Month: December 2024

Persona 3 Reload, the remake of the cult-classic PlayStation 2 JRPG, is set to release on February 2, as revealed in a brand-new trailer that debuted during Gamescom 2023.

The remake, which was first announced earlier this year during the Xbox Showcase in June, is a full remake of the original PlayStation 2 title, omitting content that was then later added to Persona 3 Portable on PSP Come from Sports betting site VPbet . This means that you’ll be confined to playing as a male protagonist, and won’t have the choice to choose a female protagonist that FES presented. The game is being remade in Unreal Engine and looks to be taking a lot of inspiration from the series’ most recent entry, Persona 5, and its larger…

Anyone looking for a Switch controller that’s great for both handheld and wired play will find much to love about the Hori Split Pad Compact Attachment Set Come from Sports betting site VPbet. This unique device gets you access to the popular Split Pad Compact for handheld mode, plus a wired grip they can attach to when docking your Switch at home. The set is usually quite expensive at $80, though a new Amazon sale is now discounting two versions of the gamepad to $60.

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This week, 4ThePlayer.com announced it has completed an independent funding round involving individuals in the private industry. This funding campaign helps the company to remain independent and allows them to continue to develop and release quality games. The total sum raised was in the seven-figure range.

Helping the Company

Funding was provided by several private industry individuals. Scientific Gaming Digital former CCO Steve Schrier helped out as well as Reflex Gaming’s CEO Quentin Scott. Bet365’s former Group Director of Gaming Strategy Gil Rotem and Leading M&A specialist Daniel Burns also provided funds.

4ThePlayer.com CEO and Founder, Andrew Porter, commented on the fundraising by stating: “We are delighted we have completed this investment; w…

Karel Christian Mañasco, former CEO of the Gibraltar-based gaming firm Mansion, has faced a five million pound freezing order from the Chief Justice ruled against Mañasco’s assets worldwide.

Claim for damages:

The Gibraltar court has activated this draconian judiciary mechanism following the claims for damages filed by the company. Mansion claims that the extent of damages sustained by the company amounts to more than 2.3 million pounds and almost 3 million euros. According to local media GBC News, Mansion’s operation were exposed to damages by the misconduct of its former leader facing allegations of using company money to obtain luxury cars and high value watches and dishonestly availing of his position to collect significant personal bonuses and allowances.…

In Macau and Melco Resorts and Entertainment Limited has reportedly announced that it will soon be transforming the casino within its Altira Macau property into a premium-mass venue at the expense of any VIP business.

According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, the Hong Kong-listed casino firm made the revelation during a recent conference call to discuss its second-quarter financial results after having earlier relocated the 216-room facility’s existing VIP and junket operations to its nearby Studio City Macau and City of Dreams Macau properties. The source detailed that the coming shift in focus is now expected to take up to a year to complete as gaming areas not already serving premium-mass customers are renovated alongside any associated non-gaming assets.

Exciting…

In a fantastic turn of events, Remedy has lowered the PC system requirements for Alan Wake 2. This means you can now enjoy the beauty of Bright Falls and all the horrors that lie within without needing a beefy PC. 

The performance optimisation patch for Alan Wake 2 lowers the minimum GPU requirement to a GeForce GTX 1070 or Radeon RX 5600 XT. Previously, you needed to have at least an RTX 2060 GPU to even think about playing the horrifying yet beautiful game. More modern GPUs also received some improvements. According to Digital Foundry, the recent patch saw the RTX 4070 enjoy a 14% frame rate jump.

However, an Intel i5-7600K or the AMD equivalent is still a minimum requirement, along with a minimum of 16GB RAM and 90GB SSD storage. So double-check …

Stockholm has a new game studio. Going by Blue Scarab, the announcement shared on the company’s official website says it consists of over 20 ‘industry veterans’ who have led development on games like World of Warcraft, Battlefield, and Helldivers 2.

To coincide with the opening announcement, the team has shared some details of its first project and revealed it’s already well underway. Although the vast majority of details about it—such as a final name or even a codename—are scarce, we can start piecing together what to expect. Built in Unreal Engine 5, the story-driven MMORPG will be “cozy exploration meets true crime.” Which is a sentence I never thought I’d say.

Within the game, players will be able to explore an open world on horseback, which is prett…

It’s no secret that PC owners have been sticking with Windows 10 and one reason for this has been the TPM 2.0 requirement, preventing older PCs from being compliant. However, there have been several ways to circumnavigate this—but in a recent beta version of Windows, Microsoft has shut the door firmly on one of the more popular methods.

The method in question was remarkably simple—just apply a /product server argument to the setup execute file to trick Windows 11 into thinking the PC was a server and thus bypass the TPM 2.0 requirement. But as X user Bob Pony found out (via Tom’s Hardware), Microsoft has now blocked that method in an Insider build of Windows.

If you delve into the hardware requirements for Windows 11, you’ll see that you really don’t n…