Barely a week after launching under a Belgian licence in that country, Casinos Austria is planning to extend operations on its Win2Day.be website by adding online bingo, poker and sports betting to its casino games. Casinos Austria and Austrian Lotteries partnered with the local Grand Casino Brussels to get a foothold in the parochial Belgian …
Insects and a British pub theme this latest offering Rival Gaming has produced an interestingly-themed five-reel, 20-payline video slot titled “Pub Crawlers”. The game is centered around a typically British pub with interesting patrons. A Bar Fly, a sophisticated grasshopper, a cigar-smoking beetle, a caterpillar with a penchant from wine, a tarantula playing poker and …
French company Française des Jeux and Groupe Lucien Barrière owned Barrière Poker reported a loss of Euro 29.8 million for a turnover of Euro 3.3 million over its fiscal 2011-2012 period it revealed earlier this week. The news follows that of dismal results from the Betclic Everest Group . According to Stephen Xavier, president of …
Betfred.com has entered into a major service supply deal with full-service mobile agency InfoMedia. Under the terms of the deal, Betfred will in conjunction with InfoMedia insert its odds across applicable services to cover all major sports including football, racing, rugby, tennis and Formula 1. The relationship will be managed in whole by InfoMedia who …
Prolific online gaming provider Microgaming’s latest block buster “The Dark Knight” is due to be released at the end of this month (June). The 5-reel, 243 “ways to win” slot features characters from the iconic Batman series that include Bruce Wayne and his alter ego The Joker. Graphic-rich with superior sound effects and animations, The …
Gaming Laboratories International and BMM International became the first testing agencies to be licensed by the Nevada Gaming Control Board Thursday, qualifying the two companies to independently test the integrity of slot machines and other gambling equipment for the regulator. The Gaming Control Board’s technology division has been conducting the tests for decades, but a …
UK bookmaker Stan James’ in-play betting site has received an update and now includes six streamed virtual sports. The additions undertaken by Zukido have expanded on Stan James’ in-play offering to provide punters with specialised scoreboards for ice hockey and rugby, bringing to ten the number of scoreboards on offer. Other additions include: – Football, …
Germany is to buck the European trend on internet gambling, preferring the prohibition route rather than regulation, it appears from reports this week. Germany’s sixteen Lander, or provinces, have been fiercely debating a new Interstate Treaty on gambling for the past two years with positions that vary from outright bans to the more progressive licensing …
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and his 11-strong advisory Gaming Policy Committee meet next Wednesday in Las Vegas to discuss recommendations for the 2013 legislative session on the issue of real-money online poker, reports Card Player.com. The authoritative and reliable publication surmises that at least part of the discussions will relate to Assembly Bill 258, which …
Widespread media coverage on a roulette wheel at the Rio in Las Vegas that hit on the same number seven times in a row has prompted Rio owners Caesars Entertainment to dismiss the incident as a “diagnostic test.” Bemused spectators photographed the 114 billion-to-one event and quickly circulated the story through the internet. Having earlier …
The new management at beleaguered online gambling group Media Corp plc failed to reach a settlement with CD Casino.com Limited Thursday during a meeting in London. A CD Casino source told us that during the meeting with Media Corp chairman Phil Jackson and interim CEO Adam Fraser-Harris it had proved impossible to reach agreement, and …
Thursday’s meeting of the Nevada Gaming Commission approved a traditional sports betting licence for William Hill plc, a British company that acquired three US gambling enterprises earlier this year in a $55 million investment in the US market. Company spokesmen said the award was notable because it made William Hill the first British betting service …
Amaya Gaming’s recent acquisition Cryptologic Limited filed a Form 25 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2012, requesting that its shares be delisted from the Nasdaq exchange. Management expects the delisting to take effect from June 26 2012. CryptoLogic has not arranged for its shares to be listed or quoted on …
WMS’ internet subsidiary, Jackpot Party online casino, has launched an online version of the popular Vegas slot classic Life of Luxury Progressive. The progressive is available on the Jungle Cats and Riches of Rome base games, which host the five-level jackpot generator. Players on either game are randomly awarded the Life of Luxury symbol to …
Las Vegas-based casino supplier Shuffle Master Inc. has launched litigation against app developer Avalinx LLC, alleging trademark and copyright infringement. In a suit filed in a Las Vegas court Tuesday, Shuffle Master claimed that Avalinx had developed and sold mobile applications for Apple iPhone, iTouch and iPad devices that infringed on its rights. The trademarks …
Unibet’s sports betting supply subsidiary, Kambi Sports Solutions, has signed a two year agreement to deliver its pool betting products, Supertoto and Superscore, to TonyBet, the second biggest sportsbook in the Baltic gaming market, licensed and regulated by the Estonia State Gaming Control Commission. “By adding pool betting to our portfolio we can further strengthen …
Legislators on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, longtime haven for online gambling operators and processors, moved closer to a total ban on exchange and online betting Wednesday when the House Legal Affairs Committee progressed a measure that has been causing controversy for the last year. Green party deputy Giorgos Perdikis said the bill impacted many …
Societe des Bains de Mer, a fifty percent owner of the troubled Betclic-Everest online gambling group, posted a lacklustre set of annual financial results Wednesday, recording that its net deficit had almost doubled to Euro 33.2 million. Operating income before depreciation from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012 decreased by 16 percent year-on-year while …
WinADay Casino’s fourth anniversary celebrations this month have culminated in the launch of a new instant-play proprietary slot, appropriately branded Birthday Bash. The new offering is a five reel, fifteen pay-line game with a “hold” feature and built-in bonus round. “Last year about this time we were running a contest on Facebook to name our …
United Press International reports that a Las Vegas casino’s roulette wheel beat odds of 114 billion to 1 when it hit the number 19 on seven consecutive spins. The phenomenon was photographed by visitors to the Rio in Las Vegas at 8:32 p.m. Monday, and the event was made even more unlikely when the streak-breaking …
The China Daly newspaper reports that lottery sales in China soared 26.1 percent year-on-year in May 2012 to reach 23.62 billion yuan ($3.75 billion), according to statistics released by the Ministry of Finance Wednesday. The growth was slightly down from the 26.4-percent rise recorded in April. Welfare lottery ticket sales reached 14.01 billion yuan in …
Spain’s Director General for Gambling Regulation has confirmed that 26 online gambling operators have so far been granted licenses to operate in the newly regulated Spanish online gambling market. CardPlayer has the most up-to-date list of licensees here: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/13527-list-of-spanish-poker-licensees-published
The British government’s controversial proposal to license regulate…and tax…online gambling operators based on the “point of consumption” – i.e. the punter’s computer or mobile device – enters a new phase on June 28 when the three month consultative window on the tax proposals closes. Offshore operators wishing to access UK online gamblers will have to …
California state Sen. Rod Wright’s legislative proposal seeking to legalise sports betting in the Golden State surged forward again Wednesday when the state House Governmental Organization Committee progressed bill SB1390. The bill passed the Senate end May on a 32-2 vote and poses a challenge to the federal Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act by allowing …