Wynn Resorts, Station Casinos and Churchill Downs Inc. are the latest to join the American Gaming Association (AGA) Board of Directors. The AGA said its new members demonstrate an increasing support for the association’s positive and proactive gaming agenda. “This is a critical step in the AGA’s evolution as a representative of the entire gaming …
A Croatian player identified as Matej B is in for a festive holiday season having won Euro 594 923 playing Caribbean Draw Poker at All Slots Casino. The lucky punter was dealt a Royal Flush becoming All Slots Casino’s first winner on the progressive game which was launched in December 2010. “I couldn’t believe what …
New York-based Finger Lakes Racing Association’s new internet, mobile and telephone advance deposit wagering (ADW) service was launched by Sportech Racing and Digital at FingerLakesBonusBets.com this week. Sportech will additionally provide Finger Lakes with a live operator telephone wagering service, customer service, technical support, CRM and marketing as well as complete operations, planning and implementation …
Independent research and professional services company Spectrum Gaming Group has released its tenth annual list tracking 21 leading trends for the forthcoming year in the gambling industry…and the potential of the Asian markets and expansion into the U.S. feature prominently in many of its predictions. 1. As legislation to authorize integrated resorts in Japan moves …
The Irish online sports and casino operator SeanieMac International, Inc., t/a as SeanieMac Limited, has inked an exclusive partnership deal that will see the gambling company become the official betting partner of Irish tabloid newspaper The Irish Daily Mirror. The partnership will see The Irish Daily Mirror promote SeanieMac through the newspaper and its website. …
Following up on its decision to draft a framework for regulated online gambling that will be of assistance to US states seeking to open their markets, the National Council of Legislators for Gaming States (NCLGS) has invited comments from the public to assist in the process. The Council is collaborating with the University of Las …
With corruption a real fear in global sports betting, and recent cases where British footballers have been implicated in suspicious activity, a member of the UK official Opposition, Gerry Sutcliffe MP, has called for an open discussion with bookies and football authorities on what constitutes “appropriate” wagers….and what doesn’t. Regarding the latter, Sutcliffe has definite …
The Reno, Nevada-based interactive games developer Spin Games LLC has completed a content development and integration agreement with Nektan (Gibraltar) Limited, a social and online games content and services developer. Under the agreement, Spin will license HTML5 game content and the Spin Games Remote Gaming Server (RGS) branded The ROC to Nektan for deployment on …
Live dealer provider Evolution Gaming will launch an in-venue Live Casino studio at the Casinó Campione d’Italia land-based casino following an agreement announced this week. The Live Casino broadcast studio is set to be a prominent feature within the Casinó Campione complex which is situated on the site of Italy’s first ever casino. Initially, Live …
New Jersey’s burgeoning online gambling market saw 20 000 internet gambling accounts registered last week alone bringing to 91 531 (as of December 15, 2013) registered accounts since the opening of the market in the last week of November. The New Jersey State Gaming Enforcement Division said the total reflects the number of accounts registered …
Jean-François Vilotte, president of the French online gambling regulatory body L’Autorité de régulation des jeux en ligne (ARJEL), will reportedly step down in January 2014 to enter the private sector. Vilotte was integral in the lead up to and the opening of the French online gambling market in 2010 and is a proponent of shared …
Online platform provider TAIN has entered into its second Dutch deal for the provision of an iGaming platform with Amsterdam’s largest casino operator Casino City. Under the terms of the deal, TAIN will provide an online casino, poker, sportsbook and payment services to Casino City in anticipation of the opening of the Dutch regulated online …
Olympic Entertainment Group subsidiary, Olympic Casino Group Baltija (OCGB), has been awarded a licence to offer sports betting games in Lithuania. Under the OlyBet trademark, OCGB will begin online operations in Lithuania during the first quarter of 2014 and will also expand its network of OlyBet Sports Bars in the Country.
Sportech PLC has been awarded a licence by Californian horseracing body, the Southern California Off Track Wagering Inc.(SCOTWinc), allowing it to offer horserace betting at ten retail venues. Under the terms of the agreement, Sportech will expand its established sports bar and betting business in Connecticut to California, where Sportech’s technology systems process all bets …
Malta-based online casino operator Vera&John will take on a range of Evolution Gaming’s Live Dealer Table Games following a two-year partnership deal inked this week. Under the terms of the agreement, Evolution will expand Vera&John’s current Live Casino offering with its Live Roulette, Live Blackjack, Live Casino Hold’em and Live Baccarat on verajohn.com and vera888.com …
Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has named Simona Dutto as its new Business Development Manager in Italy. Dutto has spent the past 15 years in the European gaming industry and will oversee GLI’s development efforts in both the terrestrial and online gaming markets in Italy.
Software developer iSoftBet has launched Beverly Hills 90210 to its Branded Games Portfolio following a recent deal with CBS Consumer Products. The game, a 243 ways to win slot, is themed on the 90s Hit TV Series Beverly Hills 90210 which followed the lives of a group of teenagers living in the up-market community of …
Multi-platform entertainment company Endemol has made a $13 million investment in social casino gaming company Plumbee, effectively valuing the business at $40 million. The two companies will create premium social casino games, exploiting Endemol’s global entertainment brands and building on Plumbee’s worldwide user base. Plumbee was founded in October 2011 and its flagship app Mirrorball …
Yaniv Leven, who heads up the Bwin.Party social gaming subsidiary Win says that there’s a major and so far largely unexploited commercial opportunity in social sports and horserace betting, and that his company is working on a product to meet punter demand in this area with a view to launching early in 2014. Speaking to …
Whilst a whodunnit adventure game titled Criminal Case is the biggest current hit with Facebook gamers, social casino games have proved increasingly popular, and five are listed in the top 25 for 2013 announced by the online social network this week. Facebook’s “Games of the Year” list for 2013, is compiled from a combination of …
Indian police in the Thane rural area arrested six men in a swoop on an illegal online gambling ring Friday. A police spokesman, Superintendent Anil Kumbhare, said the local crime branch raided the Chakra Online, Game King Online and Baba Online illegal enterprises located in shops at Mira Road and Nalla Sopara to arrest six …
Atlantic City land casino operator Golden Nugget has belatedly entered the recently launched intrastate online gambling market in New Jersey after voluntarily holding back from the official market launch date to iron out glitches in its systems . The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has given the operator a green light, and the enterpirse …
Investors spooked by a corporate warning that Perform Group’s 2013 earnings could be substantially lower than anticipated sent the share price spiralling southward Thursday. The digital sports media company saw its share price drop over fifty percent as a result of the profit warning, occasioned by weak advertising and sponsorship results in German and US …
Online gambling software and games developer Microgaming has issued a preview of a major online slot release slated for February 2014, announcing that the new game will be a sequel to Avalon, one of the Isle of Man firm’s most successful proprietary titles. In Avalon II, The Quest for the Grail, the theme returns to …