Slotland online casino reported in a press statement Tuesday that an online punter and his wife both screamed in excitement when he hit a $223,167 progressive jackpot on the casino’s proprietary slot Air Mail. Player SamuelJ told casino management: “I was in utter shock. It took me a few minutes before I started to scream. …
Online gambling technology provider NYX Gaming Group has announced that it has signed an agreement to expand its partnership with Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (CIE) to re-launch the CaesarsCasino.com brand on the NYX Open Platform System in New Jersey. The platform will give CaesarsCasino.com improved marketing and loyalty services, along with a growing portfolio of …
Online gambling industry monitors will be watching Pennsylvania House proceedings closely today (Wednesday) to see whether the political leadership will once again present Rep. John Payne’s HB649 online gambling legalisation bill along with a daily fantasy sports bill that has also passed committee stage and is set for a second reading. Given that daily fantasy …
New Zealand fast food worker Rawiri Pou (27) is NZ $10,144,395.82 (US $7.2 million) better off this week following Tuesday’s presentation of his major jackpot win on Microgaming’s Mega Moolah progressive slot, which took place June 17. Pou’s big hit happened at the Casinoland online casino, and was preceded by a NZ$1,500 reward which he …
Swedish online gambling software and games developer NetEnt has announced a new online casino games supply agreement with the major UK online and land gambling Rank Group plc. Under the terms of the agreement with Rank, NetEnt will deliver its online casino games to the Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca brands. “I am delighted to enter …
The UK online gambling games developer Realistic Games has launched its latest online slot, a three reel, five win line game titled 8th Wonder. The multi-featured game includes a Full House Bonus that allows players to double their win when they land a full house of any symbol. Featuring crystals, dollar bills, and lucky eight …
The Swedish online gambling games developer Yggdrasil has announced a content supply deal with GVC Holdings subsidiary Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment, which is to take on board the full Yggdrasil portfolio of slots. The package includes Yggdrasil’s collection of promotional tools, Boost and the Infinite API for gamification. Yggdrasil previously had a supply deal with GVC, …
The Malta-based white label online casino provider 1 Click Games has inked a content supply deal with Lithuania’s Loberta UAB, parent group of games developer MrSlotty, which specialises in mobile HD quality slots. 1 Click has committed to taking the full inventory of forty MrSlotty games this summer, diversifying and expanding its inventory for operators. …
The Canadian Football League website at www.cfl.ca carried a notification Monday that the body has agreed an advertising and promotions partnership with daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings. The deal will see the launch of new weekly fantasy contests specific to the CFL and its fifty-ninth season which kicks off this week with a match in …
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives returned to session Monday with just 10 days left to the start of the new financial year and the budget still a source of disagreement as efforts to close a substantial $1.8 billion deficit gap and fund education projects continued. Measures to achieve this without increasing state personal tax include …
Online casino operator NetBet has rather belatedly published details of a major jackpot hit last month on the Playtech developed progressive slot Mega-Jackpots Siberian Storm. The winner, who has elected to remain anonymous, is a British civil servant who was enjoying some downtime at home on a Saturday afternoon when he hit a GBP 506,382.68 …
Providing more evidence that it is increasingly leaning toward regulated sports betting across the USA, the American Gaming Association hosted its first-ever Law Enforcement Summit late last week to better understand the nature of the multi-billion dollar market and garner lawmen’s opinions on its possible regulation. Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner and a …
Hot on the heels of the news that professional business services provider KPMG has been engaged to review the digital activities of William Hill plc (see previous reports) comes the news that Crispin Nieboer, the new md of the Online division, has been putting a new top team together. The company’s Special Projects Director, Steven …
Live dealer provider Evolution has announced a new client deal in Denmark, where predominantly online slots operator Spilnu.dk has signed up for a full package of live dealer games accessible via desktop and mobile devices. Evolution’s Live Baccarat, Blackjack, Casino Hold’em, Danish Roulette and Roulette are all part of the package, which is scheduled to …
UK-based online gambling games and software provider iSoftBet has inked a content deal with Hungary’s Las Vegas Casino Diamond Ltd gaming group that will see it supply its full suite of mobile and desktop content to Vegas.hu, which is set to become Hungary’s first online casino. iSoftBet is one of the first developers to enter …
Chrissie Johnson, a chiropodist and grandmother from Wales, has become Sky Betting and Gaming’s first online millionaire with a progressive strike that paid out GBP 1,346,155.43. A regular player at Sky Bingo for the past year, Johnson had been playing on Playtech’s ‘Chests of Plenty’ slot for around 15 minutes when her screen lit up …
Irish billionaire and 2.8 percent shareholder in Ladbrokes, Dermot Desmond has lost the latest round in his struggle to derail the proposed Ladbrokes – Gala Coral merger. The appeal board of the UK Takeover Panel has ruled against Desmond’s latest protest against the merger, which hinged on the influence of software provider Playtech plc, which …
Online gambling software provider Playtech plc has announced that it has launched its biggest yet online casino promotion, running across its entire network for 21 days during the Euro 2016 football championships. The GBP 250,000 independently adjudicated cash giveaway coincides with the launch of several of he company’s Age of the Gods slot game titles, …
GameAccount Network has claimed its fourth US remote gaming client, but again without identifying the client beyond revealing that it is another tribal gaming enterprise located “…in the North Eastern United States.” “This client win highlights our continuing commitment to major Native American casino operators and the strong commercial appeal of our unique patented Simulated …
William Hill plc, not long ago the leader in digital gambling activity but more recently reporting an 11 percent dip in net revenues in the vertical, has reportedly engaged the independent professional business services of KPMG to conduct a review of its technology and digital operations. UK business media reports on Monday claimed that the …
The UK online and land gambling group Ladbrokes has extended its sponsorship of the UK Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) to become the new title sponsors of the Ladbrokes World Series of Darts Finals at Glasgow’s Braehead Arena later this year. Earlier this year Ladbrokes inked a darts sponsorship deal as title sponsors of the Ladbrokes …
Canadian legal firm is considering class action potential due to alleged breach of customer privacy at Sportingbet. Online gambling group GVC Holdings CEO Kenny Alexander may have to do more than simply dismiss allegations that his subsidiary Sportingbet reneged on a deal with Canadian marketing firm 37 Entertainment if a Canadian law company is successful …
The Malaysian federal police have released details of a new operation targeting illegal online betting operators trying to exploit the intense interest in major football championships currently taking place in South America and Europe. Over the weekend police spokesman SAC Datuk Roslee Chik revealed to local media reporters that the federal CID and Anti-vice, gambling …
Falling tax revenue so far this year in the gambling island of Macau has illustrated from another perspective the impact on the local gambling sector of the Chinese central government’s crackdown on corruption and ostentatious spending, and a slower economy. The Macau Financial Services Bureau’s latest figures show that gambling sector tax revenue fell 14.1 …