Ontario iGaming Q1 2023, Full Year 2022 Numbers Out – Casinos are Smashing It

Ontario iGaming Q1 2023, Full Year 2022 Numbers Out – Casinos are Smashing It

by July 21, 2023

Ontario iGaming has released a market report for the first quarter of 2023, and online casinos continue to hammer online single-event sports betting in the free commercial market. More than 80% of the action (83%) and over 70% of the nascent market’s revenues came from casino gam ...

Fontainebleau Las Vegas Still Poised for 2023 Opening – First Regulatory Hurdle Cleared

Fontainebleau Las Vegas Still Poised for 2023 Opening – First Regulatory Hurdle Cleared

by July 17, 2023

Fontainebleau Las Vegas is well on its way to opening in December with a preliminary Nevada Gaming Control Board suitability hearing in the rearview mirror and a Nevada Gaming Commission hearing on July 27 which almost certainly result in a recommendation to grant the property a ...

Curacao Online Casino License Changes Coming End of Summer

Curacao Online Casino License Changes Coming End of Summer

by July 13, 2023

Changes are coming to the online gambling jurisdiction of Curacao with a new law coming into effect soon. For background and a frame of reference, readers can find more information at the end of this article.Beginning September 1, all new licenses will be issued by the Curaça ...

More Trouble in Manila for Kazuo Okada and Associates

More Trouble in Manila for Kazuo Okada and Associates

by July 13, 2023

In 2022, Japanese Pachinko billionaire and former Steve Wynn associate, then nemesis, Kazuo Okada staged a boardroom raid on his “former” property in the Philippines, Okada Manila. Now a trial court has ordered his arrest on charges of pilfering money from the massive casino comp ...

City of Dreams Mediterranean is Open in Cyprus – Only Integrated Casino Resort in Europe

City of Dreams Mediterranean is Open in Cyprus – Only Integrated Casino Resort in Europe

by July 12, 2023

City of Dreams Mediterranean officially opened for business this week after five years of planning, building, and outfitting guests for the high-end adventure of a lifetime in Europe’s largest and only integrated casino resort.The sheer mass and design elements of the buildin ...

New Toronto Casino, Ontario iGaming Stifling First Nations Ops Like Great Blue Heron – Seeks Better Deal

New Toronto Casino, Ontario iGaming Stifling First Nations Ops Like Great Blue Heron – Seeks Better Deal

by July 11, 2023

According to a report on CTV National News, the owners of the Great Blue Heron Casino, the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation (MSIFN), north of Toronto, believe they got a raw deal from the government with the launch of iGaming in Ontario and new land-based operations in ...

Spanish Gaming News: RAW iGaming Slot, Cirsa Bonds, Slingo

Spanish Gaming News: RAW iGaming Slot, Cirsa Bonds, Slingo

by July 11, 2023

In this consolidated geo-report, we’ll take a look at RAW iGaming of Malaga’s new innovative game engine that expands the company’s repertoire of chame-changing slots mechanics – but when does a game without spinning reels in slots with reel strips of symbols stop being a s ...

Australian Aristocrat, Ainsworth Pioneer Len Ainsworth is 100 Years Old

Australian Aristocrat, Ainsworth Pioneer Len Ainsworth is 100 Years Old

by July 11, 2023

The gaming industry has cause to celebrate a true pioneer and ambassador of gaming this month with the 100th birthday of Len Ainsworth – the Australian innovator whose games not everyone loved but who left his mark indelibly on the industry so many of the precious years of ...

Seminole Tribe, DeSantis Win Florida Sports Bet Ruling

Seminole Tribe, DeSantis Win Florida Sports Bet Ruling

by July 3, 2023

An error by a federal judge soon after sportsbooks launched in Florida lawmakers on the budget committee along with recipients of state funding as well as Gov. Ron DeSantis have scored a rather large victory in court – worth at least $2.5 billion and as much as $6b by some ...

AC News: 5-Year iGaming Lease on Life, Borgata Turns 20, Indoor Waterpark Delays Opening

AC News: 5-Year iGaming Lease on Life, Borgata Turns 20, Indoor Waterpark Delays Opening

by July 3, 2023

In news from Atlantic City, New Jersey we’ll explore a potential new 5-year authorization to continue online gambling at casinos located in the seaside resort city on the Jersey Shore.We’ll take a look at a 20-years-young casino that has consistently led the market in footfal ...

Australian Inquiry Suggests Federal iGaming Regulation, Complete Ban on all Gambling Ads

Australian Inquiry Suggests Federal iGaming Regulation, Complete Ban on all Gambling Ads

by June 30, 2023

The government of Australia looks poised to ban all gambling advertising across all forms of media if it follows a scathing report compiled from a parliamentary inquiry into the subject.Over 30 recommendations are presented in the report, and several of them are focused on ad ...

Rhode Island Becomes 7th US State for Online Gambling – Mere Months from Inception to Passage

Rhode Island Becomes 7th US State for Online Gambling – Mere Months from Inception to Passage

by June 26, 2023

Rhode Island will soon have state-sanctioned online casino games just a few short months after the idea was informally introduced.For some background, RI is the smallest state in the US with a land mass of less than 50 miles by 50 miles in any direction. It was the 13th colon ...

Coney Island Casino Could Create 4,000 Union Jobs – Would They go to Locals?

Coney Island Casino Could Create 4,000 Union Jobs – Would They go to Locals?

by June 21, 2023

As the bidding and pitching process for new casinos to win licenses in and around New York City heats up, we’ll be taking a closer look at some of the local potential impacts. Known collectively as the “downstate New York” casino license tender, at least one new casino will open ...

Billion Dollar Casino Resort to Open in Ontario as iGaming Suggests Q1 GGR up 350% Y-o-Y

Billion Dollar Casino Resort to Open in Ontario as iGaming Suggests Q1 GGR up 350% Y-o-Y

by June 21, 2023

Great Canadian Entertainment has announced that Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto is set to open June 20, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. local time. The highly anticipated opening, next to Woodbine Racetrack, will open a huge gaming floor of more than 300,000 square feet and all of the La ...

Allwyn’s US and UK Acquisition of Camelot Assets Produce 80% Revenue Spike

Allwyn’s US and UK Acquisition of Camelot Assets Produce 80% Revenue Spike

by June 21, 2023

The 80% is more specifically 81.4% and represents the sum of €1.58bn even with the company’s[ UK results falling nearly 2% to €1.01bn.Explaining the rapid jump in numbers, a company statement read: “In Q1 2023, we completed the acquisitions of Camelot UK, the current operator ...