At CinemaCon in Las Vegas Monday night, Sony Pictures trotted out its slate of upcoming movies–and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse got the star treatment with 14-minute presentation of footage from the film. And it was awesome, according to GameSpot Senior Editor Chris Hayner.

Before presenting the lengthy clips, the CinemaCon crowd was greeted by Spider-Verse co-director Kemp Powers, along with stars Shameik Moore (Miles Morales/Spider-Man), Hailee Steinfeld (Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen) and Issa Rae (Jessica Drew/Spider-Man). Moore said that it’s been more than a year since the events of the first movie, and that “Miles is still trying to find out how to be a superhero.”

“In this movie, Miles finds out it’s how you wear the mask that makes you a hero,” Moore said.…

One of the leaders in the world’s sports betting industry, Entain, published a financial report for the first quarter of 2024, from January 1 to March 31, 2024.

Successful quarter across key markets:

According to the official press release the company published, they’re satisfied with the progress regarding operational performance and revenue growth. Overall, the performance and the results Entain achieved during the first quarter met the expectations.

Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) increased by six percent. However, the results from the UK and Ireland weren’t so great, since new regulations took place in these markets…

In the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the operator behind the shuttered Imperial Palace Saipan property has reportedly committed to holding a ‘day of reckoning’ with the local casino regulator as soon as next month.

According to a Monday report from the Marianas Variety newspaper, Hong Kong-headquartered Imperial Pacific International Holdings Limited opened the casino at its $650 million Saipan venue in July of 2017 with plans to subsequently debut a 500-room hotel. However, this latter scheme soon reportedly ran into multiple delays while the entire complex was shuttered for some 22 months ago owing to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Afflicted enterprise:

The newspaper reported that Imperial Pacific International Holdings L…

However, Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism is having none of it, as the government has qualms about the feasibility of the project as submitted by Nagasaki.

Nagasaki Misses the Mark with Government

Kyushu Resorts Japan and Nagasaki prefecture will have to go back to the drawing board or fold their bid altogether. Government officials have expressed open worry over the nature of financing of the proposed projects.

There seems to be an unsatisfactory level of commitment outlined in the letters that are supposed to show support and outline the terms…

It’s long been expected that AMD would announce a Zen 4-based, Ryzen 7000-series Threadripper Pro family. That announcement date is today. But while Threadripper Pro was expected, less expected was the announcement of the return of non-Pro Threadripper for desktops after killing it in the last generation. AMD has done just that, saying “We hear you, you’re right, we brought it back.” 

It has now announced three new CPUs and accompanying TRX50 chipset motherboards. So, the high end desktop is back, with a super high price of entry, though you’ll have to wait a few weeks as availability is scheduled for November 21.

AMD announced three of these non-Pro HEDT chips. They are the $4,999 64-core 7980X, the $2,499 32-core 7970X, and the $1,499 24-core 7960X. AMD will launch si…