The Illinois state lottery restrictions on lottery pay-outs (see previous reports) worsened Wednesday as the lottery announced a cap of $600 on winner pay-outs, and state Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger said Illinois would skip a $560 million November pension payment. Political feuding over the budget has hamstrung state agencies, which until a budget is approved, …
Gibraltar-based mobile content and platform provider Nektan plc has posted its first set of public earnings (for the year to June 30) since its AIM listing in London last year, reporting a GBP 5.1 million loss but predicting strong growth going forward. Management reported that significant progress has been made, although the numbers show a …
Online table and slots provider Play’n Go has announced the release of Happy Halloween, an all-new online slot title featuring ghosts, ghouls, and tasty treats for the Halloween season. The five-reel slot has been released simultaneously in mobile and flash, and features up to 50 active lines with a Jack o’ Lantern wild, as well …
Online and land gambling firm Rank Group plc and posted its interim management statement for the 15 weeks to 11 October 2015, with CEO Henry Birch commenting: “The Group has had a good start to the financial year. We are seeing a continued strong performance from our Grosvenor Casinos brand, particularly in its digital channel …
Wednesday’s defeat of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s $2.4 billion tax proposal has possibly created space for legalised online gambling bills currently stalled in the legislature, industry observers claimed yesterday. They point out that House Majority Leader Dave Reed has given gambling expansion a prominent place on his list of alternatives to the tax increases proposed …
Connecticut’s Mohegan tribal gambling company, which operates the brick and mortar casino for Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, inked a new management agreement to 2019 with the casino Wednesday which removes an option for the tribe to increase its investment in Resorts Casino by buying a further 15 percent shareholding. The tribe already holds …
CORE Gaming claims it is leading the way in HTML5 technology after successfully deploying a single code base strategy for both mobile and desktop. The software developer has launched four HTML5 games through the Sky Vegas platform for mobile and desktop gamers in the last few weeks, and will release six more before the end …
In a story first broken by the Wall Street Journal Wednesday, US media are reporting that the FBI has commenced an investigation into the “insider” scandal at daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings following appeals by politicians for a Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission enquiry (see previous reports). The reports indicate that FBI agents …
Genesis Global-owned online casino Casino Cruise has taken on a live dealer solution from LuckyStreak offering blackjack, roulette and baccarat tables. “We like the player-first attitude the guys at LuckyStreak have adopted and especially were convinced by the innovative look and feel which perfectly reflects Casino Cruise’s mission to bring Vegas-style realism to your screen …
Fantasy sports firm DraftKings faces another class action suit as it continues to deal with a fall out involving insider betting. Boston law office Bailey & Glasser is handling the class action suit which claims DraftKings’ sign up bonuses and other promotional bonusing are “themselves a fantasy”. The claimants allege that when signing up new …
Sportingbet.gr has been named official national betting sponsor of Euroleague Basketball in Greece for the next four years. Sportingbet’s sponsorship covers three signature Euroleague Basketball products: the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four, the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Game of the Week and the Eurocup Finals.
According to Associated Press, Czech political rivals Finance Minister Andrej Babis and his predecessor Miroslav Kalousek raised the ante in a Parliamentary committee debate on the 2016 budget with a bet of $421 000. Babis alleges that Kalousek faced a Police investigation in 2008 over a decision he made to allow internet betting. An allegation …
RealTime Gaming is on the button with a new slot title release “Bubble Bubble” in time for Halloween. This five-reel, 25-payline slot offers three bonus features in which the first Great Ghosts Feature can award up to 20 free spins. A Wild Witches Feature can award nine free games as Winni the Witch casts spells …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled in favour of a review before a full bench of judges on a decision made by a three-member panel back in August which denied the expansion of sports betting at casinos and racetracks in New Jersey. This latest court decision was initiated by the …
SkillOnNet has launched a white-label online casino in Schleswig-Holstein providing a complete offer that includes slots, table games and live dealer games from a range of top gaming providers such as Merkur, NetEnt, WMS, Amaya, Bally, NYX Gaming and soon to be integrated Microgaming. The new online casino at DrückGlück.de, available on desktop and mobile, …
California-based, real-money, mobile-first gaming platform provider and turnkey operator CashBet has appointed investment banker Dan Edwards as vice president of Finance. CashBet also announced the appointment of former chairman of Probability Games and founder of ScotBet, Graham Martin, to its advisory board.
BetConstruct has met technical standards following an appraisal by Gaming Laboratories International of its sportsbook product followed by the award of a licence from Spain’s gambling regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ). “We will be going live with our inaugural Spanish partner this month, and will have our unique sports betting software delivered …
“The Vikings” is a new 5-reel, 20-payline slot from software developer Endorphina. The Vikings features scull symbols that may grant a player with 12 free games along with a Risk Game option where the player must pick one of four remaining cards to beat the value of the game’s selected card for an opportunity to …
NetEnt’s recently signed content supply agreement with bwin.party and Borgata (see previous report) has come to fruition with the launch of a portfolio of multi-channel games on bwin.party’s New Jersey online casino. “I am very pleased that we are now live with a selection of our multichannel games for desktop and mobile with bwin.party in …
Delegates at the recent Cyber Defence Summit in Washington DC have been warned about a new hacker group titled Fin5, which researchers reported was responsible for a hack on an unnamed land casino that resulted in the loss of 150,000 gambler credit card details. Researchers Emmanuel Jean-Georges of Mandiant and Barry Vengerik of FireEye said …
NetEnt has given a Christmassy flavour to its popular Flowers online slot in the run-up to the festive season. Features include double symbols in both the main game and free spins that literally behave the same as two individual symbols, along with x3 multipliers and stacked wilds in free spins.
Republican presidential candidate and online gambling opponent Sen. Marco Rubio could be “the chosen one” for big-money financial support from multi-billionaire land casino owner Sheldon Adelson, US media speculated this week. The usually reliable Washington DC publication Politico reported that Adelson is increasingly inclining toward backing Rubio, according to sources close to the major Republican …
Delaware’s legalised online gambling industry saw a slight monthly decline in September, with overall revenues of $156,125 (August 2015: $158,979), but whilst online casino gaming remained reasonable stable, internet poker revenues hit a record low of $24,523 in rake and fees – down even on the all-time worst results of June last year, when the …
With rumours of a federally-imposed two-year moratorium on internet gambling legalisation strengthening in the United States (see previous reports), Michelle Minton of the Competitive Enterprise Institute launched a pre-emptive strike in an op-ed article in the widely read Washington DC publication The Hill Tuesday. Like the struggling Restoration of America’s Wire Act proposal currently stalled …