It appears that the slogan “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” does not quite apply to the southern US state of Mississippi, where disclosures embarrassing to a neighbouring state’s anti-gambling task force were made this week.
Players at the UK online bingo site Costa Bingo on the Dragonfish bingo network will have a bewildering choice of more than 18 new instant side games to play this week as the booming operator adds new offerings to its inventory.
Delegates to this year’s IGE-ICEi show in London late January will get a first hand look at some reportedly useful changes made to the licensing regime operated by the States of Alderney.
It appears that the disappointing performance of the Gibraltar-based online casino group 32Red in the first half of 2009 is a thing of the past, with the company reporting a better second half to post a 2009 FY gross win of GBP 12.8 million – still down 1.6 percent on the 2008 numbers, but a …
Virgin Casino has added five more games from the GTech G2 side games portfolio to its inventory, building on the Electrocoin Bar X Magic offering launched at the popular UK casino several weeks ago.
Reuben Portanier, who took over as chief executive officer of Malta’s online gambling licensing body the Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) nine months ago, has so far maintained a low international profile, but this week broke out somewhat in an interview with The Sunday Times newspaper.
Make a note of Rhode Island bill S.2028, because you may be hearing more about it as the new year progresses. It’s a proposal now before the Senate Constitutional & Regulatory Issues Committee that suggests it’s time to lift the federal sportsbetting ban in order to boost state tax revenues, and follows similar moves in …
The state-owned Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCORP) has rolled out its first Internet-based casino gaming service powered by a unit of publicly listed online gaming firm Philweb Corp, reports the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
A counter assistant at a supermarket in the UK city of Plymouth has been convicted of stealing a winning lottery ticket from Paul Lamerton (40), a customer, and cashing it in for himself.
The Italian online gambling operator Gioco Digitale, which was acquired in September last year by Austrian remote gaming giant Bwin, has become the first operator to offer its customers online bingo with cash prizes in Italy.
British football-pools operator Sportech plc is foraying into the Indian market through a joint sportsbetting venture with the Essel Group’s Playwin brand.
Betsoft Gaming, innovators of the cutting-edge 3D Slots3 Game Library, has announced that SkyVegas, part of the BSkyB network, has launched BetSoft’s Slots3 lineup. As part of the agreement, SkyVegas has launched the games Three Wishes and The Glam Life on their website..
UK betting exchange giant Betfair has signed football pundit Andy Gray, as its brand ambassador according to reports in Marketing Magazine.
The Gibraltar-based online gambling group Party Gaming plc has signed a three-year deal with London Capital Group, the online financial spread betting company, for a white label financial spread trading platform.
The Vienna listed online gambling group Bwin has announced that Boss Media veteran Peter Bertilsson is to take over Bwin Games AB in a move to strengthen the company’s business-to-business activities.
Industry observers are currently studying the implications of a legislative move in the state of New Jersey that appears to be a response to the increasing competitiveness of neighbouring states like Pennsyvania, which has recently expanded its gambling.
The collaborative deal between the new online gambling activities of gaming giant SegaGaming and gambling software provider Playtech was confirmed this week. The agreement has been common knowledge since the EiG exhibition in Copenhagen last October.
One of the UK’s most established online and land bookmakers, the Ladbrokes group, expects to launch an impressive new version of its Internet sportsbook this week.
Online scratchcard developer Neogames has maintained its sales momentum going into 2010 with another bespoke scratchcard licensing deal with a major online gambling operator. This time it’s Bet365.com, an operator that boasts a player base in excess of 3.5 million international players.
Only days after the release of the branded slot Hellboy, online gambling software provider Microgaming has released another two slots, joining a slew of providers who have been pushing out new offerings this month on the eve of the IGE-ICEi shows late January in London.
Barely a year after opening its virtual doors, the Gaming VC operated and Malta-licensed Slots Club.com is to bow out at the end of January.
Tex Rees, the Fair Gaming Advocate at the player protection and standards non-profit eCOGRA, has released consolidated player dispute statistics for January 1st to December 31st 2009, showing that almost 50 percent of the disputes she mediated were resolved in favour of the player.
Latvia-based online gambling games developer CTXM has scored a significant industry coup in announcing that it has received an order for “an extensive suite of gambling applications” from the new online gambling operations of the giant Sega company.
Despite a still-in-progress review of the Thai online lottery, it appears that the country’s prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, has already made the call to abandon the project, introduced by a previous administration.