Net Entertainment, in partnership with Universal, has released a new 5-reel, 3-row, 20-line video slot titled “Creature from the Black Lagoon”. This feature-rich slot offers Wild Substitutions, Spreading Wilds, Sticky Wilds, Free Spins, and Re-Spins. A prehistoric, half-fish, half-human Creature makes his appearance in Free Spins, capturing leading lady “Kay” and holding her in his …
California-headquartered CAMS LLC has secured the advisory services of Mark Lipparelli, the former Chairman of the Nevada State Gaming Control Board (NGCB). Lipparelli, who recently completed a four year term with the NGCB, will provide CAMS with strategic guidance in the newly-regulated U.S. internet gambling industry. “Mark adds an additional layer of business acumen to …
A lucky Australian punter identified as David M. hit an AUD$220 119 progressive jackpot playing the Treasure Nile slot at All Slots Casino. The player, who originally signed up on All Slots’ mobile platform won the jackpot after placing just eight bets while playing on his PC. “We love to announce wins on this scale, …
The Atlantic Lottery Corp’s Pro Line Futures betting service is offering music fans the opportunity to place bets on their favourite contenders from a popular U.S. singing competition, now in its fifth season. Players have a variety of wagers to choose from including whether a male or female will win or which coach of the …
Inger Holmström will retire as director of communications at Aland-based gaming firm PAF, having reached Swedish retirement age but will continue to be involved in the firm on a consultancy basis. PAF’s current head of press and PR Anders Ingves will succeed Holmstrom in the position leading all internal and external communications for PAF going …
Australian betting firm Tabcorp Holdings reported a rise in revenue for the three months ending September 30, 2013 which is mainly attributed to strong growth in online gambling and fixed-odds betting as the company reported a softer quarter in retail. Key performance highlights include: – Quarterly revenue of AUD$503.9 million, up 3.1 per cent (Q1/2012: …
Any legalisation of online gambling moves in the US state of Connecticut could be influenced by reaction to a recent study of land casino saturation in the state carried out by The Council on Casinos, an independent, nonpartisan group of scholars assembled by the Institute for American Values, a New York based non-profit whose mission …
One of the industry’s most experienced marketing men has completed an almost two year appointment as chief marketing officer in Gibraltar for Gala Interactive and is to return to Britain. His responsibilities in Gibraltar will be assumed by Phil Walker. Czajkowski has been in Gibraltar since January 2012 and has been a busy man; relaunching …
New Jersey-based video games provider Majesco Entertainment Company has announced the completion of its deal to acquire the operations and substantially all of the assets of Orid Media Limited and Pariplay Limited by GMS Entertainment, a fifty percent owned subsidiary of Majesco. Pariplay has a core expertise in three areas: real money e-gaming, real money …
Live dealer provider PlayPearls, is going public on the launch of its own online casino, soft-launched several months ago and now geared up for full operational activity with both live dealer and HTML5 games. PlayPearl is registered in Malta and is a relative newcomer to the industry, having formed earlier this (2013) year. The company …
The Swedish online gambling group Cherry AB has entered into a partnership with the Swedish Sports Alliance (Idrottsalliansen) and media company Metro Nordic Sweden AB to launch a new lottery for the funding of Swedish sports clubs. The not-for-profit organisation Idrottsalliansen is the principal of the new lottery Klubblo. Potential beneficiaries, in addition to Idrottsalliansen, …
The new owners of the Greek online and land gambling monopoly OPAP, the Emma Delta consortium, took up the reins Friday as former directors resigned to make way for a new Board. The new board includes three Greeks and eight foreigners. Emma Delta is controlled by Czech investor Jiri Smejc and Greek businessman George Melissanidis, …
Dr. Sally Gainsbury of the Southern Cross University, who appears to be the Australian media’s go-to academic researcher when it comes to problem gambling, says that internet punters are more likely to be at risk of becoming problem gamblers, according to her latest study. Talking to the Herald Sun newspaper over the weekend, Gainsbury discussed …
A police raiding party from the Anti-Vice, Gaming and Gangsterism Unit in Malaysia raided a shop being used as a front for an illegal online gambling enterprise in Demak Laut over the weekend, arresting six punters and an employee of the owner in a night time operation. A police spokesman said charges are being framed, …
Despite his repeated protestations that he was only a legal advisor, Kelly Mathis has been convicted on all but one of the 104 charges he was facing in connection with the Allied Veterans internet cafe gambling bust. NBC10 Philadelphia reported Saturday that Mathis was the first of 57 defendants to go to trial in a …
Bwin’s historic collaboration with a Harvard Medical School study on addictive gambling some years ago surfaced again over the weekend in a lengthy Wall Street Journal article focused on the odds of players winning at casinos. The Journal used the detailed player behaviour stats of 4,222 Internet gamblers which are in the public domain after …
Last week’s report on the Portuguese government’s enquiry into the pros and cons of legalising and taxing online gambling has been followed by confirmation in a Poker News Portugal piece. The information site reports that Portuguese State Minister Paulo Portas has revealed that online gambling regulation could be regulated and taxed as early as 2014, …
Online gambling group Unibet’s arena sponsorship of the Stockholm Open tennis tournament will continue this Saturday (October 12) despite the unsuccessful efforts of the Swedish Gambling Board to stop it on illegal advertising grounds. The injunction failed due to a lack of regulatory support for the Board’s claims. The Stockholm Open is Sweden’s largest and …
The Italian gaming legal expert Giulio Coraggio says on his blog this week that Italian regulator AAMS is seriously considering the introduction of licensing requirements for e-gaming suppliers as a weapon aimed at excluding illegal operators from the Italian market. Coraggio says that the idea is to give the regulator more control over the activities …
Scientific Games Corporation announced Friday that it has signed a four-year extension to its contract as the primary supplier of instant games and cooperative services to the Florida Lottery, beginning October 2014. Cynthia O’Connell, secretary of the Florida Lottery, said: “We are very pleased to extend our relationship with Scientific Games. This partnership has helped …
The Gibraltar-based online gambling company 32Red.com has signed up as sponsors of the All-Weather Championships launching on 26th October, 2013. The Championships, commencing at Wolverhampton racecourse and concluding at Lingfield Park on Good Friday, will comprise of six different races for 3 Year Olds, Fillies and Mares, Marathon, Sprint, Mile and Middle Distance horses. Approximately …
VS2 Worldwide Communications, a New Jersey provider of computers and software to internet cafes in Ohio has been hammered with punitive forfeitures and fines following a plea agreement with Ohio prosecutors. The charges against VS2 form part of an Ohio enforcement push aimed at shutting down internet cafes that offer controversial ‘sweepstakes’ style online gambling …
The directors of The Weather Lottery plc announced Friday that the lottery company has changed its name to Boxhill Technologies plc following the acquisitions earlier this year of payments software and processing businesses Poseve and Sormelle, and continued investment in lottery products. The London AIM quoted company operates two divisions; one in lottery and the …
State lottery operator MSL Ukraine is to add instant games from Neogames to diversify its offering following the signing this week of a seven year mobile and online gaming supply contract between the two companies. The games developer has been collaborating with MSL to ensure that the right mix of games for the Ukrainian audience …