Industry observers were taken by surprise late Friday when a little-known Republican Senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton, filed the beginnings of a new bill in the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary in what appears to be a move to toughen the US legal stance on the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act of 2006 and …
Illinois’s notorious Loss Recovery Act has again been defeated in a class action lawsuit…this one emanating from in-game activity on a mobile social gaming video game. The LRA is a contentious piece of legislation that allows players who lose more than $50 gambling to recover their losses from an unlawful gambling operator. To prove a …
The growing emphasis on skill-based slot machines that are more appealing to the millennial demographic has seen Scientific Games awarded a Best Slot accolade for its Space Invaders game at the 2016 Gaming and Technology Awards. The company was also honoured for its Prizm game table, a pioneering social gaming table in an industry-first slot …
The privatisation of the Ontario provincial lottery will not go ahead despite proposals by major companies like IGT-GTech, Scientific Games and Rogers Communications submitted in response to the provincial government’s 2014 Request for Proposals. On Friday the government advised that having completed its due diligence process it has concluded that “the selection of a single …
Numbers released by the French online gambling regulator ARJEL have illustrated the continued folly of a ring-fenced and restricted online gambling market saddled with a harsh and operator-unfriendly tax regime. The figures show that collectively online operators lost Euro 5 million last year, with only horse racing delivering an operating surplus. Even sports betting, usually …
Land, online and mobile gambling publisher Gamblit Gaming has debuted in the burgeoning eSports sector, unveiling its new eSports platform branded G-Sports with the hit PC and console game Road Redemption. The initial focus of the new product appears to be on land casino operators. Gamblit has created an innovative construct that makes eSports accessible …
BetConstruct has further enhanced its online gambling platform with the addition of virtual sports products from Golden Race. The Golden Race package includes premium virtual content including; football, tennis, Real MMA Fighting, horse and greyhound racing, along with lotto and keno games content. A press statement from the company indicates that Golden Race VS products …
London online gambling provider Gamesys has announced the acquisition of Estonian online gambling games developer Snowcat Games for an undisclosed consideration, noting that the deal will strengthen its development capabilities. Snowcat is respected for the quality of its HTML5-based e-gaming products and imaginative themes, and is a four-year old company founded by Mitchell Rankin and …
The Ladbrokes land and online gambling group has launched its latest marketing campaign, with the first television advertisements ready to screen this Saturday. Titled “Unbelievable”, the new series was developed by the London agency The Moment, and again features brand ambassadors Chris Kamara and Ally McCoist The campaign includes five TV adverts throughout the autumn, …
A partnership to offer US live dealer action formed in August this year by NYX Gaming and live dealer supplier Ezugi (see previous report) delivered its first fruit this week with the launch of facilities on Golden Nugget Casino.com in the regulated New Jersey online gambling market The Ezugi product is being delivered via the …
Officers from the Cocoa and Rockledge police departments in Florida, aided by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, shut down what is alleged to have been an illegal online gambling operation based out of three units of a Cocoa shopping plaza. Armed with search warrants, police executed the raid following a month-long investigation, seizing 100 computer …
Predictions by the research firm Technavio earlier this week that US online gambling will grow at an impressive CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of more than 51 percent between 2016 – 2020 (see previous report) have been independently confirmed by another research firm, Research and Markets. In a press release announcing its latest report “Online …
Canadian social gaming platform provider Tangelo Games Corp. has teamed up with virtual sports provider Leap Gaming in a deal that will see Leap’s product offered on Tangelo’s platform in a pioneering move to make virtual sports available to social players. The agreement includes the introduction of several innovations designed to optimise Leap’s product for …
In the United States, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced Thursday that it has agreed a multiyear partnership with Sportradar and Second Spectrum that will expand the league’s global distribution of statistics and implement a new, league-wide player-tracking system. Beginning with the 2017-18 season, Sportradar will make statistical information for the NBA, WNBA and NBA …
Rank Group subsidiary Mecca Bingo is unveiling a fresh new look for the Mecca brand and its Meccabingo.com website, backed by a multi-million pound through-the-line marketing campaign, including a series of TV adverts to be aired on network television from 1 October this year. The TV ad introduces the new multi-channel brand strapline ‘We know …
NetEnt’s progressive slot Mega Fortune has delivered another instant millionaire, this one an anonymous Norwegian online punter wagering on the Betsson.com website. The 20-something punter was enjoying a little slot action before going to bed when his life changed with a NOK 45 million (Euro 4.9 million) jackpot, NetEnt reports in a press statement. The …
The UK facing eSports television channel Ginx TV has received an investment of GBP 3.1 million from media networks Sky and ITV, each committing GBP1.55 million to the enterprise in return for a 16.5 percent stake. Michiel Bakker, CEO at Ginx TV, said in a statement Thursday: “GINX eSports TV aims to add significant mainstream …
International Game Technology has announced that it has signed a four-year contract extension to enhance the suite of interactive multichannel poker products it provides to AB Svenska Spel in Sweden – operator of the world’s fifth-largest ring-fenced market poker site according to Pokerscout.com. Svenska Spel is exercising a four-year extension provided under its contract with …
Mobile-friendly games from Lithuanian developer Mr Slotty are the latest to be added to iSoftBet’s bulging Game Aggregation Platform (GAP), offering operators a more diversified and robust portfolio of content. Mr Slotty products join those from more than twenty other developers on GAP. Mr Slotty parent group Loberta UAB is respected for its high-speed, high-definition …
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission this week studied statistics from a problem gambling study mandated by 2011 state gambling laws and presented by UMass-Amherst professor Rachel Volberg. Volberg revealed that 1.7 percent of the state’s adult population were considered problem gamblers and 7.5 percent were at-risk gamblers following a baseline study of the Massachusetts population, conducted …
A teaser press release from the independent research firm Technavio predicts that the online gambling market in the US will grow at an impressive CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of more than 51 percent between 2016 – 2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated from legal online casino, betting, and …
The Canadian province of British Columbia, which runs its own cosy PlayNow.com online gambling monopoly, moved to protect it last month by warning off major international online gambling companies, according to online media reports that have just surfaced. Apparently the BC Gaming Policy Enforcement Branch corresponded with a number of online gambling operators accessing BC …
Chinese Ministry of Finance figures reported by China News Daily reveal that the nation’s lottery sales continued to rise in July, topping $4.8 billion in an almost 20 percent increase compared with the same period in 2015. Welfare Lottery ticket sales increased 6.7 percent year on year to 16.6 billion yuan in July, while Sports …
Online slot fans will be pleased at the news that games developer PariPlay appears to have widened its release of the popular online slot Atari Star Raiders beyond 888. The Trada online casino is now offering the 5-reel, 3-row, 20-line video slot, which features sticky wilds and a free spins round that turns the pay-lines …