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Online Poker Could Start In The US With South Point Casino

Now that the Department of Justice has cleared the path to regulated online poker, it appears as though the South Point Hotel & Casino in Nevada may become the first online casino open to US residents.

Harry Reid Holds Online Casino Bill's Future Hostage

Matt Miller — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:31:15 +0000

Harry Reid is as mysterious as the Sphinx when it comes to predicting his ultimate stance on online casino regulation.

Gaming Advertising Adressed in Online Casino Bill

A.J. Maldonado — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:57:31 +0000

Advertising for online casinos will likely be regulated by the Treasury, as an amendment to H.R. 2267 states.

Pennsylvania Walks The Line Between Gaming Revenue And Addiction

Pennsylvania lawmakers and the Gaming Control Board in the state have built one of the most successful casino gambling industries in the country in a matter of years, but now, the legislators and gaming regulators are dealing with addiction issues.

Betfair Signs On To Help Keep Illegal Gambling Out Of 2012 Olympics

Betfair is the largest legalized gambling operation in the world, and the company has now partnered with the International Olympic Committee in an effort to keep illegal gambling out of the this year's Olympics in London.

Tribe Puts Spin On Possible Minnesota Casino Expansion

When a new casino is mentioned in any state, developers line up to take their shot on acquiring a license. In Minnesota, it is the White Earth Tribe that is lobbying for a new casino, using the Vikings as a bargaining tool.

Court Ruling Today Continues Beat Down of Delaware Sports Betting

Joshua McCarthy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:50:01 +0000

Delaware continued to be beaten like a rug by the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which further refined its decision of last week to allow the state's sports betting lottery to only offer parlays of three or more teams, and only on NFL teams.

UK Gambling Operators Found Lacking on Age Checking

Julie Wong — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:50:18 +0000

A study by the Gambling Commission in the United Kingdom found almost every betting shop visited had no problem taking gambling action from underaged customers.

Interview: Activision's Billion Dollar Man

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

It's been pointed out before, but Eric Hirshberg was one of the biggest creative gambles that Activision ever took. Putting an ad veteran in the CEO position of the biggest console games publisher was greeted with scepticism 18 months ago - this is a publicly listed company that needs predictable processes, not a creative artist with floppy hair and brown shoes. But that doubt now has to be laid to rest following the last financial year's $1 billion profits. This time last year, Activision said it was cutting back to three dedicated pillars, and many thought that just meant more incremental Call of Duty updates, a whimsical kids game accompanied by plastic tat and more fantasy iterations from Blizzard. What the year actually saw was Call of Duty expanded to a social network through Elite, a social event in the vein of BlizzCon with Call of Duty XP, and a consistently-selling credible kids IP in Skylanders, due for a sequel and expansion shortly. And that was without a major Blizzard release... In this exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Hirshberg reflects on last year's brand expansions and how to feed the customer's needs, why monitoring games sales should change for the new market, why Modern Warfare 3 sales took a tumble at the start of the year, and how the free-to-play Call of Duty game with be a breakthrough in China.

Touchgrind BMX Now Available on the App Store

Costas Stephanides — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:32:20 +0000

Illusion Labs today announced the Touchgrind BMX App, based on the popular skateboarding game Touchgrind, is now available on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch.

PS Vita Specs Compared

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:31:46 +0000

Coming Wednesday, Europe can start toying around with the Playstation Vita from Sony. Today, it is time to take a look under the hood and see if the Vita is a match for modern day tablets and...

Carnival of the Mobilists over at mtrends

jamescoops — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:41:44 +0000

A belated link back to the Carnival of the Mobilists last week hosted by Rudy at mtrends. There's a load of great stuff on there as usual including from some of the best mobile commentators out there including Carlo at Mobhappy, Marek Pawloski, Tomi Ahohen and Denis from Wap Review. The content spans Mobile Widgets, App Stores, Touch screens, Mobile Widgets and mobile learning and is well worth a read. Here's the link

Rudy has also launched an interested new company directory and business social network called dot open which you can check out at http://www.dotopen.com/

Zynga Looks to Ante Up for Online Gambling

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:53:00 +0000

Social games developer Zynga announced on Friday that it was in talks with potential partners to offer real money online poker and casino games, hoping to create a new revenue stream to soothe anxious investors questioning its long-term growth prospects.

Moving into online gambling would mark a significant departure from the company's normal business model, which sees it pull in money by sellign advertisements as well as giving users the chance to spend real money on virtual currency that can only be used in its games.

Its Zynga Poker game has 7 million daily users and 30 million or so monthly users, which is light years ahead of PokerStars -- the world's largest online poker site for real money play -- which sees a peak of 50,000-60,000 users active on the site on a typical day.

The comparison, though, is a bit unfair as Zynga Poker is free to play with only a tiny fraction generating revenue for Zynga while many of PokerStars players are real money players generating significan revenue day after day.

Zynga's annoucement was a dramatic about-face from its position just a few months ago that it had no interest in dabbling with online gambling for real money, and possibly spurred on by its struggling share price since its recent IPO, which is off nearly 15% from its opening price.

While the company is marginally profitable some analysts fear that its growth prospects are limited, with a saturation point possibly reached for its popular games such as CityVille, FarmVille, and CastleVille. Competition from competitors is also increasing with Zynga's stranglehold on the social games market slipping a bit.

In October the company announced plans for several new games including Zynga Casino, which is still in development and will include popular casino games such as bingo, blackjack, and roulette.

Zynga hasn't released the names of potential partners, with some analysts also not ruling out that the company may use some of its IPO warchest to buy itself into the online gambling space instead via an acquisition.

2 Top Notch Mobile Gambling TV Adverts

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:59:22 +0000

LadyLucks and Betfred Mobile have raised the bar for TV ad campaigns for mobile gambling brands. They have each produced ads that show the natural appeal of their mobile betting and mobile casino services. The first advert was for LadyLucks Mobile Casino and ran for 2 weeks in March. It shows some realistic use of [...]