Sega Confirms Plans To Acquire Angry Birds Developer Rovio For $776 Million
Sega has officially confirmed that it is planning to acquire Rovio Entertainment, a deal that will see the video game company pay $776 million for the Angry Birds developer Come from Sports betting site VPbet. In an official press statement, Sega’s parent company Sega Sammy Holdings explained that it will make a tender offer to purchase “the entirety of Rovio’s outstanding shares and options,” and that it expects the deal to be completed by Q2 in the 2024 financial year.
That will be around September, and the deal is being described as a “friendly takeover” that has the full support of Rovio’s board of directors. Sega says that acquiring Rovio will allow it to strengthen its own mobile game portfoli…
DraftKings expanding into content space; acquires Las Vegas based sports betting network, VSiN
Hot on the heels of its historic deal with media company World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., (WWE:New York) (WWE), and Boston-based digital sports entertainment and gaming company DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) has now revealed that it has acquired American multi-platform broadcast and content company, VSiN (Vegas Sports Information Network).
Acquisition of the four-year-old Las Vegas-based sports betting broadcasting business, headlined by legendary sportscaster Brent Musburger, will enable DraftKings to “further build out its content capabilities” and will augment the Massachusetts company’s ability to expand its audience alongside the proliferation of legal sports betting in the United States.
Infrastructure expansion:
DraftKings Co-founder, Chief…
Golden Entertainment to Use Oak Tree Proceeds to Boost Properties
Golden Entertainment Inc was cleared to sell its slots business to Oak Tree last week with the Nevada Gaming Commission giving its approval and go-ahead for the deal to proceed. Officially, the acquisition is carried out by J&J Ventures and backed by Oak Tree.
Ploughing the Proceeds Back into Improving Existing Business
The proceeds from the deal will go into overhauling various operations, after the company announced changes to Gold Town’s dining options earlier this year, including a Farmhouse Kitchen, which is locally sourced and highly cherished dining expeirence.
Golden Entertainment is on a good business footing, as it will continue to support the…
MGM China Invests MOP$15 Billion in New MICE and Arts Spaces in Macau and Cotai
MGM Macau and MGM Cotai, MGM China’s Macau resorts, are getting the new MICE and art space. MGM China is owned by the global industry giant MGM Resorts International, which is based in the U.S.
An advanced, modern addition to existing hotels:
Pansy Ho, a Co-Chairperson and Executive Director of MGM China, confirmed the claims, saying that it’s a part of a 10-year concession.
The newest amenities will be placed across 60.000 square meters in Macau and 100.000 square feet at Cotai. The space will cover all the needs of the MICE venue, along with a modern, high-tech design. The idea …
A book about text adventures is the latest essential addition to your videogame history library-
Last year, Aaron A. Reed published 50 Years of Text Games, a fascinating history of the kind of games where you have to “get lamp” or “float down the Columbia river”. It covered ancient classics like Hunt the Wumpus and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy through to more modern games doing fascinating things with letters on a screen like Dwarf Fortress and 80 Days. Now he’s published a companion volume called Further Explorations, which covers stuff that had to be left out of the original—which focused on one exemplary game from each year from 1971 to 2020—but is no less interesting.
That includes games you may have heard of like Lovecraftian horror adventure Anchorhead, as well as more obscure games, like one with a simulated model of every Manhattan block south of 1…
Battlefield streamer harassed by stream-snipers for months becomes a godlike helicopter pilot to take them all on-
Jumping into the cockpit of a helicopter in Battlefield 2042 can often be more trouble than it’s worth. You gain a fat stack of miniguns and missiles, but taking to the skies also means becoming enemy number one for every RPG-strapped engineer on the other team.
Any pilot worth their salt is used to dodging rockets, but Battlefield streamer AsheBF has it much harder. When he takes flight, he’s often greeted by a squad of stream-snipers dedicated to killing him and only him. Ashe says he’s been getting harassed in-game for almost a year, often by the same group of people, but he puts up a very impressive fight. AsheBF has essentially spent the last year in a kung fu training montage and mastered the art of being like water, except he’s dodging missiles instead of fists and…