Gaming software development firm Playtech has released a Halloween-themed 20-payline slot replete with three attractive witches, pumpkins, black cats, cauldrons, magic potions and sinister ravens. Three unique symbols feature in “Halloween Fortune”, the pumpkin is Wild, a Halloween Fortune logo symbolises Scatter and the Cauldron symbol activates the “Witches Brew Bonus Round”. The appearance of …
Amaya Gaming Group Inc. (Amaya) launched a new online gambling website to Kenyan residents accessible at BetKenya.com this week. The website is an integral component of the company’s agreement with the Betting Control and Licensing Board of Kenya (BCLB) to operate online gaming in the country . BetKenya.com currently offers slots, table games, instant games, …
Digital sports media company PERFORM has partnered with Indian internet media firm Times Internet Limited (IndiaTimes) to connect Indian football fans with England’s Barclays Premier League. The partnership will see highlights of the Barclays Premier League appear across both the online and mobile portals of Times Internet Limited. Website clips will be delivered across Indiatimes …
It appears from stock exchange notifications this week that Sportingbet plc has reached agreement with fellow online gambling group GVC on the sale of its Turkish language website. Sportingbet’s Turkish activity has been frequently cited as a stumbling block for any attempts to buy the company by rival groups like 888 and Ladbrokes. In its …
Online gamblers in South Carolina’s Greenville County were interviewed by Secret Service and US Attorney Office officials and county sheriff deputies investigating an alleged $40 million money laundering scheme with online poker connotations, according to reports in the state mainstream media this week. The federal authorities had been investigating online poker in the state since …
Online gambling software provider World Match has released its second 3D online slot, a rich-‘featured game capturing the glitz and glam of Hollywood and branded ‘Hollywood Film’. “The launch of Hollywood Film confirms that World Match will not only to enrich its games’ range, but also create more involving graphic settings, using three-dimensional elements, to …
Clarion Events, the British company that puts together major online gambling industry expos and conferences like ICE, has adopted a testimonial form of advertising for its 2012 season, recruiting some of its most celebrated stakeholders to ‘do the talking’. The ‘Talking ICE’ campaign, which will be run through international print and digital media, features some …
Ladbrokes, one of Britain’s biggest online and land gambling groups, has released its third quarter interim management statement showing: • Group net revenue up 2.5 percent in the period. • Group operating profit down 2.7 percent y-o-y at GBP 49.7 million • Growth of 2 percent in UK retail net revenue • Machine gross win …
The game designers at Realtime Gaming have clearly been given free rein to exercise their imaginations in the latest online slot from the company, which sees enormous pink rabbits and a hulking orange cat stomping and crashing their way through the urban forest, destroying cars and terrifying the populace. It’s Monster Mayhem, and the sharp …
Another row over the freedom and security of international domain names could be building in the United States, where a report in Ars Technica has detailed US moves that could result in the revocation of domain registrations without first requiring the benefit of judicial scrutiny. At the centre of the growing furore is the US …
The British office of Asian sports betting group Samvo has launched what it claims is a unique new style of High Street betting in the form of the Samvo Betting Cafés in London’s Camden and Hammersmith suburbs. Designed to attract a younger, more affluent punter, the Samvo Betting Café specialises in a relaxed, stylish environment …
The Indian Times reports that San Francisco-based internet social gaming developer Zynga is expanding its Indian development activities. “We are hiring aggressively for our Bangalore office,” Cadir Lee, the company’s CTO said in a week where Zynga announced its intention to create its own gaming network instead of paying a thirty percent cut to Facebook, …
The notion that US online gambling – or at least internet poker – could be legalised by working through the Obama Administration’s influential deficit reduction super-committee has been batted about remorselessly by the media in recent weeks, with optimism and pessimism in equal measure, and Sen. Jon Kyl frequently quoted as either opposed to the …
Bookmaker William Hill has appointed Georgina Harvey and Imelda Walsh as non-executive Directors effective November 1, 2011. Georgina Harvey has, since 2005, been Managing Director of the Regionals division of Trinity Mirror plc. Prior she held executive appointments at Express Newspapers plc, IPC Media Ltd and was appointed President of the Newspaper Society in July …
UK bookmaker Betfred will be the first online gaming company to utilise International Game Technology’s (IGT) new office and data centre in Gibraltar following a partnership deal entered into this week. Betfred.com will move over to IGT’s rgs platform, boosting its games offering with popular player titles such as Elvis, Star Trek, Da Vinci Diamonds …
The Mohegan Sun is one of at least two American tribal land casinos that are preparing for any legalisation of online gambling in the United States with free-to-play internet websites, the publication The Day reported Tuesday. One of those – Foxwoods – has already achieved wide publicity in its as yet unconfirmed relationship with UK …
Gambling revenue in New Jersey continued to decline last month, falling 0.6 percent to $294.7 million, the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement said Tuesday. Table games win actually increased 2.7 percent to $89.8 million but slot machine win slipped 1.9 percent to $205 million. Year to date, revenue is down 7.8 percent, the regulators revealed, …
Internet social gaming developer Zynga announced six new game releases Tuesday, among them a casino and bingo product. The company already offers an online poker game. Unveiling the games at its San Francisco headquarters, the company said that the releases are part of the company’s effort to expand into new genres that include mobile. Zynga …
Britain’s third largest Euromillions lottery prize – GBP101 million reported earlier this week – was won by a Cambridgeshire couple who had only played the lotto twice before, UK mainstream media revealed Wednesday. It really was third time lucky for Dave Dawes, 47, a shift supervisor for Premier Foods, and Angela Dawes, 43, a volunteer …
The British Broadcasting Corporation reported Tuesday that the Alderney Gambling Control Commission is to hold a review following the Full Tilt Poker debacle, and the Commission’s revocation of that operator’s licence. The Commission’s executive director, Andre Wilsenach, confirmed that a review is to be held following the scandal, which has left large numbers of online …
Our readers will recall earlier reports on the payout tussle between Gibraltar-licensed online bookie Betfred (the recent purchasers of The Tote) and five UK punters it accused of possibly collusive betting with the Irish trainer and gambler Barney Curley, withholding some GBP 823,272 with the support of the licensing authority. The Belfast Telegraph reports that …
The online and land gambling owners of internet gambling operation Circus Casino.com have responded to questions regarding their short-notice exclusion of players from Canada and Norway …and the ban is wider than at first thought, extending to ten European countries. A company spokesman responded to the request for clarification Tuesday after players in Canada and …
The Isle of Man internet gambling software provider Microgaming has announced the latest in a string of software deals, naming the top Spanish gambling group CIRSA as its latest licensee. Under the agreement, Microgaming will provide CIRSA with online poker, casino and bingo software with access to a suite of premium games and services. A …
Hours after his company had abandoned acquisition talks with an online gambling company, Ladbrokes chief exec Richard Glynn shared his thoughts with the Daily Mail, saying that he is still on the acquisition trail to expand his company’s online presence despite failing for a second time to agree a deal with a major rival. Ladbrokes …