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First Regulated Live Dealer Casino for the US: NYX/Ezugi
The United States has seen a fairly limited amount of success in regulating the online gambling market. A large part of this is because there are 50 different states, and each of them has to regulate the market individually. -
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NYX Starts GeoComply Partnership for Indoor Mobile
It's no secret to anyone who has been paying attention that the mobile side of the gambling world has been expanding rapidly for several years. While many people tend to focus on the impact for mobile online casinos, one area that has been impacted in a major way is mobile access for land-based casinos. -
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Anonymous ZCoin Cryptocurrency Launching
In recent years, the use of anonymous cryptocurrencies has increased drastically in the online gambling industry. Dealing in cryptocurrencies has become more popular as the need for privacy online has become more evident.
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Yggdrasil Expanding into Romanian Market
Recently, the Romanian National Gambling Office has granted Yggdrasil Gaming two licenses that allow the company to supply licensed operators with their slot titles. At the moment, Yggdrasil's titles will be made available to all operators that have a Romania Category 1 license. -
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Spilleren Casino Launches This September
This month, the Spilleren Casino has launched online. The casino is licensed to operate in the jurisdictions of Malta and Curacao, and is operated by EveryMatrix Ltd. Spilleren is open to players from England, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands. The site is currently offering a welcome bonus to new players: €900 plus 500 free spins. -
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Pariplay Now on Microgaming Quickfire Platform
Online scratch cards aren't really seen as one of the most popular forms of gambling in terms of the number of games that are available overall in online casinos. However, this is something that Pariplay specializes in, and they have been providing these games through all kinds of outlets since 2010. -
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Tain Receives Romanian Online Gambling License
Romania has been a fairly active online gambling jurisdiction inside of the past year after getting their regulatory body going with a number of licenses being awarded here and there to select companies. Tain is the most recent company to be added to that list, and they will now be able to offer their online casino platform to operators inside of the country. -
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Yggdrasil Releases New Big Blox Online Slot
New game concepts don't happen all that much in the online slot world. At this point, it seems like just about everything that's going to be done has been done. While video slots offer a lot of flexibility in giving players different ways to get in on the action, the fact of the matter is that there are only so many spins that can be made on the same old options and features. -
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Euroslots Relaunches With New Website and More
When an online casino has been around for a while, they can start to fall behind the times if they aren't careful. This is why it's so important for these sites to keep their look updated every few years, and that's exactly what Euroslots has done recently with their relaunch. -
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Microgaming Quickfire Signs Just For The Win
The Microgaming Quickfire platform is generally seen by many as the most popular gaming platform in the industry at this point that combines titles from multiple developers. It consists of hundreds of top titles from Microgaming themselves on top of a number of games from third-party developers. -
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New Partnership For Tom Horn Gaming and TOPsport
Lithuania has only somewhat recently put together a licensing agreement and regulatory setup that allows online gambling to happen on a larger scale in the country. In what's an incredibly important event, the very first deal for offering licensed and certified online casino games in the country has been signed between Tom Horn Gaming and TOPsport.
