William Hill has expanded its relationship with English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspurs with the launch of the Tottenham Hotspur Elevator Programme, delivered by the Club’s Foundation in partnership with the UK bookmaker. William Hill’s GBP 100,000 grant will fund the programme which aims to provide 18 to 24-year-olds from Haringey with education, training …
US eSports activity is to receive more publicity in the United States following an announcement by Checkpoint Radio that it is to run nationally syndicated coverage of the activity during a two hour weekly show. Westwood One, a major US sports audio program with over 62 million weekly listeners, has partnered with Checkpoint Radio to …
Bobby’s Room, the 37-table live poker facility at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, is famous the world over for its ambience and action, and the casino resort is about to share this with a wider audience thanks to modern streaming technology and the Twitch channel. Starting April 26 the action will be streamed from the …
NetEnt’s latest addition to its Fairytale Legends series, Hansel and Gretel is set for release April 24 and is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot with Random Features, Bonus Features, Free Spins, Stacked Wild Re-Spins, and Wild substitutions. The game follows the first in the series, Red Riding Hood, which has reportedly been a great success …
Bloomberg business news has published an interesting profile on Mitch Garber (52), the online executive who started out as a lawyer before becoming successfully involved as a leader in major online gambling companies that include Party Gaming and Caesars Interactive Entertainment. He has been well rewarded; Bloomberg reports that last year his salary of $1.7 …
Punters in Uganda, an East African nation that has an active gambling industry worth around the equivalent of US$42 million and includes online betting, are unlikely to be pleased with a new proposal from the Ministry of Finance to spread the tax burden across both operators and players. Currently the Income Tax Act imposes a …
International Game Technology has announced an agreement to sell its social casino subsidiary, Double Down Interactive LLC, to an affiliate of DoubleU Games Co., Ltd., a social casino operator headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, for $825 million. The transaction establishes a new multi-year strategic partnership between IGT and DoubleU Games to provide innovative player experiences …
Our readers may recall our report last week that Pennsylvania House Bill 271 is far more important than it appears at present, and is intended to motivate the state Senate to move on repeated gambling expansion bills from the House that it has thus far ignored. The bare bones bill has been designed so that …
Respected online gambling writer and analyst Chris Grove lashed out at attempts to resurrect the archaic federal wire act over the weekend, writing a scathing op-ed piece in the Huffington Post. The article could be perceived as a preemptive attack on the new US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions’ possible review of the 2011 Department of …
The Gaming Standards Association and GSA Europe have gained significant support from online gaming companies for its work on a new standard, the Third Party Interface (TPI), raising the possibility that the Online Gaming Committee (OGC) will enjoy wider membership participation to accelerate completion of the standard. This new standard, specifically for the online gaming …
Hungarian-facing online operator Las Vegas Casino has launched a selection of Novomatic slot games through its partnership with Novomatic’s interactive division, GreenTube. Popular titles, including Lucky Lady’s Charm, Sizzling Hot deluxe and Book of Ra, will be available across desktop and mobile channels. “We are very excited about our partnership with Greentube, which will add …
Tipbet has launched an updated website incorporating a clean, uncluttered, modern feel that includes a range of new features such as live casino, virtual sports, and a cash out facility on pre-match and live bets.
The UK amusements and low stake gaming industry contributes close to GBP 2 billion to the UK gross domestic product (GDP), supports the employment of 34,000 people and pays some GBP 270 million of Machine Gaming Duty (MGD) and machine VAT, according to the highlights of a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) on behalf …
Philippines e-Gaming group Philweb illustrated the cost of presidential interference in local business when it posted its FY-2016 results Monday, reporting a 134.2 percent decline in net income to just US$6 million. Our readers will recall that Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte created havoc in the industry with his anti-online gambling rhetoric last year. Although his …
Scandinavian games developer Play’n GO is adding two new games to its online slots portfolio this month with Aztec Warrior Princess and Viking Runecraft, each with widely differing themes. Aztec Warrior Princess is a 5 reel, 20 pay-line slot with the ancient Aztec culture forming the backdrop, replete with monster masks, feathered headdresses, stone temples, …
Proxy gambling, where punters present in a land casino and in contact with gamblers elsewhere make bets for them, has been banned in Macau since mid-2016 (see previous reports) but that has not stamped out the now criminal activity it seems. Over the weekend the publication GGR Asia quoted a Macau police report that during …
It’s been almost three years since draft legislation on legalised and taxed gambling surfaced in Ukraine, proposing regulations governing a range of gambling related activity that included brick and mortar casinos, online gambling, a national lottery and sports betting. That initiative eventually tanked when government became a little too greedy on the proposed tax and …
The Swedish entrepreneur and operator of the Lucky Lady online casino, Petter Magnus Karlson has reportedly travelled from his base in Asia to the United States to face organised crime charges on which he is negotiating a plea agreement. Prosecutors allege that Karlson helped finance one Sydney Bruce Segal, an illegal US bookmaker and San …
A fire in the roof of the 4,000 room Bellagio casino resort in Las Vegas generated plenty of social media comment Thursday night. Early reports suggest that the fire was confined to a relatively small section of the roof on the south side of the complex and started around 10.40 pm, with the cause at …
Three new online slots with distinctive themes and from different developers are due out before the end of April. On April 18 Malta-based Playson will be launching its HTML5 omni-channel slot Time Warp Guardian, a 5 reel, 243 ways-to-win game that takes players time travelling through history’s greatest centuries guided by the bionic Guardian. Features …
Interactive technology gaming provider Bingo Nation has reported that trading on its stock was suspended on April 12 by OTC Markets, with the following notification: “We have … determined to label Bingo Nation, Inc. with Caveat Emptor at http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/BLTO/quote as a warning to investors for the following reason: “Promotion – The security is the subject …
Moves are afoot to resurrect the unique land version of roulette known as Golden 10, using modern internet streaming technology and live dealer action as the vehicle. The game has not been seen since 2001, but was popular in Netherlands land clubs for almost twenty years prior to that. It is similar to the casino …
Our readers may recall our report on a seemingly innocuous bill hb271 introduced to the pennsylvanian house earlier this year by rep. jason ortitay, seeking to permit tablet gaming in the departure area of state airports. at the time, given the other gambling expansion and legalisation bills in the legislature (hb392, s524 and s477) the …
Australian sports betting operator TopBetta has announced that it has reached agreement to acquire the assets of two-year-old Melbourne online bookmaker Mad Bookie. The deal will see TopBetta acquire Mad Bookie’s over 15,000 player database, and benefit from an annual turnover of around A$80 million achieved by the Melbourne company. Assets covered by the agreement …