A shortened license period of 10 years from 20 years is also not a problem, Song said, as the government would re-allocate facilities and resources to Genting if it won a license, so they «don´t actually need to build everything from the ground.» ($1 = 7.8498 Hong Kong dollars) (Reporting by Farah Master Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

«Further investments in areas that will strengthen the expansion on to PC, on to mobile and into live services, that’s definitely a possibility for us,» Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, told Reuters in an interview without providing further detail.

Yet one only needs to be in Qatar a short time to understand the symmetry between this wealth-obsessed outpost and the Beckhams (and make no mistake, Victoria is as in thrall to this homophobic emirate as her husband).

Beside them London’s Docklands — now 50 per cent Qatari owned — would look like a Lego model. Almost all the 3 million population — some 90 per cent of whom are poor migrant workers — live in and around the capital, and the emirate is growing at an astonishing rate, eyed suspiciously by Saudi Arabia, the only country with which Qatar shares a border.

TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Sony Group Corp’s gaming business is looking at fresh investment to bolster its push into PC and mobile, a senior executive said, as the PlayStation 5 maker competes for talent with deep-pocketed rivals and as industry dealmaking heats up.

The Qataris have clearly fallen for Beckham’s wholesome English image — several people have told me how impressed they were that he queued for hours to see the Queen lying in state — and think he can bring families flocking to the bazaars and beaches.

That, at least, is the view of Dr Nasser Mohamed, 35, a Qatari national who came out after ‘defecting’ to the United States, and this week published an open letter urging Beckham to speak out on this issue.

Unlikely as it seems, the avowedly metrosexual Becks — who has declared his pride in being called a ‘gay icon’ — struck up a rapport with the abaya-clad Qatari spice chef and this week he returned for another PR shoot.

It would cause «far too much disruption» if any of the six operators were replaced, said Terry Ng, an analyst at Daiwa in Hong Kong, although other industry watchers note the incumbents have left themselves vulnerable to an operator like Genting which lost out on a Macau licence in 2002.

Hulst, who is based in the Netherlands and took up his post in 2019, has overseen the growth of PlayStation Studios to 19 studios, with additions including Nixxes, which ports console games to PC, and mobile developer Savage Game Studios.

Sony, whose studios are known for single player console games such as «Spider-Man» and «God of War», has outlined ambitious plans to release titles on PC and mobile and offer live service games, which provide continuous updated play.

«If Sony can pull off what they did with single player experiences but (as) multiplayer experiences across platforms, on the PC, on consoles and maybe even on the phone, then all bets are off,» said Toto, pointing to the success of online games such as Fortnite from Epic Games.

If an incumbent loses their license, they must return the casino area to the government for free at the end of this year, making it financially unviable to operate the remaining facilities as gambling accounts for 80-90% of total revenue.

Sony is producing a growing number of game adaptations, with this year’s «Uncharted» movie grossing more than $400 million globally and a TV series based on «The Last of Us» franchise from its Naughty Dog studio launching on HBO next year.

If you own any kind of modern Mac, there are three basic ways to take a screenshot with keyboard shortcuts — and if you have a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar there’s even a fourth method. Apple’s MacOS software also gives you a fair number of options to easily save, delete and open the screenshot for markup. 

Genting «can offer the Macau government whatever they expressly said they wanted,» versus the incumbents who have predominantly focused on Chinese VIPs, said Samuel Yin Shao Yang, an analyst at Maybank.

If one of the incumbents lost their license it’s likely to send tremors throughout Macau´s gambling industry as the companies have collectively invested more than $50 billion in the past two decades, are tied closely to the economic fortunes of the former Portuguese colony and employ tens of thousands of people.

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