The UK football club Aston Villa has announced that the UK land and online gambling division of the Malaysian leisure and hospitality group Genting is to be its shirt sponsor for the next two years. The partnership commences next (July) month, allying the club with arguably the UK’s largest operator of casinos. The Genting Casinos [...]

Online gambling operator Betclic Everest Group launched Betclic Turf into the French market, this week. Betclic Turf is the company’s new online horse race betting offering which has launched on a new technological platform provided by Groupe Carrus . José Covès , a well-known horse racing journalist, has been engaged as Betclic Turf’s celebrity spokesman [...]

It appears that the woes of Full Tilt Poker keep mounting, with its legal and payment problems generated by Black Friday, and now the resurrection of litigation against its parent group. Read the full post >>

Two improbable heroes emerged from the first two legs of the 2011 Triple Crown. First, Animal Kingdom won the Kentucky Derby – the 1 ¼ mile classic race with a purse of $2M – without having raced on dirt before. The Leroidesanimaux colt had been a turf/synthetics horse in all his previous races and made [...]

Malaysian police have struck again, with Secret Societies, Gaming and Anti-Vice Division chief ASP Sayuti Harun announcing the arrest of 26 men and the confiscation of 198 computers in online gambling raids on 14 different locations this week. The New Straits Times reports that 13 of those arrested were employees of the busted gambling ring, [...]

The new gaming development team concept announced by UK gambling internet gambling group Gamesys has released its first game, an online slot branded ‘Nuts and Bolts’ to the Jackpot Joy operational website. The new offering joins an inventory of unique proprietary games developed by the company under its former production system that includes bingo variants [...]

Mobile gaming developer Probability plc announced that Adam Neilson , its Chief Technology Officer stepped down from the company’s Board this week. Commenting on Neilson’s departure, Charles Cohen , Chief Executive Officer of Probability plc, said: “Adam has left the company after five turbo charged years as CTO, and we are all sorry to see [...]

Betlow Ltd, a UK-based game development studio, has inked an agreement with top Australian slot design specialists Lightning Box Games to exclusively develop and distribute some of its popular land-based slot titles for online use in Europe and the UK. Titles embraced by the agreement include: Three Pandas, Super Happy Fortune Cat, Double Bungah, Stretch [...]

The recent prosecution of online poker sites in the U.S. has again focused attention on the situation in the Czech Republic where the lack of formal online gambling regulations has introduced confusion and debate. Jan Rehola of the department for the state supervision of lotteries at the Czech Ministry of Finance says that the enforceability [...]

The Malta-based online gambling operator Betsafe has awarded a contract to supply a full mobile gambling technology suite to the Swedish provider Mobenga. Betsafe intends to offer both Android and iPhone mobile gambling to its smartphone players to fulfil rising demand for these services, and expects to launch its offering by Q3,2011. “We are very [...]