Hopes for online poker legalisation in New York rose this week on the news that the state Senate has included the potential revenue from licensing and taxing the vertical in its draft budget for the forthcoming fiscal year. The draft is still subject to finalisation. A similar move last year died when online poker potential …
Two men accused of promoting a nation-wide US online sports betting ring shuttered by enforcement officials in 2015 received relatively light “conditional discharge” sentencing this week after pleading guilty. The men, Julio Alvarenga and Andres Arriaga, were part of a $32 billion gambling ring associated with the now shuttered 365action.com website, which became the subject …
White label online casino provider Aspire Global has announced the launch of its second brand, titled Slotsmoon.com, for client Stay Gaming Group. The new enterprise will join Aspire’s online casino network, and includes verticals such as live casino table games, slots, scratch cards and instant gaming, and in the near future sports betting. Semak Derakhti, …
Fortbet Holdings, a subsidiary of the Penta Investment Group and a major stakeholder in Czech online and land gambling group Fortuna Entertainment, has announced that it is to sell its Romainan betting and gambling companies to Fortuna for a consideration of Euro 47 million. The transaction should be completed in the second quarter of 2017 …
Red Tiger Gaming’s latest offer is a magic-themed five-reel, 20-payline video slot featuring an elf princess with a penchant for bows and arrows. Elven Magic offers four different arrow shooting features associated with the four elements of wind, fire, earth and water: random wilds, spinning tiles, frozen tiles + respin and burning tiles where new …
Privately-owned lottery firm, LottoLand has filed an application for licensure in Germany. The company hopes for authorization to operate its own private lottery in numerous German States, styled on Germany’s Lotto 6aus49. Lottoland already operates its own “World Millions” online lottery in addition to secondary lottery betting. “With more than five million customers, we know …
West Virginia lawmakers filed a second interactive gambling bill, HB 3067, this week seeking to legalise Internet gaming, managed and licensed through existing authorized gaming facilities in West Virginia. Our readers will recall the introduction to the West Virginia House of HB2751 “Legalising Sport Pool Betting” earlier this month (see previous reports) sponsored and filed …
Online bingo firm Jackpotjoy plc has appointed former Liberum gaming analyst, Jason Holden, as Director of Investor and Public Relations, effective April 2017. Holden, reporting to CEO Andy McIver and CFO Keith Laslop, will focus on communicating Jackpotjoy plc’s proposition to the UK investment community following the company’s re-listing on the London Stock Exchange earlier …
In a stock exchange announcement Wednesday, Playtech founder Teddy Sagi, through his investment company Brickington Trading Limited (Brickington), has sold off 13 million Playtech shares to Boussard & Gouvaudan Investment Management LLP for 872.5 pence per share or a total sum of GBP 113.4 million. Following completion of the sale, Brickington will remain Playtech’s largest …
Nektan’s US operating subsidiary Respin Games LLC has clinched its first major contract with an unidentified Tier-1 U.S. casino operator to launch a real money in-venue mobile games solution into the US casino market. The company will launch its Rapid Games in-resort Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) mobile platform into the California based casino operator …
Playtech Live has launched its flagship Live Casino brand, Grand Royale, from its new European studios, the first of many new concepts that will create the company’s next generation Live Casino offering. Targeted at high-level value clientele, Grand Royale offers the look and feel of VIP standards providing Playtech licensees and their players high-end features, …
The practice of wagering virtual in-game items (skin betting) from popular games such as CS:GO and FIFA is legally defined as gambling, the Norwegian Gambling Authority has noted in a public communication, warning operators will face tough sanctions if they offer these services. “Skins can normally not be exchanged for cash, but it is possible …
The latest game from iSoftBet features a swarm of extraordinary insects, each one carrying a precious gem, in a 5-reel, 10 pay-line slot format with Scatters, Wilds, Free Spins, Multipliers, Random Symbols and Expanding Wilds.
The American Gaming Association’s drive for a wider legalised sports betting regime in the US than is presently the case under the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act received a boost this week when Don Garber, the commissioner heading the Major League Soccer organisation came out in favour of the proposal, provided proper regulation …
Police action against an online gambling ring back in 2015 came to a conclusion with the sentencing of 64 persons in a Vietnamese court Monday, with alleged ring leader Wong Boon Leong (38) facing the heaviest punishment of 14 months and 24 days in prison. Because the sentence corresponds with his period of incarceration to …
The iconic “Leisure Suit Larry” video game, first launched in the 1980’s, themes Larry Casino, a new Malta and UK-licensed offer powered by Gaming Innovation Group (GIG). The original video game followed the escapades of Larry Laffer, a middle-aged virgin, on the hunt to seduce women in the city of Lost Wages. Larry Casino offers …
New Jersey-based Spin Games LLC, a provider of innovative HTML5 games content and remote gaming technology, has announced a European distribution agreement with Konami Gaming, Inc. Under the agreement Spin Games will have the exclusive right to distribute new Konami content, via the Spin RGS to approved operators. As previously announced, Spin Games and Konami …
Colombian gambling authority, ColJuegos, is preparing to block around 300 unlicensed operators from operating in the market. Despite much interest, no operators have chosen to formalize their operations yet, ColJuegos told Colombian publication Semana, prompting the authority to request the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication, along with law enforcement, begin the process of blocking …
The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) has signed a two-year title sponsorship contract with bwin for the Grand Slam of Darts event. The event, now known as the bwin Grand Slam of Darts, will be broadcast live on Sky Sports from November 11-19 2017 from the Wolverhampton Civic Hall. Prize money for the bwin Grand Slam …
Gaming Innovation Group’s iGaming Cloud platform has integrated a portfolio of Novomatic Interactive Greentube content now available on its guts.com, Rizk Casino and betspin.com operations. Popular Novomatic slots include Book of Ra Deluxe, Lucky Lady´s Charm Deluxe and Sizzling Hot Deluxe, along with a selection of table and video poker games. “It is exciting to …
The State of Mississippi has become the first state to legalize daily fantasy sports (DFS) in 2017 following the signing of House Bill 967 by Governor Phil Bryant. Regulations, which explicitly legalise fantasy contests with an entry fee, will be controlled and overseen by the Mississippi Gaming Commission. License requirements, valid for three years at …
Australian technology firm Activistic Group Limited has launched a new sports lottery white label product through it recently acquired Plus Connect subsidiary for Collingwood Football Club. Plus Connect’s “Magpie Millions” sports lottery launched with Collingwood last month and proceeds are expected to fund the Clubs core activities and support other community initiatives. While Plus Connect …
Play’n GO is readying the launch of its latest video slot title “Matsuri” on March 23, 2017. The slot is a 5-reel, 25-fixed-payline game themed on a Japanese festival with iconography depicting Japanese cultural symbols such as festival masks, Koi fish and ornate lanterns. Features include Wilds, Scatters, Free Spins and the Kingyo Sukui bonus …
Virtual sports provider VSoftCo has partnered Argentinean lottery solutions provider, Impresora Internacional de Valores S.A (IVISA), in a multi-year agreement that will enable the distribution of its virtual sports portfolio through IVISA’s retail and online properties. VSoftCo will deploy its products to the Argentina market with IVISA online utilizing its BSE system for the first …