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Thunderkick Releases Zoom Online Slot
In the online slot world, one of the things that we see pretty often is that atypical slot formats are usually the result of a developer being somewhat lazy about trying to get attention and stand out. They often just rely on the game having an atypical layout to carry the entire gameplay. -
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BetChain Breaks 1000-Game Milestone
The number of games that an online casino has available is one of the most important things that help to determine where it will fall relative to the competition. BetChain, a popular online casino known for allowing players to deposit and cash out in bitcoin, has made a bit of a name for itself in this department since they have recently broken a milestone by offering over 1,000 games for their players. -
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Habanero Launches New Sparta Online Slot
Habanero has gained a reputation in the past couple of years for coming out with a slow, but steady, stream of new games that seem to focus more on quality than quantity. Their newest release is called Sparta, and it's obviously based on the Spartan times in Ancient Greece. -
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Net Entertainment's Secrets of Atlantis Slot Released
There have been a lot of new slot releases so far this year for Net Entertainment. While they have always been known for producing extremely high-quality slots, 2016 is the first year where they've started to make a name for themselves based around releasing a lot of slots. -
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Microgaming's Prima Networks Gets Romanian License
We've recently seen a lot of news about the Romanian online gambling market finally opening up and licenses being awarded. The most recent award has been given to Microgaming's Prima Networks, and it's a class 2 license to operate in Romania. -
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Las Vegas Casino Gets iSoftBet Software
One of the companies that we've been seeing expand quite a bit in the past couple of years is iSoftBet. They're a game developer in the online casino space who focuses on high-quality video slots. They've recently signed yet another deal to offer their games at an online casino. -
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NYX Gaming Group Earns Romanian License
The NYX Gaming Group is known primarily for their Open Gaming System (OGS) platform. This platform includes games from a variety of providers, and it's a relatively popular option for operators in today's market because it supplies them with a great selection of the top online slots along with a complete mobile solution. -
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When Pigs Fly Video Slot Coming From NetEnt
Something really interesting about Net Entertainment's online slot releases is that they tend to focus on traditional formats like 5x3 and 5x4. A lot of the competition has tried to open things up to other, atypical layouts for their games, but they still haven't been able to beat NetEnt in the process. -
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Gibraltar License Awarded to Yggdrasil Gaming
Licensing is one of the most important things in the online casino industry because it's a signal that you have the blessing to proceed with business from an entity whose job it is to protect players and evaluate businesses for their worth in the industry as a whole. -
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Casino Forum Conference 2016 hosted in Batumi
Georgia's night-life and gambling capital Batumi is going to be a hot-spot gathering important industry officials on August 8th 2016. Namely, a world-class business events organizer Smile-Expo hand-picked Batumi as a perfect meeting place for an important Casino Forum Batumi 2016 industry conference. -
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Evolution Gaming Gets New CFO This Fall
One of the things that is easy to lose sight of at times is that the online gambling world is still a business at the end of the day, and business deals and employee changes are a part of that. When a major position at a major company changes hands, that's worth sitting back and taking notice because of the implications that it can have on operations as a whole. -
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Playtech Continues Casual Games Market Push
Recently, Playtech acquired the company Funtactix. This company was known for creating popular casual games, and they've won several awards for that. Some of the games they have created have been built up on popular brands in the United States like Rocky, Mission: Impossible, Power Rangers and the Hunger Games. -
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ComeOn.com Purchased by Cherry AB
Business deals happen all the time in every industry, but in the online gambling industry, the way jurisdictions and licensing is handled now means that even more strategy is involved in making purchases and acquisitions. Recently it's been announced that Cherry AB, a Swedish gaming company, has made a deal to purchase 49 percent of ComeOn, a popular brand that includes sites like ComeOn.com. -
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Record Largest Ever Single-Market Loss for Betway Set
In the sports betting world, the long-shot bet very rarely pays off. For example, when Betway set the line at 2,500:1 at the beginning of the season for Leicester to become the Premier League champions, no one really thought it would be a good bet. -
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New Cafe Casino Launches with RTG Software
New online casinos always bring a bit of excitement to players because it represents the addition of more options, more competition between sites and more choices for where to play. The newest online casino to launch is Cafe Casino, a site that's running the Realtime Gaming software. -
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Inspired Gaming Inks Deals With Snai and Novomatic
Content distribution deals are a key part of the current state of the online casino industry. What used to be a wide-open market has become a segmented one thanks to each individual country having their own regulatory body in Europe and other parts of the world, and business strategy has changed to be more about improving market share in individual countries instead of the world as a whole. -
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New Realistic Games Chief Executive Officer Appointed
In the online casino world, there are business moves and shuffling of positions that happen pretty often. If an opening comes up for an important post in a company, you can bet that someone who definitely has the qualifications will be available to fill it. This is what's happened with Realistic Games recently when they filled their CEO position. -
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Game360 Platform Vehicle for Italian Expansion for NYX
In the current online gambling market, each individual country has to handle their own regulations and legislation for how they handle the industry. In Italy, Sisal is one of the largest providers for online gambling services that exists, and getting on their platform instantly means a much larger presence on the scene in that country. -
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Magnet Gaming Makes Deal With iSoftBet Platform
In the online casino software industry, there have been a number of changes over the years, but the main characteristic of the current paradigm is that it's normal to combine games from several different software providers.
