The publication Betting Business Russia reports that Russian telecomms regulator Roskomnadzor reached new heights in its continuing campaign against online gambling domains this month, blaclklisting 1,882 gambling domains as unauthorised and unlicensed in the week April 8 to 14. Another 172 websites were blocked for publishing information on bookmakers, casinos, gambling machines, and sweepstakes. In …
China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has tightened its crackdown on illegal online games, live-streaming apps and websites hosting illegal performances, it announced Tuesday. According to the Xinhua news agency, the ministry has ordered app stores to check the qualifications of live-streaming apps. Nearly 5,000 live-streaming apps have been investigated and 370 were closed. A …
iGaming firm GAN has expanded in the Italian market following a multi-year content supply agreement with operator GoldBet srl. GoldBet becomes GAN’s ninth Italian market partner, of which GAN’s first eight clients already represent over forty percent of Italy’s internet casino market in terms of gross gaming revenue. Goldbet, who holds approximately three percent of …
Swedish-owned online casino operator VideoSlots.com has expanded its content portfolio following a new partnership with Spigo. Spigo game titles include Tivoli, Yatzy, Zoo, Tropicana and Starlight among others. “For a partnership to be successful, it needs to share the same values with the company it’s representing. By constantly developing innovative games and player favourites, Spigo …
White label solutions provider 1Click Games has released 500 plus new games significantly boosting its content inventory with titles from iSoftBet, Booming Games, Pragmatic Play, ELK Studios, NextGen, NYX Gaming, BetConstruct, GamesOS and Multislot. “Gaming content has always been our greatest advantage over our competitors and we will continue to work towards increasing it, by …
Inspired Entertainment has bolstered its North American executive team with the appointment of former Aristocrat Technology Americas Group managing director, Brooks Pierce. Pierce will serve Inspired as senior vice president, North America and brings 25 years of gaming industry experience to the table. Prior to his tenure at Aristocrat, Pierce spent several years at Scientific …
Yggdrasil Gaming has signed up its first independent game studio to develop on its platform as part of the Yggdrasil Game Server (YGS) Masters programme. The Yggdrasil Game Server Master Programme is an invitation-only, semi-open platform from which Yggdrasil will curate content from numerous independent games studios. In turn, partner studios will gain access to …
The London-based advertising agency Karmarama has come up with a stand-out television and video advert for BetVictor which celebrates the “chaos of sports” and suggests that human intuition can effectively compete with machine-generated sports results and win. With spectacular visual and sound effects showing a punter overcoming computers, the content presents the challenge of the …
The Malta Gaming Authority has announced that it has begun the search for a new executive chairman to replace Joseph Cuchieri, who departs later this month to take up new responsibilities at the Malta Financial Services Authority as chief executive officer. Cushieri will also sit on the MFSA’s Board of Governors. As executive chairman of …
Live pictures and data supplier SIS (Sports Information Services), has signed a partnership with the global gambling operator Unibet, part of Kindred Group, to deliver horse racing and greyhounds live pictures and data. SIS will provide Unibet with its British and Irish Greyhound service consisting of 42 fixtures a week. In addition to the live …
Booongo Gaming has clinched a deal with white label and sportsbook solutions provider Gamingtec for the provision of its full suite of HTML5 video slots. “Booongo Gaming believes in a good cooperation with Gamingtec, and looks forward to indispensable success in which both parties benefit,” a company spokesperson said.
Spanish regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) published a draft resolution Monday strengthening identity verification, data reporting and responsible gambling measures. The draft proposal requires additional controls and processes in the regulator’s continued efforts to combat fraudulent behaviour and money laundering as well as modifications to reporting processes and strengthening of responsible gambling …
UK-listed performance marketing firm XLMedia has announced the acquisition of online bingo, and more recently online casino, affiliate WhichBingo.co.uk for an undisclosed consideration. Integration of the firm is expected to be completed within the second half of 2018, a press statement reads. “We are delighted to have acquired such a well-regarded UK brand,” Ory Weihs, chief executive officer of XLMedia, …
Cherry AB has revealed better than expected growth in revenues and EBITDA ahead of the release of its first quarter 2018 report. The company said revenues are now expected to reach SEK 675 million (Q1/2017: SEK 541 million) and EBITDA SEK 188 million (Q1/2017: SEK 83 million) with EBITDA margins at 28 percent (Q1/2017: 15 percent). …
Topics under discussion included individual national markets, problem gambling detection, standardisation of regulatory frameworks, sports integrity, loot boxes, gambling advertising and skin betting as part of an information sharing initiative. Regulators will meet next in the latter half of 2018 in Paris. In related news, Italian regulatory authority, Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato (AAMS), will launch …
Gaming Innovation Group (GIG) has appointed Anna-Lena Åström as Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Åström joins GiG from iGaming solutions provider Kambi Group plc where “she successfully built and managed the investor relations function during the four years prior to this appointment,” the company statement reads. She brings two decades of international experience to the table gleaned …
Scientific Games Digital is engaging in product review sessions of its OpenBet sports betting solution with New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) in anticipation of a liberalised sports betting market in the USA. Market specific platform enhancements are underway, the company said, ensuring its product is well-placed to meet both operator and consumer expectations should the future legal environment …
Content developer Betsoft Gaming and iGaming operator OCG International (OCG) have partnered for the distribution of Betsoft’s Slots3 series of games, which includes the new Classic Slots collection. Anna Mackney, Account Manager at Betsoft Gaming said: “We are thrilled to be partnering with them [OCG]. The target market in Germany is ripe for explosive growth, and we foresee that …
Casino content aggregator WeAreCasino has entered into a deal with Booming Games for the distribution of around twenty AAMS-certified titles which include the developer’s free bonus spins function designed to boost the promotion of its games. With integration almost complete, the first Booming Games titles are expected to go live with numerous Italian operators during quarter two of 2018. …
Cherry affiliate subsidiary Game Lounge has acquired the assets of search engine optimisation (SEO) specialist TodaysWeb for a SEK 14 million (approximately GBP 1,163,712) consideration. TodaysWeb comprises around 1,500 websites, certain tools and services within the field of SEO and a team holding unique SEO competence, the company said. “The timing of the acquisition is perfect as we are …
Malta-based Twin Casino has agreed a partnership to integrate games content from online gambling games developer Relax Gaming. The deal will see Relax initially provide Twin with its latest table games, including Roulette and Blackjack, with both made available to Twin at very competitive rates. Using Relax’s proprietary RNG engine and developed in HTML5, players …
Online gambling games developer BetSoft Gaming has announced a new games supply deal with Malta-based i-gamng operator OCG International. The terms of the partnership will allow OCG International to offer BetSoft’s Slots3 series of games, including the new Classic Slots collection, to its online gaming brands. “OCG International offers many brands to their ever-growing base …
Online and mobile casino content provider, iSoftBet says it has helped developer GameArt enter Romania and Italy for the first time, starting with a launch on NetBet. iSoftBet and GameArt have a longstanding partnership, with the developer’s games available through the iSoftBet Game Aggregation Platform (GAP) along with those of developers like Playson, Realistic Games …
Reports that Aussie sports fantasy company has now added the retail bookmaking assets of TopBetta to its stable. Undeterred by recent obstacles to its reverse takeover and ASX listing via Mission NewEnergy (see previous reports), Perth-based sports fantasy and betting group PlayUp announced Monday that it has acquired the retail bookmaking assets of Australian listed …