Disney wants to take parkgoers on a journey into the Star Wars Universe with its new Galactic Starcruiser resort at Disney World Come from Sports betting site VPbet. The pricing was recently revealed for the park, and while it costs quite a bit for a two night experience, you’re getting a lot for the price.

Opening in spring 2022, the immersive two-night experience takes guests on board a space ship in the Star Wars Universe where they’ll live out their own Star Wars story. Pricing is based on the number of guests per cabin. For two guests, it will cost $4,809 for the total voyage–which is $1,209 per guest per night. It does get cheaper per person, per night the more people you have. Having four guests–three adults and one child–will cost $6,000 for the voyage, $749 per guest per night. The Disney World site has a breakdown of it all.

Aside from a bed to sleep in, the package also inclu…

Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a $3.7 billion casino-resort project, had its official grand opening on the night of December 13. There were many A-listers and VIP guests who could enter only by special invitation at the grand opening party.

Private, luxury party:

After a ribbon-cutting ceremony that lasted 30 minutes and took place before the midnight opening, family and friends of Jeffrey Soffer, CEO of Fontainebleau Development, sang “Happy Birthday” to him. Plus, he wasn’t alone on stage, as he was joined by 18 collaborators “to the resort’s opening in the Urs Fischer Gallery for the property’s first big event.” In this regard, commenting on the entire project, Soffer said: “When you build a building like this, it usually takes about six years to plan and build it. It’s so big and massive. So to do that in less than three years, it doesn’t happen without a great development team.”

The beginni…

The Virginia Lottery Board regulator has reportedly awarded American casino operator Hard Rock International with a gambling license for its coming $400 million Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Bristol property.

According to a Wednesday report from the local online news domain at VirginiaBusiness.com, the move for the Seminole Tribe of Florida-owned enterprise will allow it to open a 30,000 sq ft temporary casino featuring some 870 slots and 21 gaming tables on the same site from July 8. The source detailed that this interim Bristol Casino: Future Home of Hard Rock venue is to additionally have a Hard Rock merchandise store alongside a restaurant and a pair of sports bars and eventually be replaced by the permanent Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Bristol facility.

Tempting timeline:

Hard Rock International is reportedly already responsible for twelve casinos spread across the United States including the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Atlantic City enterprise …

This week, the Nevada Gaming Control Board gave Wynn Resorts full approval to open its gaming floor to 100% capacity. Like many others, the casino operator has been unable to offer services at full capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For Wynn, the operator has vaccinated 88% of its employees as of this weekend and this was enough to ease the occupancy levels and physical distancing protocols.

Fully Operational

The Wynn Las Vegas and the Encore Las Vegas will both be allowed to operate at full occupancy levels. The plexiglass dividers that once stood at slot machines and table games can be removed. According to the company, employees and guests will still need to follow the safety and health guidelines of the state. This includes wearing masks.

The company has worked quickly to vaccinate its employees and even surpassed the state’s totals. On Monday, the state had only issued vaccinations for around 46% of individuals 16 years of age or older in the state.

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Twitch rival Kick, backed by co-founders of the Stake gambling platform, has spent a lot of money on streamers in 2023. The biggest deal by far was a reported $100 million contract for Canadian megastar xQc in January, but it recently signed up FaZe Clan co-owner and popular Call of Duty streamer Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff for an eight-figure sum.

On his first-ever Kick stream last week, Nickmercs had this to say: “The first question I’ve been seeing is like, ‘Nick, are you gonna do gambling streams?’ We’re gonna do some gambling for sure. It’s part of the contract, y’know.”

Confusingly, Kick’s head of partnerships then denied Nickmercs’ contract contained any gambling clause, but the devil’s in the detail. Esports reporter Jake Lucky later clarified that we were dealing with some very fine definitions here: Nickmercs has a Stake contract as well as a Kick contract.

Nickmercs basically confirmed what many had suspected: that Stake is…

For us PC gamers, the most important part of a gaming notebook is its GPU. Knowing what the best graphics card for laptops is could be the key that stops you from either spending too much on a machine that fails to perform or buying a gaming laptop without the necessary grunt to deliver the frame rates you crave.

But just being confident about the specific graphics chip inside is sadly no longer enough—you now need to know how much power the manufacturers are letting that GPU chow down on. And it’s not always easy to tell, with some of the best gaming laptop builders either hiding those stats behind reams of online documentation, or just obfuscating the issue with vague allusions and no direct info.

Suffice to say, each individual GPU has a range of potential power configurations, allowing manufacturers to drop powerful graphics silicon into the slightest of builds. Just know that even if your thin little gaming laptop is rocking an RTX 4090 it might sti…

In a new interview with former Industrial Light and Magic concept artist Iain McCaig from StarWars.com (via Variety), the illustrator revealed that there was initially supposed to be a wild twist at the end of the divisive first prequel film, The Phantom Menace: Liam Neeson’s character was to be the original “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” with Ewan McGregor as Qui-Gon Jinn. McGregor would have taken up the name after Neeson’s character’s death at the hands of Darth Maul.

“It’s interesting how things evolve,” McCaig said of designing the characters’ appearances. “For a time, the older Jedi was named Obi-Wan and the younger Jedi was named Qui-Gon. It was very poignant that at the end, as Obi-Wan dies and Qui-Gon defeats Darth Maul and stays with his Master as he passes away, he not only takes on his Master’s quest, but he takes on his name.

“Qui-Gon becomes Obi-Wan. That’s why when you see Alec Guinness in A New Hope, he puts his hood down and goes…