The partnership between Imagine Games Network, now rebranded as IGN, and soft drink giant Coca Cola debuted its inaugural weekly eSports digital show Friday, making a big splash for the booming vertical. Titled ‘eSports Weekly with Coca Cola,’ the promo for the show can be accessed here: http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/08/introducing-esports-weekly-with-coca-cola. Featuring prominent eSports players and commentators, the …
With a federal government review of Australian online gambling now in progress (see previous reports), Sportsbet has announced that it is to spend A$1.5 million in a national advertising drive designed to advise online punters how to avoid becoming a problem gambling statistic. The four-week campaign will run through November this year, promoting Sportsbet’s “take …
Hong Kong and Philippines-based online slots developer XIN Gaming has announced that it is to provide games to Asia Gaming, a gaming platform and solutions provider in the region. The deal will provide Asia Gaming operators with a larger range of slots, and lift the profile of XIN in an important online gambling market. Mathias …
Regulatory and compliance industry veteran Marc Lee will be deploying his experience to the advantage of BMM Testlabs and its clients following his appointment as senior vice president of technology by the company this week. Lee, who can boast 25 years in the regulatory and compliance sector, 11 of them in the gaming business, will …
One of the current buzz-phrases doing the rounds is The Internet of Things, and Amazon is capitalising on it with the launch of its new Amazon Web Services IoT business, which allows a wide sweep of industries from manufacturing to healthcare systems to develop applications that connect devices through Cloud services. The beta version of …
Jon Heywood, the Cheshire soldier who won GBP 13,213,838.68 by hitting a Mega Moolah online jackpot this week (see previous reports) did so on a 25p stake, operator Betway Casino has disclosed in a statement. The 26-year-old Afghanistan war vet scored big in an otherwise depressing year in which his much-loved grandfather passed away and …
Microgaming has confirmed reports earlier this week that a world record online progressive jackpot has been hit at one of its licensees, advising that a UK player at the Betway online casino is now an instant multi-millionaire. The big hit took place on the Mega Moolah progressive slot just after midnight on October 7, when …
The New Jersey Directorate of Gaming Enforcement has released its 89-page report detailing a conscientious and exhaustive investigation into Pokerstars and its parent group Amaya and their suitability for licensing. The regulator recently issued a transactional waiver to the company, allowing it to enter the New Jersey market in partnership with Resorts Casino Hotel (see …
The in-house development team at social games provider Zynga has come up with a feature that they claim will bring about more player engagement with in-game advertisers. Branded SponsoredPlay, the product rewards players as they play a game if they engage with sponsoring advertisers. Brands are charged each time a person plays their sponsored level …
Swedish online gambling group Cherry is clearly impressed with German-facing online gambling firm Almor Holdings and has increased its shareholding by 4 percent to a total stake of 75 percent with a further payment of Euro 760,000. Our readers will recall that earlier this year Cherry secured a 71 percent interest in Almor, which operates …
The possible acquisition of Sportech plc by Canada’s Contagious Gaming group is taking longer than anticipated, and for the second time the negotiating parties have been given an extension on time limits for the deal by the London stock exchange. In a statement Friday Sportech advised that a further extension to 5.00 p.m. on 6 …
This (October) month sees a two-game strong release from Microgaming, with themes featuring all things mythical. Titans of the Sun Hyperion and Titans of the Sun Theia are being offered, with Hyperion and Theia taking centre stage in their respective 5×3 reel, 15 pay-line games. Visually stunning, Titans of the Sun combines striking graphics with …
The UK online and land betting group Ladbrokes plc announced Friday that it has signed a GBP 1.35 billion facility with a syndicate of relationship banks to provide committed financing for its proposed merger with Coral announced on 24 July 2015 (see previous reports). The new facility has three tranches and will be available for …
With the prospect of new regulatory developments in Swedish online gambling ahead following government’s impending review of the industry (see previous reports), trade associations for the local digital, television, print and publishing media are talking about self-regulation in what appears to be a pre-emptive move. Relations between the media and government regulator Lotteriinspektionen have hardly …
Artificial intelligence has been disturbing gambling consortiums in Las Vegas, the publication Extreme Tech claims, reporting that Microsoft’s AI engine, Bing Predicts, recently bested the Las Vegas odds in predicting winners for week one of the NFL season. It wasn’t a flash in the pan, either; the system correctly predicted the outcomes of all 15 …
It’s been a bumpy road strewn with delays, but Summit Ascent’s Tigre de Cristal casino resort has launched in the Russian Primorye gaming zone to considerable local fanfare, and looks set to succeed – some say to Macau proportions. The Moscow Times reports that the Far East Russian resort opened Thursday night, with executives pointing …
Did the Christian right wing inadvertently trigger the massive demand for daily fantasy sports betting is the question raised in an interesting opinion piece in the Observer Thursday, written by one-time Washington political staffer Ari Rabin-Havt, who served as an adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as well as on Al Gore and John …
More pressure was heaped on the beleaguered daily fantasy sports operators DraftKings and FanDuel Thursday when a class action was filed against them by a Kentucky resident – the second such action following a ‘bait and switch’ class action claim filed in Florida last year but since abandoned (see previous report). The new litigation was …
White label gaming solutions and platform provider EveryMatrix is consolidating its infrastructure by deploying F5 Networks technology in order to handle a growing number of clients, the company revealed in a statement Wednesday. F5 Networks’ advanced solutions can manage a large number of multiple connections, while maintaining high security over the network resources upon which …
The venerable British Broadcasting Corporation has followed ESPN in signing up for eSports coverage, with a huge crowd expected at the League of Legends World Championship quarter finals at London’s Wembley Arena from October 15-19. The broadcaster will livestream all four days across its BBC Three and BBC Sport online networks – platforms previously used …
Greek online betting firm Stoiximan has signed a two-season shirt sponsorship deal for an undisclosed fee with major Greek football club Olympiacos, the reigning Greek Super League champions. The deal includes exposure throughout Olympiacos’ Karaiskakis Stadium and digital and social elements. Stoiximan also sponsors the Panathinaikos basketball team.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who Our readers will recall has been reviewing the legality of DFS in her state, gave the daily fantasy sports business a fillip Wednesday when she told the Boston Globe that she’s not pursuing any criminal inquiries into Boston-based DraftKings Inc. The AG has had the company under review since …
Online gambling group Amaya Inc., which recently entered the daily fantasy sports sector with its StarsDraft (formerly Victiv) site, has commented on the need for state regulation of the sector in a statement this week following the “insider” furore involving a DraftKings employee. Eric Hollreiser, communications chief for the group, which also owns Pokerstars and …
The launch of ICE Totally Gaming 2016’s campaign invites expo-goers to ‘Enter The Gaming Technopolis’ from 2-4 February 2016 at London’s ExCel Centre. Building on the theme of its 2015 show ‘Discover the World of Gaming’, ICE will continue its focus on the attraction of innovation and advances in gaming technology for professionals in the …