The second mission in Starfield Shattered Space is called The Promised, Broken. During this mission, you enter the sacred city of Dazra on the planet of Va’ruun’kai after making your way through The Oracle. After gaining admittance to the city thanks to hearing the words of Anasko Va’ruun, you head up to walk the Serpent’s Path with Inaza Kaisir. Here, you learn some of the backstory of House Va’ruun and what led to the house’s creation. However, at the end of the path, you have to make a choice and pick between four Effigies to honor the house.
Below, you can see which Effigies to select and if they even make a difference in Starfield.
How to walk the Serpent’s Path in Starfield
Before you can reach the Effigy selection in Starfield, you need to successfully walk th…
Read moreIn a groundbreaking turn of events, FanDuel has emerged as a dominant force in Washington D.C.’s sports betting arena, shattering records and reshaping the district’s gambling landscape. Figures released by the D.C. Lottery reveal staggering numbers for May, signaling a seismic shift in the dynamics of online wagering in the nation’s capital.
Record-breaking revenue and wagering activity:
FanDuel’s foray into the D.C. market proved to be a game-changer, with the online juggernaut raking in a staggering $29.7 million in handle for May, accompanied by a formidable 16.4% hold that translated into $4.9 million in sports betting revenue. These figures not only mark all-time monthly highs since the district’s inception in May 2020 but also under…
Read moreIn Atlantic City and the leader of the Local 54 branch of the Unite Here trade union has reportedly warned of ‘disputes’ for those casinos in the New Jersey community that fail to agree to improve employee contracts by a May 31 2022 deadline.
According to a report from the Associated Press news service, the counsel from Bob McDevitt (pictured) comes as his local union is attempting to help casino employees recover from the negative impacts of the coronavirus pandemic via the securance of ‘significant’ wage increases. This campaign purportedly involves talks with Caesars Entertainment Incorporated, which runs the Caesars Atlantic City Hotel and Casino, Tropicana Atlantic City and Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City properties, as well as the firm behind the …
Read moreIt’s time to go back to childhood and reminisce about the beloved three-toed troll Hugo. Play’n GO and Hugo Games A/S’ collaboration was fruitful one more time, and the company released another game in the series of Hugo slots, Hugo Legacy.
Greatly beloved troll:
This is the sixth game in the series. Everything began in 2016 when Hugo was released. After the huge success of the game, Hugo 2 (2017)…
Read moreAlthough sports betting has been legalized in 37 US states, illegal gambling operations still proliferate in the states that do not allow this type of gambling. As reported by Covers, more than 201 million visits to illegal betting sites in America were recorded for the first three months of the NFL season alone to confirm that the illegal gambling activities still pose a threat to the competent authorities and regulated markets across the States.
201 Million Visits to Offshore Operators:
The issue was reportedly discussed at the recent meeting of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States held in Florida. According to lawmakers, illegal offshore gambling sites are still easily available for bettors from the states where sports betting is not allowed. Although th…
Read moreLeaders of Congress, including Dina Titus (D-NV) who have been requesting from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to increase the tax reporting limit on jackpots from slot machines for almost a decade, have received some welcome support from an uncommon source, the agency’s Advisory Council.
Rising the threshold:
In a ruling in November 2023, the aforementioned IRS Advisory Council commented that the threshold amount must be lifted from $1,200 to $5,800, which represents an additional $800 over the amount requested by members of the Congressional Gaming Caucus. Additionally, a spokesperson for Titus, who was the first to ask the IRS Commissioner to lift the threshold for reporting slots jackpot in 2015, commented that the office was familiar with the news but decided to wa…
Read moreThe gaming tax collected by the Macau SAR Government in 2022 fell to only 55.9% of the sum the authorities predicted would be collected, which is approximately MOP19.1 billion, aka US$2.37 billion.
Macau’s lowest gaming gross revenue ever:
This drop in revenue represents a 43.7% decrease from MOP$33.9 billion, which is roughly 4.20 million US dollars, which is the exact amount of revenue collected in 2021, according to numbers released by the Financial Services Bureau.
The total annual tax profit of MOP$1.23 billion, which is approximately $153 million US dollars, fell by 53.2% on December 2022 which was 21.2% less than in November in the year-end filling.
