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Internet Bingo
Stride Gaming Continues to Show Sizable Growth
Financial reports for online gambling companies are important on both the micro and macro levels. On the micro level, you get to see how an individual company is doing. However, on the macro level, you can look at the financials for several companies to see how one particular sector of the industry is doing as a whole. -
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Slot Winners
Royal Panda Creates Nice Winner on The Wish Master
Royal Panda Casino has recently announced a big winner. A player who goes by Joakim from Sweden picked up a payout worth $31,118, and this win came mostly on the Wish Master slot. It's worth noting that this didn't come from a single jackpot win, but instead, it came from a number of payouts over a session. -
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Online Tournament
The Monthly Monster Tournament Offers $25,000
In the online slot world, casino tournaments are a big way for players to scratch a competitive itch while enjoying some of the most popular games available. To end the month of May on a strong note, the Immortal Romance game was used for this event. -
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Gambling News
Police Union Finance Officer Stole One Million for Gambling
It's not looking like a good time for the financial officer of the Queensland Police Union Kelly Harris. Harris is accused of stealing about a million dollars from union accounts over around six months. These allegations state that funds were moved to accounts that did not belong to the union where the funds were then used to bet online on horse races. -
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Games & Casino News
Five New Microgaming Titles Coming June 3, 2015
Several new games are being released by Microgaming in the month of June. They've done this thing for a few months now where they're releasing a lot of new titles at once in the beginning of the month, and they're doing it again on June 3. Five new games and four mobile titles are being released as a part of this mass release party of sorts. New Games First up is Hound Hotel, a game with 25 paylines and Dashing Wilds. -
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Casino Bonus Promotions
Guts.com Giving Away €35,000 for Birthday Promotion
When an online casino has a birthday, it's a big deal because it shows that they are sticking around to provide players with a service they can depend on. This is definitely the case with Guts.com, and they're celebrating their second birthday this month. -
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Gambling News
California Continues Looking at Online Poker
In hearings this week in the joint Senate-Assembly for the state of California, Governmental Organization committees heard expert testimony from several interesting parties that had a lot to say about the feasibility of vetting and licensing operators. -
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Games & Casino News
New Prison Break Game Released by Soft Magic Dice
Various forms of media have been used as the themes for online slots for more than a decade. Television shows, movies, comic books, video games, books and tons of other forms of media have been used to build on brand recognition and to provide players with fun experiences. -
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Games & Casino News
Quickspin Launches New Hidden Valley Slot
New online slots are coming out all the time, but it's somewhat rare that new games come out that break the traditional mold of what you expect video slots to be like. Quickspin's new Hidden Valley slot is a good example of a game that doesn't look like the rest, even starting with its initial layout. You'll have five reels of symbols, but three symbols show on the first and last reels. On the middle three reels, you'll get four symbols apiece. -
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Gambling News
Online Gambling in the UK Has Grown at 8.3 Percent Annually
Anyone who is involved in the online gambling industry in any capacity can tell you that it's growing, but we don't always get straight-forward numbers on just how much it is. -
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Gambling News
Dutch Regulators Working With Isle of Man in New Agreement
One of the main problems facing the online gambling world is that there are no unified rules about what should and shouldn't be allowed. There are no standards of behavior or for licensing, and because different countries have different rules on taxation, it wouldn't necessarily be helpful if they did. It's been a long time coming for countries to start working together more on this issue because independent licensing and accrediting groups can only do so much. -
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Gambling News
Romania Creates Questionable Retroactive Tax Policy for Online Gambling
Romania has been a trouble area for online gambling legislation for a while, and for the past several years, they have been trying to get together some kind of comprehensive plan to create a better situation for licensing and regulation of the industry. All of that is finally over, and all that's left is the president's signature. -
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Gambling News
Genii's New Spin16 Slots Platform Promises an Innovative Experience
For a long time, the slots industry has been stuck in a certain mode of thinking, and this has prevented much in terms of high-level innovation. Instead, most innovation happens at the lower level with new features like wilds that move in different directions or new ways to trigger free spins bonus rounds. -
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Gambling News
Dutch Politicians Continue to Debate Internet Gambling Taxes
Lawmakers in most countries are really good at two things: raising taxes and talking a lot. Heavy doses of both are underway right now as Dutch lawmakers debate the specifics of tax rates for the upcoming licensed online gambling that will be underway for the Remote Gaming Act. The major point of contention is that the original rate of 20 percent that was suggested is lower than the 29 percent rate that's paid by land-based establishments. -
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Gambling News
More Growth Means Microgaming Gets New Office Expansion
The Isle of Man has been the home of Microgaming for well over a decade, and they have been growing for the nearly 20 years that they have been in operation. Along these lines, it's not all that surprising that they are needing to expand to even more office space soon.
