ESPORTS:GO, As Microsoft Activates Call Of Duty
The esports ecosystem was rocking today with the news that Microsoft’s US$75 billion (£61.3bn) bid to buy Call of Duty developer Activision…
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Tax And Trash: More Will Be Less, Swedish Government Warned
Hot on the heels of Norway’s intransigence to break its state betting monopoly, the Scandinavian gambling industry has taken another major hit…
Norway’s Tipping Point: Time To Come In From The Cold, says EGBA
It’s time for monopoly Norway to come in from the cold and liberalise its betting industry, says the top European Gaming and…
Death By Taxation: Regulated Brazil iGaming Facing Strangulation At Birth
Taxes. Taxes. And more taxes. Nascent regulated iGaming in Brazil is facing strangulation at birth because of swingeing taxes. The story unfolds…
Along Came A Spider: Gambling Operators On Red Alert Following Vegas Ransomware Attacks
Welcome to the wonderful world of weekend phishing. The world’s top gambling operators are on red alert for the traditional betting surge…
Transaction Declined: Beware Of Aussies Bearing Credit Cards And Other Crypto Gifts
Gambling using credit cards to pay for bets is all set to be outlawed Down Under. Australia has given us many gifts:…
Boosted by Betsson and Entain, CEE Takes Centre Stage
Surmounting wars, Iron Curtains and non-regulatory free-for-alls, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)–boosted by Betsson and Entain–has finally begun to take its rightful…
Playing To Win, US Sportsbooks Launch Biggest NFL Bonus Give-aways In History
America’s top sportsbooks, FanDuel and DraftKings, are launching the biggest bonus give-aways in iGaming and NFL history to mark the start of…
Mor Or Less? Bafflement, The Americas and Italy Drives Playtech’s H1
Despite a big tax payment, the Americas drove a respectable 8.5 percent, year-on-year, growth in Group Revenue to €859.6 million in H1…
As NFL, Rugby World Cup Kick-off, Pick Up The Ball And Run!
Aficionados and lovers of football–of the oval-shaped variety–are in seventh heaven this week with the start of the American NFL season and…
Betting On Green Pocket, Is No Zero Sum Game In Desert UAE
It may be illegal–‘Haram’–under the strictures of Islamic law but the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is fast approaching legalising gambling in the…
Allwyn That Ends Well, New UK Lotto Runner Hits The Q2 Jackpot
New UK Lotto Runner Allwyn has hit the jackpot with a year-on-year plus-100 percent increase in revenue to €2.05 billion (£1.75bn) in…
ManU Crushed, Arsenal Boosts Betway As Official Global Betting Partner
Fresh from delivering a weekend beat-down to its perennial, once-fearsome, Premier League rivals Manchester United, The Arsenal have signed a major partnership…
Knock, Knock, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, bet365 Makes Magic Move On Arizona
The clichés abound: home of the magnificent Grand Canyon, land of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo, backdrop of John Ford’s greatest western movies,…
Under Growing Siege, Defiant Malta Vows To Protect Its iGaming Industry
Malta, “The George Cross Island”, which took a fearful–but unbowed–beating during the last world war, is bracing itself for a new siege:…
A New Broom Sweeps Clean, Ontario Cracks Down On Celebrity iGaming Endorsements
Relatively new to iGaming, the Canadian province of Ontario is burnishing its Responsible Gambling leadership credentials by banning athletes and celebrity influencers…
Amid Q2 Fiscal Storm, Catena Media Marches On Towards Its North American Destiny
Shares at Swedish-origin iGaming Affiliate Catena Media have plummeted 20 percent, and sliding, on the release of precipitous Q2 financials that saw…
The BetMGM Slap That’s Set To Reverberate Around The World Of iGaming
With US megalith MGM Resorts International ditching Entain to launch BetMGM in the UK, the world of iGaming is all shook up….
Africa, Mid-East and Europe Are Betway As Super Group Takes A Spin On Q2.
