Curacao-licensed i-gaming firm BetGames.tv has had a busy month, signing multiple deals with DotaBet, Altenar, Sportsbookcloud Ltd., BtoBet, BetPark and Koolbet237. BetGames.tv’s nine live games went live with DotaBet mid July through the BetConstruct platform and will soon launch with Altenar customers in LATAM, Southern Europe and the Middle East. The company partnered Sportsbookcloud Ltd …
Online lottery betting operator, Multilotto, has boosted its online casino vertical with Yggdrasil Gaming’s complete content portfolio. Multilotto intends releasing two new Yggdrasil Gaming titles per week across its online casino platform which includes Yggdrasil’s latest release ‘Rainbow Ryan’. “Yggdrasil are one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed suppliers, providing games for the world’s …
Las Vegas-headquartered Galaxy Gaming (Galaxy) has made two senior executive appointments in which Galaxy’s vp of business development, Todd Cravens, will succeed founder Robert Saucier as president and chief executive officer. Saucier will remain with Galaxy as a director and has been appointed to the position of executive vice president of business development and chief …
International Game Technology (IGT) announced the formation of a Chinese-foreign equity joint venture (JV) with China’s Shenzhen-listed Telling Telecommunication Holding Co., Ltd. through its Shenzhen Tian Lian Cai Investment Co. subsidiary. Under the terms of the partnership, IGT will provide lottery products to regulated Lottery Centers in the People’s Republic of China, operating as a …
As Intralot’s existing lottery systems and related services contract edges towards expiry, the Société de Gestion de la Loterie Nationale (Morocco National Lottery – MNL) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the replacement of the current system. The MNL is soliciting bids for a lottery gaming system, networking, components, games, and/or products, game …
Play’n GO has released the demo of its new ‘Moon Princess’ title (see previous report). The title, which went live on operator sites late last week, features an unusual theme – an adaptation of Sailor Moon, a Japanese shōjo manga series written 25 years ago that has experienced a resurgence in popularity as an anime …
Having reached a staff complement of over 350 on Malta alone and 450 in total, Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) has outgrown its yet to be occupied office space @GIG Beach and will expand into a third building, @GIG Sky, during September 2018. The premises @GiG Sky will offer the company an additional 3,200 SQM of …
SoftSwiss has agreed a content distribution deal with game provider Spinomenal in which it will integrate over 80 HTML5 titles for real-money and bitcoin play. “Our suite of over 80 cross-platform games compliments Softswiss core offering and we are excited to offer our content to their impressive and growing portfolio of clients,” Derek Bloom, senior …
Spain’s top professional football league association La Liga is readying the launch of a new proprietary betting monitoring system ahead of the 2017/18 football season. The association will replace an existing third-party supplied system to enhance the identification of suspicious betting patterns, saying other in-house intelligence, in addition to its own management of the software, …
bet-at-home AG has reported double-digit increases in revenue and earnings for the first half 2017 period despite cutting back on marketing expenses. Key performance highlights include: – Gross betting and gaming revenue up 17.5 percent to Euro 76.8 million (H1/2016: Euro 65.4 million). – Net betting and gaming revenue increased 15.9 percent to Euro 61.5 …
The UK-based online gambling games developer Realistic Games reported Monday that it has developed an exclusive new Liverpool football club-themed slot for BetVictor ahead of the English Premier League football season. LFC Stars is a three-reel, five-win line slot, featuring present Liverpool FC players Roberto Firmino, Georginio Wijnaldum, Adam Lallana and captain Jordan Henderson. Exclusive …
Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego issues two advisories regarding operator obligations once shared player pools are operational. The Spanish online gambling regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego has followed French equivalent ARJEL in publishing information and advisory documents for the use of operators who wish to participate in the shared player pools agreed …
Second Quarter 2017 data published by Spain’s gambling regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego shows a 4.51 percent decline in gross gaming revenue compared to the previous quarter but an increase of 22.6 percent year-over-year. Detailed results include: Total online market gross gaming revenue (GGR) decreased 4.51 percent to reach Euro 121.28 million (Q1/2017: …
Chicago games developer 2By2Gaming has launched its newest fantasy-themed title ‘Fire n’ Fortune’, a 5×3 slot offering a cloning phoenix feature, regular, super and mega Free Spins, Wilds, Multipliers and a mystery bonus. Check out the demo here: This Royal-themed, 3-reel, 5-payline slot tasks players to collect silver and gold overlays from the main reels …
Kambi Group plc has entered into a multi-year sportsbook deal with Bulgaria’s National Lottery AD’s 7777 brand. 7777 boasts a customer base of over two million and is considered to be one of Bulgaria’s leading online lottery and gaming operators. Kambi’s sports betting solution will replace 7777.bg’s existing sports betting service as the operator strives …
Betfair’s New Jersey online casino operation is right on trend this week with the release of two new Konami online slots with themes that tie in to the forthcoming Great American Eclipse – a title the media have given to a celestial event on August 21 which will see an eclipse of the sun over …
Pennsylvania senators have finally (if narrowly) voted through their solution to the state’s $2.2 billion budget deficit, proposing a funding package that includes an estimated $200 million contribution from legalised and expanded gambling (including online and DFS). The State Senate funding estimate for gambling tax income is $100 million more than similar proposals last year, …
Amid speculation that the highly competitive UK betting market has presented market penetration difficulties for it, daily fantasy sports operator FanDuel has explained why it made the decision to withdraw from the UK market this week, albeit temporarily (see previous report). A company statement Friday explains that with a new NFL season imminent, it has …
A Hong Kong-based businessman associated with the Goldenway Group, Tong Hao, has reportedly been investing heavily in Amaya shares, most recently with a buy of 4.2 million shares this week and previous buys last week of 279,200 shares for Cdn$ 6.24 million and 500,000 shares for Cdn$11.12 million. Earlier this month in separate transactions Hao …
It appears from a report in the satirical publication Private Eye that all is not well with the online bookmaking venture Sunbets, a jv between Aussie gambling group Tabcorp and Britain’s News UK in the Rupert Murdock stable of media investments. The publication reports friction between the Australian and British management teams, and quotes from …
National Bureau of Investigation officers swoop on a house in Mandaue City to find evidence of illegal online gambling. Acting on a search warrant granted by Judge Ricky Jones Macabaya of the Regional Trial Court in Cebu City, a raiding party from the National Bureau of Investigation swooped on a house in Mandaue City on …
Players in the dark on future daily fantasy sport activities in the UK after FanDuel reveals it will not be offering its services this football season. Almost a full year after launching in the UK last August, daily fantasy sports market leader FanDuel appears to be withdrawing from the market…it is not clear whether on …
Isle of man-based but Asian-facing sports betting operator 12BET has announced that it is the official sponsorship partner of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) 2017 World Championships, which this year take place in Glasgow, Scotland between 21 -.27 August. The championships are professional badminton’s most prestigious event, attracting leading players from around the world to …
The unregulated nature of the market, changes at Bitcoin and recent hacks on Initial Coin Offerings by cyber-currency start-ups (see previous reports) have not deterred investors from taking up tokens offered by Monster Byte Inc., which lists among its ambitions an intention to become a leading b2c and b2b operator and provider of turnkey online …