Severin Rasset, director of poker innovation and operations for PokerStars, has given more detail on his “All Stars” concept – a new rake-free, month-long cash game challenge designed to find the best cash game players in the world. Pokerstars is investing $100,000 in leaderboard rewards on the project, and eligible players will be emailed in …
The organisers of ICE Totally Gaming have announced that this year’s Pitch ICE award for innovation has gone to 1SpinMillionaire, a “simple proposition” that offers free 1SpinMillionaire tickets with every bet on a game on a participating website. The lottery and jackpot retention start-up had previously won the EiG Launchpad award last October, again despite …
International Game Technology plc has announced the appointment of Heather J. McGregor (54) as an independent director to the group’s board effective March 8, 2017. “Heather’s global perspective and years of experience in talent acquisition and finance, along with her commitment to diversity and board experience, will be valuable additions to the expertise of our …
GalaBingo.com is premiering its new TV advert this week, featuring a 20ft bingo cake, a marching band and a bingo buggy. Created by creative agency, Cravens, and filmed in February, the new advert is to be screened on ITV, ITV Be and Channel 5 from 10th March. Cravens has been working with GalaBingo.com since 2014, …
A group of Pennsylvania Republican Party senators, Sens. Thomas Killion, Guy Reschenthaler, Camera Bartolotta and Patrick Stefano has filed a companion online gambling legalisation measure to HB392, an extensive intrastate gaming reform bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives a month ago and currently with the House Gaming Oversight Committee (see previous reports). The …
It may be a while yet before the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) publishes its opinion on the proposed A$11.3 billion merger between gambling groups Tatts and Tabcorp, judging by a statement from the Commission Thursday. The statement by ACCC chief Rod Sims notes that the Commission is examining the implications and notes: “The …
Michigan Senator Mike Kowall’s online gambling legalisation bill SB203, filed earlier this month (see previous report) has made rapid progress, passing throught the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee and advancing to the Senate for consideration on a vote of 7 to 1. The bill continues Kowall’s efforts last year, which ran out of time, and has …
Online gambling group GVC Holdings has confirmed that it has extended its virtual sports content deal with Leap Gaming, building on the content for its operational sites, which include Bwin Casino and Party Casino. The contract extension includes Leap’s current scheduled racing events, along with the latest innovations from the company such as In-Play Tennis, …
Online and land gambling group William Hill plc had the embarrassing task of apologising to an unknown number of its punters this week for a third party payment provider’s screw-up that resulted in online punters’ accounts being debited twice for the same transactions. The William Hill letter of apology did not identify the payment provider …
The Czech online and land gambling group Fortuna Entertainment has posted its FY-2016 results, recording lower core profit than expected, which Management attributed to rising operating costs. Key performance indicators flagged were: * Net profit fell 42.4 percent to Euro 11.2 million; * EBITDA declined 18.5 percent in 2016 to Euro 22.1 million – a …
Media reports from the Philippines report that a local Senator has suggested a bold new move to improve the control of online gambling. Addressing a Senate hearing enquiring into the circumstances surrounding bribery and corruption allegations against online gambling tycoon Jack Lam (see previous reports), Senator Richard Gordon said on Thursday that a dedicated online …
Scientific Games Corporation (SGC) has clinched an exclusive licensing deal with EON Productions Limited, Danjaq, LLC and MGM Interactive Inc. for the development of James Bond branded casino products across land-based, lottery and social slots gaming. Under the terms of the deal SGC has the right to leverage all past and future iconic James Bond …
Fantasfida, an Italian daily fantasy sports (DFS) operator, has launched into the UK market to compete with other recently launched DFS operators DraftKings and FanDuel. Fantasfida is a seven-a-side fantasy football game developed by Milan-headquartered Digital Bros’ in-house studio, Cityglance. The game is managed by Digital Bros’ dedicated Game Network team. “Fantasy Football, especially daily …
Playtech’s Age of the Gods: King of Olympus slot rewarded a William Hill online punter with an almost $ 1 million jackpot pay out. The 48-year-old European man hit a jackpot of $997,690, which Playtech boosted with an additional bonus of $3,000, making the lucky punter an instant millionaire. Shimon Akad, chief operating officer for …
Online casino operator Casumo has partnered SSE Arena in Wembley in a three-year deal brokered by AEG Global Partnerships. The iconic concert and events venue boasts 700,000 music, comedy and sport visitors per annum, providing the Casumo brand quality exposure on internal and external screens and through social media. “The partnership will give Casumo access …
Toronto platform provider Gaming Nation Inc. has completed the acquisition of UK stadium betting services provider BD Sport Group for a consideration of GBP 8,8 million. The agreement details a further GBP 2.2 million earn out provision (see previous report) on BD Sport’s portfolio which includes BD Sport Ltd., BD Stadia Ltd. and BD Deportes …
Nevada-based terrestrial casino operator Station Casinos is readying the launch of its new social casino StationPlay in partnership with GAN. The product, which will launch during the second quarter, will offer casino games, a tournament feature and integration with Station Casinos Boarding Pass loyalty programme. “StationPlay will allow us to provide another great benefit to …
Playson’s latest game content portfolio of thirty-five plus games has gone live with Italian platform provider Microgame.it. The development marks Playson’s first foray into the Italian market enabling players access to popular titles such as Art of the Heist and Dracula’s Family. “When it comes to the .IT market Microgame are a hugely desirable company …
Red Rake Gaming’s latest bingo release title “Greek Gods” defies players to defeat the Greek Gods to reach the summit of Olympus. The game offers animations and special prizes, 12 extra balls with a wild ball and extra free ball, 4 cards of 3 lines and 5 columns, 33 different prize patterns and a bonus …
PokerStars’ corporate giving programme, Helping Hands, has extended its partnership with global sports and education charity Right to Play for a further two years, taking its total support to more than GBP 1.5 million. Through Right to Play’s specially-designed games, vulnerable children learn critical life skills, such as leadership, self-confidence, how to avoid disease and …
Figures published by the Italian Ministry of Finance show that the overall gambling market…and especially the online gambling sector….kept growing in 2016, with overall GGR up 11.4 percent y-o-y to Euro 19.16 billion. Online casino and poker games delivered an aggregate GGR of Euro 579.7 million – up 20.8 percent year-on-year, whilst sports betting – …
The UK instant win and online games provider IWG has announced the release of Cash Buster Towers, the latest game in its successful Cash Buster family. Themed around explosive coloured bricks, players blow up the bricks and topple the towers to win. Cash Buster Towers features a range of new features that includes a spin …
Mainland Chinese sales of lottery tickets declined sharply in January this year, the Ministry of Finance reports, noting that a year-on-year decline of 10.7 percent was recorded.at RMB 29.2 billion ($4.23 billion). The decline was attributed to the timing of the Chinese New Year holiday as Welfare lottery sales fell by 10.6 percent to RMB …
LCB Network (formerly Latest Casino Bonuses) has announced the $1.7 million acquisition of World Casino Directory.com. Joshua Chan, CEO of the LCB Network revealed in a statement Wednesday that WCD was founded in 2002 and is a firmly established source of information for the online gambling community, encompassing a resourceful global market of land based …