Whilst a whodunnit adventure game titled Criminal Case is the biggest current hit with Facebook gamers, social casino games have proved increasingly popular, and five are listed in the top 25 for 2013 announced by the online social network this week. Facebook’s “Games of the Year” list for 2013, is compiled from a combination of …
Indian police in the Thane rural area arrested six men in a swoop on an illegal online gambling ring Friday. A police spokesman, Superintendent Anil Kumbhare, said the local crime branch raided the Chakra Online, Game King Online and Baba Online illegal enterprises located in shops at Mira Road and Nalla Sopara to arrest six …
Atlantic City land casino operator Golden Nugget has belatedly entered the recently launched intrastate online gambling market in New Jersey after voluntarily holding back from the official market launch date to iron out glitches in its systems . The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has given the operator a green light, and the enterpirse …
Investors spooked by a corporate warning that Perform Group’s 2013 earnings could be substantially lower than anticipated sent the share price spiralling southward Thursday. The digital sports media company saw its share price drop over fifty percent as a result of the profit warning, occasioned by weak advertising and sponsorship results in German and US …
Online gambling software and games developer Microgaming has issued a preview of a major online slot release slated for February 2014, announcing that the new game will be a sequel to Avalon, one of the Isle of Man firm’s most successful proprietary titles. In Avalon II, The Quest for the Grail, the theme returns to …
Lottery monopoly Singapore Pools is exploring ways to offer an online betting option to registered members as part of plans to revamp its portal, reports the Straits Times. One proposal is upgrading the existing members’ portal to allow those who sign up with its phone betting system to place bets online. They can now log …
NordicBet’s new live dealer casino offering powered by Evolution went live Thursday, benefitting players at associated websites NordicBet, TrioBet and Maxino in the Betsson-owned online casino group. Evolution is providing live dealer action on roulette, blackjack and baccarat tables, giving Nordicbet’s sites access to native speaker dealer tables that include Svensk Roulette, Deutsches Roulette and …
Thrills.com, a subsidiary of the online gambling firm Betit Group, has chosen Microgaming’s Quickfire as a games provider. The online casino is now officially live with a comprehensive inventory of Quickfire games including slots, table games and branded content. Henric Andersson, chief operations officer of Betit Group, said Thursday: “As a start-up company it was …
CAMS, LLC, a provider of payments connectivity and KYC verification services, has been selected by GameAccount Network to provide a full range of services for the company’s New Jersey regulated internet gaming initiatives. GameAccount Network will look to CAMS to handle payment connectivity, fraud detection and prevention in its partnership Betfair Interactive US LLC and …
The Romanian land and nascent online gambling industry could see some radical changes in taxation in the near future, but punters will be pleased that the burden of taxation might be shifted to the operators, reports the publication Romania-insider.com. The latest proposals call for entry taxes to be doubled, motivated by the impossibility of efficiently …
Online gambling provider group Gaming Realms plc has closed a GBP 2.2 million deal to acquire marketing firm Quick Think Media Ltd. In addition, the company revealed that is has conditionally raised approximately GBP 2.4 million through the proposed placing of 11,476,190 new ordinary shares at 21 pence per share with new and existing shareholders. …
Since May 2008 Betsson’s land-based betting shop at Götgatan in Stockholm has been a thorn in the side of local officialdom, which has used a variety of bureaucratic tactics to shut down this defiant challenge to their authority. This week they succeeded as the Swedish online gambling group decided to call it a day, having …
British slots and table games supplier Realistic Games has signed a deal to provide online games to the online operations of UK gambling group William Hill. The initial release will see six new slot titles made available to players via the operator’s mobile and games tab, with a roll out of the supplier’s full catalogue …
Does online e-cash processor Skrill (formerly Moneybookers) know something that everyone else does not? That’s the question several industry observers were asking as the news broke this week that the European-based company is to pull out of Canadian transactions with effect from January next year. Skrill, which was taken over by the private equity firm …
In an astonishing about-turn on gambling reforms implemented by the former Labor government of Julia Gillard, the new Australian coalition government headed by Tony Abbot is about to reverse a number of land gambling laws…apparently with Labor support. The Guardian newspaper reports that Labor will support moves to water down national poker machine reforms it …
Dr. Rachel Volberg, one of those on the witness list for Tuesday’s US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade hearing on the “State of Online Gaming”, made some early points in a press release Monday that left no doubt about the content of her evidence. Volberg, a …
Having lost all three judicial rounds so far in its attempt to implement its intrastate sports betting legislation in defiance of the federal 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act , the state of New Jersey is now about to attempt to take the issue before the US Supreme Court, reports the publication NJ.com. It’s …
After six months of online operations, more than 80 new Net Entertainment mobile and desktop games have been added to the already considerable gaming suite at MetroPlay Casino, a subsidiary of the Metro free London daily newspaper. Some of the latest titles to be launched under the agreement include Starburst, Gonzo’s Quest and Jack Hammer, …
New York gambling analyst Brian McGill from Janney Montgomery Scott said in an advisory note this week that he expects the New Jersey online gambling market to grow, but it may take a little time to ramp up. McGill visited both Delaware and New Jersey to study the initial performance of the newly launched online …
A deal between online and land game developer High 5 Games and Bally Technologies this week expands the latter’s inventory of land casino games and could have future application in the online and mobile environment. The new agreement calls for High 5 Games to produce more games for Bally, in addition to the games already …
Sportech plc announced Monday that the Office of Fair Trading has cleared its acquisition of Data Tote Limited, a provider of on-track and online greyhound and horse race betting services in Europe. The online gambling and sport-entertainment company inked the Data Tote acquisition deal last September for an initial consideration of GBP 3.1 million. However, …
Christmas, and Santa in the guise of Slotland online casino management, arrived early for slots punter CharlesN at the online casino this week when he cracked a $182,782 progressive jackpot playing the Ice Queen slot. “I’ve always wanted to try skydiving, and I’ve dreamed of visiting Peru,” the big winner told casino management. “But we’ll …
With the legalisation of online gambling in the Netherlands drawing ever closer, software provider Playtech plc has scored a notable coup in clinching the online gambling contract for the Dutch gambling monopoly Holland Casino after a competitive tendering process. The agreement involves the development of an online gambling platform offering a full range of casino …
The UK provider of sports betting technology for the online gaming industry, Offsidegaming, has announced agreement with Betradar to integrate its Virtual Football League (VFL). Betradar is a brand of Sportradar, a major supplier of sports and betting related data. A company spokesman said the deal will see Offsidegaming adding the VFL to its suite …