Digital sports media firm PERFORM has extended its sales partnership with the Premier League giving PERFORM exclusive responsibility for global advertising sales on the Premier League’s official website. PERFORM additionally produces and distributes ‘near live’ match video highlights and features for the Premier League, a partnership which has been in force since 2007. The agreement …
Microgaming is developing a new online slot based on the blockbuster movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day following a licencing agreement with Studiocanal S.A. The 1991 movie release, which was a follow-on to the original The Terminator, extensively utilised computer-generated imagery (CGI) giving movie-goers never before seen visual effects and the like. The film won numerous …
bgo Entertainment (formerly Mandalay Media) has launched “Jurassic Island”, its first video slot game to emerge from its recently formed in-house development studio which is apparently led by Andreas Bexelius, a former Lead Gaming Mathematician at Net Entertainment. The 5-reel, 25-payline game features symbols and thematics from the Jurassic period introducing mean-looking dodos, mutated killer …
Eric Meyerhofer, the chief executive officer of ticket printing and couponing solutions firm FutureLogic will leave his position to head up Gamblit Gaming LLC, a California-headquartered startup offering internet and land-based products to the gaming industry. Meyerhofer will retain his links with FutureLogic having also been named as its newly elected Chairman. “I am delighted …
Over the weekend an Associated Press news agency article achieved wide currency, reporting that operators were generally upbeat about the prospects for the online gambling market in New Jersey. Pessimistic media reports bemoaning the lower than expected revenues of $8.4 million over the first six weeks of operational activity suggested that full year revenues would …
The coverage of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States winter conference provided by respected blogger Marco Valerio continues to provide interesting insights into the problems associated with individual states developing player-sharing agreements. In his current reportage, Valerio quotes Richard Schuetz, the head of the California Gambling Control Commission, who impressed upon delegates the …
The Poker Players Alliance is again revving up US online poker players on a major issue as another Adelson banning threat evolves. The Alliance says that it has recently learned that the Las Vegas Sands group land gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson is currently urging state attorneys general to sign a letter calling for a national …
Poker Players Alliance vice president Rich Muny recently acquitted himself rather well in a Facebook exchange with the reportedly Republican political consultant and strategist Cheri Jacobson. Jacobson, leaning heavily on two FBI letters to Congress that the Adelson anti-online gambling campaign has frequently trotted out to back their claims that online gambling is dangerous and …
Teddy Mitchell, a 59-year-old Oklahoma man who pleaded guilty to running an illegal gambling operation after being indicted by a grand jury two years ago, has been sentenced by a federal court to 27 months in federal prison and two years of supervised release. Mitchell has already agreed to forfeit $1 million in cash and …
The indefatigable Senator Ray Lesniak of New Jersey has started 2014 in typical style, reintroducing a controversial new bill to the state Legislature which proposes the licensing and regulation of online gambling operators who provide services restricted to foreign internet punters. Lesniak’s intent is to create an environment which will carve out a niche for …
Massachusetts multimedia entertainment company, GSN Games announced the beta launch of its mobile-optimised cash tournament project for US skill game players Friday. The GSN Cash Games tournament initiative features a mobile website for what the company claims is the first-ever mobile cash tournament site for U.S. players. The new site will complement the company’s popular …