Sony Group and the owners of The Lego Group are investing $2 billion into Fortnite studio Epic Games as the company continues its mission to create a metaverse.
Sony Group and KIRKBI–the holding an investment company that runs The Lego Group–are each investing $1 billion into Epic Games. This is just the latest investment from Sony, which has already invested $450 million into Epic Games over the years.
As for Lego, its investment is no surprise, either, as Epic and Lego just announced a massive deal to create new family-friendly virtual playspaces aimed at children.
Sony Group CEO Kenichiro Yoshida said, “We are thrilled to invest in Epic to deepen our relationship in the metaverse field, a space where creators and users share their time. We are also confident that …
Read moreOn June 1, Play’n GO, a leading Swedish-based iGaming supplier, released Viking Runecraft Apocalypse, a Norse mythology-themed slot featuring the great gods of Asgard such as Odin, Freya, Thor and Heimdall trying to reach Ragnarok, which is a series of events in Norse mythology that involves an epic battle and the prophecy of the death of several gods, as they defend their home against the trickster known as Loki.
The provider is known for making each of its slots like a story with an exciting narrative for players to have an outstanding experience, and the sequels to its slots are even better than the originals, which has been proven true in the Book of Dead series and Reactoonz.
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True to its name, the main theme of the slot is the aforementioned…
Read moreAustrian game developer Greentube is set to significantly increase its audience in Greece, where it is already popular, after taking a selection of its best performing titles live with online sports betting and casino platform Fonbet.gr.
The content deal that further expands its regulated market reach has initially seen six popular slot titles made available to the operator’s local players. Hits such as the Egyptian-themed Book of Ra Deluxe, Dolphin’s Pearl deluxe and Lucky Lady’s Charm deluxe are now accessible to players, with other fan-favorites including the developer’s successful Cash Connection and Diamond Link series to join the selection soon.
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Read moreCasinos in the Northeast U.S. are currently facing a large number of problems as they prepare for the emergence of fresh rivals in NY City. Among those problems are the loss of business from illegal online operations, the ongoing debate over whether internet gambling hurts or helps the bottom line of physical casinos, and a potential smoking ban in Atlantic City. Additionally, these problems were recognized at a major casino conference held in Atlantic City on April 17th.
The impact of competitors from New York on the business flow of Atlantic casinos:
At the aforementioned casino conference, dubbed the East Coast Gaming Congress, held at the Hard Rock casino, panelists spoke of turbulence in the industry, especially as it’s in the middle of preparation for an inflow o…
Read moreFor just €60 a month on the darkweb you can sidestep the pesky ethical limitations of services like ChatGPT with a new, degenerate Large Language Model (LLM), known as WormGPT.
Designed by one ballsy hacker, WormGPT cares not for the confines of morality, and can be asked to undertake all manner of nefarious tasks, including malware creation and “everything blackhat related”, as the developer says (via PC Mag).
Built around the 2021 open-source LLM GPT-J, WormGPT was trained on malware creation data. As such, its main goal is to give would-be threat actors a place to generate malware, and related content such as phishing email templates.
WormGPT works similarly to ChatGPT in many ways: it processes requests made in natural human language, and pumps out whate…
Read moreThe Roblox Developers Conference is underway, and at the keynote address CEO and co-founder David Baszucki unveiled a modest goal: one billion daily active users, and 10% of all gaming content revenue worldwide happening within Roblox. To give that first target some context, estimates vary but the United Nations reckons the global population was just over eight billion people as of November 2022.
All you can really say is good luck because, while Roblox’s numbers are as impressive as they get, the platform as it stands is nowhere close to this scale. It boasts 79.5 million daily active users, nothing to be sniffed at for sure, but getting from here to one billion seems Quixotic at best. The first thing Baszucki wants to take aim at, however, is the idea that all these users are …
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