Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment’s director of communications, John Shepherd, told the publication Press of Atlantic City this week that his company’s partnership with Borgata Casino co-owners MGM Resorts and Boyd Gaming would see online gambling made available to New Jersey residents as soon as the intrastate internet gambling regulations are implemented – currently planned for November …
CAMS, the U.S. software-as-a-service provider and Verifi subsidiary, has been selected by Kalixa Group, to serve as the company’s preferred gateway provider for North America. CAMS will provide services that enable Kalixa to connect with multiple domestic banks in order to process payments for its merchant customers. CAMS provides a full payment service for online …
Goo Technology, a Swedish app developer, recently launched its 3D online gambling Casino Floor on the HTML5 Goo platform, claiming to deliver faster performance and better bandwidth utilisation. The Stockholm-based company’s Goo Engine enables games to take advantage of 3D hardware acceleration on any device, regardless of the complexity of the graphics. Goo also uses …
Palo Alto, California start-up Real Deal Interactive has entered the competitive social gaming sector this week with a social casino-oriented interactive mobile platform branded Lucky Loot Casino. The publication VentureBeat reports that Lucky Loot will be offered to third party game publishers, initially as a mobile slot suitable for Android devices through the Google Play …
Online gambling delegates visiting the G2E conference and expo in Las Vegas next week will be making a beeline for the International Game Technology (IGT) stand, where the games developer will be showing off its latest land slots – with two major new releases that are hopefully destined for the online market as well at …
Live casino game provider Medialivecasino will deliver new HD Live Roulette, Blackjack and Baccarat games to Latvian operator Optibet.lv. The games introduce improved features which include multi-game view allowing players to play up to four live casino games simultaneously and an HTML5 tablet version for iOS and Android devices. Angelo De Gobbi, Sales & Marketing …
Political party conferences always generate plenty of political posturing, but have to be monitored as possible harbingers of party policy in the future, so this week’s Liberal Democrat proceedings in Glasgow are being watched carefully. Among the many resolutions being debated was one covering restrictions on the proliferation of betting shops on Britain’s High Streets, …
New Jersey governor Chris Christie is on record as saying he is prepared to fight his state’s case to be allowed to offer sports betting all the way to the US Supreme Court if necessary, and that appears to be the state government’s intention following its defeat Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for …
Taiwanese game developer The Manx Entertainment Group (TMEG) has released its social casino offering in beta mode at luckylanegames.com featuring multi-player social casino games on a proprietary built-in social networking platform. The platform’s five games carry themes covering the 1920’s Atlantic City Boardwalk, 1930’s Shanghai, and modern day Monaco and are titled Boardwalk Blackjack, Rio …
Information services provider Experian revealed interesting survey results on a customers’ tolerance for the time taken to undergo identity verification checks before they abandon a transaction. Across a range of sectors, online gambling fared worst with the lowest tolerance time of four minutes compared to five minutes for retail transactions and six minutes for transport. …
Empire Global, a Nevada casino equipment supplier with a slew of roulette patents in its inventory, used the award of its latest patent this week to underline its intention to be a major player in the legalised US online gambling market. The company’s latest roulette patent protects its American and European Roulette Wheels and Layout …
With its merger with W.M.S. well on-track, Scientific Games announced its post-merger organisational structure and leadership team Tuesday. A company statement revealed that the senior corporate executives of Scientific Games will remain in their current roles, including A. Lorne Weil, who will serve as chairman and chief executive officer of the combined company. Operationally, the …
Last week’s launch of the UK Gambling Commission’s consultative phase on regulations for the coming secondary licensing and point-of-consumption taxation gives an interesting insight into the shape of the on line gambling industry post-December 2014. From a player perspective, the protection of player deposits is an imperative, and this has clearly occupied the Commission’s thoughts …
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that New Jersey State’s sports betting law, signed in by Governor Chris Christie last year, conflicts with 1993 Federal Statute – the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) restricting State-sanctioned sports betting to Nevada, Oregon, Delaware, and Montana. This court action is the …
Cape Town, South Africa-based BetTech Gaming has launched a new fully managed online gambling service that it claims enables potential operators to launch a customised betting and gaming operation within a month. BetTech is touting its Fully Managed Solution (FMS) as a cost-effective “business in a box” offering that provides a fast and hassle-free entry …
The respected Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reports that Japanese police are concerned that the popularity of internet gambling in the Asian country is attracting the involvement of the ‘yakuza’ (organised crime groups). It’s perhaps a message that reinforces the need for regulated and licensed online gambling in the populous country, where there have recently been …
The Israeli taxman may be putting the cart in front of the horse if he tries to tax transactions in the virtual currency Bitcoin, given that the country has yet to recognise the virtual cash as an official currency, but he’s looking the possibilities over, according to a report this week in the business publication …
Genesis Gaming has launched its 500th game titled “Phoenix and the Dragon” on the Quickfire, powered by Microgaming, platform. “Phoenix and the Dragon” is a 25-line, multi-featured, graphic-rich video slot that takes the player on a water-colour illustrated journey through an ancient Chinese myth. Two bonus features titled “Dragon Cloud” and “Phoenix Free Spins” are …
Live dealer specialist Evolution Gaming has expanded its operations with a new Live Casino studio in Malta developed to accommodate its expanding native speaking dealer services for gaming operators. The studio is scheduled to go live in the first quarter of 2014 and will house Evolution’s international dealer teams, native speaking dealer tables such as …
Innovative Argentinean gaming studio Leander Games has debuted a host of new games. “Dolly” is a 5-reel, 40-fixed payline game themed on the iconic country singer Dolly Parton. The slot features Extended Wilds, a Butterfly Super Extra Wild and three different bonus games titled “9 to 5”, “Heartbreak Express and “Dolly’s Albums. The 5-reel, 20-payline …
NMi Gaming has been accredited to approve all categories of online and land based gaming by the Gaming, Policy, and Enforcement Branch (GPEB) of British Columbia, Canada. Andrew Rosewarne, Director, NMi Gaming: “NMi are pleased and proud to be able to offer testing in British Columbia. The accreditation follows an extensive audit by GPEB spanning …
The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) has revealed the conclusions of a KPMG study it commissioned on the UK Government’s proposed place of consumption (POC) tax of 15 percent on gross profit. The study concluded that HM Treasury’s POC tax regime for online gambling “is likely to fail to achieve its aims unless the rate of …
Head of Operations for Irish bookmaker Paddy Power William Reeve has stepped down to pursue other business opportunities in Britain, the Sunday Independent reports. Reeve has been with Paddy Power for around a year but filled a non-executive director seat for around two years prior at the bookmaker. A serial internet entrepreneur, Reeve co-founded online …
Social casino firm Plumbee as added The Three Musketeers to its Mirrorball Slots app on Facebook. The slot developed by Swedish games developer Quickspin is the tenth game to be added to the app which boasts 500 000 downloads of its iOS version following release two months ago. “We think the overall polish and game …