HTML5 content developer CORE Gaming, has launched its new 5-reel, 20-payline “Vegas Lights” title. The title, now live at Sky Vegas, features two bonus reels, Win Spins and Free Spins backed by a bricks and mortar-casino floor sound track and cabaret music. “We wanted to give players that feeling of the fun and drama of …
The board of directors of the highly-regarded remote gaming company 32Red Plc have approved a special dividend of 3.00 pence per share to be paid to shareholders on March 16, 2016. The dividend award follows record revenues in 2015 confirmed in a Post Close Trading Update late last month and an anticipated EBITDA ahead of …
In its fourth quarter and full year 2015 financial report, Kambi Group plc reported a strong finish in terms of revenues and organic growth. The company hailed fourth quarter results saying revenues and operating margins represented an all time high. Key financial highlights for the fourth quarter and full year periods ending December 31, 2015 …
Legalised sports betting in Pennsylvania took another tentative step forward Tuesday when the state House Gaming Oversight Committee voted strongly to progress HB619, a proposal which calls for an end to the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which restricts sports betting to just four US states – Nevada dominant among them. In doing …
Online gambling group Unibet has published a strong set of fourth quarter and full year results, highlighting the following achievements: * New all-time high in gross winnings revenue of GBP 111.4 (78.0) million for the fourth quarter of 2015 and GBP 354.1 (312.0) million for the full year 2015; * Underlying profit for the fourth …
Sports betting software supplier SBTech has signed exclusive agreements to provide two of Latin America’s biggest regulated operators with its award-winning omni-channel sports betting solution. The first will see Promotora Latinoamericana de Entretenimiento (PLE) equipped with the supplier’s retail products through its Mexican licence. Founded in 2005, PLE runs sports betting facilities in land-based casinos, …
NYX Gaming Group has announced the launch of Dansk Underholdning on its OGS platform, with a full suite of games suitable for the expanding Danish iGaming market. Multi-branded operator Dansk Underholdning Limited operations include BingoSjov.dk, Bingo Slottet and the recently acquired Ballet Bingo – Denmark. “Thanks to this new partnership, our sites will be adding …
Online gambling operator Unibet has announced that it is to renovate its subsidiary online brand Maria later this (February) month in a project that will include a new website and brand refurbishment to make the operation more appealing to both men and women. Unibet invested GBP 54 million in acquiring Maria Holdings in 2007 (see …
Tuesday night’s much anticipated PBS “Frontline” examination of the daily fantasy sports phenomenon provided a useful platform for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to pre-publicise his judicial action against leading operators (see previous reports). The program, presented after a joint Frontline and New York Times investigation, was joined on the US airwaves by a …
BetConstruct is the latest to sign up for Genii’s entire content portfolio for distribution to its network of partners. The portfolio of around 130 games includes access to Genii’s Spin 16 product range featuring touch and swipe technology. Nick Barr, Genii sales director, said: “This is fantastic partnership for Genii which will enable us to …
Aspire Global, a Malta-based online gaming operator, has signed an agreement for the Quickfire online gambling platform, powered by Microgaming. A company spokesman said that later this month Aspire Global will go live with the Quickfire platform, adding Microgaming’s popular titles to its existing content portfolio and enabling its white label partners, and their players, …
Hot on the heels of the completed GVC Holdings-Bwin.Party merger (see previous reports) comes the news that former Bwin CEO (and now non-executive director of the merged company) Norbert Teufelberger has cashed in some of his shares. In a stock exchange advisory Tuesday the company advised that Teufelberger has sold 460,000 ordinary shares of Euro …
Online gambling software provider Microgaming has previewed two new slots offering widely differing themes and due for release in March. First up is Wild Orient, which takes players on a virtual jungle safari with free games, achievements, free spins and reel respins on a 5 reel 243 ways diversion along the way. Check out the …
Cambodian police acting on a tip-off regarding online gambling raided two villas in the north western outskirts of Phnom Penh late last week, arresting 22 South Korean nationals accused of operating an illegal online gambling enterprise, and confiscating computer equipment and other evidence. No further details were available when we went to press Tuesday morning. …
An attempt by Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands company to seek compensation from the First Cagayan online gambling licensing authority in a trademark violation case has ended in failure – for now. After unsuccessfully pursuing the hard-to-pin-down operators illegally using its trademarks and title, LVS turned its attention to an easier target with a fixed …
Sunday’s NFL Super Bowl – it’s fiftieth edition – proved as entertaining and spectacular as always, and the numbers released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board on the following day show that it was profitable for the 194 licensed sports betting operators in the Nevada monopoly as well. The Board reported that gamblers lost more …
One of the interesting pieces of information to emerge in media reports last week concerned the forward planning of the now merged GVC and Bwin.Party online gambling group as envisaged by PartyPoker head Tom Waters. The reports appear to indicate that GVC leadership will be less timid when it comes to which markets PartyPoker will …
The conservative-leaning Las Vegas Review-Journal, recently acquired by major Republican Party donor and land casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, has come out in support of Florida Republican Party presidential candidate Marco Rubio. The endorsement could be an important boost for Rubio at the Nevada Republican caucus scheduled for February 23rd; in its endorsement the newspaper – …
The “independent” committee set up by Canadian online gambling operator Intertain last year to look into a negative broker report that sent its share price into a severe downward spiral (see previous reports) has perhaps predictably reached a conclusion that the report in question was both false and misleading. In a presser released Monday, Intertain …
The much-heralded new Monopoly online slot in the Colossal Reels series from WMS, titled Epic Monopoly II, appeared on licensee sites this week, described as “…a unique video slot with 2 reel sets.” The two sets comprise a 5 reels and 3 rows element and a 5 reels and 12 rows element, giving players the …
The UK-based independent daily fantasy sports monitor SuperLobby has published details of a cease and desist order it has been served by legal representatives of major DFS operator DraftKings. The demand requires that SuperLobby halt the acquisition and use of DraftKings statistics in its weekly DFS performance reports, and from using the DraftKings logo to …
Betsoft Gaming has released “4 Seasons” to its Slots3 portfolio along with the mobile version of its popular Barbary Coast title. 4 SEASONS pays homage to the ancient Chinese Zodiac and features the “Seasonal Wheel” bearing the twelve animals of the zodiac in a cute and fuzzy cartoon format. The wheel will turn every 30 …
Players are reporting receipt of emails from the Jackpot Factory group advising that subsidiary First Web online casino is to close within the next week. Established in 2005 as one of nine online casinos operated at that time by the Jackpot Factory group, the casino’s closure will leave just All Jackpots, All Slots, Wild Jack …
Aussie digital games studio Royal Wins has launched an iOS version of its “Pool Party” title originally launched on its Facebook Mojikan’s Kash Karnival social casino. Pool Party is a play-for-free, 5-reel, 50-payline slot, featuring two skill bonus rounds, – Double Shot and Pool Party, Free Spins, Multipliers, Scatters and Wilds and can now be …