Gaming solutions provider Aristocrat has launched a new nLive virtual casino for tribal terrestrial operation Island Resort Casino which is wholly owned by the Hannahville Indian Community, a federally-recognised Potawatomi Indian Tribe residing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan State. Island Resort Casino is a long-time partner of Aristocrat and the company’s terrestrial casino solution …
Net Entertainment’s second release this month is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot titled “Lucky Angler: A Snowy Catch” featuring Win Both Ways, Free Spins and Sticky Wild Substitutions. The Sticky wild symbols, appearing on reels 2 and 4 in the main game intensify players’ excitement as they remain in place as long as they are …
The Danish Gambling Authority (DGA) is currently in the process of converting one-year licence awards that expire at the end of 2012 to five-year licences. Licence holders will receive a letter from the authority within this month on the status of their licence which will describe if there are circumstances which may result in the …
Instadeal will provide its fast-fold poker product to the PIV Game Network in a partnership deal signed this week. PIV Game Network, who launched its first multi-platform in 2010 with the purpose of creating a new concept of poker by combining several networks under the same brand, currently operates more than thirty brands. Instadeal will …
Mandalay Media Group has been rebranded to BGO Entertainment by founders Richard Skelhorn and Alexander Holt as a vehicle to consolidate numerous business interests into one company. Online bingo brands Costa Bingo, Sing Bingo, City Bingo and Fancy Bingo will remain on the firm’s recently launched independent Xbingo gaming platform. The duo intends concentrating on …
Virtual cash earned by UK players of We R Interactive’s social football game I AM PLAYR can now use their earnings to place virtual bets on real world sporting events such as English Premier League matches through a new Betfred.com sports betting integration that will see live odds from the UK bookmaker fed into the …
Sportingbet Plc, the subject of acquisition interest from William Hill and GVC , has reported its full year audited results for its fiscal year ending July 31, 2012. Despite delivering a net loss attributed to its Spanish tax settlement, Centrebet acquisition and integration expenses along with costs associated with its Turkish disposal, the Company reported …
Greek gambling monopoly OPAP will pay an “adequate fee” for the privilege of retaining exclusive betting rights to the year 2030 in addition to an exclusive VLT licence following approval from the European Union Competition Commission reports Reuters. The European Union reportedly granted OPAP regulatory approval saying the measures comply with EU state aid rules, …
The European online gambling group Betway has appointed Paul Burton as Head of Payments, Risk and Processing, where he will manage all existing and new banking relationships and have responsibility for the launch of new banking products, as well as leading on the company’s mobile banking solutions. Burton qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South …
A new online casino licensed by the Isle of Man regulator has launched on the Cash Ball Network, powered by NYX Gaming. Pulse Casino.com features over 125 games, says CEO, Tony Stewart-Lord. “There’s something for everyone with this latest addition to our stable of online casinos. We will be making further partnership announcements very soon, …
Reports from Spanish online gambling information sites indicate that some operators in the Spanish market are having to belatedly address a vagary in the regulations which insists that “user registration must be unique for each operator.” That phrase is being interpreted as meaning that regardless of how many sites an operator may be offering, the …
The major US sports leagues have fired back at the state of New Jersey’s attempt to have their legal action against legalised New Jersey sports betting dismissed, claiming that the Garden State’s proposed sports betting legalisation law is hypocritical because it prohibits gambling on New Jersey college games, yet allows it on all other college …
Genting Alderney, an online subsidiary in the Genting gambling group, has signed a licence agreement with software provider ComTrade. The agreement will enable Genting to deploy ComTrade’s e-gaming platform and will provide a single customer view and wallet across all products and channels including online, social and mobile games, a company spokesman said Tuesday. The …
Addressing a gathering whilst visiting the Tipico online gambling group premises in Malta Tuesday, the leader of Malta’s Labour Party said that if elected to government, the party would continue to sustain the online gambling sector, which it believes has a future in Malta. Party leader Joseph Muscat said the party believes in the digital …
Online gambling content provider World Match has announced an agreement to supply the Italian company Microgame with AAMS regulator-approved online casino games. World Match will provide a bouquet of internet casino games specifically developed to meet the tastes of Italian punters, and including Italian language features. The company claims that its Roulette range, for example, …
The Remote Gaming Association, a trade body which represents most of the major operators in the UK online gambling industry, says that it will continue to challenge the unfair treatment of private sector online gambling operators in Greece, where the government is trying to sell its 33 percent stake in the online and land gambling …
San Francisco-based Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools, has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with International Games Technology. IGT will showcase games created in Unity at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas this week, a spokesman said. Unity is used by slot manufacturers and online gambling companies around the …
The Associated Press news agency reports that American Gaming Association chief Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. is expected to focus on the popularity of online gambling abroad while Congress and federal regulations prohibit Internet poker and other games in the U.S. when he addresses the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas this week. The news service presumably …
The Global Online Gaming Report 2012 reveals that the UK and Germany are among the top European markets for online gaming, and last year almost 20 percent of total time playing games online in Great Britain was spent on social networks, with only console games competing. And as other observers have noted, the mobile communication …
The representative trade body for most of Europe’s major online gambling companies, the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has called for hard action from the European Commission to curb market fragmentation and protect consumers – and says that its EU operators have lodged formal complaint with the Commission against the new German gambling régime. …
Tipp24 subsidiary MyLotto24 has struck a deal with British Premier League football club Arsenal that will see the company provide a new online lottery game that allows fans to win weekly cash prizes and make contributions to the club’s fundraising effort, Arsenal Foundation. The Arsenal Lotto, the first of its kind in UK football, is …
International Game Technology is currently pumping out publicity on its appearance at the G2E expo in Las Vegas this week, announcing that the company has partnered with several third-party game developers, including High 5 Games, to expand the selection of titles in its game theme library. “Through securing a multiyear and robust arrangement with High …
Writing for Forbes Magazine this week, social gaming experts Alan Mcglade and Corey Wade presented an interesting perspective on the attitudes of the key 18-24 age demographic to competitive interaction on video games and its growing merge with internet gambling. Huge numbers of 18-24 year old males are keenly interested in competitions involving top-of-the-line video …
Social gaming software developer Playsino out of Santa Monica, California has acquired Popover Games, including the cross-platform Popover Poker, a number of other social casino games and most of Popover’s employees. It has also acquired Foghorn Games, a joint-developer of Popover’s social casino game Bingo Around the World, both for undisclosed considerations. Popover, founded in …