Gaming technology provider Genii has recruited Nick Barr for the role of Sales Director. The appointment comes as Genii goes to market with its revolutionary Spin16 software in the forthcoming weeks, launching its patented new slot format to the industry. Barr has extensive sales experience within the iGaming industry and the firm hopes he will be the ‘driving force’ taking …
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NYX Gaming Group has snapped up the Chartwell Technology and Cryptologic businesses from Amaya via a share purchase agreement valued at CA$150,000,000 (£80.8m). The transaction is anticipated to close before the end of the third quarter of 2015 and is subject to financing and other customary closing conditions. Amaya said that the sale is consistent with its previously announced plan …
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Slots developer Microgaming is set to release its Rabbit in the Hat online slot in April. The game is a 5×3 reel, nine line game with a magical theme, featuring bright and bold graphics and several entertaining features. The base game springs to life when a magic hat appears at random on reel five. During each subsequent spin, the magic …
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Jesper Kamp, Business Development Manager at Enetpulse, discusses the firm’s new live betting data product and how the firm intends to challenge the current offerings on the market. Enetpulse has just entered the football data supply sector. Why now and what do you offer that is not already on the market? For quite a while we have felt the in-play …
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BetConstruct, the award-winning developer and provider of online and land-based betting and gaming solutions and services, has announced the launch of a new ground-breaking service called Game Store. Game Store allows game developers the opportunity to turn their creativity and technical expertise into hard cash and earn royalties from any and all of their games that get deployed on the …
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has apparently waged war on live betting ahead of the Cricket World Cup, and warned that anyone caught breaking the rules would be barred from the whole tournament. Speaking to the media at the end of last week, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, head of the ICC’s anti-corruption and security unit, said that ‘pitch-siding’ went ‘far deeper’ …
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Last week’s ICE Totally Gaming saw GBGroup stage a ‘protest’ outside of the ICE gaming convention at ExCel London. Advocating a trust economy, the protesters ‘represented’ gaming users who are campaigning for better recognition by gaming operators of their individual identity. The protesters argued that gaming companies should be better able to identify their customers and recognise their individual needs …
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Yggdrasil has launched its first pooled progressive jackpot, Joker Millions, which will be available to players from the end of February and comes with an expected fall out value of €1.3m. Joker Millions is billed as an exciting game – and not only when playing the jackpot spins. Unlike most online progressive jackpot slots, the base game has a deep …
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The Professional Squash Association (PSA) are pleased to announce that they have signed a four-year agreement with sports data specialists Sportradar that will see them become the PSA’s Official Sports Data Partner. Effectively immediately, the agreement will see Sportradar granted the right to distribute all PSA data to the betting and media industry, including data from the Women’s Squash Association …
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Vermantia’s Tony Plaskow explains what his firm has in store for ICE Totally Gaming and London Baby! What has your company and its services and operations learned from 2014? 2014 was a transformative year for Vermantia with significant corporate development, new content development and several new Tier 1 operators signed up to promote our content. Alongside the heavy investment into …
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