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18 Sep 2023

Pragmatic Play, a leading content supplier to the iGaming industry, unleashes the power of mythological beasts in its latest Asian-inspired Slot, 8 Golden Dragon Challenge™. Transporting players deep into the mountains to the House of Fortune and Good Luck, blue, red and green dragons make up the game’s symbols across the slot’s 5×3 reels. Landing …

13 Oct 2022

Greentube, the NOVOMATIC Digital Gaming and Entertainment division, has officially launched its new and improved Ski Challenge game as a play-anywhere mobile esports experience. Now available to download for free on iOS and Android, the new version of the legendary and internationally popular Ski Challenge has been produced in collaboration with Swiss-Ski, the Austrian Ski …

15 Feb 2021

Yggdrasil Gaming, the leading worldwide publisher of online gambling content, invites players to a thrilling Wild West adventure in Big Bucks Bandits Megaways™. Developed by YG Masters studio partner ReelPlay, the game brings players to the frontiers of the Wild West for a nail-biting stand-off duel between gun slingers pursuing big bounty. Big Bucks Bandits …

2 Apr 2019

Helio Gaming CEO Richard Mifsud is set to discuss the modernisation of bingo, lotteries, and casino for the African millennial at Sports Betting East Africa+2019. The supplier, which is now working with an increasing number of operators on the continent, has a portfolio of innovative lottery games that are customisable for each brand. And its …

14 Dec 2018

William Hill plc has confirmed that it intends to launch an appeal against the Euro 300,000 fine imposed on it earlier this year by Dutch regulator KSA for offering online games of chance to Dutch consumers on a website with Dutch translation facilities and using the Dutch bank account-linked iDEAL online payment solution. Online gambling …

13 Nov 2018

Sweden’s Linköping Adminstrative Court has rejected an appeal brought by twelve domain holders challenging injunctions served by the gambling authority Lotteriinspektionen. The appeal revolved around the gambling authority’s decision to ban Swedish domains providing links to offshore lotteries.  In May 2018, Lotterinspectionen served injunctions against 39 internet domain owners ordering they cease promoting participation in offshore lotteries. The …

6 Nov 2018

William Hill delivered a mixed bag of results in a trading update for the H2 to date and year-to-date periods. Key performance indicators include: ·    Total Online net revenue, up 4 percent YTD, with Sportsbook growth of 8 percent and gaming of 1 percent. ·    Retail net revenue was down 4 percent YTD, …

3 Jul 2018

The European Gaming and Betting Association, a trade body that includes most major European gambling groups among its members, has filed a legal challenge in an Oslo court against the Norwegian government’s bank bans on the processing of international financial transactions with gambling operators. EGBA claims that interference with such transactions is a contravention of …

25 Jun 2018

Paddy Power Betfair’s Australian bookmaking business Sportsbet has reportedly launched a trademark suit against Crownbet’s proposed rebrand to Sportingbet following its acquisition from William Hill. The challenge will be heard before Victorian Supreme Court Judge Barry Beach in the third week of July, Australian legal publication Lawyerly reports. According to Lawyerly’s report, a statement of …

8 May 2018

After exposing flaws last week in the Australian News Agents Association, which has been campaigning against his company, Lottoland Australia CEO Luke Brill expanded his defence of his company this week by warning that any “synthetic lottery” ban imposed by the federal government would be challenged. Brill said in a statement that his company, which …

23 Dec 2017

It appears from an article in The Times on Saturday that former banker and Ladbrokes Coral chief operating officer Andy Hornby (50) will be appointed the chief operating officer of the combined GVC Holdings and Ladbrokes Coral group, responsible for all retail betting in the UK and Europe and all digital marketing. The merger is …

2 Dec 2017

Close on the heels of this week’s deal in which CrownBet agreed not to oppose the proposed A$11 billion Tabcorp-Tatts merger (see previous report) comes the news that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it will not further hamper the initiative. In a statement Friday the competitions authority commented that whilst …

13 Nov 2017

Svenska Spel has expanded its portfolio with the launch of a new sports pool betting game, ‘Oddset Challenge’ offering daily play for a minimum 5 Kronor stake. “What distinguishes Oddset Challenge from other pool games is that the ticket can contain several different game types and different sports events,” Joakim Thor, product manager sports games …

16 Sep 2017

The legal challenge mounted by online gambling group Betsson against the Dutch gambling regulator and its tighter regulations prohibiting offshore companies from accepting business from Dutch residents has been dismissed as inadmissible by a Dutch court. In May this year the Kansspelautoriteit launched new regulations banning online gaming operators and their affiliates from targeting Dutch …

8 Sep 2017

New York’s 2016 legislation legalising daily fantasy sports as a game of skill, and the legal challenge against it mounted last year by the Stop Predatory Gambling action group, was in the headlines again this week when the presiding judge rejected a motion by the state that the case be dismissed. Ironically, the man who …

22 Aug 2017

The Rugby Football League (RFL) and Ladbrokes have agreed a one-year extension to their current title sponsorship partnership, the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup. Ladbrokes will continue to capitalise on the competition’s vast and growing fan base which is led through broadcast partners, the BBC and Sky Sports, a presser reads.

21 Jun 2017

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with two State Attorneys General, have filed a legal challenge in opposition of the proposed merger between daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel. The FTC authorized the legal action seeking to block the merger of the two largest daily fantasy sports sites saying the deal would …

14 Jun 2017

The Gibraltar Betting and Gambling Association’s (GBGA) long-running legal challenge against the implementation of Britain’s point of consumption (POC) tax may have hit a wall after the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) handed down its ruling this week. The British High Court, in July 2015, requested the CJEU rule on Gibraltar’s relationship …

8 May 2017

NetEnt has launched a reality-TV-style web series called The Challenge in which it aims to cement NetEnt’s reputation as a leader and innovator in the tech sector, and position the supplier as a first choice for top talent in a highly competitive field. Described as the first-of-its-kind, the production features and engages staff across the …

12 Apr 2017

Kenyan Justice Roselyne Aburili has thrown out Bradley Limited’s urgent legal complaint concerning the proposed 50 percent tax on betting because the text font on the applicants submission was “too small to read”. “I direct the applicant to file reader friendly pleadings for consideration of the court,” Aburili said. Industry observers surmise the move is …

21 Feb 2017

In an exclusive interview with the internet publication Yogonet, the Isle of Man’s head of e-gaming, Mark Robson, gave his views on a variety of issues, opining that inconsistent regulation in the e-gaming industry is presenting a major challenge. “This has forced international operators to select their target markets based on administrative procedures and not …

19 Jan 2017

Gibraltar’s challenge to the UK 15 percent point-of-consumption tax on online gambling operator revenues has already failed in the UK High Court (see previous 2014  reports), and it looks as if it may be rejected by the European Court of Justice too. The ECJ normally hews to opinions of its Advocate General, although these are …