With Starfield early access well underway, we’re now just hours away from the full global release of the game. The much-anticipated Bethesda RPG officially releases on September 6 (September 5 in some regions, including the US), but those who buy either the Constellation edition or Premium edition upgrade were able to begin playing five days early. Below, you can find the exact unlock times for your region–those in the US can start playing later today, September 5, at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET.

Starfield will be available on Game Pass from day one for both Xbox and PC. Purchasing the Premium edition upgrade will also allow you to start playing during the early access period.

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As someone who does this game-reviewing gig alongside serving as a real-life mayor of a small town in Canada, I come at a game like SimCity from a different angle than most. Not that different, mind you. The multiplayer focus and always-on Internet demands of Maxis’ latest city-builder are beyond irritating. And the cramped borders that force you into constantly demolishing and rejigging your bulging-at-the-seams mini metropolis are almost enough to drive me to adopt the pastimes of another Canadian mayor who has been making the rounds of late-night talk shows recently.

But what really bothers me is the missed opportunity. This fresh take on SimCity comes a full decade after SimCity 4, yet it still repeats most of the same old mistakes, doubles-down on the regional approach introd…

While there don’t seem to be any Season 2 plans for Obi-Wan Kenobi right now, Ewan McGregor recently suggested at Celebrity Fan Fest that he’d up for it. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

It’s pretty likely that Obi-Wan Kenobi will stick as a single season show, particularly because director Deborah Chow has said that that is how it was conceived. But that hasn’t stopped even McGregor hoping for a second season, at Celebrity Fan Fest he was asked about a potential Season 2, to which he seemed pretty enthusiastic (via Star Wars Holocron).

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The Paramount Network’s Yellowstone premiered its fifth season this week, and to massive ratings–better than Yellowstone Season 4 and better than HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon, Variety reports.

Yellowstone Season 5 premiered on Sunday across the Paramount Network, CMT, TV Land, and Pop; these networks have done this for previous seasons as well, Variety notes. On its chief platform, Paramount Network, Yellowstone Season 5 lassoed 8.8 million users, up from 8 million for the Season 4 premiere. Across all four networks, though, that number climbs to 10.3 million, which would seem to suggest that all of the show’s growth took place on Paramount Network. Encore airings increased that number to 12.1 million viewers.

Compared this to HBO’s House of the Dragon,…

Initiated by the BC Lottery Corporation, this is a significant step up in the efforts to ensure that consumers are protected Come from Sports betting site VPbet. Moving forward, the only way to enter casinos in the province would be by providing a government-issued identification. This way, the onus would be on land-based properties to ensure that people who enter are not self-excluded or under the legal gambling age.

Using Automated ID Checks to Keep Consumers Safe

The measure is expected to be officially introduced this summer, and more details will be forthcoming as the final implementation date is being debated…

The resorts in question, Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods, decided to opt out of indoor smoking during the COVID-19 pandemic, fearing that cigarette smoke could help the virus spread and infect more people. More than a year after the pandemic has been defeated, the resorts seem to show very little interest in bringing back smoking on their casino floors. Recently, even Kansas tried to push for an indoor smoking ban on casino floors.

Tribal Operators in Connecticut Continue to Say No to Smoking

The resort’s owners, the Mohegan Tribe and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, are citing their communit…