Month: December 2024

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is out now, and a senior developer on the project has said the game needed to embrace machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to come to market. Jorg Neumann said in an interview that it would not have been possible to create the game’s map data “by hand.”

“We would have spent our entire lives and then some just marking up terrain, which is not really the core of the thing. So it’s just a tool that helps us,” he told Rock Paper Shotgun of machine learning and AI.

One major fear is that advancements to machine learning and AI will lead to job losses, but for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, this was not the case. “The only thing we’ve done is grow,” Neumann said.

A team of 100 people made 2020’s Microsoft Flight Simulato…

EveryMatrix has taken a major strategic step by acquiring FSB Technology, a prominent global turnkey and specialist sportsbook technology provider, in an all-cash transaction. This acquisition is poised to significantly enhance EveryMatrix’s sportsbook platform, OddsMatrix, by bringing immediate revenue increases, cross-company synergies, and a solidified presence in key markets such as the UK, Ireland, and Africa, where FSB has established a strong foothold.

Founded in 2007 by Sam Lawrence and David McDowell, FSB Technology has become a leading B2B sportsbook technology supplier based in London. FSB offers comprehensive end-to-end turnkey solutions, including Player Account Management (PAM), sports betting, and casino platform solutions. This acquisition allows EveryMatrix to i…

In Japan and the firm that was last week selected as the preferred operating partner for Wakayama Prefecture’s envisioned integrated casino resort development has now reportedly unveiled a pair of partners that it hopes will help to get its bid over the finishing line.

According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, Clairvest Neem Ventures is eager to be given permission to bring a Las Vegas-style casino resort to a 50.7-acre plot of privately-owned land on the jurisdiction’s Marina City artificial island. The source detailed that the subsidiary of Canadian private equity management firm Clairvest Group Incorporated will now work with the Honshu community in advance of submitting its final plan to a panel of federal selectors ahead of an April of 2022 deadline.

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It was recently revealed that Newport World Resorts managed to reach the newest yearly high in terms of gross gaming income collected for the previous year, surpassing PHP34.2bln, which is roughly $600.38m. Additionally, when it comes to non-gaming income, it has also reached double-digits.

Revenue data for Newport World Resorts for 2023:

As for the Newport World Resorts‘ aforementioned non-gaming income, it managed to grow by 40% annually to PHP7.4bln, which is roughly $130m, based on new results unveiled by Alliance Global Group (AGI), parent firm of Newport World Resorts. In addition, the integrated resort (IR) credits the aforementioned notable year-on-year increase to “driven by the resurgence in tourism and meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibition …

It occurred to me last month that as a survival game fan, I’ve never actually read the grandaddy of all survival tales: Robinson Crusoe. I love survival films (All Is Lost, Cast Away, Inside) and books (In the Heart of the Sea, Adrift), so this felt like a pretty glaring hole in my survival wisdom. I’m a smidge late to the party—the novel, one of the most widely published books in history, was written by Daniel Defoe over 300 years ago.

I didn’t even know much about it other than that it’s the story of a guy who gets stranded on an uninhabited island for decades. I’ve tried to survive on islands in at least a dozen videogames, so I thought it might be fun to see how the classic survival adventure of Robinson Crusoe stacks up against today’s survival games.

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It might surprise you to hear that, until now, the internet’s favourite discussion hub hadn’t turned a profit since it started almost 20 years ago. Now, in a letter to shareholders [PDF] (via The Verge), Reddit has just announced that it was profitable in Q3 2024 with a “Net Income of $29.9 million and net margin of 8.6%, an improvement of $37.2 million from the prior year”.

Reddit getting out of the red and into the black has put it firmly on Wall Street’s radar, too, as The Guardian says that its shares rose over 35% following this report.

It might seem no coincidence that this happened during the same year that Reddit decided to partner up with Google and OpenAI to hand the site’s content over for AI model training. However, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman puts the company’s n…