The UK mainstream press has been having an anti-gambling field day following the release of the latest UK Gambling Commission report on Young People and Gambling, which examined “awareness and participation rates” of skin gambling by minors in video games. Our readers will recall that skins are cosmetic changes to a player’s in-game weapons, accoutrements …
ProgressPlay, the owner of the Fruity King online casino has been sharply criticised for a sexist and insulting September tweet posted by the operator, who ProgressPlay claims is a licensee. The tweet targeted the ITV television show Loose Women, insulting the swimwear-clad presenters via their images and the words “You can put lipstick on a …
PokerStars Casino paid out $1,879,437.02 to its seventh 2017 millionaire winner this week after German player ‘beckskr’ hit the progressive jackpot on the Arcade Bomb slot. Beckskr went online on Monday afternoon and seven minutes later he hit the big money. Unfortunately that is all that PokerStars has released regarding his big win and future …
Online betting platform and information provider Better Collective has unveiled its latest flagship product, BetBehind – the first auto-betting platform that allows users to instantly back the best tipsters from the extensive community of international tipsters on bettingexpert.com. BetBehind was created using innovations, not only from the sports betting world, but from elements used in …
The Norwegian government’s fierce defence of its national online gambling industry appears about to ramp up even further next year. In addition to the recent directives compelling banks to disrupt transactions with certain international payment processing companies (see earlier reports) there are now plans to shut down television adverts from overseas and particularly EU member …
NYX Gaming Group has agreed a deal with Paf to integrate the Finnish operator to its OGS (Open Gaming System). Paf serves players from countries including Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Spain. It will deliver a host of proprietary NYX content from the company’s four in-house games studios, including NextGen Gaming, as well as the more …
The innovative Rightlander software (see previous reports) has found wider application in assisting online gambling operators to ensure that their affiliate marketers are complying with increasingly strictly enforced marketing regulations in a growing number of jurisdictions. Operators can provide Rightlander with lists of affiliate websites and the scanner identifies pages where operator brands are mentioned …
In compliance with an Australian Competition Tribunal pre-condition related to the merger with Tatts (see previous reports), Australian gambling group Tabcorp has announced that it has divested its Odyssey Gaming Services holdings, clearing the path to the merger. Odyssey has been divested to Australian National Hotels Pty Limited (ANH), a subsidiary of Federal Group. Tabcorp …
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval announced Monday that AG Burnett, the respected chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, is to step down on December 22 this year in order to take up a new position with a local law firm. Before actively practising gaming law with the firm Burnett will first have to complete a …
Macau-based land casino operator SJM Holdings has hailed the success of last week’s eSports event, a three-day competition held at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and titled MDL Macau Dota2 International Elite Invitational. SJM claims the international event was the first of its type to be held in Macau, with chief executive Ambrose So Shu Fai …
Criminal proceedings alleging insider trading and other irregularities against former Amaya chief executive David Baazov and two associates began Monday despite a request for a delay by the accuseds’ legal representatives (see previous report). Baazov’s lawyers had earlier submitted a motion to stay, claiming that the prosecution had overwhelmed them at the last moment with …
The first online sports betting site to achieve licensing in Russia last year, Liga Stavok, did a little justified bragging at a press conference Monday when vice president Dmitry Pavlovsky gave the press information on a few KPIs covering this year to date at the bookmaker. Admittedly starting from a low base, the company recorded …
The chair of independent responsible gambling body Senet, Wanda Goldwag, has stepped down after three years and is moving to the UK health sector, the organisation advised Monday. Goldwag was the first chair appointed by Senet in 2014 when the group was founded to improve industry-wide social responsibility standards in gambling advertising and operational practices. …
UK-based developer Realtime Games as leveraged interest in fantasy football to raise GBP 600,000 in a funding round designed to finance the continued development and marketing of its real-time fantasy football mobile game, titled UFL. The project is a first for Realtime and allows fans around the world to connect simultaneously to a live football …
Online gambling group Kindred plc, parent company for operating companies like Unibet, Stan James, and 32Red, has revealed that it is working with augmented (AR), virtual (VR), and mixed reality (MR) firm Zappar to explore the potential of MR in the gambling industry. Zappar has been working with Kindred Futures, the innovation arm of the …
The Remote Gambling Association – a trade body for the online gambling industry – announced Monday that it would urge the UK government to introduce a statutory levy to replace the current system of voluntary funding for research, education, and treatment of problem gambling; and to ensure that the National Responsible Gambling Strategy is properly …
Forum posts from Norwegian players report that they have received bank notifications indicating that the Norwegian regulator Lotteritilsynet has directed that banks must block payments to and from two specific payment processors, and the banks will therefore be returning payments to and from the processors to senders. The bank notifications named Magyar S.R.O (Trustly) and …
Online and instant win games developer IWG reports that it has partnered with Scientific Games and Atlantic Lottery to relaunch the Canadian lottery’s entire online instant win offering. The integration has been made possible through Atlantic Lottery’s Scientific Games partnership, using IWG’s Progressive Play Remote Gaming Server (RGS). The Lottery’s new, omni-channel gaming system from …
Online slot developer Pragmatic Play has agreed a deal with NYX Gaming Group to integrate its entire portfolio onto NYX OGS (Open Gaming System). Under the terms of the deal, Pragmatic Play games including Vegas Nights, Caishen’s Gold and Jurassic Giants will be made available to more than 150 operators, Dylan Slaney, executive vice president, …
Online slots provider Magnet Gaming has agreed a deal to distribute its portfolio of games to Estonian social gaming operator Chanz. The Danish provider’s full suite of HTML5 slots, which are designed to work across a range of platforms, will be made available via www.chanz.com and include titles such as Fish Tank, Gold Rush, Diamond …
NSoft has announced further expansion into the Romanian market with the launch of its set of virtual draw based games Lucky Six, Lucky X and Next Six on the Seven platform. The news follows the supplier’s recent breakthrough into the Polish market with Greyhound Races, Virtual Motorcycle Speedway and Live Betting MTS. All the new …
Live dealer games and technology provider Authentic Gaming has taken possession of its new and expanded office space on the seafront of the Malta town of Selima. The company has gone from three employees when it was founded just two years ago to more than 30 designers, developers, engineers and technicians today, as well as …
Swedish online gambling games developer NetEnt has announced that it is to supply a wide range of its games to the Norwegian national lottery group Norsk Tipping through a distribution agreement with International Game Technology (IGT). Earlier this year, NetEnt participated as a supplier to IGT in the competitive procurement process of Norsk Tipping for …
Online gambling games developer BetSoft has added a new online slot to its Classic range, launching Legend of the Nile. The theme, as the title suggests, is based on ancient Egypt – a perennial favourite with players and therefore developers, it appears. It supports a 6×6 grid format cascading reels slot machine, featuring exploding wins …