Betsoft Enters Colombian iGaming Market with Rivalo Integration

Betsoft Enters Colombian iGaming Market with Rivalo Integration

by March 31, 2020

Online casino content provider Betsoft Gaming has penned a supply deal with Rivalo to deliver its games portfolio to the iGaming and sports betting operator in the Colombian market.Betsoft’s partnership with Rivalo marks the supplier’s first foray into the regulated online g ...

Yokohama Ramps Up Casino Resort Effort with Additional Staff

Yokohama Ramps Up Casino Resort Effort with Additional Staff

by March 31, 2020

Yokohama has boosted the team tasked with the city’s effort to host one of Japan’s first integrated casino resorts as the nation looks to tap into the Las Vegas/Macau-style gaming sector to grow international visits.It has emerged that Yokohama is set to increase the number ...

Pragmatic Play Scores Live Casino Supply Deal with BetVictor

Pragmatic Play Scores Live Casino Supply Deal with BetVictor

by March 31, 2020

Provider of diverse content for the online gaming industry Pragmatic Play has extended an existing partnership with gambling operator BetVictor to now cover its Live Casino offering.Pragmatic Play has previously partnered the British bookmaker and gaming operator to supply i ...

Detroit Casino Offers Free Rooms to First Responders amid Covid-19 Pandemic

Detroit Casino Offers Free Rooms to First Responders amid Covid-19 Pandemic

by March 31, 2020

Greektown Casino-Hotel in downtown Detroit is opening its doors to first responders in the city who work during the coronavirus outbreak.The casino was temporarily shut earlier this month as part of the extraordinary measures invoked by Michigan lawmakers to stem the spread ...

Red Tiger Goes Live with Mobile-Focused Lottery Betting Operator Lottomart

Red Tiger Goes Live with Mobile-Focused Lottery Betting Operator Lottomart

by March 30, 2020

Casino games provider Red Tiger has added a new client to its ever-growing network with the recent launch of its content with Lottomart, a mobile-focused lotto betting and gaming operator.Under the terms of a recently penned deal between the supplier and the operator, Lottom ...

Cambodian PM Orders Nationwide Casino Shutdown amid Covid-19 Pandemic

Cambodian PM Orders Nationwide Casino Shutdown amid Covid-19 Pandemic

by March 30, 2020

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen today ordered the nationwide closure of casinos as the tally of coronavirus cases keeps climbing in the Southeast Asian nation.The country reported four new Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of infected people to 107.On ...

Detroit Casinos Extend Coronavirus Shutdown, Stop Paychecks for Workers

Detroit Casinos Extend Coronavirus Shutdown, Stop Paychecks for Workers

by March 30, 2020

Thousands of workers at Detroit’s three casinos will have their pay stopped as the properties have extended their shutdown amid the raging coronavirus pandemic.MGM Grand Detroit, Greektown Casino, and MotorCity Casino will now remain closed until at least April 13.The t ...

Osaka Pushes End of Casino RFP Process to Later Date

Osaka Pushes End of Casino RFP Process to Later Date

by March 30, 2020

Japan’s Osaka prefecture has pushed back the end of its request-for-proposal (RFP) process, an important phase in its effort to win the right to host one of the country’s first casino resorts, by three months.News emerged this past Friday that the prefecture will now close t ...

GVC Strengthens Gambling Safeguards as Customers Self-Isolate amid Covid-19 Pandemic

GVC Strengthens Gambling Safeguards as Customers Self-Isolate amid Covid-19 Pandemic

by March 29, 2020

Multi-brand gambling group GVC Holdings on Friday announced that it would implement a set of practices to strengthen its responsible gambling safeguards amid the coronavirus pandemic.GVC’s Friday announcement came just hours after the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), the in ...

Caesars Announced Mass Layoffs Days Before Coronavirus Casino Closures

Caesars Announced Mass Layoffs Days Before Coronavirus Casino Closures

by March 29, 2020

Caesars Entertainment Corp. informed the Nevada employment department that it would lay off thousands of casino workers in the face of the coronavirus crisis just days before it was forced to close its properties in the state, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.In a letter to ...

Penn National Sells Tropicana Las Vegas, Furloughs 26,000 Workers to Mitigate Covid-19 Impact

Penn National Sells Tropicana Las Vegas, Furloughs 26,000 Workers to Mitigate Covid-19 Impact

by March 28, 2020

Casino operator Penn National Gaming announced on Friday the sale of Tropicana Las Vegas to its real estate investment trust Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. to keep the business healthy amid the unfolding coronavirus crisis.Penn National confirmed the sale of the Strip ho ...

Delays, Coronavirus Disruptions Could Derail Caesars-Eldorado Merger

Delays, Coronavirus Disruptions Could Derail Caesars-Eldorado Merger

by March 28, 2020

As the coronavirus rages on around the US, and the rest of the world, fears that the highly contagious virus might derail what could be the largest casino industry merger are rising by the day.When Eldorado Resorts, a Reno, Nevada-based regional casino operator, announced it ...

GAN Partners Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians to Enter Michigan’s Nascent Online Gambling Market

GAN Partners Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians to Enter Michigan’s Nascent Online Gambling Market

by March 27, 2020

Provider of online gambling software GAN today announced that it is set enter another state as part of its strategy to grow its regulated presence across the United States.The European company said today that under a recently signed partnership with the Sault Tribe Chippewa I ...

Flutter-Stars Marriage to Go Ahead Despite Covid-19 Disruptions; Irish Group Drops Dividend Plan

Flutter-Stars Marriage to Go Ahead Despite Covid-19 Disruptions; Irish Group Drops Dividend Plan

by March 27, 2020

Gambling operator Flutter Entertainment has scrapped cash dividend plans to keep finances at hand for its £10-plus-billion merger with Canadian gaming and sports betting powerhouse The Stars Group.Flutter said Friday that as a result from the unfolding Covid-19 crisis, the c ...

Nevada Gambling Regulator Permits Betting on CS:GO as Coronavirus Cancels Traditional Sports

Nevada Gambling Regulator Permits Betting on CS:GO as Coronavirus Cancels Traditional Sports

by March 27, 2020

With literally no traditional sports left to bet on amid the unfolding global coronavirus crisis, the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday came to the rescue of locally licensed sportsbooks.The regulatory body approved wagering on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s ESL P ...