The Registrar of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) issued three operators with its Notices of Monetary Penalty. The penalty was issued because operators violated the Standards for Internet gaming related to game integrity. AGCO wanted to protect the gamblers and gamers in the province, and that led to the actions against three famous operators.
Three operators violated the Standards:
Bunchberry Limited, Mobile Incorporated Limited, and LeoVegas Gaming PLC offered to the audience from Ontario the games that AGCO and Independent Testing Laboratory (ITL) haven’t approved, which violated Standards 4.08 and 4.09.
Mobile Incorporated Limited also offered products that were developed by two suppliers which weren’t registered …
British and Irish iGaming behemoth Flutter Entertainment is reportedly considering whether to offload its newly-acquired sportsbetting odds comparison website at OddsChecker.com for approximately £150 million ($209.7 million).
According to a short report from the Evening Standard newspaper, the London-listed operator behind a slew of online gambling domains including Betfair.com, PaddyPower.com and Adjarabet.com does not consider the assessment platform to be one of its core brands. As such and the company has now purportedly hired global investment bank Moelis and Company to investigate the option of a sale that it believes would allow it to better concentrate on its ongoing expansion efforts in the United States.
Competition cancellation:
The newspaper reported that Dublin-headquartered Flutter Entertainment, which was previously known as Paddy Power Betfair, took over OddsChecker.com last year as part of its £11 billion ($15.3 billion) acquisition of prominent…
Today, June 14th, France’s Groupe Partouche, a flagship company that is already a leader in the European iGaming industry, disclosed its H1 report for the second quarter of 2023, between February 2023 and April 2023, along with its consolidated turnover for the first half of the year, from November 2023 to April 2023. In addition, the H1 report displays a 15% growth in consolidated turnover for 2023, totaling €215.6, which is approximately $233 million.
The COVID-19 vaccination has had a significant impact on visitors to casinos owned by Groupe Partouche:
Throughout the first half of the former financial year (February to April 2022), there weren’t many visitors to the casinos owned by Groupe Partouche due to the rule that only people who have received any dose of the COVID-19 vaccine can cross state borders. Additionally, that rule lasted until March 14, 2022, in France and until February 17, 2022, in Switzerland. Furthermore, the first half of 2023 takes …
The Entertainment Software Association has announced 15 more companies that will participate in the all-digital E3 2021 event that’s coming up next month.
The 15 additional companies include Razer, Intellivision, Yooreka Studio, Tastemakers, NetEase, 24 Entertainment, Norton Gaming, GuliKit, and SK Telecom. Six independent game developers have also been added to the list of participants, including Burgos Games, Dreamteck, Ghost Street Games, Hooded Horse, The Sixth Hammer, New Blood Interactive.
These 15 new participants join a list of previously announced companies like Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Warner Bros., Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco, and Gearbox.
Registration for E3 2021 opens to the general public on June 3. A full programming schedule for the four-day event is expected to be released in “early June,” so keep checking back with GameSpot for more.
In other E3 news, it was recently reported that Nintendo will announce a new 4K Nintend…
2042 sure does seem like a long time from now, but Microsoft seems adamant that Xbox will still exist then. In partnership with EA to promote Battlefield 2042, the company has released a “trailer” for Xbox 21 years in the future, and it sure does look fancy.
“Imagine a gaming experience indistinguishable from reality,” Microsoft threatens in the video. We see footage of a variety of potential games, including a military shooter, cowboy game, and a football game, and it says the whole experience is “powered by quantum technology” and supports “1 quintillion floating-point operations per second.”
On the same day as it announced fourth quarter and full year 2020 results, Rhode Island-based gaming company Bally’s Corporation (BALY:NYSE) formerly Twin River Worldwide Holdings Inc., revealed a multiyear agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA).
While it’s not exclusive, according to Bally’s the arrangement allows it to use the NBA‘s “official mark and logos” in its online sports betting products while also giving it the ability to access “official league data.”
Ongoing momentum:
The strategic partnership, which makes the land-based casino and racetrack owner an authorized sports betting operator of the professional basketball league is the second such deal for the company after announcing its official sports betting partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL) on February 18, 2021.
Betting and fantasy sports for the two leagues is being overseen by gaming platfo…
The Japanese city of Osaka has reportedly announced that no additional firms have participated in the latest request for proposal (RFP) stage of its campaign to secure one of the nation’s coming trio of integrated casino resort licenses.
According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, the metropolis of around 2.6 million people is hoping to be given permission to bring its envisioned Las Vegas-style development to a 121-acre portion of the man-made Yumeshima Island so as to help boost the local economy through an expected swell in tourism. However, the source detailed that the Honshu conurbation is facing stiff competition for one of the three licenses from a number of other runners including the city of Yokohama and communities in Wakayama Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture.
Ponderous process:
Although most gambling is currently illegal in Japan, the coalition government of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed legislation in J…