Realtime Gaming’s latest 5 reel online slot goes live today with a theme that features adventure in the coldest reaches of the earth, with exotic polar animals in their freezing environment, carried on reels sparkling with virtual ice. Spinning up a snowflake symbol triggers one of the 3 features: * A Hidden Treasure bonus game …
According to the National Tribal Gaming Commissioners Regulators Facebook announcements page, the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has scheduled a hearing on “Regulation of Tribal Gaming: From Brick and Mortar to the Internet” for the afternoon of Thursday, July 26 at room 628 in the Dirksen Bldg. The brief announcement from the senate committee, …
With six potential suitors reportedly negotiating for Bwin.Party’s Ongame internet poker subsidiary, it appears that efforts are being made to increase the appeal of the company by including casino side games within the poker client. In an announcement Tuesday, the company revealed that the first implementation of the casino side games has been achieved in …
WMS, the primarily land casino supplier that has been making headlines with its e-gaming acquisitions recently, announced Tuesday that it has launched a new interactive gambling subsidiary branded Williams Interactive. Company president Orrin J. Edidin will manage the new division, which expands substantially on WMS acquisitions and activity in e-gaming to date, which includes: * …
Only weeks old, the ban by the Cyprus government on internet gambling is already attracting flak and possibly legal challenges, according to the Cyprus Mail newspaper Tuesday. Lawyers for AA Crown Bet Ltd, a local company representing the interests of several major overseas firms, told the newspaper that one company has had to shutter sixteen …
On Monday Minnesota regulators approved guidelines for new electronic “on premises” gambling devices that could provide revenue to assist finances on the new Vikings stadium, according to a report from the Associated Press news agency. The state Gambling Control Board voted unanimously for the standards, resisting calls from the charitable gambling industry to slow the …
Liquidators confirm that Purple Lounge Malta owes the players….but that entity has no real substance With plans for Purple Lounge poker players to combine in a legal action apparently forging ahead on the twoplustwo message board, the management at Media Corp could find their liquidation of Purple Lounge UK challenged as unpaid players seek redress. …
Playtech has launched its latest 5 reel, 25 pay-line slot in time to ride on the back of the publicity surrounding the London Olympics, which begin next week. Titled Wild Games, the new offering has a comical theme in which wild animals compete in their own Olympic contests, backed by a good range of features …
The slow-moving Irish government’s tax proposals for remote gambling companies accessing the Irish market have been in legal drafting for some time but are now due for publication this week, according to the Sunday Business Post. Just how the government proposes to collect the tax on an industry that is for the most part based …
An agreement between the UK online gambling firm BetButler and sportsbetting platform provider InplayMatrix signed on June 8 came to fruition this week as BetButler ramped up its push into the Asian market. The InplayMatrix sports betting platform offers more than twenty thousand in-play games every month, feeding the insatiable hunger of the Asian sports …
Virgin Games has chosen the Quickfire platform from Microgaming to host its exclusive new video slot game, Necker Island. Developed by Genesis Gaming Inc. uniquely for Virgin Games and soon to be launched in the Virgin Games online casino, Necker Island is based on Sir Richard Branson’s own sun-soaked private atoll in the British Virgin …
Problem gambling experts told the UK’s Daily Mirror newspaper over the weekend that they were concerned about the potential for social gaming sites like Facebook to create larger numbers of young problem gamblers. Referencing “an explosion of Las Vegas-style casino games” on the social networking site, experts warned that the games encourage teenagers to think …
The Belgian Gaming Commission revealed Saturday that there has been a more than three-fold increase since last year in problem gamblers requesting self-exclusion at Belgian gambling venues. Over 14,000 Belgian punters have filed an official request to ban them from visiting casinos and gaming centres, the country’s gambling commission said in a statement. Last year …
UK viewers interested in the online gambling business will have an opportunity to see the Ireland-based Paddy Power group up close and personal tomorrow (Monday July 16) when Channel Four’s “Undercover Boss” reality television series showcases the company. The show specialises in sending a ‘cloaked’ top company executive to the coalface of businesses to interact …
Europe’s biggest online gambling group, Bwin.Party digital entertainment, has launched a “get to know us” visual campaign on Youtube. This week sees the first of the group’s short familiarisation vids in which the company’s business leaders explain what is happening in their divisions, and where they are going. The first of these presentations features Bwin’s …
The latest Field poll on internet gambling in California shows that most California voters are ready to add sports betting to the portfolio of legalised gambling in the Golden State, but they are split on whether the state should allow residents to play poker over the Internet, reports PE.com. Both proposals are the subject of …
The Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment posted a sparkling interim report for the period January to June 2012 Friday, noting that its revenues reached an all-time high during the period. High points of the company’s second quarter 2012 included: * Revenues for the second quarter increased by 32.2 percent to SEK 132.0 (99.9) …
The management of Paddy Power’s Italian online gambling initiative took a bullish line in an interview with the Reuters news agency Thursday, saying that since May the company has made good progress in the dedicated market, helped by good business in the recent Euro 2012 football betting. Giovanna D’Esposito, the md of Italian operations, told …
Just as hopes were rising that Nevada had begun to shake off the recession, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday that May revenues dipped sharply by 10 percent year-on-year to $885.1 million across the state. The Las Vegas Strip, which accounts for more than half the total, was hit especially badly, plummeting 18 percent …
Global Industry Analysts, Inc. has released a new study on social gaming markets, a global phenomenon projected to reach about US$18 billion by 2018, primarily driven by rising broadband penetration, the introduction of consoles with online capabilities and advanced wireless phones capable of supporting game downloads, and the ever rising number of subscribers to social …
A player in Scotland who has asked to remain anonymous had the night of his life at the Betvictor online casino this week when he logged in and started to play his favourite slot The Hulk. His biggest win yet, GBP 14,000 came soon after, convincing him that this was a night to remember…but more …
The European Court of Justice has ruled that an EU Member State cannot prohibit gambling advertising from another Member State merely on grounds that the protection guaranteed in that Member State is not identical to the domestic rules. On 12 July 2012, the Court found in the HIT and HIT Larix case (C-176/11), an issue …
WMS subsidiary Jackpot Party Casino, formerly focused solely on the UK market, has announced that it is to welcome players from Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Isle of Man and Guernsey as part of its expansion into Europe.
Net Entertainment’s latest 5 reel online slot is distinguished by the clever use of animation, creating a tidal feature that washes symbols onto the player’s screen. This rich-featured slot has a tropical island seashore theme, and the octopus is the Wild, helping players to build combinations that lead to free ‘waves’ or spins with a …