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Cyprus Casinos, the Cypriot subsidiary of casino and hospitality giant Melco Resorts & Entertainment, has shut temporarily two of its casinos in Cyprus as the tiny Mediterranean nation grapples with a second wave of coronavirus infections. In a message on its official website published Thursday, November 12, Cyprus Casinos said that its satellite casino in

Irish bookmaker BoyleSports is the latest operator to have received a regulatory slap from the UK Gambling Commission as the regulator is taking a tougher line to action against violations of UK gambling rules and regulations. News emerged this week that the gambling operator has been slapped with a £2.8 million fine over money laundering

Lightning Box has entered Pennsylvania’s regulated online casino market with the recent launch of two of its most popular slots via Scientific Games’ Open Gaming System (OGS). The Sydney-based online casino games maker has rolled out Lightning Horseman and Respin Rhino in the Keystone State via OGS. The games are now available to locally licensed

Czech lottery operator SAZKA Group’s bid to seize the UK’s National Lottery from long-time operator Camelot just got major backing from Wall Street buyout fund Apollo Global Management which injected €500 million to finance its expansion efforts. News also emerged that Apollo will acquire Great Canadian Gaming Corp. in a deal that values the Canadian

Evolution has launched its products with Caesars Casino & Sportsbook in Pennsylvania as part of a supply deal between the Live Casino specialist and casino giant Caesars Entertainment Inc. Under the terms of the recently penned deal, Evolution has agreed to provide Caesars’ online gaming operation with access to its entire range of Live Casino

BetMGM, the online gambling operation of the joint venture between GVC Holdings and MGM Resorts International, has strengthened its New Jersey offering with the addition of Live Casino products from Evolution and gaming content from Playtech, DGC, and Ainsworth. Evolution and BetMGM announced a content supply deal in late August and after the successful completion

Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is set to resume operations before 2021, the property’s operator, Caesars Entertainment Inc, said this week. The off-Strip casino, best known for being home to the annual World Series of Poker, closed doors in mid-March as Nevada was fighting to curb the advance of the coronavirus. It

Online casino games maker BF Games has significantly bolstered its presence in Romania’s regulated iGaming market through a recent content supply deal with major local operator Baumbet. The deal has seen Baumbet go live with BF Games’ entire, ever-growing games library, including player-favorites Book of Gods, Hot Classic, and Crystal Mania, among others. In addition,

November is upon us with chilly breezes and fallen leaves all over, and a slew of new Microgaming titles, including the major online gambling software provider’s latest branded slot. Microgaming just premiered deadmau5, the result of its exclusive collaboration with Canadian superstar DJ deadmau5, whose real name is Joel Zimmerman. The game was crafted by

Online casino and sportsbook platform and service provider Soft2Bet has teamed up with PartnerMatrix in a partnership that will enable the former to create an agent affiliate network mainly for its sports betting brands. PartnerMatrix, part of the EveryMatrix group, provides its clients with an essential affiliate tool for both online and offline marketing strategies.

Virginia’s casino expansion effort claimed a big victory Tuesday as four proposals for Las Vegas-style gambling venues were approved by residents of the cities that would host them. Under a sweeping gambling reform approved by state lawmakers this past spring, the cities of Bristol, Danville, Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Richmond were allowed to hold citywide referendums

New and stricter requirements are coming UK-facing gambling operators’ way as the Gambling Commission has launched a consultation to seek views on tougher rules for its licensees to identify and tackle gambling harm and problem gambling. The consultation was launched Tuesday morning and calls for views and comments from the online gambling industry, gamblers, and

Online casino content supplier and aggregator Relax Gaming announced on Monday that it has tapped a third Stockholm-based in-house games studio to build on the success of its proprietary casino titles. The company’s latest announcement comes as it celebrates its tenth anniversary. Over the past decade, Relax has grown immensely to now provide its operator

FanDuel has expanded its existing partnership with casino operator Twin River Worldwide Holdings in a move that will see the sports betting firm launch a FanDuel Sportsbook inside Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel & Casino. FanDuel and Twin River’s partnership first came to fruition this spring when the sports betting operator launched an online sportsbook and

Several months after it closed permanently the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN), Microgaming is ready to start a new chapter as a provider of online poker content with the launch of a brand-new range of poker games. The new titles will be part of the supplier’s online casino vertical, it confirmed in a press release published

Live Casino specialist Evolution (formerly Evolution Gaming) has recently launched its entire Live Casino portfolio in Colombia to become the first provider of this type of content in the local market. As part of a partnership with Zamba.co, a locally licensed online gambling operation, Evolution’s entire range of Live Casino games, including popular casino classics,

The UK Gambling Commission has chastised three locally licensed operators after detecting serious weaknesses in their social responsibility and anti-money laundering practices, news emerged this week. The watchdog said it has reviewed the UK online gambling licenses held by BGO Entertainment Limited, GAN plc, and NetBet Enterprises Limited as all three were founded to have

Germany’s online gambling market reorganization was a many-faceted process that spanned the better part of eight years and that hit many snags and barriers until German lawmakers created what they believed was a viable regulatory framework. The country has just moved into a so-called transitional period during which online gambling operators and their software providers

Online casino games maker and supplier Pragmatic Play is set to further strengthen its Colombian foothold through a recent deal with iGaming operator Luckia. Under the terms of the deal, Pragmatic Play will supply its entire slots portfolio to the online gaming operator. Luckia will thus gain access to hit titles by Pragmatic Play, including

The four investment banks that advise Caesars Entertainment Inc. and William Hill on the casino operator’s proposed acquisition of the British bookmaker will trouser a collective £165 million in fees for their work, according to documents published on Monday. Barclays, Citigroup, PJT Partners, and Deutsche Bank will share in the above amount along with other