplaying, so I figured heading home to V’s apartment for a night’s rest would set me right. When it didn’t, I asked my colleagues how they got rid of “Johnny vision” because clearly I’d missed something.

That’s when I got the bad news from Phantom Liberty reviewer Ted Litchfield: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen that happen before.”

Uh oh.

“That sounds like a mondo bug.” 

Uh-oh.

We investigated, and it turns out I’m not alone in catching this visual bug: during Cyberpunk’s Automatic Love quest, other players have reported that talking to Johnny at a certain optional point causes his glitchy visual effect to stick. This problem actually dates back years and still hasn’t been fixed in Cyberpunk 2077’s ma…

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Before AMD came roaring back to desktop competitiveness with its Ryzen 1000 CPU family, AMD’s APUs with integrated graphics were well received, delivering very competitive integrated graphics performance—despite their decidedly average Bulldozer based CPU cores. AM4 saw its fair share of APUs, topped by the Ryzen 7 5700G, but AM5 models with genuine graphical capabilities have been missing in action. Apparently that’s no longer the case, as AMD is reportedly preparing APUs with capable RDNA 3 integrated graphics.

According to a Google Doc maintained by Reous at the HardwareLuxx forums (via @9550pro and Videocardz), the latest AMD AGESA 1.0.8.0 firmware includes support for an as-yet-unannounced family based upon the AMD Phoenix architecture. The logical name for this family would be the Ryzen 7000G series.

Furthermore, Asus has released a new BIOS for its EX-B650M-V7 motherboard with the 1.0.8.0 firmware, which includes support for “upcoming CPU”. It’s only a matter of time before this update is incorporated into more AM5 BIOS’ from Asus and other vendors.

Phoenix APUs are currently found in AMD laptops. The Ryzen 9 7940HS is the top model in its range. I…

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2024 games: Upcoming releases
Best PC games: All-time favorites
Free PC games: Freebie fest
Best FPS games: Finest gunplay
Best MMOs: Massive worlds
Best RPGs: Grand adventures

On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. So that’s exactly what we’ve done.If nothing catches your fancy this week, we’ve gathered thebest PC gamesyou can play right now and a running list of the2024 gamesthat are launching this year.

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