December’s figure corresponds to Macau’s November gross gaming revenue number of MOP$3.0, …
Read moreMacau’s Financial Services Bureau released the results for the first quarter of 2024 on Monday, April 22, 2024, and the city earned 116.8% more on taxes than in the same period last year.
Increased revenue:
The city earned around MOP21,92 billion, or US$2,74 billion in fiscal revenues from taxes imposed on gaming operations during the first three months of the year. To compare, in the first three months of 2023, Macau collected MOP10,11 billion in taxes. The main reason is the reopening the city’s economy after measures against COVID-19 were completely lifted. Various travel restric…
Read moreThe Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) accused the famous operators owned by Ladbrokes, Neds, bet365, and Sportsbet of breaching the interactive gambling rules.
Fast/Quick Codes regulation:
The operators allegedly used the Fast/Quick Codes to make betting on in-play sports machines easier for players, which violated the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. According to the Act, in-play betting on sports matches isn’t legal.
However, there are a few exceptions, including placing the bets via the phone, but the phone bets are condit…
Read moreGermany has awarded its first online slot license. The Ministry of the Interior and Sports has approved Mernov Betriebsgesellschaft MBH as the first operator for online slot gaming licensing since the passage of the Fourth Interstate Gambling Treaty (GlüNeuRStv).
The Bundesländer of Saxony-Anhalt is the interim regulator of the new regime. The country’s whitelist was recently updated to include Mernov Betriebsgesellschaft MBH. The online slot license is now theirs and the company can begin offering services in the country.
Details of Betriebsgesellschaft MBH’s Operations and Licensing Issues
Who is Mernov MBH? What can players expect from the company? The brand is located in Espelkamp which is in the state of Rhine-Westphalia. Mernov MBH will offer its slot games…
Read moreGolden Nugget Danville Casino is finally open! Many city officials, various state representatives, and a range of casino executives were invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony that was held to celebrate the official grand opening of the long-awaited casino.
Huge building with many amenities:
The casino is located across 41.500 square feet of gaming floor. It consists of 14 table games, 500 slot machines, a Sportsbook, two exquisite restaurants, including a popular Saltgrass Steakhouse, as well as 650 surface parking spaces.
After the temporary casino, which was operating under the license issued by the Illinois Gaming Bo…
Read moreWe’re pretty used to seeing various celebrities and athletes in promotional videos and commercials for many types of gambling and online casino games.
However, in Ontario, everything points out that they couldn’t be seen in such a context anymore. Athletes and celebrities in Ontario will probably be banned from appearing in commercials of online gambling operators.
The impact on youth:
The reason that lies behind that proposal is the fact that these commercials can negatively affect youth and children, who often look up to famous people. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission (AGCO)Read more
If you like a little naughty with your nice you’re going to love the latest online slot from Malta-based software development studio, Lucksome. The new addition to its growing games portfolio, Saint Nicked, is lauded as one of its “most exciting releases of 2022,” according to Johan John, senior product manager for the company that is part of the Blueprint Gaming network.
The game is jam-packed with features and is sure to appeal to a broad range of players, such as those at SlotsLV.
Destined to become a classic, the 5-reel, 3-5 row, medium-high volatility slot is anything but your traditional Christmas-themed slot. You see, in this version, Santa and his lead reindeer Rudolph have grown bored with the same festive duties they have famously carried out al…
Read moreOn April 6th, Yggdrasil, a Malta-based globally-recognized iGaming provider, together with AceRun, a boutique studio that is part of the YG Masters Initiative, released Gold Fever, a gold mining-themed slot featuring a gold hunting adventure, specifically a gold miner looking for gold.
This slot is AceRun’s latest addition to the YG Masters portfolio, after the popular Book HOTFIRE slot.
Outstanding visual:
True to its name, the main theme of the game is the aforementioned gold miner and his adventure in the search for gold. Since historically, gold fever refers to a phenomenon when many miners excitedly search for gold in the same location, the main task of the player is to help their miner succeed in finding gold. The game takes place in a Wild West setting, during…
Read moreMajor League Baseball is probing San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano for allegedly betting on baseball games, a potential violation that could result in a lifetime ban. According to a source familiar with the investigation, Marcano is suspected of placing bets on games involving the Pittsburgh Pirates while sidelined with an injury last season.
