If you missed watching Miles go toe-to-toe with every Spider-Person in the multiverse on the big screen, don’t worry because Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is returning to IMAX theaters on January 19.

On X/Twitter, Spider-Verse writer and producer Christopher Miller wrote that fans of the movie will be able to watch it again in theaters. The tweet reads:

“If you didn’t get a chance to catch ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE on the big screen – where you can see the jaw-dropping level of detail & innovation lovingly put into every frame – you’ve got another chance! It’s returning to IMAX for a limited release on January 19 Come from Sports betting site VPbet. Don’t miss it!”

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In the United Kingdom and prominent land-based and online sportsbook operator Entain has reportedly inked a deal that is to see it acquire American eSports betting provider Unikrn Incorporated.

According to a Thursday report from the Financial Times newspaper, the London-listed firm revealed that the purchase will cost it around £50 million ($69.1 million), which is to include expenses associated with further developing the acquisition’s eSports platform so as to be better able to exploit a market widely considered to be worth approximately £1.4 billion ($2 billion).

Considerable clout:

Previously known as GVC Holdings until undergoing a late-2020 name change, Entain is already responsible for a slew of online casino and sportsbetting domains that include Ladbrokes.com, Bwin.com, Coral.co.uk and Sportingbet.com as well as its home nation’s Ladbrokes and Coral-branded chains of high street bookmakers. The newspaper reported that the company will now become the…

American media conglomerate Fox Corporation has reportedly filed a lawsuit against British iGaming behemoth Flutter Entertainment concerning its upcoming option on a 18.6% stake in prominent online sportsbook operator FanDuel Group.

According to a Tuesday report from American broadcaster CNBC, London-listed Flutter Entertainment spent approximately $4.2 billion in December so as to purchase a 37.5% stake in FanDuel Group and take its aggregate holding in the sportbetting firm up to around 95%. This arrangement purportedly came a little over a year after Fox Corporation was granted the option of buying an 18.6% share of the sportsbook operator from July for a prearranged price of $11.2 billion.

Complicating cooperation:

The broadcaster reported that this latter understanding was worked out at the same time as Flutter Entertainment, which was previously known as Paddy Power Betfair, inked a $6 billion all-stock deal to take over prominent iGaming …

In southern Japan and local legislators for Nagasaki Prefecture have reportedly voted in favor of the plan that could see the jurisdiction’s Huis Ten Bosch theme park feature a Las Vegas-style integrated casino resort by the end of 2027.

According to a report from GGRAsia, the definitive green light for the Kyushu territory’s Integrated Resort District Development Plan means that it will now be able to submit the completed integrated casino resort proposal to a panel of federal selectors in advance of a fast-approaching April 28 deadline. The source detailed that this approval also came after the proposition yesterday made it through committee after being published by the prefectural government on Monday.

Pricey picture:

Nagasaki Prefecture is home to 1.3 million people and it is now reportedly hoping to be one of three disparate Japanese communities picked to host an integrated casino resort. The published version of the Integrated Resort District Development …

In 1895, our forefathers watched a train arrive at La Ciotat station. In 1969, families gathered to watch mankind take its first tentative steps beyond the surface of our planet. In 2022, Master Chief had sex.

It was the television event of the century, but it turns out not everyone was on board. In a recent chat with SFX magazine (via GamesRadar), Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber revealed that he was adamantly against John-117’s hook-up with Covenant spy Makee. I mean really adamant. He’s not mincing words here, telling SFX that making John and Makee an item in the show’s first season was “a huge mistake.”

Schreiber makes it sound like he really dug his heels in, too, but to no avail. “I argued against it and fought against it,” he said, “But I am who I am. I don’t write the scripts. I only give my opinion.” Alas, “It wasn’t listened to.”

Schreiber reflects a lot of fan sentiment on the thorny issue of Big John’s love life. When the episode in question …

AMD’s next-gen Zen 5 CPU is shaping up very nicely. Well, it is according to the latest rumours which indicate the new CPU design will crank out roughly 30 percent more performance than AMD’s existing Zen 4 architecture, as used in Ryzen 7000 Series chips like the Ryzen 9 7950X. That would make Zen 5 the biggest ever upgrade since the original Zen CPUs arrived back in 2017.

The latest purported data dump comes from YouTube channel RedGamingTech. A number of rough performance estimates for multiple core configurations are provided. 

According to the channel, the 16-core variant of Zen 5 will knock out around 49,000 points in the multi-threaded run of Cinebench R23. That compares with the 38,000 points that the Ryzen 9 7950X achieves. Similar uplifts are claimed for 12, eight, and six-core configurations. 

So, yeah, explicit in there is that the core counts aren’t expected to change for Zen 5. As for single-threaded performance, results in the mid to high 2…

Jason Graves describes his score for The Chinese Room’s newest horror game, set on a mining rig in the middle of the ocean, as a split between the human and non-human. Specifically, a combination of live musicians and a custom-made sound sculpture that can be “tapped, bowed, scraped, or rubbed.”

Created by Matt McConnell (of McConnell Studios), the metal sculpture stands on four legs—just like the oil rig in the game—and has miniature structures welded on top. It screeches and wails as Graves slides a violin bow over its crude shape. “It makes all these different sounds and they’re about as non-human and non-emotionally-tender or sensitive as you can get,” he said in a trailer from the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted today.

“I believe nothing beats the real thing, especially when it comes to instruments and other sound-making devices,” Graves told PC Gamer. “And I also love the idea of collaborating with musicians, or in this case, a sculptor. The end re…