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Friday 8th February 2008

Lottery May Expand Into Online Casinos In Canada, the provincial Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) could be about to expand further into online gambling after reportedly asking video game makers to invent new gambling titles that...

Friday 8th February 2008

Parlay Gets Second Bid Parlay Entertainment, the Canadian developer and licensor of online bingo software, has received an ‘unsolicited expression of interest’ from a second unidentified company that is...

Friday 8th February 2008
German Online Ban Taken To Court An administrative court in Germany voiced concerns last week that the recently passed German ban on online gambling may violate European Union laws. The Verwaltungsgericht of Schleswig was...


Friday 8th February 2008
Online Casino Cuts Affiliate Commissions A 50 percent temporary cut in commissions following a marketing scheme from gambling group Unibet has angered affiliates in France. French affiliates allege that Unibet's affiliate management...


Friday 8th February 2008
French Open Says ‘Non’ To Betting Organisers of the French Open tennis tournament have filed lawsuits with courts in Belgium and France in a bid to ban online gambling companies from offering bets on the event. The French Tennis...


Friday 8th February 2008
Increased Shareholding For Sportingbet CEO The Chief Executive Officer of UK gambling group Sportingbet has increased his shareholding in the company to a total of 1.2 million shares. According to the Reuters news agency, Andrew McIver...


Friday 8th February 2008
THQ To Release Playboy Games American interactive entertainment software developer, publisher and distributor THQ has announced a deal with Playboy Enterprises Inc to cultivate lifestyle-themed, non-nude mobile games. The...


Friday 8th February 2008
Giants Win Super Bowl Title In one of the biggest upsets in American sporting history, the underdog New York Giants beat the heavily favoured New England Patriots at Super Bowl XLII on Sunday night to gain their place in...


Thursday 7th February 2008

James Bond attracts students to poker After an 18-year-old was recently made a millionaire due to his win at the European Poker Tour German Open and poker has been promoted in films like Casino Royale, more and more students are jumpin...

Thursday 7th February 2008

Supercasino decision 'madness' Manchester City Council may consider a judicial review of the government's apparent decision to axe plans for the supercasino. According to the BBC, the decision to finally junk all plans for a su...

Thursday 7th February 2008

Casino firm bickers with Indians The Concord Hotel, which was once one of the most famous resorts in the Catskills, has come to the attention of a developer as possibly the ideal place to build a new casino. According to the New ...

Wednesday 6th February 2008

Schwarzenegger looks to casinos for revenue After California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested that casino expansion could be a way to bring revenue to the state, the public voted in favour of more gambling. Four California tribes ha...

Wednesday 6th February 2008

Baseball star hosts charity poker match Royce Clayton has hosted the inaugural Poker Celebrity Bowl, which raised $40,000 for charity. The Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop hosted the poker event at Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino Resort in...

Tuesday 5th February 2008

Casino mugging gang arrested Five London men have been arrested in relation to a spate of muggings on casino-goers late last year. Following early morning raids at properties in Notting Hill, Harlesden, Palmers Green and Eali...

Tuesday 5th February 2008

Scotland's largest casino opens The £25 million Alea Glasgow casino is set to open this week and it will be Scotland's largest casino - the size of a football pitch to be exact. The two-storey casino on Glasgow's Springfiel...