The greatest compliment one can pay to Weird West is that it does, by and large, capture the feeling of playing one of the pulpy EC Comics and Two-Fisted Tales that inspired so many supernatural Westerns in the past. From its beautiful two-color art style and creepy morality fables to its omnipresent leathery-sounding narrator, Weird West is a fully realized grungy dimestore cowboy fantasy brought to vivid life. The game you actually have to play to make progress in it isn’t as resounding a success, however.

Weird West wastes no time knocking you off-kilter. The second you hit the New Game option, you, an unnamed hooded figure, are strapped to a chair while other hooded figures brand your neck with an arcane symbol and shove you into the body of one Jane Bell, …

Nintendo and Bandai Namco have released a new battle royale-style Pac-Man game for Switch called Pac-Man 99. Much like Tetris 99, the title is available as a free download exclusively for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, with offline modes offered as optional paid DLC. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

As with the aforementioned Tetris 99, Pac-Man 99 is a 99-player take on the classic arcade game. Each player will vie to be the last Pac-Man remaining as they navigate a maze and avoid the pursuing ghosts. Any ghosts that you defeat will be sent to other players’ screens as a “Jammer Pac-Man.” Bumping into one of these will reduce the player’s movement speed, making them more vulnerable.

Another…

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…

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…

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 …

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…