VideoPoker.com Exceeds 300,000 Members
VideoPoker.com, a free to play, non-wagering site, and the number one destination for all things video poker, today announced that more than 300,000 video poker enthusiasts have registered as members on its flagship site...
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Zynga has launched their Facebook casino, Caesars has joined them and a selection of slots are now available across social media. One catch: none of them are for real money.
Yet that hasn’t stopped Affinity looking to tie their social side into their land based casino business, with the help of game developer WMS. Indeed, far from offering players a true mobile casino, the US company are skirting around difficult American gambling laws to offer free-play online and mobile casinos that incentivize play at their brick and mortar casinos...
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Japan is moving further along to legalizing casinos on its mainland with most of the major casino operators now scouting the country for preferred destinations to build resorts.
Las Vegas Sands, Caesars, MGM, SJM and Melco Crown are all sending representatives to the country to review their options once the country passes legislation allowing for casinos to enter the country. Since Japan was selected to host the 2020 Olympic Games recently excitement has been raised among the large casino operators that gambling casino style will be present in the country before the Olympic Games begin...
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"Changing an industry label from gambling to gaming affects what consumers, especially non-users, think of betting online," write authors Ashlee Humphreys (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) and Kathryn A. LaTour (Cornell University). "A label like gaming prompts all sorts of implicit associations like entertainment and fun, while a label like gambling can prompt seedier implicit associations like crime."...
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Many industry veterans were of the mind that the state who managed to be first out of the gate would enjoy a first-to-market status that would allow it to become the hub of U.S. online gambling. The theory was that other states would pattern or copy that first state’s legislative and licensing efforts and be inclined to accept whatever compact stipulations the first state had cooked up.
Nevada won the race, but the repeated delays in licensing and software testing are jeopardizing the Silver State’s first mover status. New Jersey and Delaware are aiming to rollout their respective online gambling regimes very soon and may wind up making Nevada look bad in the process...
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In the year since launch of High 5 Casino, the company boasts 1.4 million active users and almost 500 000 daily active users establishing itself as one of Facebook’s top-rated casino apps...
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Together, the new company will operate six properties across five jurisdictions with 9,968 slot machines and video lottery terminals, 283 table games and 3,282 hotel rooms. The combination will create a regional gaming operator with LTM pro forma annual net revenues and EBITDA of $832.6 million and $158.6 million, respectively, as of June 30, 2013. Based on the transaction value of $5.15 per share, the combined new company will have a pro forma enterprise value of approximately $1.0 billion...
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Back in February Gaikai's CEO, David Perry, explained during the PS4 announcement event in New York that Sony's intention was to make PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games playable on any platform thanks to cloud technology. The PS Vita TV is clearly part of this line of thinking but, when it comes to Europe, cloud gaming faces a big challenge in terms of broadband capacity...
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It was only a matter of time before Hollywood got wind of online poker and casino operators and decided to glamourise the industry in their own special way. Although only the trailer is doing the rounds, the new up and coming film entitled ‘Runner, Runner’ with Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake looks set to tell a cautionary tale about an industry that is worth billions. For the purposes of entertainment, the plot of this film will revolve around Timberlake’s attempt to pay his college tuition with online poker winnings, only to have the funds withheld by the nefarious Affleck who runs his poker operation on the island of Costa Rica. Timberland wants what’s rightfully his and goes after Affleck but once there, is tempted by Affleck with a life of opulence and decadence...
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