Growing concerns in professional sports:
This investigation marks a significant development amid growing concerns over athletes’ involvement in sports betting. If found guilty, Marcano could become the second professional athlete to face a lifetime ban this year, following the NBA’s punishment of Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter in April.
If the allegations against Marcano are substantiated, he could …
Read moreMacau’s Judiciary Police (PJ) reported a significant rise in gaming-related crimes, with 579 cases documented from January to May 2024, marking a 75.5% increase compared to the same period in the previous year.
Throughout these five months, there were 104 instances of loansharking and 17 related detentions, according to a report published by Inside Asian Gaming. These figures represent a significant year-on-year rise, with loansharking cases alone increasing by 86 and related detentions by 14. The PJ also noted a surge in theft and failure to report found objects, predominantly occurring in high-traffic gaming districts.
Moreover, gaming-related fraud cases saw an uptick, increasing by 52 cases to 130. The PJ highlighted that approximately 66.7% of these fraud cases we…
Read moreStockholm based online slots developer Fantasma Games has revamped and relaunched its 2019 smash hit Medallion Megaways, giving it a new look and adding some exciting new bonus features. Operators will now have access to the refreshed game by way of Relax Gaming’s Silver Bullet partnership program.
The 6-reel, 6-row, video slot incorporates Australian developer Big Time Gaming’s (BTG) Megaways game engine and an avalanche feature to offer players up to 46,656 ways to win. With higher than average volatility, the game offers a RTP of 96.13 percent while the minimum bet is €0.20 and the maximum is €50. The maximum win is 20,000x the original bet.
Game features:
Other exciting features, Void Respin and Expanding Wild, can be triggered anytime during base…
Read moreThe leading provider of games, powering iGaming operators across the globe, Light & Wonder, expanded its position in the United States. The company unveiled Monday that it has gone live with Premium Live Dealer by Authentic Game for the first time in the US. Thanks to the launch, customers of Rush Street Interactive’s brand, BetRivers in Michigan, will be able to access thrilling and unique games.
Overall, five games have been made available for customers of the operator. Those titles are streamed live from Authentic Gaming’s live casino studio in the state. As a result, BetRiver’s customers can now access Stadium Blackjack, Premium Roulette, Premium Baccarat, Premium Blackjack and All Michig…
Read moreUndoubtedly, winning a jackpot at a casino is an unforgettable and exciting experience. One such lucky visitor played at Mohegan Sun, one of the largest gaming and entertainment destinations in the United States, and went home with a staggering jackpot of more than $500,000.
Details regarding the lucky visitor emerged earlier this week with Mohegan Sun confirming that his name is Jose S. The person, who is a Stafford, Connecticut resident, visited the casino and entertainment destination and hit the jackpot from Super 4 Progressive Blackjack.
As a result, the Stafford resident pocketed some $525,094. According to Mohegan, Jose felt lucky when visiting the venue. The person was right to feel …
Read moreEvoke, the owner of prominent betting entities like William Hill, has recently announced the acquisition of New Gambling Solutions (NGS), which operates Winner.ro, currently ranked as Romania’s seventh-largest online betting and gaming platform. This strategic move, disclosed on Friday, aims to consolidate Evoke’s operations within the Romanian market, enhancing its competitive edge.
Strategic market expansion:
The London-listed firm revealed that merging its Romanian operations with Winner.ro will catapult the combined entity to the fourth-largest group in Romania’s betting and gaming sector, holding an estimated 7% market share. Under the terms of the acquisition, Evoke will integrate its ex…
Read moreThe famous iGaming publisher Yggdrasil partners with the renowned Bulletproof Gaming to further expand its impressive portfolio and launch the new slot game Blackbeard Battle of the Seas.
Thrilling battle on high seas:
This 5×3 reel slot takes the players on an exciting, high-seas adventure where huge dangers await along with great prizes.
The players will face the enemies on the ocean while looking for the legendary treasure. The slot possesses 2…
Read moreIn the western American state of New Mexico and legislators have reportedly begun scrutinizing proposed legislation that could allow local commercial horseracing tracks to begin offering live games of craps, poker and blackjack alongside a full retinue of sportsbetting.
