A lucky 50-year-old Finnish Casumo.com customer hit the big one on Net Entertainment’s popular pooled jackpot slot “Arabian Nights” bagging a life changing Euro 3.3 million. “It’s a pleasure to announce yet another life-changing Jackpot Arabian Nights and we extend our congratulations to both the winner and Casumo. This is the second significant sum paid …
Bitcoin wallet Coinbase has entered into a partnership with casual games developer Big Fish who will provide its online customer with a new method to buy games and in-app purchases with bitcoin. All Big Fish online games can now be bought directly from Big Fish with bitcoin, while several of the company’s free-to-play online games …
The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) said it salutes today’s European Parliament (EP) vote supporting a single set of rules through the European Union (EU). Adopted by an overwhelming majority, the updated rules for the first time subject all gambling services to EU-wide rules for the prevention of money laundering while bringing greater legal …
The UK Football Association (FA) is reportedly considering a blanket ban on players and club staff betting on football matches following an admission by Newcastle United Football Club player Dan Gosling to a FA misconduct charge earlier this week. Restrictions are already in force concerning English football club betting, however a complete ban is under …
Yggdrasil Gaming has signed its fourth operator in three months, the latest being Panda Media-owned operator videoslots.com Under the terms of the latest deal, Videoslots.com with take on a full suite of 25 Yggdrasil games as well as its expanding roadmap of new offerings. Yggdrasil has recently signed content deals with Mr Green, LeoVegas and …
The commission set up by the state of Delaware to recommend how the state can become more competitive in its gambling industry has struggled to reach consensus, leading to a delay in the submission of its recommendations. The commission’s report to the legislature was due at the end of January this year but the inability …
The Hamburg-based research group Ystats has been attracting attention with its new survey “Europe Online Gaming Market 2014” which, although more general than specific to gambling, still makes for interesting reading. Ystats has concluded that European internet users – and especially those in West and Central Europe – spend significantly more time playing online games …
Judging by the frequent Advertising Standards Authority decisions on unacceptable advertising that go against online gambling firms, more needs to be done to educate marketers on what is appropriate… and more importantly what is not. In an attempt to address this issue, the ASA is to host a seminar alongside the help notes on gambling …
Betfair Group Plc made several announcements of changes to its Board today (Monday). Peter Rigby has been appointed as a non-executive director and member of the Remuneration Committee effective April 1, 2014. Rigby was chief executive officer of FTSE 250 Informa plc until the end of 2013. He joined Informa in 1983 and served as …
Social gaming firm Plumbee has introduced player tournaments to its Mirrorball Slots app on Facebook. A new lobby within the app allows players to play head-to-head tournaments after choosing one of four stakes and a final battle titled “Battle Royale” sees the top two players compete against each other for virtual cash prizes. A separate …
Singapore Pools, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tote Board, has posted a request for expressions of interest (EOI) in terms of the replacement of its current sports betting system. The company currently offers Singapore Sweep, 4-D, horse race betting and Formula One and football match sports betting to its customers. Singapore Pools envisages the …
Scientific Games Corporation subsidiary Williams Interactive will add a full portfolio of its interactive games to Ladbrokes.com, integrated through the Williams Interactive Remote Game Server, following a multi-year agreement announced today (Monday). The portfolio is expected to go live on mobile and PC platforms on Ladbrokes.com by the middle of 2014. Many of the titles …
Sports and betting data provider Betradar has released a new virtual sports betting product, “Virtual Dog Racing”, which will debut on Ghanaian online bookmaker SafariBet. This new multi-platform product follows the successful release of its “Virtual Horse Classics” and coincides with the launch of Betradar’s new Remote Gaming Server. “Virtual Dog Racing” is available as …
UK gambling firm Betfred has become the official betting partner of The Crabbie’s Grand National Festival, due to be held in April 2014 at Aintree. Betfred will sponsor three races in the three-year deal – The Betfred Bowl Steeple Chase on Grand Opening Day, The Betfred Mobile Mildmay Novices’ Steeple Chase on Ladies Day and …
Casual games developer Big Fish has released its latest social slot titled “Fate’s Fortune”. The slot is themed on the mysteriousness of old New Orleans and features scatters, free spins, free tickets and free gold or chips. Fate’s Fortune allows for cross-platform play across iOS and Android devices, PC and Facebook.
Malta, as a prominent licensing and regulatory jurisdiction for online gambling operators, is to introduce a Responsible Gambling Foundation, the Times of Malta reports. Announcing the advent of the Foundation, Malta’s Parliamentary Secretary for Competitiveness and Economic Growth, Edward Zammit Lewis said that although problem gambling percentages were low, the issue is always one serious …
Adrian Parkinson’s anti FOBT action group Campaign for Fair Gambling launched a new wave of negative publicity on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals last week, apparently unimpressed with industry moves to tighten restrictions on use following extensive media and political comment – much of it flowing from an earlier CFG release of statistics. The action group …
Teddy Sagi, the Israeli businessman and billionaire who founded Playtech, and recently sold off a chunk of his stock in that company has a new product lined up for a $100 million I.P.O. in London, according to a report in the Financial Times over the weekend. The entrepreneur’s latest project is a digital wallet branded …
In a sequel to its popular Gold Diggers 3D slot, online and mobile games developer BetSoft has launched More Gold Diggin’ in both desktop and mobile formats, the latter under its ToGo mobile brand. The latest iteration of the 5 reel, 25 line game reintroduces miners Jeb and Cletus as they work hard to find …
Online gambling technology and content provider Playtech, and its licensee the UK-based Ladbrokes online and land gambling group, have announced the launch of Live Games across both online casino desktop and mobile channels. The launch enables Ladbrokes to distribute all of Playtech’s Live Games, across all platforms. The mobile platform will feature both HTML5 and …
The Warrington Wolves rugby Super League team in Britain has signed a one-year exclusive betting partner contract with Ireland’s Betbright online gambling group. The agreement requires Betbright to provide a Wolves-branded betting site for use by the team’s supporters, and the betting company will run a series of online promotional offers. The club will also …
Following a two year investigation based on information from Canada’s Organised Crime Enforcement Bureau, provincial police in Ontario arrested eleven people and executed search warrants at five residential premises and four cars this week on 43 charges that include online gambling, drugs and illegal weapons. At a press conference in Toronto Friday provincial and local …
A Millstone, New Jersey online punter harvested the biggest jackpot yet in the state’s newly legalised online gambling market this week, hitting a $84,300 windfall on IGT’s “Monoloply Level Up Plus” slot. Reporting on the big win, the Star Ledger newspaper said that the man, who scored the big hit at the Borgata online casino, …
New research from the independent research firm Roy Morgan Gambling Monitor claims that in 2013 over 3.5 million Australians aged over 18 placed a bet of some kind… and 21 percent of them – or 758,000 people – did so online. This represents a substantial increase from three years ago, when online punters made up …