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UK Regulators Address Child Gambling

UK Gambling Operators To Meet New Standards  Following a recent Sunday Times article, UK regulators have stepped up and addressed concerns over child gambling. The Sunday Times article claimed that online casinos were indirectly marketing to children when they made use of animated characters or fictional characters from children’s stories. Some pokies named directly by the article include Jack and ….

MGA States Support Of Crypto-Currency

Bitcoin Support Stated By MGA  The Malta Gaming Authority, in a speech at the International Association of Gaming Regulators conference, stated that the organization is fully committed to embracing all new technology in order to remain at the forefront of online gambling. They believe being open to new technologies will keep Malta as the most important destination for new financial ….

Tom Horn Gaming Finds Feet In UK

Tom Horn Gaming Grabs UK License  Online casino games developer Tom Horn Gaming has successfully applied for a license from the UK Gambling Commission. The fledgling company has been granted a Combined Remote Operating License earlier this week, which means they will be fully able to provide their gaming content to the well regulated UK Gaming Market. The company successfully ….

Norway To Retain State Gaming Monopoly

Norway Retains Local Gaming Monopoly  The International Association of Gaming Regulators kicked off their conference this week on the 16th. This year the event is held in Johannesburg South Africa. A number of prominent gaming industry members in a variety of regulated markets meet every year for the conference. Director General Atie Hamar announced that they will be retaining Norway’s ….

Magnet Gaming Releases Haunted House

Haunted House To Scare Up Success  Danish developer Magnet Gaming revealed their new slot this week called Haunted House. Naturally this announcement comes just ahead of Halloween meaning this game is sure to get a few spins from horror fans. Haunted House is a three reel slot but definitely does not have any of the classic 3 reel fruit machines ….

Crown Faces Another Court Hurdle

Crown Casino Faces Fresh Challenges  The largest land based casino in Australia, Crown is currently facing very serious allegations of pokie machine tampering, rampant drug use on the premises and ignoring cases of domestic violence perpetrated on their site. Three ex Crown employees made the allegations that have been tabled in parliament. Crown Group has rejected these allegations while MP’s ….

Two Big Jackpots Awarded This Week

Massive Progressive Jackpots Awarded This Week  Two massive jackpots have been awarded to online gamers this week. First off was the Mega Fortune Dreams Mega Jackpot valued at €3,223,924. This marks the 20th time that this massive progressive jackpot has been awarded since 2014. This payout is actually below average for the online pokie. It has paid out on average ….

Accusations Aimed At Online Gaming

Sunday Times Attacks Online Gaming Industry  A recent Sunday Times article has called out the UK online gambling industry for allegedly marketing to children in an attempt to get them hooked. The allegation goes further to say that online gambling operators are marketing to children in such a way that it does not necessarily breach the Gambling Commission’s terms and ….

New Pokie Jewel Quest Riches Now Live

Jewel Quest Riches Set To Sparkle   Old Skool Studios, a Canadian software development company has released a new title this week called Jewel Quest Riches. This is quite an innovate release that makes use of a levelling up system to add more replay value to the standard pokie experience. Many developers have tried to implement elements that would encourage more ….

Reactoonz Pokie Goes Live

New Reactoonz Pokie Contains Exciting Features  Play n GO has dropped a new exciting pokie called Reactoonz. This cartoony pokie takes an innovative approach to its design with a 7×7 reel grid and similar game mechanics to another Play n Go title, Viking Runecraft. It has a very unique set of reel features that can form interesting combinations or chain ….