It’s Getting Better All The Time? Embattled iGaming Software Giants Evolution Report Flat To Minus Q3
If this is progress then what’s Evolution? One may well ask, as the Swedish-origin iGaming software and games developer, mired in controversy…
André Dubronski
Hoping This Railbird Will Fly, DraftKings Joins The Great Prediction Markets Race
DraftKings, the number two digital sports book and iGaming outfit in the United States, has officially joined the great prediction markets race…
Playtech Hits Back In Its Battle Of The iGaming Software Heavyweights
Like two heavyweight Sumo wrestlers vying for the title of world iGaming software top dog, Playtech’s and Evolution’s sensational court case–involving alleged…
Mossad Connection As Playtech Shares In Freefall Following Evolution Claims Of Malpractice
BREAKING NEWS: Playtech Plc shares crashed by 25 percent today–and may fall further–after Evolution AB alleged that Playtech used a private intelligence…
evoke Emotes Oh Mendy! You Gave Without Taking But I Sent You Away, Oh Mendy!
Lord Jon Mendelsohn, former Labour Party influence peddler, who was caught in the 1998 “Lobbygate” scandal for boasting to an undercover reporter…
Done And Dusted, Higher Taxes Will Destroy Bookies Warns Betfred Owner
For Betfred founder Fred Done it all began with a £25 punt on England winning the 1966 World Cup. But 60-years later…
Flutter’s Paddy Power Beat Rivals To The Punch, KOs 57 Bookies
As so often, Flutter Entertainment has beaten its rivals to the punch and announced the shuttering of 57 of its iconic Paddy…
Boosted By BetMGM Sprog, Entain FY25 Is Sunny Side Up
Boosted by its increasingly profitable sprog, UK gambling giant Entain today reaffirmed a sunny side up outlook for its Full Year 25….
BetMGM Raises FY25 Guidance After Strong Q3 Performance
BetMGM, the joint venture between Entain and MGM Resorts International, has reported better-than-expected results for Q3 2025, driven by strong performance across…
It’s All Greek For Former Russia-Linked UK National Lottery Owner Allwyn
The news that Allwyn and its Greek subsidiary OPAP are merging in a €16 billion marriage à la mode has returned the…
A William Hill Wind Blows Evoke No Good
The threat by UK gambling mega channel Entain to shutter its high street bookies if hit by big new taxes has now…
Go East Hot Gambler As Storied Las Vegas Sands Runs Out Of Digital Time
Hit the road Jack, and don’t you come back no more, no more…one can almost hear the storied Rat Pack of Frank…
Bally’s High, Corporation Completes €2.7bn Sale of International Interactive to Intralot
Intralot’s €2.7 billion (£2.35bn/US$3.12bn) acquisition of Bally’s International Interactive business, creating a global iGaming and lottery group with enhanced scale and diversification,…
Return Of The Prodigal Son, Polymarket’s U.S. Future Boosted By US$2 Billion Investment
Predictions site Polymarket’s fully-fledged return to home U.S. territory has been considerably boosted by a US$2 billion (£1.48bn) investment from the owners…
Pursued By Swingeing Taxes, Will It Be A Case of New York New York For UK Gambling Giant Entain?
It was the move that launched Flutter into the stratosphere and arguably made them the biggest player in the gambling galaxy, Now…
Chile Blocks iGaming “Dirty Dozen” In Ongoing Betting Civil War
After years of obfuscation and delay, an undeclared state of civil-war has intensified in Chile’s complex, fractured betting industry. A dozen of…
Scoop, Push or Scrape, Trump Organisation In Potential NYC Golf Casino Scandal
Hole-in-one or illegal “penalty” shot, a looming scandal in which the Trump Organisation is set to make millions of dollars may soon…
iGaming and Wider Gambling Taxes in Labour Party Conference Firing Line
Amid tumbling polling figures, a group of over 101 socialist MPs attending today’s Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, have called for swingeing…
It’s The Devil’s Highway Not The Great White Way For Caesars Broadway Casino Bid
Superstar rapper Jay-Z and the controversial Reverend Al Sharpton have failed in their bid to bring a casino-resort to The Big Apple’s “Great White Way”. iGF Editor-in-Chief André Dubronski reports on the latest controversial twist in the compelling New York City casino story….
