SBTech has inked a deal with live dealer provider Evolution Gaming that will see it add the gaming variant to strengthen its turnkey gaming solution, Charmeleon360. Evolution’s live gaming solutions will be integrated into SBTech’s e-gaming platform, which offers operators a 360 degree spectrum of management and control of their entire operation across multiple gaming …
Malaysian police in Maraudi have successfully carried out the latest raids in the current drive against illegal gambling, this time targeting dual-purpose “mini” land casinos that also offer online gambling services. The night time raids involved members of the Sarawak provincial CID, police spokesman Chief SAC Dev Kumar Sree Shunmugam told local reporters, revealing that …
Joingo, a California-based provider of loyalty programs for the casino gaming industry, has inked a deal with e-gaming casino platform provider Big Stack Technologies that will give the latter a comprehensive mobile loyalty service Big Stack, whose e-gaming platform has 27 proprietary online social casino games, says in a statement that it selected Joingo for …
With a final approval deadline just weeks away at the end of December, it now appears likely that the current version of the Italian Stability Bill will be approved for implementation early next year. This week the national Budget Committee cleared the proposal in one of its final hurdles, opening the way for approval by …
Scientific Games Corporation has announced the forthcoming promotion of Michael Quartieri to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the group. He will be based at the group’s Las Vegas global headquarters, reporting to CEO and president Gavin Isaacs. Quartieri joined Scientific Games last month as Vice President and Corporate Controller. He recently …
Tuesday’s televised Republican Party presidential candidates debate held in major party donor Sheldon Adelson’s Venetian Casino (a point noted by Democrats) mainly and predictably focused on national security and foreign policy issues…apart from attempting to take front-runner Donald Trump down a peg or two….but in individual interviews with the Las Vegas Review-Journal candidates were cautious …
The proactive monitoring of individual gamblers through big data analytics – motivated by the need to identify and protect problem gamblers – has been questioned by Sweden’s Data Inspection Board, even where such surveillance is conducted with players’ implied consent. Focusing on the anti-problem gambling Playscan software developed and deployed by state gambling monopoly Svenska …
Swedish online games developer Quickspin has wound up a busy year with the release of Second Strike, a ten pay-line online slot with a theme inspired by the classic fruit machines of old, but with an up-to-the-minute bonus feature. The feature, from which the game derives its name, adds symbols to the reels if the …
Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment and GVC Holdings issued simultaneous statements Tuesday advising the public that their respective shareholders have at separate extraordinary general meetings approved the agreement for the two groups to merge under GVC management. The statement notes that completion of the acquisition remains subject to satisfaction or waiver of certain other conditions set out …
Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s Restoration of America’s Wire Act came in for yet another media panning this week when the Washington Times ran an article by Bruce Fein of the Liberty Perspective. Attacking Chaffetz’s claim that the commerce clause in the US Constitution justifies federal interference in states’ rights to control gambling activity within their borders, …
Pennsylvania House staffers working for Representative John Payne have advised the online publication Card Player that Payne’s HB649 online gambling legalisation proposal, held up by state budget disagreements and late amendments will not be voted on this year despite having successfully progressed through the committee stage (see previous reports). The bill is now on the …
The big money flowing in fantasy football competitions was again much in evidence this week when the FanDuel World Fantasy Football Championships concluded at a luxury hotel in San Diego, with the winner taking home $3 million and two runners-up rewarded a million dollars apiece. To compete in the finals players won one of 120 …
A new study commissioned by the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation in Australia and covering the convergence of gambling and gaming in digital media has been published by an academic team led by Dr. Sally Gainsbury of Southern Cross University. The project explored implications for young people flowing from the growing convergence between digital gaming and …
The UK Gambling Commission has announced that beginning February 15 2016 there will be a European Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform, which will allow consumers, traders and Accredited Dispute Resolution providers to file, respond to, and handle disputes (including disputes where the trader and consumer are in different countries within the EU) online. The launch …
Figures released Monday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show that Atlantic City casino win was $204.3 million in November, a disappointing year-on-year increase of 0.9 percent that could have seen a decline if it were not for revenues generated by the internet gambling operations of the casino companies. The eight remaining operators …
Back in July this year Ladbrokes Australia felt sufficiently threatened by the authorities on its interpretation of laws against in-play betting that it withdrew its “click to call” in-play betting facility, but the company has now resumed the service after reviewing failed enforcement activity by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Our readers will recall …
A 57-year-old divorced grandmother and book keeper lived the high life as a VIP online gambler but in reality obtained her money through defrauding her employers, and earned just GBP 3,000 a month, a UK court in Maidstone was told this week. Caroline Dumont was convicted of stealing almost a million pounds from the companies …
According to the Spanish national gambling regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ), the introduction of online slots has contributed to encouraging third quarter improvement for the internet gambling sector. Online gambling revenues were up 36 percent y-o-y to Euro 84.2 million, the regulator said, acknowledging that the introduction of slots to 20 licensees …
For the second time in the last few months the progressive jackpot on Yggdrasil’s Joker Millions has been hit, this time by a German player who was awarded Euro 460,052 in a lucky early Christmas present. The first progressive jackpot game launched by Yggdrasil, Joker Millions was won just eight days after it was launched …
British online games supplier Realistic Games has launched what it claims are the world’s two most popular blackjack side bet games. Perfect Pairs and 21+3, which are both licenced by table games specialist Games Marketing, are proven performers in land-based and online casinos around the world, a company spokesman said Monday, claiming that as well …
Online gambling games developer ELK Studios has announced the imminent launch (on December 16) of its latest slot, titled DJ Wild and featuring a disc jockey theme with attendant music over the sound effects. DJ Wild is a classic 5 reel, 3 row DJ video slot featuring Respins, Sticky Wilds, Expanding Wilds and a Jackpot …
The games development studio of online gambling software provider Playtech plc has launched a premium branded online slot game inspired by the smash-hit Jim Carrey comedy, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The game has a dynamic 243 Ways-to-Win format where players uncover missing animals which, when collected and combined, unlock bonus rounds including ‘Animal Modifiers’ and …
Robbie Cooke, the CEO of gambling group Tatts in Australia started the week by assuring local media that there is very little support among Aussie punters for online in-play betting, and criticised international gambling groups pushing for the genre to be legalised. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Cooke said there was little evidence that …
Spicing up the weekend was a speculative report in the Huffington Post claiming that Las Vegas Sands billionaire owner Sheldon Adelson – renowned for his fanatical opposition to online gambling – may be the power and the money behind the recent acquisition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its sister publications. The sale of the …