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Real Sports Global launches 5050 Sports on Quickfire platform

18 Mar 2014

5050Sports, the innovative online casino game that enables players to wager on the outcome of exclusively-licensed archive sports footage, will be available to more than 100 additional operators following integration with the Quickfire platform, powered by Microgaming. The agreement between owners Real Sports Global and Quickfire provides operators with new high turnover, on-demand football and …

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Directorate changes at Rank plc

18 Mar 2014

The online gambling company The Rank Group plc announced Tuesday that Colin Child, its senior independent director and chairman of the audit committee, has resigned from the board with immediate effect. Child joined the board of Rank on 1 January 2012 and became senior independent director and chairman of the nominations committee on 1 July …

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Red Dragon Wild from iSoftBet

17 Mar 2014

Game developer iSoftBet has debuted its martial arts-inspired “Red Dragon Wild”, a kung-fu themed action adventure available on the online and mobile platforms. Red Dragon Wild is a 5-reel, 30-payline game featuring an Extended Wild symbol and exclusive red and blue Dragon Wild symbols.  Three Red Dragon Bonus symbols on the reels will unlock the …

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Snowcat becomes exclusive licensee of Matchless Games

17 Mar 2014

Estonian-based Snowcat IP OÜ has become the exclusive worldwide long-term Master Licensee for the entire library of Game Concept Intellectual Property created and held by Matchless Games Limited, a UK-based gaming developer. Snowcat IP OÜ is in the business of developing and licencing intellectual property rights with the commercial view of re-licencing or sub-licencing those …

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Mr Green names new Chief Product Officer

17 Mar 2014

Mr Green Casino has appointed Thomas Rosander as its chief product officer based in Malta. Rosander joins Mr Green from Electronic Arts where he carried out the role of director business intelligence before being appointed as engagement director.  Prior to EA, he was employed by bwin.party digital entertainment as section head business intelligence and product …

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Player wins GBP 25k at Stan James using only free spins

17 Mar 2014

A lucky Stan James Casino customer won GBP 24 000 without ever depositing but by using three free spins in StanJames.com’s “3 Free Sunday Spree Promotion”. The punter identified as Fiona from County Durham, won GBP 2 211.30 from her three free spins which met the wagering requirement and then turned that sum into a …

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Sheriff Gaming developers enter B2B sector as Blue Gem Gaming

17 Mar 2014

Eindhoven-based game development studio Sheriff Gaming titles will continue to be marketed by the newly-launched Blue Gem Gaming. Curacao-licenced Blue Gem Gaming is the development team that originally created the games and exclusively licensed its IP to Sheriff Gaming whilst the company was trading. Readers will recall Sheriff Gaming parent group Bubble Group BV filing …

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Wider launch of BIGMAN social slots

17 Mar 2014

BIGMAN Entertainment’s limited launch of its BIGMAN Slots for Facebook at the end of January 2014 (see previous  report) has been followed by a wider rollout worldwide. The game is the first of other Spin4Free social casino games scheduled for release later this year and features seven slot stages accompanied by the new Barktropolis and …

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Four Cubed looking for capital

17 Mar 2014

Despite the ravages of Black Friday, an online poker affiliate marketing company in Minneapolis, Four Cubed, managed to hang on and is now looking for capital to expand, with a foot already in the door in the nascent US online gambling business in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware. Reporting on the resurgent Four Cubed and …

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More pain for convicted online gambling operator

16 Mar 2014

By the time US enforcement and tax authorities have finished with him BetonSports online gambling site founder Gary Kaplan (55) will have “contributed” $79 million to government coffers, made up of $43 million ceded to government as part of his plea deal, and a further $36 million squeezed from him through an IRS civil action. …

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Sibu police in further Malaysian online gambling raids

16 Mar 2014

Sibu police in the Sarawak province of Malaysia carried out further “Operation Dadu” raids against illegal online gambling shops over the weekend, arresting 37 people and seizing 36 computers and other evidence in two raids in the city. Following the raids, District police chief ACP Mohd Kamal Kordi claimed that his officers have eliminated 30 …

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Assets seized from fraudulent online gambler

15 Mar 2014

Our readers may recall the case last year of Jonathan Revill, a GBP 55,000-a-year IT manager for the GDF SUEZ energy company in Leeds, England who defrauded his company of almost GBP19 million through false orders of IT supplies, which he then sold at a discount over the internet to make a personal profit of …

