The Schleswig-Holstein-licensed online casino operator DrückGlück.de has announced plans to invest Euro 9 million in a multi-faceted marketing campaign designed to boost awareness of the brand and its gambling services, particularly for German audiences. The SkillOnNet-powered operation says that television advertising featuring former celebrity football manager Reiner Calmund is part of its marketing plan, along …
Bede Gaming, a developer and supplier of software to the online gambling and social gaming industries, has announced the appointment of Alistair Boston-Smith to the role of business development director. His new responsibilities include managing Bede’s client partners, developing key commercial opportunities and leading the company’s new development services business unit, as well as providing …
Italian police mounted an anti-organised crime operation Wednesday, executing 11 arrest warrants on suspects linked to various mafia organisations who allegedly have been illegally managing a major proportion of the video lottery and online gambling business in Italy, along with similar activities abroad. Police sources did not release detailed information, but told local reporters that …
The Greek betting firm OPAP has filed a petition with the Council of State seeking to annul and suspend a new tax on its games, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Greece’s Finance Ministry announced a decision last year to levy a tax of Euro 0.05 per column on all of OPAP’s games in …
Webis Holdings has announced that its WatchandWager subsidiary has extended its pari-mutuel pools partnership agreement with the Hong Kong Jockey Club through to the end of the 2017-18 season. “This is a ground breaking deal that looks set to significantly improve WatchandWager’s performance long term as well as likely increase the growth of international money …
Amaya Inc. issued a statement Wednesday revealing that it has paid Euro 5.9 million as a full and final settlement with Italian tax authorities to resolve a previously disclosed Pokerstars tax dispute (see previous reports). The Italian Guarda di Finanz originally estimated that approximately Euro 85 million was owed by a subsidiary of Amaya related …
Online gambling games provider World Match has launched its latest online slot in the Italian market, an online version of Angeli e Demoni25 HD, a popular AWP game with land punters designed by Baldazzi Styl Art. The online release of Angeli e Demoni25 HD follows that of Night Vampire HD and is part of a …
The predominantly online sports betting group Interwetten has posted net gaming revenue up 21 percent year-on-year to Euro 50.2 million in 2015, on GGR up 19 percent to Euro 55 million. The company reported turnover on betting up by 20 percent to Euro 951 million despite withdrawal from the UK, Hungarian, Portuguese and Bulgarian regulated …
Genesis Gaming has announced that its new Deep Sea Diver online slot has been taken up by the Quickfire network. “The game is designed to engage players in a new way consistent with the theme’s underwater adventure,” said Scott Sims, head of global design at Genesis in a company statement this week. “Our research has …
NYX Gaming Group has announced a major win on its “Sky Millions” slot, which paid GBP 2,389,933 on the SkyVegas online casino site on December 27th, 2015. The Sky Millions slot is a variant of the Millionaires Club progressive jackpot game. It was recently added to NYX’s games inventory after the acquisition of Cryptologic. The …
The successful and well-established online casino Mr. Green has become the latest operator to order games from Gibraltar-based games distributor Odobo, the company announced this week. Six Odobo Marketplace games are already live – Extinction, Gourmet Ranch Riches, Epic City, Lucky Pirates, The Oddventurers and Big Time Journey – with another 14 due to complete …
According to a report in ESPN Tuesday the state of Pennsylvania may be about to join other US states (notably led by New Jersey) in seeking the repeal of the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which restricts sports betting in the US to just four states. Pennsylvania Representative Rob Matzie has introduced a …
The newly regulated online poker market in Portugal (see previous reports) is experiencing tension as major operators exit the space due to concerns over restricted player liquidity and high taxes, and more recently players in the country began to organise a boycott of what state-regulated operators remain or are to be licensed in the future. …
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey listened to different opinions on the regulation of daily fantasy sports in a public consultative hearing Tuesday. Anti-gambling campaigner Les Bernal of the Stop Predatory Gambling action group was predictably on hand to protest at what his organisation perceives to be an expansion of gambling, whilst lawyers from DraftKings and …
The respected US gambling research firm Eilers Research has announced that it will be changing its name effective immediately to Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, LLC. This name change reflects the surnames of the company’s two principals, Todd Eilers and Adam Krejcik, as well as highlighting the firm’s strategic shift to focus on services beyond traditional …
A new Stanford daily fantasy sports start-up boasts that it is positively changing the fantasy sports player’s experience by offering a different real-money format that allows players to compete in 10-minute fantasy sports leagues that are centered around live events fans can watch on TV, instead of drafting a line-up and then waiting a day …
Florida state Representative Matt Gaetz’s daily fantasy sports regulation bill, HB707, made it through the state House Business and Professions Subcommittee Tuesday on a 10 vs. 3 vote and has been forwarded for further discussion to the House Regulatory Affairs Committee. Whilst not unanimous – there remain some areas where amendments will be inserted – …
An ESPN report speculates this week on whether a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on daily fantasy sports completed late in December may herald Congressional hearings on the controversial gambling genre this year, The ESPN report is based on a Chalk story that it has seen a copy of the report titled “You Win Some, …
Gibraltar-based mobile gaming provider Nektan has announced that its chief executive officer, David Gosen, has resigned “to explore other business opportunities” and will leave the company at the end of January after a year at the helm. Executive chairman Gary Shaw will take over as interim CEO until a replacement can be found, the company …
Cineplex is wasting no time in exploiting its $10 million acquisition of the World Gaming eSports platform last September, starting the new year by partnering up with Sony Computer Entertainment to present eSports tournaments. Sony will provide the sponsorship and the right to select other title sponsors and Cineplex the venues, with qualifying rounds online …
The Icelandic eSports fantasy competition organiser Fanaments has boosted its Malta gambling licence with one from the UK Gambling Commission, clearing the way for it to arrange football, basketball, golf and mixed martial arts-based online contests for UK fantasy fans. Fanaments is a relatively new operator and offers gamers an array of fantasy-based sports to …
The e-gaming publication Gamasutra reports this week that daily fantasy eSports provider Vulcun may be considering a move away from the real-money sector, and has laid-off 14 people – a quarter of its staff. Our readers may recall that Vulcun voluntarily exited the Nevada market late last year when the state regulator opined that daily …
Live dealer gambling specialists Evolution Gaming has inked a three-and-a-half year exclusive deal with Scientific Games that will see it offering a live casino version of SG’s Ultimate Texas Hold’em poker. The agreement means that Evolution has secured exclusive rights to provide Ultimate Texas Hold’em as part of its product range, and additionally has the …
With the Greek government champing at the bit to introduce a new online regulatory and licensing regime (see previous reports) the Hellenic Gaming Commission this week made the surprising admission to Parliament that it is unable to perform the necessary monitoring of temporarily licensed Internet gaming companies in Greece. The newspaper Ekathimerini reports that the …