Trump Tariffs Trigger Massive Mexico Gambling Tax Hike
EXCLUSIVE: Mexico, Latin America’s largest gambling market, is facing a massive 50 percent hike in direct betting taxes, and the move has…
Sale Of Snaitech Has Made Playtech Mor Weizer In Surging H1
Boosted by the recent sale of its Italian Snaitech operation to Flutter Entertainment for €2.3 billion (£1.98m), Playtech has reported a strong…
Punters Are Leaving Las Vegas…Sort Of
Bill Hornbuckle may disagree. And as boss of the biggest beast on the storied Strip he’s got powerful reasons to counter negative…
British Horse Racing Goes On Strike For First Time In History
British horse racing, sport of kings and commoners, and mainstay of iconic High Street betting shops, goes on strike today for the…
New NFL Season Signals Start Of US$30 Billion Betting Bonanza
The biggest betting bonanza in world sport–worth an estimated US$30 billion (£22.33bn)–kicked-off early this morning (September 5 BST 02:20hrs), with the start…
With “It Could Be You!” It’s Back To The Future For UK Lotto’s Allwyn In Q2
£9.7 billion Allwyn International, owners of the UK National Lottery, reviving the lotto’s famous “It Could Be You!” slogan, have just presented…
West Ham Brazil Midfielder Lucas Paquetá Facing Six-figure Fine
Lucas Paquetá, the West Ham United and Brazil national team attacking midfielder, who was cleared of spot-fixing by the Football Association (FA)…
GVC’s “King” Kenny Alexander Collared By The Law
“King” Kenny Alexander, former CEO of GVC Holdings, the Ladbrokes owner now known as Entain, has been charged with alleged financial crimes…
Flutter Pulls Junglee From Wild and Unpredicatable India Market
“Junglee” in Hindi means wild, unpredictable, literally someone or something from the jungle. The word could very well apply to India’s vast…
DFS 3.0, The Big Heat: FanDuel, DraftKings Coming For Prediction Markets
Flutter Entertainment’s FanDuel–which entered the pre-PASPA U.S. sports betting space as a DFS pioneer, along with DraftKings–has thrown down the gauntlet to…
Hallowed Horse Racing Hit By Strikes, Feared Taxes
Gambling on horse racing, hallowed British pastime and mainstay of iconic High Street betting shops, is under threat from proposed massive tax…
Heaven Or Hell, Surging Gambling Industry Backlash To Feared Tax Hikes
Opposition to the high-level intervention of Labour Party mandarin and former British prime minister Gordon Brown calling for massive gambling tax hikes…
From Long Goodbye, Revived evoke Reports Profit and Growth in H1
Blue Ribband evoke, home of top brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green, has reported a super impressive 44 percent rise in…
So Close To Gringolandia, So Far From the Gaming Gods, It’s Down Down Down for Catena Media in H1
They say never put all your eggs in one basket and for Catena Media, who’s avowed aim is to become the Number…
Bally’s High, Q2 Revenue Rises On Casinos and iGaming Growth
Bally’s Corporation has reported revenue of US$657.5 million (£488.38m) for the second quarter of 2025, up 5.8 percent, year-on-year, and driven by…
Led By Stella The Warrior, Entain Looks To The Fiscal Uplands
The great Entain reset continues with the UK’s top gambling omnichannel reporting a seven percent increase in Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) in…
Exotic Not Much Profit, Wynn Resorts Posts Flatline Q2 2025
Away from its exotic headline-grabbing ventures in Macau and the U.A.E.’s Al-Marjan, Wynn Resorts reported essentially flatline results for Q2. And a…
Who’s Laughing Now? PENN Entertainment Reports Q2 Growth in Both Retail and iGaming
PENN Entertainment, Inc. has published its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, showing revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth across…
All a-Flutter Raises FY25 Guidance Amid Mega Q2 Results
Flutter Entertainment has released its financial update for the second quarter of 2025, reporting year-on-year growth in both revenue and adjusted EBITDA,…
Ex UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Calls For £3.2bn iGaming Tax Hike To Combat Child Poverty
BREAKING: Gordon Brown, the former New Labour prime minister and the man credited with saving the world economy during the 2008 financial…
Super Group Reports Record iGaming Revenue for Q2 2025
Super Group, parent company of iGaming super brands Betway and Spin, has released its unaudited financial results for Q2 2025, reporting record…
DraftKings Reports Q2 iGaming Revenue of US$1.51 Billion
DraftKings Inc. has reported revenue of US$1.51 billion (£1.12bn) for the second quarter of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 37 percent. Growth…
Jacky Cheung, Who He? Macau’s Sound of Money
If entertainment in the world of gambling resorts be the sound of love and money–think Elvis–then Jackie Cheung is the crooner who’s…
Peso Mucho, Resilient Codere Online Steering Steady LatAm Course in Q2
Like so many Latin American businesses, Codere Online is facing strong exchange-rate headwinds. But its Q2 2025 results confirm that the Mexico-facing…
What’s In A Name? Euphemism and LLMs Replace Fear and Loathing in Prediction Markets
Paranoid? Worried about the impact of A.I. on your employment prospects? No need to be. AI has been consigned to the definitions…
Saved By The Digital Bell In Q2, Caesars Entertainment Stock Still Slides 15 Percent From Year’s Start
Shares of US$6 billion behemoth Caesars Entertainment dropped a further 3.23 percent in after-hours trading on the Nasdaq Tuesday, bringing the year’s…
Champagne Supernova, BetMGM Expecting US$150m+ EBITDA in 2025
Leading U.S. sportsbook BetMGM is anticipating 2025 Full Year revenue of US$2.7 billion (£2.02bn), with EBITDA of over US$150 million (£112.35m), the…
Is Boyd Gaming Making Moves With The Short Goodbye?
Selling one’s five-percent stake in the world’s top performing sportsbook, Fan Duel, for admittedly an impressive circa US$1.4 billion (£1.04bn) doesn’t look…
Rise & Hustle Launches tap-to-earn Street Game Platform in Nigeria With Real-World Rewards
Rise & Hustle, Africa’s next-gen tap-to-earn gaming operator, has launched its reward-based mobile street game series in the Nigerian market. Running on…
Where Have I known You Before? evoke Returning To Its Best With Latest Fiscals
Shares in global omnichannel evoke rose 5.69 percent to GBX69.70 in early morning trading on the benchmark FTSE100 in London today following…
It’s Getting Betsson All The Time, HI Revenue Surges 15 Percent
Nordic-origin iGaming superchannel Betsson AB has reported an uber impressive 15 percent surge in group revenue, year-on-year, for H1, ending June 31….