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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Sony's Gaikai cloud streaming service is targeting an 'early-ish' 2014 launch in North America, but has no projected launch window for EU due to 'issues of broadband' in the region...
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