Online Gambling News

Below is a list of the latest casino news.

Readers will no doubt recall the early days of the Poker Players Alliance and the dynamic inaugural president of the organisation Michael Bolcerek, who has since moved on and has just been appointed by Aristotle International as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Aristotle's Integrity product, which helps operators keep underaged wannabe gamblers and fraudster...

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Recent studies of the South Korean gaming market show a fervent gaming culture and indicate that it is enjoying something of a boom, according to San Francisco research company Pearl Research. The firm predicts that the online games market in the country will reach $1.7 billion next (2009) year. Researchers found that free-to-play, easy-to-learn casual games is one of the fastest growing South Korean market segments. Quality (broadb...

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The Asian online and mobile gaming technology provider PacificNet Inc., has reached a settlement in its litigative dispute with bondholders in a Delaware federal bankruptcy court, where the plaintiffs had sought Chapter 11 relief. In compliance with the agreement, PacificNet has amended and restated the terms of certain convertible debentures in the aggregate principal amount of approximately $6.2 million. Upon entering into the agr...

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Market research firm Kreutzer Fischer & Partner has completed a study on Austrian gambling that shows 2007 gross gaming revenues have risen 12.4 percent over the previous year, rising to Euro 15.4 billion, and that Austrians are increasingly turning to the Internet for their gambling entertainment. Austrians spend an average of Euro 240 per person a year on gambling, increasingly at online gaming sites, the study found, and net gami...

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Online gambling group Bwin had a disappointing result this week in its bid to get the German states' ban on Internet gambling suspended pending a federal court ruling on the issue. The Cologne regional court turned...

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A report on problem gambling in the UK newspaper The Observer has members of the Remote Gaming Association up in arms, reports eGaming Review, quoting the chief executive of the trade association, Clive Hawkswood. The report, titled "Gaming firms drag heels over aid for addicts", ac...

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The newest online casino to appear on the market this week is powered by the Isle of Man based Internet gambling software and games provider Microgaming and carries Malta LGA licensing. Old Ch...

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Backgammon Masters.com, which claims its own in-house gambling software development team, has launched a new video slot branded AstroPay with the goal of giving its players a complete casino experience by adding to its...

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Further details are now available on our earlier story concerning a move by Dutch legislators to start taxing foreign and 'illegal' online gambling sites, and it appears that taxation will not imply approval or legal recognition. Specifically, the Dutch Staatssecretaris for fiscal affairs driving the proposal, Jan Cornelis de Jager, argues that tax laws do not differentiate between le...

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Gibraltar-based online gambling group Party Gaming could be facing a multi million dollar trademark infringement damages claim from WMS Gaming following a US Court of Appeals ruling this week. The story has broken on a number of industry websites which report that WMS Gaming Inc. won its appeal against PartyGaming plc...

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Mobile gambling technology provider and Microgaming associate Spin3 is set to exploit the user excitement and demand surrounding Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch handsets with the launch of the first commercially available play-for...

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GamesGrid, a subsidiary of the UK skill games provider GameAccount has added Domino Duel, a real-money, peer-to-peer online version of dominoes, to its range of skill games. A statement from the provider this week claims that the company has given the ageless game a slick modern treatment, empowering players to create or join a table and play head-to-head by laying down virtual domino tiles on the board. "When you have played all of...

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A new Betfair policy scheduled for implementation September 22 has stirred up controversy on Sportblog at the UK newspaper The Guardian. Blogger Greg Wood writes that in nine years Betfair has grown from a tiny startup to one of the world's largest betting companies worth over a billion pounds sterling, yet has always managed to make its members feel loyal...

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Early reports suggest that the Dutch Senate cleared a proposed gaming taxation bill this week that will enable the government to tax games of chance, including those provided by foreign online operators whom the Dutch have hitherto prosecuted as 'illegal' in defence of the state monopoly. The bill is also reported to contain provisions targeted on individuals who win at foreign online gaming sites. Dutch politicians appear to widely...

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Although still too early for full details, it appears that a lucky Portuguese player, DuarteF, has hit the Europa Casino progressive slot 'Global Traveler' for a useful Euro 501 000. Duarte is apparently a regular at the casino and is reportedly 'stunned' by his unexpected win. Global Travel...

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