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Saying they didn’t do enough to stop doing business with an illegal bookmaker, Caesars Entertainment executives apologized profusely and accepted responsibility for their failure before the Nevada Gaming Commission Thursday. The Commission voted 4-1 to agree to the $7.8 million settlement negotiated with Caesars by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. While being criticized for the company’s inaction, it wasn’t as sharp as it was against the Strip operators fined earlier this year – Resorts World for $10.5 million, MGM Resorts International for $8.5 million, and Wynn Resorts for $5.5 million. The cases against Resorts World and MGM also involved accepting bets from Bowyer. Gary Carano, executive chair of Caesars Board of Directors, told the Commission that the way their anti-money laundering p...

Not all monster movies also function as horror movies, since you could call Jurassic Park a monster movie of sorts, and though it’s intense (and has some scary scenes), it’s not usually described as a horror movie. The same goes for a few Guillermo del Toro movies about monsters, with Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water being two of his best, and both are more concerned with other genres besides horror. Also, if you go back and look at earlier monster movies – so, for present purposes – the ones made before the year 2000, not all of them are necessarily scary by today’s standards. The following titles, though, have the best chance at still feeling unsettling and frightening, being particularly timeless as horror movies that just so happen to prominently feature monsters. There are al...

Xania Monet is the latest digital nightmare to emerge from a hellscape of AI content production. No wonder she’s popular … but how long will it last?The music iteration of AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, Xania is a composite product manufactured of digital tools: in this case, a photorealistic avatar accompanied by a sound that computers have generated to resemble that of a human voice singing words.Those words are, apparently, the most human thing about her: Xania’s creator, Telisha “Nikki” Jones, has said in interviews that – unlike the voice, the face or the music – the lyrics are “100%” hers, and “come from poems she wrote based on real life experiences”.Not that “Xania” can relate to those experiences, so much as approximate what’s been borrowed from a library of recorded instances of actua...

Few franchises have shaped the landscape of gaming quite like Metroid. For nearly four decades, Samus Aran has evolved from a quiet 8-bit bounty hunter to one of Nintendo’s most iconic heroes, defining the Metroidvania genre and inspiring generations of developers. Across handhelds, home consoles, and experimental hardware, Metroid has always stood for something: bold atmosphere, isolation-driven storytelling, and a willingness to reinvent itself in ways most series never dare. Whether 2D or first-person, every entry left a unique imprint on the industry. As we look ahead to Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, excitement is mixed with curiosity. Can it recapture the magic of the original Prime trilogy? Will it push the series forward in a meaningful way? Fans have waited more than a decade to se...

Jesse Plemons, who can be seen now in the eccentric drama "Bugonia," will be featured in 2026's big-screen return to Panem. SAN ANTONIO — Jesse Plemons, the Oscar-nominated actor fresh off working on a pair of films by eccentric filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, will trade zany for spectacle with the arrival of the latest "Hunger Games" movie in 2026.  Plemons will appear in next year's big-screen return to Panem as a young Plutarch Heavensbee – the man who would go on to become a key rebellion leader in the universe, previously played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman – in "Sunrise on the Reaping." Plemons joins a cast fairly evenly split between cinema all-stars (Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close) and performers on the rise (Maya Hawke, ...

Megan Moroney's new album won’t be completely filled with sad songs for sad people. However, there may be parts that do. As the country singer put it, Cloud 9—set to be released Feb. 20, 2026—draws from her own life experiences, including both the best and hardest parts of being in a relationship. "I literally write about my real life," she exclusively told E! News Nov. 19 at the 2025 CMA Awards. "There will definitely be songs on the album where you're trying to put the pieces together." As to whether the album will be more focused on love or heartbreak? The "Tennessee Orange" singer shared, "A little bit of both." And for Megan, who performed her single "6 Months Later" in a sparkly pink get-up at the award ceremony, that girly aesthetic behind the album is more than just a style choice....

Avatar: The Last Airbender has a magic system they repeatedly claim isn't magic (though it clearly is), which is themed around the four elements. You might think that maps easily onto Magic: The Gathering—red is fire, blue is water, white is air, green is earth, you've got black left over so throw it on any leftover bad guys like those creepy Canyon Crawler insect things, bish bash bosh, job's a good'un. But where the previous Spider-Man crossover set was content to wrap deep cuts from the Spider-Verse in existing mechanics, Avatar is more systemically ambitious, giving each flavor of elemental bending its own mechanic.Which is an interesting choice for a set you would expect to be aimed at younger players, but I guess they figured if a 12-year-old can play Magic and make it through the fi...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Music has an amazing effect on our brains and our bodies.It’s easy to get caught up in a tune -- tapping your foot, bobbing your head, repeating that earworm you heard the radio.But there’s one other interesting thing that happens to all of us, and we’ve never known about it until now! Brad explains in today’s 3 BRILLIANT MINUTES.Plus, the Northern Lights as you’ve never seen them -- forming a ring around the Earth!Copyright 2025 WBAY. All rights reserved. Source link

Nevada Gaming Control Board Chair Mike Dretizer said the $7.8 million fine against Caesars Entertainment for dealing with convicted bookmaker Matthew Bowyer was determined by tripling the amount of money won by the Strip operator. Dreitzer and Mike Somps, a senior deputy with the Nevada Attorney General’s office, laid out the case Thursday. The Nevada Gaming Commission agreed to the settlement with Caesars by a 4-1 vote. Somps outlined a five-count complaint over Caesars’s dealings with Bowyer, who pleaded guilty in federal court in September 2024 to operating an unlawful gambling business, money laundering, and subscribing to a false tax return. He was sentenced in August to 12 months in prison. Bowyer was a patron of Caesars from 2017 to January 2024, which stopped only after the FBI exe...

Any time a slasher series goes on long enough and ideas are running thin, someone is inevitably going to say, “What if we send them to space?” Sometimes that makes sense. I’ve long believed Chucky should go to space. Other times, it’s nonsense. Why would Michael Myers wind up in space? In the case of Jason Voorhees and Friday the 13th, it both made zero sense and, all the same, resulted in one of the greatest entries in the “so bad it’s good” horror canon. Jason X is the best kind of stupid movie one could ever hope for.  The film takes place in the year 2455 with humanity having left a heavily polluted Earth for a new planet they've dubbed Earth II. A crew of scientists on an expedition to Earth I discovers a research facility near Camp Crystal Lake where Jason Voorhees' body has been cry...