«Today I have received the final report from the external review of the Queensland operations of The Star Entertainment Group from the Honourable Robert Gotterson KC,» Ms Fentiman said in a statement on Friday.

The review pointed to a 25.8 per cent fall in alcohol-related assaults, a 37.6 per cent drop in alcohol-related hospital admissions in Alice Springs and a 24.2 per cent decrease in admissions in Tennant Creek.

Aug 9 (Reuters) – Gaming software company AppLovin Corp made an offer on Tuesday to buy its peer Unity Software Inc in a $17.54 billion all-stock deal, threatening to derail Unity’s announced plan to acquire AppLovin’s smaller competitor ironSource.

«The court has given a strong signal to the international community that evictions and human rights abuses against indigenous peoples should be tolerated if they are done in the name of protecting nature,» Longo said.

«The proposed price for Unity appears well below its intrinsic value, and we would expect Unity to reject it for that reason,» wrote Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities. «We think interference with the ironSource acquisition is problematic, and will cause Unity´s board to tread very carefully before agreeing to a sale outright.»

The land disputes between the Maasai villagers and the national park management emerged in 2012 but later in 2017 the government ordered the residents to leave and security forces later evicted them by force.

Sept 27 (Reuters) – Intel Corp plans to expand the Intel Developer Cloud to allow customers to try a range of new chips before they hit the market, a move it hopes will lure more application developers to use its processors, the company said on Tuesday.

«In some ways Intel is the biggest software company that you’ve never heard of,» said Nick McKeown, who leads Intel´s Network and Edge group, adding that there are over 20,000 software developers at Intel.

«The truth is that when I saw the result… it was something magical, surprising, a dream I always had as a child that came true,» said 23-year-old Parra, who lives in central-Venezuela’s Aragua state, and started playing video games at the age of four.

The government said four Maasai villages are located within the boundaries of the Serengeti National Park, which was originally demarcated under British military rule for gaming but redrawn for conservation by subsequent administrations.

The dream of earning a living as a professional gamer is particularly resonant for many young people in Venezuela given the sparse opportunities otherwise available in a country with a minimum monthly salary equivalent to about $22 a month.

Intel on Tuesday at its developer conference also unveiled its 13th generation Intel Core desktop processor to help improve gaming experiences and the Intel Geti platform to help customers develop and use AI for computer vision. (Reporting By Jane Lanhee Lee; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

He is one of some 3,000 young Venezuelans competing in the multi-million dollar «eSports» industry, a lucrative business with international signings, prizes and millions of viewers which has started to boom in the Andean nation, despite economic chaos, poor internet connection, power failures and local restrictions on war games.

Rights groups and the Maasai community say the villages are outside the park’s boundaries, and that villagers were the victims of a violent police crackdown aimed at forcing them off their traditional lands to make way for trophy hunting by tourists and conservation.

«There are a lot of interested people, there is a lot of talent here in Venezuela, a lot of players,» said Abreu.(Reporting by Deisy Buitrago in Cagua; Writing by Steven Grattan; Editing by Christian Plumb, Alexandra Hudson)

Professional gamers who aspire to become international superstars train an average of 40 hours a week. It’s a dream job for many teenagers, offering such advantages of recurring income, the ability to work from home and combining hobby with career.

DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 30 (Reuters) – A regional court on Friday dismissed a case brought by a group of Maasai villagers claiming the Tanzanian government used violence to evict them from their ancestral lands in the north of the country.

Shares of ironSource were down 11.21%. ironSource could receive $150 million in termination fee if Unity decides to walk away, according to the merger agreement. (Reporting by Eva Mathews and Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru, Krystal Hu in New York; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Mike Harrison and pkvgames David Gregorio)

CAGUA, Venezuela, Sept 1(Reuters) – Gamer Gabriel Parra was ecstatic to see himself hailed as the «Venezuelan star» after scoring the fastest time in an international Formula 1 eSports racing competition in May.