Shock news from Florida is that Merkur Gaming exec and industry veteran Jens Halle (58) passed away suddenly as a result of a chest infection earlier this week. Merkur parent group Gauselmann Gaming issued a statement yesterday (Thursday) advising that Halle had died “suddenly and unexpectedly” on Wednesday in a Florida hospital. Halle was married …
Given the Russian government’s tough anti-online gambling stance, it’s an optimistic games developer who seeks to penetrate the market in that country, but Prague-based Endorphina Gaming is going to have a crack at it. The company has announced that it plans to launch a brand new and Russian folk crafts themed video slot called Gzhel …
Poker Players Alliance director Rich Muny has flagged a deeply biased mailer campaign by Sheldon Adelson’s Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling that has targeted Pennsylvania residents. Muny published samples of the highly partisan mailers, which rely on the questionable results of the discredited Harper telephone auto-poll recently commissioned by the Coalition purporting to show that …
Australian problem gambling specialist Dr Sally Gainsbury from Southern Cross University is to present the findings of her latest research to an international addiction conference on the Gold Coast today, and has told ABC News that more education on the dangers of problem gambling is needed. The advent of smart phone betting and gambling has …
IGT, which claims to hold the largest portfolio of slot game feature patents in North America, has reached IP patent cross-licence agreement for the North American market with NetEnt, the Swedish online gambling content provider. The agreement enables NetEnt to offer games in North America that include any of the patented game features contained in …
Online gambling software developer and provider Betsoft Gaming has inked a content deal with Italian sportsbook provider AR Management which will see the Italian company taking on Betsoft’s Slots3 range of online games to distribute to a wide range of clientele. “Italian iGaming is one of the more exciting markets, and AR Management stands out …
Panel speakers at the G2E Asia conference this week said that the suspension of Chinese online lottery activity by the Chinese authorities was an understandable move on the government’s part to bring more order and control to a rapidly expanding sector. The success of the booming online lottery business had been beyond expectations, with lottery …
The troubled online gambling group Bwin Party Digital Entertainment has posted another mediocre quarterly report, recording that revenues year on year slipped a further 6 percent, although they were up a similar amount when compared with the preceding quarter. Q1-2015 revenue was Euro 155.3 million, with nationally regulated and/or taxed markets represented 62 percent of …
Tabcorp Holdings Limited has announced that it has resolved with the Australian Taxation Office the tax treatment of the $597.2 million it paid to the State of Victoria in 1994 in relation to the wagering and gaming licences granted at that time. The agreed tax treatment provides Tabcorp with an allowable deduction of A$429.6 million, …
Swedish online gambling software provider NetEnt has released its first game designed from the outset with a mobile first mindset, according to a company statement. The new release, Stickers, is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot with 20-lines (fixed), built in HTML5 for both desktop and mobile. It features regular Wild symbols that transform into Sticky …
Soft Magic Dice, a relatively new online gambling software provider, has previewed a new online slot for release soon, themed on the television program Prison Break. The slot is a five-reel slot game with 25 pay-lines, and carries a theme based on an encounter between prison supervisors and inmates who prepare an escape plan, all …
Betfair marketers have just completed an innovative and attention-grabbing project in the Midlands city of Hull, where the favourite football team is facing relegation in league competitions. Pinning the innovative project on a desire to cheer up Hull fans, Betfair organised a publicity campaign built around a drone hovering over the city and randomly dropping …
Weike Gaming Technology, a Singapore-based land casino game provider, has inked a deal with the open gaming platform provider ONEworks that will see some of its slot products translate to the online environment. ONEworks, which has technology and programming operations in Taiwan, develops sportsbook software services to gaming companies, and said in a statement confirming …
Sheldon Adelson’s Restoration of America’s Wire Act has the potential to create an unintended but spectacular backfire for Nevada’s $3.9 billion mobile sports betting business, according to an article in the respected Las Vegas Revue Journal this week. The publication points out that the proposed law already has the potential to end currently legalised internet …
New York state U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian announced Wednesday that about $6 million in forfeited funds, taken from defendants in a major online gambling case, will be allocated to law enforcement agencies in the Albany and Saratoga Counties. Speaking to TWC News, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said: “The name of the game is, you …
The digital division of Ladbrokes welcomed a new chief this week when the internal promotion of former mobile head Dipen Nagda was announced. Nagda, a graduate of the University of Warwick who had impressive management experience with telecommunications giants 3, T-Mobile and Vodaphone prior to joining Ladbrokes, recently played a leading role in restructuring Ladbrokes’ …
The board of directors of Cherry AB has confirmed Frederik Burvall in the chief executive post and as president of the company with immediate effect. The former CFO, who joined Cherry nine years ago, was appointed acting CEO in December last year . Chairman of the board, Rolf Åkerlind, said in a statement: ”Fredrik Burvall …
Digital operations continued to make a strong contribution to the performance of the online and land gambling group Rank plc in the first five months of 2015, the company said in an interim management statement Thursday. A strong performance from live casino and increases in both customers and spend per visit led to a 55 …
The Danish Online Gambling Association (DOGA) has published the second instalment of a study it commissioned from MyResearch. The organisation released the results of the first part of the study in March 2015 focusing on the size of the black market in Denmark with an emphasis on online sports betting (see previous report). The second …
Fantasy eSports provider AlphaDraft recently emerged from a seed financing round with $ 4.2 million in funds raised from investors Melo7Tech, Metaphorphic and none other than former NBA commissioner David Stern among others. AlphaDraft offers fantasy e-Sports line-up’s on professional video gaming team sports rather than the usual actual real person live-sports covered by companies …
Voice biometrics specialist SpeechPro has partnered with biometric security firm FaceBanx in the development of enhanced face and voice recognition solutions for telecomm and banking industry customers. Facebanx will now offer SpeechPro’s proprietary “VoiceKey.OnePass” technology through its mobile, PC and tablet platform solution. The combined solution gives consumers the ability to log into mobile apps …
Åland-based gaming company Paf reported profit of Euro 17.2 million at the end of its 2014 financial year, down 45 percent compared to 2013. “Compared with the previous two financial years, 2014 was a weaker year. Profits were negatively affected by targeted major investments in areas such as marketing and by external factors such as …
Pennlive reports the release of a new poll commissioned by lobbyists and public relations firm The Bravo Group which tests the water on Pennsylvania voter opinions on legalising state specific online gambling. The results of this poll are vastly different from those of the auto-phone poll conducted by Republican Party-leaning Harper Polling earlier this month. …
A new promotional concept dubbed Super Free Spins is set for launch by Yggdrasil Gaming. The feature will launch exclusively with Vera&John online casino before being made more widely available in June. Super Free Spins allows operators to hand out an infinite number of free spins to different player segments with variable stop criteria like …