Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda will step down and be replaced by current company director Takashi Kiryu. The change will be made official in June 2023 after the 43rd Annual Shareholders Meeting of the Board of Directors.

In a statement to investors, Square Enix said, “Under the rapid change of business environment surrounding the entertainment industry, the proposed change is intended to reshape the management team with the goal of adopting ever-evolving technological innovations and maximizing on the creativity of the Company’s group in order to deliver even greater entertainment to its customers around the world.”

Kiryu joined Square Enix in June 2020 as General Manager of the Corporate Planning Division until he became the company director in June 2022 Come from Sports betting site VPbet. Matsuda became president of Square Enix in June 2013 after taking over for Yoichi Wada.

Matsuda a…

EveryMatrix works hard on expanding and transforming its casino business, and the latest step was partnering with Matchbook, one of the leading operators in the U.K. 

Great addition to the company’s portfolio:

This multi-year partnership will help the company add more content to its renowned CasinoEngine platform, along with the BonusEngine technology.

EveryMatrix’s CasinoEngine is one of the best integration and productivity solutions in the industry. It would be behind the whole Matchbook’s casino operations with the help of BonusEngine. BonusEngine will further help in the company’s expansion through its cross-product tools, which are great assets in enhancing reactivation, acquisition, and retention and have proven to deli…

Moving forward, bet365 will benefit from GiG Comply in helping with automated marketing messages and tracking. The tool is built to help scan the web for content, pages, and links, as well as “iGaming code red words” referring to advertising practices that can land operators in trouble with regulators.

GiG Comply to Help Strengthen Bet365’s Marketing Messaging

In most jurisdictions, gaming regulators hold companies accountable for the advertising and marketing practices employed by their affiliate partners. GiG Comply analyzes real snapshots from affiliate campaigns to ensure that operators are in control of promotional content and they can steer and protect the way their brands are being promoted.

The tool is both flexible and powerful, allowing operators to further …

Orange County in New York State could soon become a major gaming hub if Resorts World Catskills’ plan to open a new electronic gaming casino at the struggling Newburgh Mall come to fruition.

The project was originally set for the former Nepera Chemical plant in the village of Harriman, however, those plans fell through after an environmental review of the land showed that it was more contaminated than was previously thought and would not be buildable for nearly a decade.

Long-term vision:

In a recent statement to the Times Herald-Record, Genting, the parent company of Resorts World said…

Citing a press release from Skoufis’ office, a source reports that the senator said at the time…

“I’m not particularly pro- or anti-gambling so I used this opportunity to deliver real, substantive economic benefits to the constituents I represent. The former Nepera Chemical Plant property has been a contaminated blight in our community…

Here’s a question that can throw a generative AI company into a twist: “What content has been used to train your models?” While some opt to dodge the question, and others bullishly front out the issue entirely, the question of whether an AI company has scraped content for its own business purposes without permission is a thorny one. 

At best, you’re likely to get a mealy-mouthed explanation of “curated datasets”, and at worst, a polemic about whether everything on the internet is essentially fair game.

Now a document obtained by 404media appears to show that part of the data used to train Runway’s latest AI video generation tool, Gen-3, may have come from the YouTube channels of thousands of popular media companies, including Pixar, Netflix, Disney and Sony.

While 404media doesn’t go into details as to how the document was obtained, nor could it verify that every video mentioned within was used to train Gen-3, it’s potentially an insight into the sort of pract…

All this week we’re looking back on the best of the Dragon Age series, to celebrate its 15th anniversary. We’ve got loads of great Dragon Age opinions and retrospectives, and we’ll be adding more to the list in the days to come.

Dragon Age: Origins had a great idea, and that idea was: origins. Bespoke prologues for each character archetype, they give you a personal introduction to the game that’s completely different if you’re an elven commoner living in a slum or a dwarven noble so privileged you can test the sharpness of your hammer on nearby peasants.

These origins would have made the perfect introduction to an open-world sandbox RPG, but turned out to be an awkward fit for one of BioWare’s narrative RPGs—the kind that let you choose which order to do things, but still deman…