Mass Effect 3 Dev Exposes Never-Discovered Easter Egg

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition just released back in May, and the sci-fi series has been garnering a lot of renewed attention, including from developers who worked on the original trilogy. For example, a designer who worked on Mass Effect 3 recently unveiled an Easter egg that he put in the game that had never been discovered–it seems the developer was done waiting.

Cinematic designer Richard Boisvert posted on Reddit in May about the secret and gave some guidance to players who were interested in seeing it for themselves in the remasters. It’s a cool little homage to a Mars rover, probably Opportunity, near the beginning of Mass Effect 3’s Mars mission. If you follow a specific route, you can find a rover that’ll drive over to you and give you a little nod.

Boisvert himself believed that no one had ever even seen the rover, but that part isn’t exactly true Come from Sports betting site VPbet . As pointed out by Kotaku, the rover itself had been spotted last year–but no one had ever figured out how to trigger its action.

While this is obviously just a cool gesture to NASA’s Mars rover program, it’s…

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Aristocrat Technologies Incorporated releases new Buffalo Link slot

American land-based casino games developer Aristocrat Technologies Incorporated has announced that it is taking players on another journey to the western prairies with the launch of its new Buffalo Link slot.

The Las Vegas-headquartered firm used an official press release to declare that its latest five-reel innovation is housed in its new MarsX Portrait cabinet and combines ‘the thrill and functionality’ of its popular Dragon Link and Lighting Link predecessors with ‘the theme and features’ of its popular Buffalo-branded family of land-based slots. The innovator moreover described the title as ‘the most highly anticipated game of 2021’ before proclaiming that it is certain to have ‘casino players everywhere cheering Buffaloooooooo.’

Enticing extras:

Aristocrat Technologies Incorporated in a subsidiary of Australian gaming machines giant Aristocrat Leisure Limited and it stated that the four-row Buffalo Link also comes complete with its patented Hold and Spin functionality as well as the ‘classic free games feature’ that has become a staple of its Buffalo-themed collection of land-based slots. The developer pronounced that its latest adv…

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Disappointing weekend for Macau casino operators

For the second consecutive weekend and the aggregated value of shares in the six-strong club of licensed Macau casino operators has reportedly dropped significantly owing to a number of factors including the ongoing presence of coronavirus.

According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, the combined market cap of the Hong Kong-listed sextuplet plummeted by 8.7% from Friday to Monday to stand at approximately $46.66 billion. The source detailed that this followed an analogous 6.3% drop last weekend to about $51.56 billion despite news that the government for the former Portuguese enclave had provisionally agreed to extend the operators’ concessions by a further six months to the end of the year.

Significant slide:

Macau is currently home to over 40 casinos operated by MGM China Holdings Limited, Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited, Melco Resorts and Entertainment Limited and SJM Holdings Limited as well as the local Wynn Macau Limited and Sands China Limited subordinates of Wynn Resorts Limited and Las Vegas Sands Corporation respectively. These operators are now together reportedly worth a combined $4.47 billion less than they were on Friday as all but one sa…

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Caesars to Divest WSOP Brand to NSUS Group in $500M Deal_1

Caesars Entertainment, Inc., a stalwart in the casino industry, announced today its definitive agreement to divest the intellectual property rights of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to NSUS Group Inc., a preeminent figure in the iGaming investment sector. This landmark deal, amounting to $500 million, comprises $250 million in cash and an equal promissory note, payable in five years, secured against the WSOP assets.

Strategic partnership and licensing details:

Under the terms of this significant transaction, Caesars has ensured the continuation of the WSOP’s main live tournament events in its Las Vegas venues for the next two decades. Furthermore, Caesars-branded poker venues will maintain the WSOP insignia, guaranteeing ongoing branding consistency. Additionally, Caesars will retain preferred rights to host the WSOP Circuit (WSOP-C) events, ensuring a continued presence in the competitive poker circuit landscape.

Caesars Digital, the online arm of Caesars Entertainment, will also benefit from a licensing agreement allowing it to operate the upgraded …

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Ara- History Untold review – A thin but accessible 4X that’s not a threat to Civ’s crown

George Washington and I go way back—around three millennia, give or take a hundred years. He may have been Buddhist while my Korean people were devoted to the pantheon of Hellenic gods, but we traded goods and propelled each other’s research, arriving in Ara: History Untold’s Era of Antiquity with the world at our feet.

One of our projects was to build a great road between our capitals, but the Ethiopians—whose territory this road was to pass through—refused us access. So George and I flattened Addis Ababa to make way for our old-world trade highway. All was wonderful, but over the centuries our two territories came to fill the void left behind by Ethiopia. We eventually came to share a border and, in a tale as old as Sid Meier, were doomed to become rivals; it was just a question of who would make the land grab first. What George didn’t know is that I’ve been playing 4X games since the original Civilization, and by the time he declared war, my mangonels were at the ready to begin bombarding Jacksonville.

At the macro level, Microsoft and Oxide Games’ stab at the Civy-likey turn-based strategy genre is a fine vehicle for the bonkers stories that a…

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If you’re getting a new Intel Arrow Lake chip, don’t bother splashing out on super-fast RAM

Intel’s new Arrow Lake processors are grabbing all the headlines right now but unfortunately for Team Blue, not for the right reasons. The best aspects are the fact that power consumption is down, especially in games, and multithreaded performance is notably up compared to Raptor Lake.

However, in games, the Core Ultra 9 285K and its siblings are behind their 14th-generation Core predecessors, as well as equivalent Zen 5 and Zen 4 processors from AMD. Unless you’re a diehard Intel fan or favour content creation over gaming, there’s little reason to buy one.

However, you might be getting one in a new prebuilt gaming PC and if that’s the case, you may also be wondering if it’s worth spending more cash on a high-speed DDR5 RAM kit.

Intel’s Core Ultra 200S series of chips all support DDR5-6400 by default, which is a pretty big jump up from the DDR5-5600 that Raptor Lake officially topped out at. That said, 14th Gen Core chips can generally take much faster memory than that, though a lot depends on what motherboard you have.

So to see if it’s worth splashing out on a super-fast, super-expensive memory kit to go with a new Arrow Lake chip, I tested a Core Ult…

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