Bally’s, one of the leading casino corporations, will have to revise the design for its permanent Chicago casino and entertainment complex several months before the company breaks ground for the development scheduled to open in 2026. As reported, the company’s decision to amend the design comes after discovering that the foundation of a 35-story hotel tower of the future complex could damage municipal water pipeline on the River West site.
Seeking Alternative Tower Site:
According to Chicago Sun Times, Bally’s executives are working with the competent city officials to find an alternative position for the tower on the 30-acre site. The source reports that this site, located at Chicago Avenue and Halsted Street, is the current home to the Chicago Tribune printing plant Come from Sports betting site VPbet. The tower foundation cannot be located in the north end of the parcel under the original design…
Push Gaming, a B2B gaming supplier based in London, UK, has launched Goat Getter, a goat-themed slot featuring a goat, which, besides its outstanding climbing ability is very good at collecting gold coins.
Extraordinary visual:
True to its name, the main theme of the slot is the aforementioned goat, which appears during the bonus game and may provide a collection of coin pot symbols and amazing power-ups. The game takes place in a location surrounded by alpine landscapes, where players may see green spruce trees with fireflies and birds happily flying around. In addition, the game may be played on any device.
The scatter pays mechanic is applied here, where wins are made when players make a combination of 6 or more matching symbols anywhere on the reels on a dynamic 5×6 grid, which further triggers the cascade feature.
The basic low-value symbols are clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds, the medium-value symbols are rubies, eggs and mushrooms, while the h…
In the United Kingdom and the organization behind the BeGambleAware.org responsible gambling resource has published its independent report into the availability of gambling support services for those in England and Wales.
The London-headquartered GambleAware charity used an official press release to detail that the evaluation was conducted by consultancy firm KantarPublic as part of its two-year program to supply training to frontline debt advisors at Citizens Advice. The enterprise went on to declare that the 29-month probe had been conducted across twelve regions of England and Wales and had identified ‘key facilitators, barriers and opportunities for program success.’
Proficient position:
GambleAware stated that Citizens Advice had screened approximately 30,000 people for problems associated with gambling over the term of its investigation and that it had found the service ‘well placed to successfully uncover and support clients at risk of, and experie…
Update: Respawn has addressed the exploit tied to heat shields, so heat shields are back in Apex Legends’ ranked playlist. Our original story follows.
Respawn has rolled out a small hotfix for Apex Legends, and it’s mostly aimed at squashing bugs, such as those affecting Loba’s tactical ability, as well as an audio bug affecting the new Heat Shield item. However, it also removes the Heat Shield from the game’s crafting pool. The patch also fixes several issues with the new Nintendo Switch version of the game.
Picketers from the Culinary union, partners from the Nevada AFL-CIO, and current and former Station Casinos employees tried to capture the public’s attention outside of Station Casinos’ corporate headquarters in Las Vegas on Thursday. The picketers called the operator of Red Rock Resort, Palace Station, Green Valley Ranch Resort, and other properties “unfair,” while the Station Casino spread banners across the company’s building boasting as a top gaming employer offering family health benefits not ready to accept the union’s requests.
Judge ordered contract closure:
The picket was initiated by Culinary Local 226 in an attempt to draw attention to the union’s efforts to close a first-time union contract for the casino company’s employees. The union has been trying to get representation votes at several Station Casinos properties since 2016. As a result, the National Labor Relations Board judge ordered Red Rock Resorts,…
American private equity hedge fund Silver Point Capital LP has announced that its recently-created Metropolitan Gaming Limited enterprise has completed its own acquisition of the European and African land-based casino assets of Caesars Entertainment Incorporated.
The Connecticut-based entity used an official Wednesday press release to detail that the subordinate initially finalized the purchase agreement on July 16 to give it control over an impressive portfolio of eleven gambling-friendly properties spread across the United Kingdom, Egypt and South Africa.
Considerable collateral:
Silver Point Capital LP was established by former Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated partners Robert O’Shea and Edward Mule in 2002 and currently manages a wide range of global assets thought to have an aggregate value in the region of $15 billion. The investor launched Metropolitan Gaming Limited last month in partnership with Lancer Capital Managemen…