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Gambling News
1x2Gaming Releases New Dark Thirst Video Slot
Tons of online casino software developers are out there, and a lot of them have trouble competing with the big dogs in the industry because of the sheer number of games that some of the top companies have in game development space. In the cases of companies that have been able to challenge the "old guard," it's almost always been because they produced higher quality titles.
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Gambling News
Nektan Accumulates £7.1 Million in Investments
In the online gambling world, mobile has been the fastest-growing sector for several years in a row, and this is where all of the newest innovations are being made. Mobile software provider Nektan is one of the companies leading the charge in this particular arena, and they've built up a tremendous amount of momentum.
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Gambling News
Bryan Micon Offered to Purchase Problem Site Lock Poker
In a very interesting piece of information that's come out of his federal investigation, it was found that Micon offered to buy Lock Poker. There has been an investigation going on into Bryan Micon. The Nevada Attorney General has been looking into his involvement with the site Seals With Clubs as he is allegedly the founder of the site.
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Gambling News
Malta's LGA Rebranded as Malta Gaming Authority
Malta’s Lotteries & Gaming Authority, otherwise known by the abbreviated name LGA, recently announced that they have changed their name to Malta Gaming Authority and will now be known as MGA for short. -
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Gambling News
Online Casino Player Wins €5,623,777 on Mega Fortune Slot
As the old saying goes, history often has a way of repeating itself.
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Gambling News
Mr Green and Genesis Gaming Announce New Ski Jump Slot Machine
Mr Green, an online casino that has been in business since 1998, recently released a new slot machine titled Ski Jump that was created exclusively for them by the online casino software provider Genesis Gaming.
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Gambling News
South Africa to Consider Online Gambling Proposal
Geordin Hill-Lewis, South Africa’s Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry, is gearing up for what will be another of his already multiple attempts to convince South African Parliament that legalizing and regulating online gambling in the country is the right thing to do.
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Gambling News
Poland to re-target unlicensed activity
Poland’s Ministry of Finance recently signalled its intent to step up the fight against unlicensed gambling over the Internet. Anna Wietrzynska-Cio?kowska and Rafa? Burda from DLA Piper’s Warsaw office analyse the context and the various options available to the Ministry. The last couple of weeks have seen an increasing number of messages emanating from the Ministry of Finance concerning the intensification of its struggle against unlicensed gambling on the Internet.
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Gambling News
Isle of Man to Grant Relief to Gaming Operators
The Isle of Man has announced that it will be granting a bit of tax relief to operators serving the UK gaming market by allowing them to claim Double Duty Relief in order to avoid being double taxed on gaming operations.The move is meant to ease the transition of gaming operators, who are now subject to taxation in the UK should they service punters there.
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Gambling News
Isle of Man Responds to UK Online Gambling Tax Changes
The head of the Isle of Man’s online gambling regulatory body has voiced his opinion on the UK’s point of consumption tax for online gambling, saying it will have little impact on businesses based on the Isle. Peter Greenhill said that most of the players using companies based in the Isle of Man are from outside of the UK, meaning that there will be little impact on the operators present.
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Gambling News
Microgaming to Supply Rabcat Slots
Isle of Man based online gambling software Microgaming has announced that it has signed a deal with Rabcat and will be the sole supplier of the company’s games.As a result of the deal Microgaming will have Rabcat’s games made available on its gaming platforms, which includes the instant play Quickfire and downloadable versions of the Microgaming software.
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Gambling News
Cozy Games Adds GoCoin to Its Betting Platform
Online gambling platform Cozy Games has announced that it has signed a deal with financial group GoCoin, which allows for various crypto currencies to be used at gaming sites.As a result of the deal Cozy Games will see the crypto currency financial group offering punters the choice of using cryptocurrencies rather than standard currencies which may face financial restrictions in certain jurisdictions.
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Games & Casino News
Amaya Follows the Money - PurchasesPokerStars
Probably one of the biggest shockers of the year in online gambling news; was the purchase of PokerStars – only the biggest, and most famous poker product ever established online! This business is a Guinness World Record breaker,and the only online poker business to survive an onslaught from the Department of Justice that brought this form of gaming to a halt in the USA. -
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Games & Casino News
Net Entertainment launches the Lost Island slot at select casinos
It has been a busy summer for Swedish online casino software developers, Net Entertainment. Last month, their Mega Fortune Dreams progressive jackpot slot was released. This follows on from Aliens, Lights, Wish Master, and a handful of other new games that they have launched this year. Over the next few months, we can also expect South Park Reel Chaos, Attraction and Go Bananas to be launched. -
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Games & Casino News
Net Entertainment catches sequel fever, as South Park Reel Chaos is announced
Medusa II, Mega Fortune Dreams, Avalon II: The Quest for the Grail; it seems that the sequel craze is catching on fast. Hot on the heels of producing their Mega Fortune Dreams sequel slot, Net Entertainment is at it again this month.