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Minnesota online gambling runs into trouble

15 Mar 2014

Barely a month after it launched internet wagering on instant scratch card tickets, the Minnesota Lottery faces political opposition by lawmakers peeved that they were not asked to pass a law specifically allowing the use of the internet to boost lottery sales. The Associated Press news agency reports that the Senate leaders of both parties …

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Afghan charity lottery launched

14 Mar 2014

The Afghan Red Crescent – the regional equivalent of the Red Cross charitable organisation – announced on Thursday the launch of a new mobile-based lottery project aimed at crowd-funding weekly charitable donations. The public will be able to purchase 35 Afghanis (about 44 Euro cents) tickets, called “Sacrifice Charity Tickets”, by dialling 1313 on a …

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Net Entertainment beefs up Italian presence

14 Mar 2014

The Swedish online gambling content provider Net Entertainment has signed a partnership deal with UK platform supplier GameAccount Network that will see its mobile and desktop casino gaming content made available to well-known and established operators in the Italian online gambling market such as Sisal, Snai and Eurobet. Björn Krantz, managing director of Net Entertainment …

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CCOP expands the campaign for online gambling legalisation

14 Mar 2014

The US pro-online gambling legalisation action group Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection (CCOP) has expanded its activities beyond op-ed articles and guest speakers to paid advertising, spending $250,000 in the first phase. Online and print advertisements pointing out the advantages of federally legalised online gambling and appealing for a halt to any Congressional attempt …

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Online gambling’s future in Pennsylvania the focus next week

14 Mar 2014

The possibility of legalised online gambling in the state of Pennsylvania will be under the spotlight on Wednesday next week when a commission tasked by the state Senate Legislative Budget and Finance Committee with studying the sector and its implications tables its report. The investigating panel has clearly been working hard on the project, which …

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Delaware online gambling numbers – growing but small

14 Mar 2014

The state of Delaware’s nascent online gambling market is small but growing, judging by the latest numbers from the state lottery regulator. In February 2014 intrastate online gambling operations recorded gambling win of $166,454, up 13 percent on the preceding month, from 5,689 registered players. The number of registered players increased by 693 players in …

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Ted cartoon character to feature in new Zynga online slot

13 Mar 2014

The raunchy, hard-drinking comedic cartoon teddy bear created by Seth MacFarlane and dubbed simply “Ted” is to feature in one of Zynga’s free-to-play social slots in the “Hit It Rich Slots” series. According to a report in the publication Variety, the new slot is already available on Facebook, but has not yet made it to …

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WatchandWager in Hong Kong Jockey Club deal

13 Mar 2014

Webis Holdings San Francisco-based advanced deposit pool wagering subsidiary WatchandWager.com has inked an agreement with Hong Kong Jockey Club Horse Race Betting Limited which gives it access to the HKJC pari-mutuel pools. In an announcement Thursday the US-licensed firm claimed that no other wagering operator in the world is currently able to wager internationally into …

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Bwin.Party hopes for a return to growth

13 Mar 2014

The European online gambling company Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment says in its 2013 full year results posted today that it is on track for a return to growth after problems in Greece and a strategy calling for focus on regulated markets. The company reported the following highlights: * Total revenue down at Euro 652.4 million (2012: …

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Dutch online gambling legalisation moving forward

13 Mar 2014

Legalisation in the Netherlands continues to progress, albeit slowly as the draft legislation wends its way through the political and bureaucratic labyrinth. The latest version of the bill amends server obligations and presumably seeks to alleviate European Commission concerns by removing suggestions that current licensees in the country be given a time advantage when the …

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Scientific Games reduces net loss in Q4 2013

13 Mar 2014

In its Q4:2013 results just posted, Scientific Games reduced its net loss from $12.4 million in Q4:2012 to just $500,000 in the current quarter, and from $43.9 million in Q4:2012 to $25.6 million in 2013, thanks mainly to its acquisition of WMS and a good performance from its lottery division. Overall group financial highlights included: …

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Major Chinese online gambling trial commences

13 Mar 2014

A court in Guangzhou district, in China’s Guangdong province, has started hearing the country’s largest illegal online gambling case, involving 484 billion yuan ($78.79 billion) in wagers, reports the Xinhua news service. The ring mainly attracted betting on international football matches via offshore gambling websites, but was also involved in illegal casino activity.  Nineteen defendants …

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