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GVC launch proprietary Pro table game series

19 Dec 2016

GVC Holdings’ in-house developers have developed Blackjack Pro and European Roulette Pro, the first two titles to launch in its new casino table game Pro Series. The Pro series are developed with a mobile first approach and provide a complete refresh to these timeless classics of the offline and online casino world, the company said. …

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Loot.bet join UltraPlay eSports platform

19 Dec 2016

Loot.bet, operated by Cyprus-based Livestream Ltd, is the latest eSports operator to join the UltraPlay platform. The Curacao-licensed operator offers pre-match and live betting on a range of sixteen competitive games, including Dota2, Counter-strike and Overwatch.

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Norsk Tipping awards iGaming contract to EveryMatrix

19 Dec 2016

Norwegian state-owned lottery Norsk Tipping has awarded a six-year iGaming Integration Platform contract to EveryMatrix. Under the terms of the contract, EveryMatrix will provide operational services, content provider support, its CasinoEngine platform and integration for several casino vendors including IGT, NetEnt, QuickSpin, Novomatic, Magnet Gaming and Scientific Games. EveryMatrix executive chairman, Stian Hornsletten, believes Norsk …

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Gala Bingo support 52 Lives charity

19 Dec 2016

Gala Bingo.com has risen to the occasion with a donation of GBP 52,000 to global donations charity 52 Lives. 52 Lives posts a story each week about someone who is in need of help and operates on the premise that lots of good people working together can make an immense difference to those less fortunate. …

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William Hill U.S. take Virtual Racing live in Nevada

19 Dec 2016

William Hill Sports Book has taken Virtual Racing live at four of its Reno Sports Books following a successful field trial at two Las Vegas properties. The launch follows final approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission enabling William Hill to expand the product to Circus Circus Hotel Casino, Club Cal Neva Casino, Grand Sierra Resort …

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Playson adapts to demise of Flash

19 Dec 2016

Software developer Playson will release all new titles in HTML5, and convert its most popular older titles to the same format by early 2017, as it anticipates the discontinuation of default Flash player support. The company has completed the launch of its new framework, already having rolled out its recent releases Art of the Heist, …

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New titles from Booming Games

19 Dec 2016

Booming Games released two new titles “Booming Seven Deluxe” and “Santa’s Kiss” this week. Booming Seven Deluxe is a super-charged sequel to the developer’s Booming Seven title. Upgrades include diamond encrusted Wild x7 multipliers and additional paylines. Landing three or more standard 7 icons will award 10 free spins and shiny gold bars will activate …

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Genesis Gaming inks content deal with Royal Panda

19 Dec 2016

Genesis Gaming content will supply its entire slots portfolio to Royal Panda online casino following an agreement announced late last week. Titles include Machine Gun Unicorn, Clash of Queens, and Temple of Luxor. “It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new games supplier to Royal Panda, especially when it brings such an impressive line-up of …

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TGG interactive clinch BetEast and Balkan Bet deals

19 Dec 2016

Hong Kong-based interactive entertainment firm TGG Takara Gaming Group has clinched a deal with online betting operator BetEast for the integration of customised sportsbetting, casino and e-sports content. The agreement grows BetEast’s content portfolio while enabling TGG further expansion in internet gaming. “TGG is proud to partner with BETEAST and supply them with our vast …

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Ladbrokes launch Inspired HTML5 content

19 Dec 2016

Ladbrokes has launched a range of HTML5 mobile slots from Inspired and will soon debut the company’s Virtuals-On-Demand products which will include Rush Football Live and Rush Horses Live. Lucy Buckley, MD Mobile, Inspired commented: “The successful deployment of Inspired’s premium HTML5 content with Ladbrokes is testament to the efficiency of our Virgo RGS technology, …

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Betconstruct awarded Romanian license

19 Dec 2016

Gaming solutions provider BetConstruct has secured a Class II software provider’s licence from the Romanian National Gambling Office (ONJN) enabling the company to supply its platform to online gaming operators in Romania’s regulated market. “BetConstruct views Romania as a significant and forward-looking jurisdiction. With the ONJN license we are bringing our powerful betting technology to …

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Kentucky licensing for Watch and Wager

19 Dec 2016

Webis Holding’s Advanced Deposit Wagering business, Watch and Wager, has been awarded a license by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission enabling the company to accept advanced deposit wagers in Kentucky. The company began taking live registrations, deposits and wagering from residents of the State from Wednesday 14th December. The licence is conditional on a $100,000 …