According to a Monday report from the Las Cruces Sun-News newspaper, there are five horseracing venues in ‘The Land of Enchantment’ offering patrons a range of slots as well as video versions of roulette, poker and blackjack. But these properties are purportedly prohibited from running live-dealer and ‘spinning wheel’ games or operating sportsbooks featuring markets on anything other than horse races.
Desirable dividend:
The newspaper reported that New Mexico State Representa…
Read moreJackpot wins, although hard to get, are life-changing. And sometimes even little bets pay out big time which is precisely the case of a woman that visited Atlantis Casino in Reno, Nevada. On Sunday night, a woman, who was not named, won a multi-million-dollar jackpot. Her $10 bet turned into a Megabucks Jackpot of $14,005,832.09.
The casino did not reveal the identity of the lucky woman but confirmed that she is one of its long-time guests. Besides a life-changing sum, the new jackpot marked the biggest jackpot for Reno, Atlantis Casino confirmed upon consulting with IGT.
IGT’s vice president, western region and Mexico sales, Toni Martinez, said that the company is excited to see the new jackpot drop at Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, a statement released by 2N…
Read moreIf I know anything about PC gaming, I know this: given an ounce of freedom, PC gamers will build a giant penis that spews fire. I’m frankly not even sure what else you’d build in Besiege, the most innately PC of freeform building games. A catapult or something? Boring. There’s no better evidence that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a sandbox PC game at heart than how quickly they crested the penis horizon.
With that milestone met, the natural question is: what next? In a typical Zelda game, the answer would be to head to the next dungeon. But in this one, Nintendo has introduced an absurdly flexible building system that lets you connect all sorts of parts together and then power them, creating sturdier weapons, traps for hapless bokoblins, or even freaking mechs. Face…
Read moreDisney has suffered a massive leak of employee and company information, after hackers claimed one of its software managers was the victim of a Trojan horse malware attack. A whopping 1.1 tebibytes of data has been leaked online, including personal information and details of unannounced products, including videogames. And the hackers say they’re furries, and cite the shutdown of Club Penguin in March 2017 as justification.
The so-called hacktivist group is called Nullbulge and let me do you a favour: don’t Google that word. It’s one of those fanart terms referring to a prominent groinal bulge that usually has a giant lock illustration on it. Nullbulge describes itself as “a hacktivist group protecting artists’ rights and ensuring fair compensation for their work,” and this statem…
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It pleases me to say we’re firmly planted in a new era for external SSDs. For the longest time, it was hard to recommend anything other than a 10 Gbps drive such as the (still-wonderful) Crucial X6 because that’s all that most motherboards could manage. Now, however, 20 Gbps SSDs like the ADATA SD810 are widely supported, much to the benefit to us gamers.
It’s not just a USB generation thing, either. It’s also a value thing. USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 external SSDs such as the SD810 are now very reasonably priced, making it difficult to recommend an older drive unless you’re on a strict budget or have an older PC that doesn’t have a Gen 2×2 port.
For most people using a modern gaming PC, however, USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 is where it’s at, and in this segment, the SD810 rules the r…
Read moreThe cast of Baldur’s Gate 3 has evolved over the game’s Early Access period and beyond—Wyll in particular had a whole rewrite between the game’s conception and its full release. Whether it’s whole storylines shifting or just toning down Gale’s accidental thirstiness, finding the core of a character in a story this large is bound to be complicated.
But not for Lae’zel, according to a recent interview by IGN with Larian’s CEO and Founder Swen Vincke, as well as lead writers Adam Smith and Chrystal Ding. “In the beginning she was very aggressive towards the players, so we toned her down a little bit”, Vincke admits, but that was pretty much it.
“She is probably one of the companions that changed the least throughout the entirety of development. She was so…
Read moreFew things are more certain than Jim Keller, ex-AMD and ex-Tesla engineer and current CEO of AI computer company Tenstorrent, making bold claims in public appearances. There is at least one thing more more certain than this, however, this being that Nvidia is firmly cemented as the king AI hardware. Combine the two certitudes and you have Keller, in a recent DemystifySci podcast, stating that “Nvidia is slowly becoming the IBM of the AI era.”