Noting significant gains in Africa, the Mid-East and its European regions, Super Group–home of top brands Betway and Spin–has posted a profit…
Throne of Games, England Women All Set For World Cup Glory
In years to come their names, James, Russo, Hemp, may live alongside those of the 1966 legends Moore, Charlton and Hurst; England’s…
“Putting Lipstick On A Pig”, British Betting Beauty Rank Group Posts “Impaired” FY Results
Citing that favourite accounting disclaimer of “impairment”, Britain’s iconic Rank Group has posted preliminary Full Year results, for the year ending June…
As Record Breaking Revenue Surges In Q2/H1, It’s All Looking GiG
Moving resolutely to cleave its booming business into two independent strategic entities, Scandi B2B iGaming pathfinder GiG, Gaming Innovation Group, has posted…
WynnBET Loses That Lovin’ Feeling
Hammered by market leaders FanDuel, DraftKings and BetMGM, and faced with the additional threat of a revamped, Disney-powered Penn Sports, WynnBET–the digital…
Slaying Historic Demons, BetMGM Joint-venture A Winner for Entain in H1
Marked by fabulous 55 percent year-on-year growth in Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for its US BetMGM sportsbook joint-venture, Omnichannel Entain has drawn…
It’s A Whole New iGaming World For Walt Disney
For some it’s been likened to a “Marriage A-la-Mode, for others it’s a cynical, if long overdue push into the booming North…
Energised by FanDuel, Flutter Entertainment Posts Spectacular H1
Flutter Entertainment, the Ireland-origin, UK FTSE-100 Omnichannel, which has stormed America with its FanDuel sportsbook, has posted a spectacular H1 with top…
With A Marcos Back, Filipino PAGCOR Plans To Cull POGOs
The Philippine’s national Amusement and Gaming Corporation, known as PAGCOR, is introducing a draconian new licensing regime to reel-in the nation’s controversial…
The Future’s Bright, The Future’s MGM Resorts International
When Big Bill Hornbuckle the CEO of MGM Resorts International sits down at his desk in Las Vegas today he’d be forgiven…
Making Moves, Rush Street Interactive Reports Solid Q2 Fiscals
Boosted by strong growth in Colombia and market moves launched at the turn of the decade, leading North American and Latin American…
Digital Assures That Less Is More For Caesars Entertainment in Q2
Digital rode to the rescue and brought respectability to Caesars Entertainment’s fiscals in the second quarter, ending June 30. With most metrics…
BetLion Never Sleeps, 888Africa Makes A Major Push On Mother Continent
Fresh on the heels of appointing ‘Top Man’ Per Widerström as its new CEO, troubled 888 Holdings continues to reverse its recent…
Tally Ho! It’s A Busted Brush For Fox Bet As They Lose The iGaming Scent
August normally marks the start of the fox hunting season, but by the end of this month Flutter Entertainment and the Fox…
One Small Signature for Lula, One Giant Step For Brazilian Sports Betting
It’s been 20-years in the making, as long as the last time the football-obsessed nation won the World Cup, but Brazilian President…
Once More Into The 888 Breach, Fortuna Favours Per Widerström
After months of churn following the January sacking of its long-time CEO Itai Pazner, 888 Holdings has found a new leader in…
Yes We Khan, London Rescues Commonwealth Games
Fresh from his political drubbing for the “crime” of wanting to bring fresh air to the capital, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has…
Posting Biggest Ever Q2 Margins, It’s Funky Times For Evolution
It’s Funky Times for iCasino and slots kings Evolution as the Q2 launch of their new game underlines their record financial performance…
The Hand Of Pontus Lindwall, Betsson Scores Spectacular Q2 Goals
It’s not for nothing that Pontus Lindwall is considered one of the classiest strikers in world iGaming. Under his inspired leadership, Swedish-origin…
Snookered, Betfred Done £3.25m For Serious AML SR Failures
Done Bros (Cash Betting) Limited, better known as Betfred, founded by billionaire brothers Fred and Peter Done in 1969, has agreed to…
Here Comes The Blushing BetMGM Bride, Entain Goes Full-Stack, Puts All Assets On Show
Mongolians have a custom for brides before they tie the nuptial knot. They sit the intended in a yurt-turned-sauna to bring a…
Australian Casino Giant Crown Resorts Ripped By Mega AML Fine
Scandal-ripped Crown Resorts–once the plaything of controversial Australian billionaire James Packer–has been fined an unprecedented AUS$450 million (£232.98m/US$301.17m) for serious anti-money laundering…
Sleeping Beast Las Vegas Sands Awakes and Smells The Live Casino Coffee
Don’t let the name fool you. These days the Las Vegas Sands has very little to do with the Desert Queen herself,…
As Profits Quadruple, Right Said Betfred
With a joint fortune of £1.87 billion (US$2.39bn), the brothers Fred and Peter Dones are among the 100 wealthiest people in the…
The Man Who Went Up A William Hill And Came Down A Hillock
He was the man who went up a William Hill and came down a hillock. Certainly it led to his diminution, and,…
Football Fans Cry Foul, But Clubs Continue To Bet on Gambling Ads
Around the world countries are either banning or sanctioning the hitherto winning fiscal synergy between sporting teams and gambling endorsements. Holland and…
NHS Steps Up Fight To Treat Gambling Harms and Addiction
Ahead of its 75th birthday this week, Britain’s embattled but storied National Health Service (NHS) plans to double the number of gambling…
Bring Up The Bodies, Malta Hits Unlucky Glitnor With Hefty AML Fine
Only days after telling the EU to back-off and asserting that it was more than capable of doing its own financial housekeeping,…
Data You Can Trust: Bayes Esports Wins Major Legal Ruling
In a major, first-of-its-kind ruling over the legality of controversial “data scraping” in esports, a Berlin court has ruled in favour of…
In Responsible Gambling Race To The Top, France Steals A March On Team GB
France has stolen a march on its perennial UK rival by publishing a draft of a progressive Responsible Gambling iGaming advertising decree,…
In A Pitch They Can’t Duck, Legendary Tropicana Gets Crushed By Breaking Ball
The legendary Tropicana casino resort, once synonymous with the glitz and gambling glamour of the Las Vegas strip, is about to be…
Finland To Finish State Gambling Monopoly, Embrace iGaming by 2026
Along with joining NATO, Finland’s new centre-right coalition government has announced that one of its top priorities is to end the nation’s…