WMS Gaming operational website Jackpot Party has introduced its new Jackpot Party Progressive, an accumulating jackpot that can randomly trigger on any game with any stake. Players have to pick from a grid of presents that hide cash prizes when the progressive jackpot is triggered. If a star is revealed, the player moves forward to …
SHFL Entertainment (formerly ShuffleMaster) has entered into an agreement with GameAccount Network (GAN) that will see its online gaming products integrated onto GAN’s online gaming platform. Dependent on regulatory approval, the agreement will enable SHFL to offer its online versions of popular proprietary table games such as Three Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, and Fortune …
Casino and sportsbook games developer Reel Sports has launched a non-skill, fixed odds game titled Racing Riches Archive that allows players to wager on embedded video clips of historic sporting action. Reel Sports has acquired the global rights from Pitch International for a range of sports and events, including classic FA Cup ties and England …
The Social Gaming Association has grown its membership with the addition of social gaming technology provider Enteraction in the category Accredited member and advisor to the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, Alderney Gambling, as a Governmental member. Stuart Tilly, director of the Association commented: “I’m delighted to welcome both Enteraction and Alderney Gambling to the Association. …
Microgaming has announced the launch of a Live Dealer studio surrounding the iconic adult brand Playboy. The lifestyle brand established by Hugh Hefner in 1953, is leveraging its 97 percent global brand awareness, over 7.8 million Facebook fans and 17 million monthly unique visitors to Playboy.com to grow its presence in online gaming. Microgaming’s dedicated …
Cape-Town based sportsbetting solution provider BetTech Gaming will launch at ICE Totally Gaming 2013 this week. The company will punt its proprietary flagship product BetTech Sports for regulated markets which it says was designed to give smaller sportsbook operators the functionality to compete against large bookmakers. The company was co-founded in August 2009 by chief …
The interestingly named Malta-based start-up Yggdrasil Gaming is set to release a new suite of numbers-based instant lottery games this week marketed under its ‘NUMB3R LOV3RS‘ concept which comprises a portfolio of 19 online games. Yggdrasil was founded by Net Entertainment’s former head of global market operations Fredrik Elmqvist and takes its name from Norse …
In preparation of its upcoming ICE exhibit, sports betting provider Betting Promotion has launched a new business to business website at bettingpromotion.com to promote its core services for bookmakers and betting exchanges. Tain recently acquired an 18 percent stake in the company, making it Betting Promotion’s largest shareholder who subsequently inked a service supply deal …
Betting firm BetVictor has launched a website showcasing their new business to business products and services at betvictorb2b.com. BetVictor’s B2B solutions include their managed service sportsbook and casino offerings across internet, mobile and tablets which are marketed to “compete with the major operators without huge operational costs and overheads”. Ron Regan, head of Business Development …
3D games developer Sheriff Gaming (Sheriff) is racking them up with the announcement of two new game supply deals, this week. Dutch land based gaming manufacturer and distributor Eurocoin Interactive will partner with Sheriff for the development of an initial package of three online games that will become available for online as well as mobile …
Online gambling group 888 Holdings has published its interim management report for the period from 1 October 2012 to February 4, incorporating the group’s Q4-2012 trading to 31 December 2012. Highlights of the report include: * Group revenue $97 million (Q4 2011: $91 million), an increase of 7 percent year on year * Revenue B2C …
The Greek newspaper Ekathimerini reports that the Greek government is attempting to protect the sales performance of its partly owned gambling monopoly OPAP by introducing a tax-free threshold on small gambling winnings. The newspaper says that the cash-strapped government is attempting to increase tax receipts without hurting the monopoly’s sales. According to a legislative amendment …
The Canadian media are widely reporting on a major police raid that featured armed SWAT-like officers halting an alleged internet sports betting party in Toronto over the weekend. The gathering at a Markham banquet hall Sunday night was apparently attended by thousands of Canadians enjoying the Super Bowl broadcast through large screen television and allegedly …
With its proposed acquisition of the Atlantic Club land casino still progressing through the New Jersey regulatory system, Pokerstars parent Rational Group has big plans for improvements, it would appear. Philly.com quotes Atlantic Club chief operating officer Michael Frawley, who along with a colleague first came up with the idea of an online – land …
Spain’s regulatory chief, Enrique Alejo, said at an industry presentation in Madrid this week that his Ordenación del Juego intended to take the time to be thorough and careful before permitting the addition of online slots and exchange betting to Spanish-licensed operators’ gaming offers. The regulator’s primary concern was the potential risk to players, he …
Lawmakers in the Iowa Legislature’s House-Senate Government Oversight Appropriations Subcommittee were briefed on internet gambling possibilities last week by state lottery chief Terry Rich. In his presentation, Rich opined that the state is already empowered to expand into online gambling and that further enabling legislation is not required. He warned that the so far unsuccessful …
Norbert Teufelberger, CEO of the online gaming company bwin.party; Melissa Blau, director of the consultancy iGaming Capital; and Juergen Reutter, Director of Mobile at the bookmaker William Hill are all interviewed on the BBC 4 “Bottom Line” radio program currently running at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q9779 The show is presented by Evan Davis, who reveals that smart phone …
The social chat site Twitter is all a-twitter following a Reuters report Friday that anonymous hackers had gained access to roughly 250,000 user accounts, though only “limited information” such as email addresses was compromised. Twitter has already reset passwords for affected users, and will notify them soon, it said in a blog post. The cyber …
On Friday the US Department of Justice formally filed its brief opposing New Jersey‘s attempt to introduce legalised sports betting within its borders, allying itself with the national sports leagues seeking to derail the Garden State’s initiative . All parties now have until February 7 to respond to the DoJ brief, with Judge Michael Shipp …
The ‘pitch-a-bitch’ department of the Casinomeister online gambling information website published its annual statistics for player complaints Friday, noting that the number of complaints declined from 255 to 183 last year, with just over 33 percent resolved in favour of the player. The site offers one of the most well established, free-of-charge online dispute resolution …
The European Commission will on February 5 present proposals for wider money laundering controls within the European Union as part of its recommendations for updating the 2005 Third Money Laundering Directive binding on the 27 EU nations. The justification for the update, which will include more focus on the gambling industry both land and online, …
The facility through which online players can self-exclude themselves from internet casinos operating under Kahnawake Gaming Commission licenses came into focus this week with the publication of the Commission’s self-exclusion statistics for the year 2012. KGC-licensed operators generally provide on their sites information which enables players to assess whether they are becoming too embroiled in …
Hawaii State Senators Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Malama Solomon and Gilbert Kahele have resurrected the online gambling debate with the introduction of SB768 in the Hawaii State Legislature, almost a year to the day that a similar measure was introduced and subsequently failed over the course of last year. The bill which passed its first …
The Gaming Standards Association (GSA), an international trade association representing manufacturers, suppliers, and operators in the gaming industry, has announced the creation of the Online Gaming Committee (OGC). The OGC is intended to provide a neutral forum for technology experts in the industry to be actively involved with creating online gambling standards with the objective …