Month: December 2024

The Signal 4K30 and Signal HD60 are new capture cards from hardware manufacturer NZXT, which is known primarily for its custom PC builds. While these diminutive devices are new territory for NZXT, it’s also well-worn by Elgato, Avermedia, and numerous others. The capture card market is decidedly crowded, and while both variants of the Signal don’t distinguish themselves as the clear choice, they are incredibly strong options.

Both devices look the same and their design is very no-frills. That shouldn’t be taken as a negative, however, as their compact, light footprint and simple design make them easy to introduce into a gaming or PC setup without taking up an abundance of space or looking distracting. This elegance extends to the user experience which, in our case, was plug and play. Unlike many other capture cards, NZXT doesn’t bundle in their own capture software, which is ideal since most people use OBS or Streamlabs for both streaming and video capture. This means that getting setup and streaming is simply a case of downloading the appropriate software, plugging your console into the Signal, and connecting it to the PC.

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American casino gaming technologies firm Everi Holdings Incorporated has announced the inking of a deal that is to see it acquire certain strategic assets of guest engagement services pioneer Venuetize Incorporated.

The Las Vegas-headquartered iGaming firm used an official Tuesday press release to state that this arrangement for an undisclosed amount will allow it to ‘expand its addressable market beyond the casino gaming industry’ while simultaneously broadening is mobile-friendly capabilities to clients in this important sector.

Elevated engagement:

Everi Holdings Incorporated described Venuetize Incorporated as a developer of mobile-friendly technologies that provide sports, hospitality and entertainment operators with ‘an advanced guest engagement and m-commerce platform.’ The New York-listed buyer went on to proclaim that the pioneer allows customers to ‘elevate the guest experience’ within their venues and ‘strengthen their mobile channel engagement’ for further revenue opportunities.

Staff sequestration:

Randy Taylor serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer for Everi Holdings Incorporated, which was previously known…

Cyprus-headquartered iGame provider, Evoplay, has added yet another title to its premium Bonus Buy collection of slots, with Budai Reels Bonus Buy the follow-up to the original launched in January this year.

This captivating adventure is powered by the provider’s world-class game engine, Spinential, and like the previous iteration, has 20 paylines, a slightly lower RTP at 96.08 percent and increased volatility at medium-high.

Both versions of the online slot have a max win of €375,000 and showcase a cheerful monk named Budai who is responsible for wealth, prosperity and fun and is ready to share his riches, which includes gold-filled bags, feng shui inspired coins and Chinese red envelopes full of money, with anyone who isn’t afraid to play a game with him.

Game features:

Here, players have a chance to earn progressive prizes when they collect up to 15 special Scatter symbols. The reward increases in value as players gather more symbols.

Another feature players can take advantage of, with Budai’s blessing of course, is the Bonus Buy, which allows direct access to Budai Respins. This provides players with an opportunity to score s…

Betting operators now have access to a whole new range of innovative and “highly configurable” promotions via Bragg Gaming Group’s recently expanded Fuze player engagement and gamification product, offering them another way to enhance customer experience.

Now available on sportsbooks, the British B2B gaming technology provider’s trademarked Fuze toolset, which via its proprietary distribution platform is already accessible to clients of its online casino content, has been extended to include sports betting products. This expansion allows operators to utilize targeted gamified promotions for betting demand that is event-driven, enabling real-time tracking for gamblers.

Utilization Possibilities:

Bragg suggests one possible way the toolset could be utilized by operators, is that those running sports betting promotions could challenge gamblers to bet on the results of all of the soccer matches in a World Cup group stage, awarding prizes to participants who have the most winning bets, all of which would be tracked using Fuze leaderboards.

Highly Configurable:

Fuze sports betting promotions are highly configurable and make a broad…

Intel introduced its first hybrid desktop CPU architecture with a mix of Performance and Efficient cores, known as Alder Lake, back in late 2021. AMD isn’t expected to offer its own hybrid CPU for consumers and gamers until Zen 6 arrives and so probably not until 2026.

However, AMD has engineered some new smaller cores roughly equivalent to Intel’s E-cores, known as Zen 4c, and they could be quite a bit more powerful than Intel’s.

Semianalysis has a deep dive on 4c and there are a few take-away highlights. First, AMD’s small cores are bigger. Intel fits roughly four Efficiency cores into the space of one Performance core. AMD’s Zen 4c cores are about half the size of full Zen 4 cores, as found in its latest Ryzen 7000 CPUs.

More broadly, Zen 4c seems to be functionally much closer to a full Zen 4 core, but rearchitected for efficiency. Apparently, just redesigning the cores to a lower clockspeed target allows the core to be much smaller without losing any functionality.

AMD’s Zen 4c cores also support multi-threading, with two threads per core just like Zen 4. Intel’s Efficient cores, on the other hand, don’t have multi-threading support. The net result i…