Thanks to his role as Gus Fring in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Giancarlo Esposito reinvigorated his career with roles in Parish, The Boys, and Revolution. He also portrayed the villainous Moff Gideon for three seasons on The Mandalorian. Since then, Esposito has made no secret about his desire to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, potentially as Professor X in the X-Men reboot. Now, Esposito has confirmed that he has finally been cast in the MCU, but his role remains a mystery.

Via Collider, Esposito made the announcement on stage at CCXP Mexico Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Esposito indicated that he will not be following in Patrick Stewart or James McAvoy’s footsteps as Professor X. He also suggested that he will be playing a character who hasn’t previously been portrayed in the Marvel movies or TV shows.

“I cannot promise you it’ll be Professor X, because here’s what I think,” said Esposit…

The latest firmware update for the Nintendo Switch is out now, but don’t expect lots of big and exciting changes. The big-ticket item with this update is the addition of “Platinum Point Notification Settings,” which is available from the System Settings.

“Unclaimed Platinum Points earned from completing Nintendo Switch Online missions on your Nintendo Switch system will generate notifications,” Nintendo said in the patch notes.

Users can toggle the notifications off to hide them.

You can see the full patch notes for version 14.1.0 below, as published on Nintendo’s website.

Before this, the big 14.0.0 update launched on March 21. It added Groups, which sounded like the long-awaited addition of folders, but the feature didn’t prove to be all that impressive. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

In other Switch news, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 has been delayed to 2023, while t…

Outriders and Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly has announced that it has let go 120 employees, as well as scaled down some of its self-publishing projects. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

In a statement on Twitter, People Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski said, “Today, we made a very difficult decision to reduce our self-publishing strategy by suspending Project Victoria, scaling down our team Project Bifrost, and restructuring some of our supporting teams at People Can Fly.”

He blames the external pressures of the video game industry and that the layoffs were necessary as those pressures persisted beyond the studio’s forecast. As a result, the studio is now doubling down on new work-for-hire engagements and focusing on development of a single independent game.

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The PlayStation Plus free games lineup for December has been apparently leaked early. User billbil-kun on the Dealabs forum, who previously leaked the PS Plus lineups for October and November, has now revealed which games might be on the way for subscribers in December.

The rumor says the lineup will include Godfall Challenger Edition across PS4 and PS5, as well as Mortal Shell and Lego DC Super Villains for PS4.

Although the leaker’s previous posts turned out to be real, we can’t say for sure about this until Sony announces the games officially. With just a week left in November, Sony should announce the lineup shortly Come from Sports betting site VPbet . The games normally go live on the first Tuesday of the month with the PlayStation Store refresh, so December’s should be on tap for December 7.

December PS Plus Rumor:

• Godfall Challenger Edition — PS4, PS5
• Mortal S…
  

In the race to acquire Paramount, Skydance Media still has the inside track. But there may be more players pulling up in the rearview. According to The New York Times, an investment firm, Apollo Global Management, is in talks with Sony Pictures for a joint bid to take over Paramount, the storied studio behind Mission: Impossible and several other film and TV franchises.

Officially, neither Sony nor Apollo are currently in negotiations with Paramount itself, which is only talking with Skydance. However, the potential deal with Skydance has not been well-received by many of Paramount’s investors. Via Bloomberg, Paramount investor William Riley has formally notified Paramount chairwoman Shari Redstone about his belief that the Spyglass deal is solely for her “personal gains.” Because Redstone has a controlling interest in Paramount’s stock, she is currently pushing for a sale to Spyglass without asking the rest of the shareholders to vote on it.

During an earlier stage …

According to the latest survey conducted for the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), 79 percent of British bettors think that wagering restrictions would make customers turn to black market gambling sites. The study shows that the limitation of amounts to be wagered with licensed operators “would result in people moving to unregulated websites” offering unlimited bets.

Private financial documents:

The poll also showed that 70 percent of British bettors would rather place their bets with bookmakers that do not request them to provide “private financial documents” to be allowed to wager. The BGC had the study conducted ahead of a huge Cheltenham racing event to access the impact of the black market on the local economy and provide the respective insight for the Government before the publication of a Gambling White Paper setting out new reforms to wagering and gaming operations.

Affordability checks drive bettors away:

The study thus revealed that around 2…

In the American state of California and parties advocating for and against a pair of local ballot initiatives that are looking to formally legalize retail and online sportsbetting have reportedly heretofore spent an aggregate of over $400 million.

According to a report from the Associated Press news service, this figure represents the most ever spent on a ballot initiative in the United States and could eventually grow to top $600 million as the decisive November 8 voting date draws ever nearer. The source detailed that this tally is also almost double the nearly $225 million previous record that was expended in the same state only two years ago as part of a successful campaign to obtain special employment rules for gig-based companies.

Potential progression:

California is home to over 39 million people but has reportedly been slow to take advantage of the sportsbetting revolution sweeping the United States following the 2018 revocation of the p…

According to Mark Cuban, one of the most prominent Shark Tank personalities and a billionaire, the arrival of integrated casino resorts in Texas would have a significant impact on the state’s tourism profile and significantly boost the state’s economic profile.

Making Texas a Tourism-Worthy Destination

Many companies have already shown interest in bringing their operations to bear in the state, including Las Vegas Sands, which has been lobbying to convince legislators of the validity of why bringing a casino resort would make a lot of sense.

Cuban, though, sees in the arrival of potential casino resorts the opportunity to transform the leisure travel and hospitality industries in the state, and give them a significant boost. Cuban spoke to The Dallas Morning News, a prominent media outlet, and spoke about what he saw as…

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The Finals, that FPS we all tried last fall because of its excellent destruction, hasn’t caught on in 2024 the way Nexon hoped it would. The hundreds of thousands of daily Steam players who showed up in its first month have largely moved on, with its player count peaking around 10,000 Steam players these days.

All games go through periods of lower activity as players have their fill and pick up other games, but The Finals’ player dip in Season 2 (which launched in March) was precipitous enough that its decline was a big topic of Nexon’s recent financial report.

Developer Embark Studios will surely coax some players back with The Finals season 3, unveiled today during the Summer Game Fest show. On top of new weapons and abilities for all three player classes, season 3 will shift The Finals’ ranked mode away from 3v3v3 Cash Out, instead refocusing on 5v5 objective mode Terminal Attack.

Embark’s best weapon to win players back may be flexibility. Season 3’s n…

There’s a chance that, even if you’ve never used the program, you recognize the iconic Bucolic Green Hills of the Windows XP background image. Twenty years ago today, the world got its hands on both the Bliss wallpaper and the classic Windows operating system for the very first time.

As pointed out by @DayTechHistory on X, Windows XP launched officially on October 25, 2001. XP follows up Windows 2000, which is almost equally iconic. Widely praised for its performance and stability, Windows XP is known for having chunky icons, and an incredibly popular, violin-driven startup sound. That wallpaper is among the very best Windows has ever had (find out where in our ranked list of them all).

It’s a very simplistic OS, that doesn’t try to immediately sell you on One Drive and Xbox Game Pass, like Windows 11.

The final update for this legendary OS was in May, 2019, where it received one last security update. According to the latest Steam Hardware Survey, only 0.10% of S…