One of Europe’s leading gaming jurisdictions, the Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority, announced that it was accepting the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. The group gave no reason for Mario Galea’s resignation and only said that it had appointed Michael Gonzi to act as temporary CEO until a replacement has been found.
Parlay Entertainment, best known as an online bingo software provider has announced that it will be launching its own stand-alone gaming suite, ParlayGames, which is to focus on slots and side games. The suite will include over sixty flash games including very profitable slots, lottery games, video poker, keno and others. Some classic games on offer would be Bring Home the Bacon and Trolling for Treasure.
WagerWorks, the British online gaming software developer showed off its wares for the first time at the Betting Show which took place at NEC Arena in Birmingham this week. Featuring alongside other International Game Technology (IGT) subsidiaries Barcest and Cyberview, WagerWorks exhibited 3 new games – Triple Fortune Dragon, Three Wheel Roulette and Elvis: A Little More Action. This show follows the signing of some high-profile contracts with PartyGaming and 888.com which will allow the adding of WagerWork’s most popular games to these online casino operator’s games portfolios.
The social networking site, MySpace, popular among young internet users, has teamed with World Poker Tour to bring players a new poker site that should answer all their poker gaming needs. WPT Club will provide players with information, tips, news and video footage of the best tournaments in the world, as well as a free multiplayer game that players can try out 24/7.
Extrabet, a wholly owned subsidiary of the IG Group, will be marketing and managing a brand new casino site that will launch to complement IG Sport’s popular sportsbetting offerings. The IG Group chose Chartwell Technologies to power the new casino, making it the first UK-licensed online casino in the industry. Chartwell’s software has undergone rigorous
The powerful group that represents the US land based gambling industry, the American Gambling Association, may be moving towards a policy of leniency towards online wagering. The group has traditionally been strongly against internet gambling in the past, by industry analysts feel that because of the current economic problems facing the land-based market, several of
The online gambling community will need to wait a full month until it learns about the fate of the domain names of 141 top sites in the industry. Judge Thomas Wingate has delayed his decision to finalize permission for Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to formally take over these domain names until November 17th. He said
“Beginner’s Luck” took on a totally new meaning this week, when a football-mad slots player won a progressive jackpot TWICE in the period of one week. Frode, a casino player from Norway, signed up at the well-known Playtech online site, a fortnight ago, and within one week he had won 38,100 Euros on the Football
Ongoing attempts by Governor Steve Beshear to take over the domain names of 141 online gambling sites has been met by resistance by parties that are not connected to the gambling industry. Internet experts feel that this could set a dangerous precedence for the entire online world, and many have publicly condemned the debacle currently
Two years after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was passed, Lasseters Corporation has stated that this controversial law has taken its toll on the company, forcing it to cease all its online casino operations. “The directors have taken the subsequent decision to cease the operations of Lasseters Online Casino due to our inability to
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