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GVC sells off Kalixa payment processor

19 Dec 2016

GVC Holdings announced Monday that it has sold off its online payments processor Kalixa to Singapore-based Senjō Group Pte. Ltd for Euro 29 million. GVC announced its intention to dispose of the subsidiary back in September this year. The consideration will be paid on completion of the deal, probably during the first quarter of 2017, …

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Digital Sports Tech seals third Aussie deal

19 Dec 2016

Digital Sports Tech, which develops and supplies business-to-business sports betting software such as proposition betting, announced Monday that it has signed its third Australian client in TopSport. Previous Australian signings have been Ladbrokes and MadBookie. TopSport will be launching Digital Sport Tech’s ‘Player Props’ product, where customers can customise and create their own prop bets …

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Kiron Interactive to integrate Supervivo

19 Dec 2016

Virtual games specialist Kiron Interactive has agreed a deal with Isle of Man-based Link2Win, to integrate the Supervivo product into its Betman Online Remote Gaming System. Supervivo is a patented product which offers a draw mechanism that gives players the opportunity to win large fixed or progressive jackpots alongside their regular bets. As a betting …

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Online gambling trade association supports advertising restriction in Australia

19 Dec 2016

Responsible Wagering Australia, a newly formed trade body supported by Bet365, Betfair, CrownBet, Sportsbet and Unibet (see previous report) has announced that it is to support government moves to ban inducement advertising, e.g. the offering of bonuses and free games to attract and persuade punters to sign up. Stephen Conroy, a controversial former Australian federal …

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Winning streak for Codeta player

19 Dec 2016

Most online punters would regard a single six-figure jackpot win as a once-in-a-lifetime stroke of good fortune, but a Swedish player has achieved three such hits in the space of a week. The anonymous online punter, who lives in Stockholm, has enjoyed an extraordinary run of good fortune on the slots at the Codeta online …

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Tiger Gaming adds poker bad beat tables

19 Dec 2016

Tiger Gaming has joined the growing number of online poker operators in offering Bad Beat Tables, initially with a jackpot of $100,000. That jackpot will grow with every real-money hand on specified Bad Beat tables clearly marked in the site lobby. Players qualify for the jackpot by having a hand of four of a kind …

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Ivey and companion ordered to pay $10.1 million back to Borgata

19 Dec 2016

Our readers will no doubt recall the furore back in 2012 over the use of edge-sorting tactics by poker pro Phil Ivey and his talented and observant companion Cheng Yun Lin in two seven-figure Baccarat wins at land casinos in London (Crockfords) and Atlantic City (Borgata). The former refused to pay out after discovering the disadvantage …

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Internet censorship in South Carolina

19 Dec 2016

A Republican state representative in South Carolina, Bill Chumley, has proposed a bill that would require sellers of computers to install digital blocking capabilities in the machines, ostensibly and arbitrarily to prevent access to vice and pornography websites. The bill has wide-ranging and loosely defined implications, embracing not just direct vice and porn sites, but …

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More Camelot revelations

19 Dec 2016

UK newspapers continued to chew on the GBP 2.5 million pay-out by Camelot on a fraudulent “damaged” national lottery ticket several years ago (see previous  reports), suggesting Monday that the reason that the police had released the claimant last year without prosecuting him was that the ticket in question had disappeared whilst in Camelot’s possession. …

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Spain gearing up for ‘The Fat One’

19 Dec 2016

Billions of Euros will soon be offered to lottery players in Spain’s El Gordo (The Fat One) lottery held every year during the festive season, and arrangements are well in hand for the three-hour televised entertainment spectacle which accompanies the December 22 draw. Whole communities have in the past benefitted from El Gordo after purchasing …

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Betsoft games launched on major Italian online casino site

19 Dec 2016

Online gambling software and games developer BetSoft has announced that its games have gone live in the Italian market through the major operator Microgame S.p.A. Under the terms of the licence agreement, BetSoft will deliver its range of 3D Cinematic Casino content, including SugarPop!, Alkemor’s Tower and Boomanji, to Microgame’s long list of gaming sites. …

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More bidders for Tatts?

18 Dec 2016

Tabcorp’s proposed acquisition of Tatts in Australia, already under threat from a competing offer from the Pacific Consortium (see previous  reports) may be further complicated by British bookmakers William Hill and Ladbrokes-Coral, who are believed to be potential new bidders for the wagering side of Tatts business, according to reports Monday in The Australian newspaper. …

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