The Games Company’s fifth and sixth game releases, both 5 reel 50 pay-line slots, have been taken on board by major UK online casino operator Bet365. Titled KGB Bears and Light Racer, the new offerings have widely differing themes; KGB Bears is an amusing animal-oriented take on the infamous Cold War spying apparatus in the …
The Bulgarian State Commission on Gambling has announced that major Gibraltar-based online gambling companies 32Red and Stan James are among the latest additions to its blacklist of operators accessing the Bulgarian market without a local licence. The latest round of domains added to the list brings its total content to 313 websites. Up until last …
Online and land gambling group Ladbrokes plc has invited top PR agencies to pitch for its reportedly considerable corporate communications and public affairs account. The company has hired pitch specialists Recommended Agency Register (RAR) to assist and guide the selection process, and it is understood that a short list of suitable candidates has been drawn …
The e-cash processing sector was humming late Thursday as news broke that online payment processor Skrill (formerly Moneybookers) has signed a deal to acquire the UK pre-paid cash voucher provider Ukash. The consideration agreed for the acquisition has not been disclosed, and regulatory approval is still awaited. According to a Skrill spokesman, the addition of …
Stories abound regarding the consequences of abusing the use of social media, but one this week has poker players talking, involving as it does expensive defamation penalties totalling A$340,000 levied on four Australian poker fans. It all started with a trip for five Aussie poker players to a major poker tournament in Las Vegas back …
Taking state lottery ticket sales online in Florida was always going to be a fiercely contested move, but Democrat Senator Gwen Margolis has bitten the bullet and introduced a bill to the state Senate proposing just that. If approved, Margolis’ SB120 could make Florida the eighth US state to take its state lottery ticket sales …
The popularity of lottery action in China shows no sign of waning, with October lottery sales again rising year-on-year, up 20.3 percent to the equivalent of around $5.34 billion, according to official Chinese figures from the country’s Ministry of Finance. Sports Lottery betting again led the charge, with sales up 27.9 percent to 14.95 billion …
The latest industry numbers from the British Gambling Commission show that the industry is alive and well in the United Kingdom, generating Gross Gambling Yield of GBP 6.8 billion in the period April 2013 to March 2014… an increase of 6 percent on the corresponding figure for April 2012 to March 2013. Other interesting take-outs …
Sports betting technology provider EveryMatrix has announced that it is to provide a sports betting platform for established Australian sports betting white label supplier and operator Favourit. The Favourit platform will be available in multiple languages and in both desktop and mobile versions for HTML5 and iOS devices. Toby Simmons, CEO at Favourit, said this …
Isle of Man developer Multislot has announced that its second Facebook slot product, Arctic Bear, has been ordered by Plaor for use on its Mega Fame social casino Facebook app. Integration will take place early in 2015. Arctic Bear is the second Multislot game to launch with Plaor, following the success of Lucky Luau, which …
Betradar has clinched a contract for the use of its Live Channel streaming product by Italian operator Sisal, which is using the service in the online and retail facilities of its Matchpoint subsidiary. “Sisal Live Channel offers a rich schedule of sports events, supported by information, statistics and the latest technology,” said Sisal managing director …
The Australian land and online gambling group Tatts has unveiled its long-awaited change of corporate identity with a big PR push emphasising the amount of research that went into the design and incorporation of the new Ubet identity. See the introductory vid here: The gambling company is to launch a major multi-million dollar marketing campaign …
Clearly perturbed by the amount of money flowing to unlicensed online gambling operators from Polish internet punters, the country’s Ministry of Finance has warned that the government has the power and the legislation to prosecute players who give their business to such unlicensed websites. In a thinly veiled threat, the Ministry claims that it has …
A Fox Television current affairs program hosted by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee plumbed the depths of biased and perhaps deliberately misleading television this week when anti-online gambling campaigner Blanche Lincoln aired her views, which are startlingly similar and equally questionable as those espoused by land casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson in his big-money efforts to …
The possible sale of the Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment online gambling group (see previous reports) has not tempted investors this week, with the share price easing slightly as the market awaited developments. Our readers will recall that the company confirmed earlier this month that it was in talks with a number of interested parties over a …
October 2014 numbers released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board Wednesday show a continuing decline compared with last year – the third consecutive month of slipping revenues. Casino hold at $914 million was 4.3 percent short from the same time a year ago, prompting NGCB senior research analyst Mike Lawton to comment that revenues have …
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advert for the Health Lottery. The ad, which appeared on the Demand 5 video-on-demand service, promoted an online direct debit offer for the Health Lottery whereby consumers could have their first two weeks play “free”, as a refund from the advertiser, if they signed up online …
Sports data and digital content provider Betradar will provide CG Technology (formerly Cantor Gaming) subsidiary CG Analytics with access to a comprehensive package of pre-game and live odds data following a deal announced this week. Under the terms of the agreement, CG Analytics will utilise Betradar’s data and digital content and distribute this content to …
BetSoft Gaming’s latest addition to its Slots3 Arcade Collection is titled Mega Gems. The game is a five-reel, 10-payline game set against a futuristic backdrop where the lines pay both ways. If a polychrome Wild icon appears on any reel, it transforms that reel into a Wild Reel. After each Wild Reel, a Free Spin …
Managing Director of Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH and chief executive officer of Novomatic Americas Sales LLC Jens Halle has relinquished his position at the Novomatic Group subsidiaries. Halle joined the group 15 years ago and in mutual agreement will move on to pursue new challenges. Herbert Lugmayr, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Novomatic AG, …
The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has responded strongly to a lawsuit launched against it by the Attorney General for California, Kamala Harris, last week (see previous report). The San Diego-based tribe’s recently launched the real-money Desert Rose online bingo enterprise, triggering the AG’s application for a federal court restraining order. The AG is also …
Mounting political, social and business opposition to attempts to ban most forms of online gambling in the USA through the federal Restoration of America’s Wire Act has been boosted by another important lobby – the land casinos of Atlantic City. The RAWA, a proposal currently in the Senate and House of Representatives, has been inspired …
Seven years ago the Canadian founders of the Neteller e-cash processing group, John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence, were arrested under intriguing circumstances following a covert investigation by the US Department of Justice as it implemented moves to disrupt the online gambling industry by “following the money trail” (see previous reports). At the time it created …
Speaking at the New Zealand Racing Board agm this week, the national minister for racing, Nathan Guy, said he was committed to acting against online sports betting offered by foreign operators, and regarded action in this sector as a top priority. Characterising offshore internet betting as a complex but addressable problem, the minister said that …