A Fox Television current affairs program hosted by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee plumbed the depths of biased and perhaps deliberately misleading television this week when anti-online gambling campaigner Blanche Lincoln aired her views, which are startlingly similar and equally questionable as those espoused by land casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson in his big-money efforts to …
The possible sale of the Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment online gambling group (see previous reports) has not tempted investors this week, with the share price easing slightly as the market awaited developments. Our readers will recall that the company confirmed earlier this month that it was in talks with a number of interested parties over a …
October 2014 numbers released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board Wednesday show a continuing decline compared with last year – the third consecutive month of slipping revenues. Casino hold at $914 million was 4.3 percent short from the same time a year ago, prompting NGCB senior research analyst Mike Lawton to comment that revenues have …
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advert for the Health Lottery. The ad, which appeared on the Demand 5 video-on-demand service, promoted an online direct debit offer for the Health Lottery whereby consumers could have their first two weeks play “free”, as a refund from the advertiser, if they signed up online …
Sports data and digital content provider Betradar will provide CG Technology (formerly Cantor Gaming) subsidiary CG Analytics with access to a comprehensive package of pre-game and live odds data following a deal announced this week. Under the terms of the agreement, CG Analytics will utilise Betradar’s data and digital content and distribute this content to …
BetSoft Gaming’s latest addition to its Slots3 Arcade Collection is titled Mega Gems. The game is a five-reel, 10-payline game set against a futuristic backdrop where the lines pay both ways. If a polychrome Wild icon appears on any reel, it transforms that reel into a Wild Reel. After each Wild Reel, a Free Spin …
Managing Director of Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH and chief executive officer of Novomatic Americas Sales LLC Jens Halle has relinquished his position at the Novomatic Group subsidiaries. Halle joined the group 15 years ago and in mutual agreement will move on to pursue new challenges. Herbert Lugmayr, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Novomatic AG, …
The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has responded strongly to a lawsuit launched against it by the Attorney General for California, Kamala Harris, last week (see previous report). The San Diego-based tribe’s recently launched the real-money Desert Rose online bingo enterprise, triggering the AG’s application for a federal court restraining order. The AG is also …
Mounting political, social and business opposition to attempts to ban most forms of online gambling in the USA through the federal Restoration of America’s Wire Act has been boosted by another important lobby – the land casinos of Atlantic City. The RAWA, a proposal currently in the Senate and House of Representatives, has been inspired …
Seven years ago the Canadian founders of the Neteller e-cash processing group, John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence, were arrested under intriguing circumstances following a covert investigation by the US Department of Justice as it implemented moves to disrupt the online gambling industry by “following the money trail” (see previous reports). At the time it created …
Speaking at the New Zealand Racing Board agm this week, the national minister for racing, Nathan Guy, said he was committed to acting against online sports betting offered by foreign operators, and regarded action in this sector as a top priority. Characterising offshore internet betting as a complex but addressable problem, the minister said that …
Greece’s OPAP has reached analyst’s high end forecasts in its nine month and third quarter results released Tuesday. The improvement in results has been attributed to cost-cutting measures imposed by OPAP along with the rejuvenation of the products it offers the public. Key performance highlights include: – A 26 percent rise in Net profit to …
Independent anti-corruption official of the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), Jane Mulcahy QC has given Morgan Lamri (22) a lifetime ban from officiating, participating in or attending any tournament or competition organised or sanctioned by the governing bodies of professional tennis. Lamri was found guilty of committing 16 breaches of Section D.1.a of 2012 and 2013 …
California-based OTP LLC, an independently owned strategic technology firm and independent payment service provider Secure Trading have inked an Indian country gaming partnership where OTP LLC becomes the exclusive reseller of Secure Trading’s ST-1 i-Gaming platform to tribal gaming operators. Secure Trading’s ST-1 platform promises to “revolutionalise player registration process and significantly increase card acceptance …
TopGame Technology has launch its latest title in the Sugar Rush series “Sugar Rush Winter”, a 20-payline game featuring a Gingerbread Man as Wild and CupCakes as bonus symbols. Three or more cupcakes on active paylines will award players up to 9000 bonus points. This latest release is the third in the series, the first …
Sportradar has reworked a deal with the Asean Football Federation (AFF) allowing it to continue its coverage and analysis of the global betting markets across all 18 matches of the AFF Suzuki Cup 2014. In return, Sportradar’s Fraud Detection System will notify the AFF in the event of picking up any suspicious betting patterns. Retired …
Ellmount owned and operated Casino Room has entered into a supply agreement for an entire casino suite of casino games from Yggdrasil Gaming and Infinite API for gamification. “Gamification is absolutely essential in today’s online casino marketplace,” commented Fredrik Elmqvist, Yggdrasil Gaming CEO. “Operators need to take their customers on a journey to keep them …
Sportingbet Plc has gone live with Wikibetting’s Facebook app in a new partnership that saw the veteran sportsbetting firm assist Wikibetting during beta testing to further develop their products. Users can bet on a peer-to-peer level using pseudo currency by challenging friends within Facebook based on different football events, apply the odds, and propose the …
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation’s (BCLC) PlayNow.com has launched casino game content from Williams Interactive. PlayNow’s integration with Williams Interactive’s Remote Game Servers will give players in Canadian Provinces British Columbia and Manitoba fresh titles to choose from such as Zeus, Reel’em In! Big Bass Bucks and The Wizard of OZ. Williams Interactive’s parent company …
Gibraltar game developer Spicy Horse is the latest to join the Odobo HTML5 Developer Program and Marketplace for the real-money gaming industry. Spicy Horse is known for its dark fantasy action game titles such as Akaneiro: Demon Hunters, The Gate and BigHead BASH. The studio is headed up by designer American McGee who developed American …
Betfair has become Premier League Liverpool Football Club’s (LFC) official betting and gaming partner following a deal announced this week. The partnership, covering the United Kingdom, Denmark, Bulgaria, Italy and Spain markets, will afford Betfair the opportunity to connect with LFC fans across digital platforms as well as through match day programme advertising, social media …
The absence of losses from failed land casinos, along with the new revenues from online gambling launched a year ago, have helped Atlantic City gambling venues to achieve a 7.2 percent rise to $147.5 million in gross operating profit in the third quarter ended September 2014. Associated Press reports that the numbers include comparisons with …
October 2014 numbers in respect of online gambling activity in the state of Delaware continue to showcase a weak market one year on from legalisation. The Delaware Lottery reports that gaming win was $130,468 and change…the lowest return since launch last November, when the corresponding figure was $111,387. Delaware’s best month yet was in April …
The land and online gambling content and equipment supplier Aristocrat has noted in its fiscal 2014 FY report that digital performance has been outstanding, with revenues up four-fold to $47.5 million. Other highlights from the report include: * Net profit after tax up 10.2 percent to $118.1 million; * Earnings per share up 6.7 percent …