According to Keller, for AI, Nvidia currently has “the best processors by functionality and obvious proof points,” which has meant that “all the big tech companies are in an arms race and they’re all calling Nvidia to get allocation” for their new AI processors. This, at least, is certainly true.
2024’s exploding AI market almost feels …
Read moreMicrosoft’s newest AI tool, Recall, has been hitting the headlines that the Redmond software giant perhaps hasn’t quite intended. Part of a collection of features that only Copilot+ PCs sport, Recall also demands that the processor running the software has an NPU. However, one ingenious coder has already got it to work perfectly well on a basic PC that doesn’t have an NPU whatsoever.
The NPU, or neural processing unit, is the latest hardware bandwagon, with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all fighting to take ownership of the reins. Core Ultra, Ryzen 8040, and Snapdragon X processors all play host to a system of circuits that can handle the common operations used in AI routines.
One such application is Microsoft’s Recall feature in Copilot+ and it needs an NPU capable of 45 TOPs …
Read moreIf you’re a streamer, have an accessibility need, or just want to see your face in multiple apps for some reason, a new Windows 11 feature in its latest dev build may just be worth updating your PC for. Just give it a few months to actually arrive in a stable build of Windows 11.
As reported by Windows Latest, citing @phantomofearth on X, then personally verified by me spending hours waiting for Windows updates, the original feature is actually intended to be an accessibility tool. It is “designed for the hard-of-hearing community” though the function doesn’t elaborate on how it might be utilised.
To even access it, you need to sign up for the latest dev build of Windows 11: 10.0.26120.1542. Once you have this, you then have to go to a hidden setting in the advanc…
Read moreAI has been a bit weird as of late. It has been used to generate naff images, play Doom, and build the loneliest social media app out there. A potentially great but also potentially worrying use of generative AI has been spotted with General Practitioners (GPs) across the UK, suggesting up to 20% could be using it as part of their practice.
As spotted by ScienceDaily, a paper titled “Generative artificial intelligence in primary care: an online survey of UK general practitioners” has recently polled Doctors.net.uk—an online forum and database for GPs across the UK. Of the 1,006 polled, 205 (20%) reported “using generative AI tools in clinical practice”.
When asked “Have you ever used any of the following to assist you in any aspect of clinical practice?”, 16% reporte…
Read moreNvidia’s DLSS upscaling. AMD’s frame generation technology. On the same GPU at the same time. Really? It’s cats and dogs living together! Or just the first game to enable that combo, namely Ghost of Tsushima, originally a Playstation 4 title and released just yesterday on PC.
That Nvidia leans into AI isn’t exactly news. And it’s the reason why you can’t have Nvidia Frame Generation on anything but the latest RTX 40-series Nvidia GPUs. Because Nvidia’s take on frame gen uses fancy AI Tensor cores and Optical Flow accelerators. And only the Ada architecture of the RTX 40-series has that stuff in the right specs to run Frame Generation.
But not AMD. Its frame gen is technically simpler and can run on the shaders of any fairly modern GPU, including Nvidia graphics cards. Up unt…
Read moreJust a few weeks ago we reported on rumours that there could be a Legion Go Lite and a Legion Go Gen Two approaching—that’s two new Legion Go handhelds. Now, however, there’s reason to believe there might be three.
The reason being that Notebookcheck has discovered EEC filings (via VideoCardz) for a Legion Go S 8ARP1, 8AHP2, and 8ASP2—three separate models. There’s also speculation over what these enigmatic model names might mean, and they might hint at a mess of upcoming AMD Z2 processors spanning three different generations.
AMD’s Z1 Processors (the Z1 and the Z1 Extreme) adorn a couple of the best handheld gaming PCs today: the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. The Z1 Extreme processor is, for all intents and purposes, the same as the mobile 7840U…
Read moreThe Internet Archive—the online repository of, well, pretty much everything—is under attack. It’s been hit by a series of DDOSes that have rendered the site essentially unusable since Wednesday, with the non-profit’s engineers scrambling to fend off the assault, upgrade security, and keep users informed all at the same time.
None of which, alarmingly, is the worst part. If you try to go to the site at time of writing, you’ll just find an error page, but visitors yesterday were greeted by a pop-up reading “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!”
HIBP means Have I Been Pwned, a site you can use to check if your emails a…
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