Where Mobile, Social, Interactive, Online, Cloud and Land-Based Gaming Converge

The adopted amendments added two new defined terms to NGC Regulation 1: (1) “debit instrument;” and (2) “prepaid access instrument.” 
Who is Sheldon Adelson? Adelson is an American born “dual citizen,” of Ukrainian/Jewish ancestry. He runs the largest casinos in the world, not just in Las Vegas, a city both established and controlled by organized crime, but in Macao as well.
According to app analytics platform Distimo, social casinos are becoming more and more profitable.
The average US consumer spends two hours and 42 minutes a day on mobile devices; 86 percent of that time is spent in apps and 14 percent is spent browsing the Web. 
162 minutes — that’s how much time the average American spends on his or her mobile device per day.
Social casino games are one of the most lucrative segments in mobile games, and in the mobile app market at large.
The second anniversary of the Illinois Lottery selling tickets via the Internet recently passed, with online sales safeguards working as designed, Lottery officials announced today. Under legislation passed by the General Assembly, Illinois became the first state in the country to sell lottery tickets via the Internet on March 25, 2012 – offering two games initially under the pilot program: Mega Millions and Lotto.
The closing could be a sign of things to come as the $38 billion U.S. gambling industry bumps up against two unlucky trends, a proliferation of casinos and still-skittish consumers in the wake of the financial crisis. 
The return of online poker to the United States in state-regulated environments poses attractive opportunities for operators. But, at the same time, operators need to look to the experience of brick and mortar casinos to anticipate the potential risk of class action and similar lawsuits.
Politicians can’t quite make up their minds about gambling: They approve certain casinos and promote state lotteries but crack down on sports bets and some charity poker games. It seems that government dislikes gambling, unless government gets to be the house.
A second group of Caesars Entertainment Corp. lenders and bondholders said it wants to unravel the deals used to create the company’s growth-oriented affiliate
When Internet poker went live in New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware in 2013, it appeared that it was just a matter of time before other states would follow suit and legalize too, leading to the eventual acceptance — or so poker players hoped — of online poker throughout the U.S.
That has yet to happen.
The Williams Interactive subsidiary of Scientific Games has agreed to provide its entire portfolio of Vegas-style slots to gaming websites run by online gambling operator bwin.party.
Under the deal, Williams Interactive will integrate its Remote Game Server into the bwin.party platform in order to provide players with access to slot titles and game engines.
Online gaming systems and software provider GameAccount Network has entered into a partnership with land-based operator Osage Casinos to launch a promotional play online casino.
Revenue from online gambling in New Jersey has failed drastically to reach expectations, even if industry observers won’t call it a bust after just five months.
The asset shell game being played by debt-laden casino operator Caesars Entertainment is coming under fire from some of its creditors. Late last month, Caesars announced that certain “unidentified note holders” had hired lawyers in a bid to force Caesars to undo moves to transfer its more profitable assets away from the heavily indebted mother ship Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. (CEOC) to its Caesars Growth Partners (CGP) escape pod.
Like Angry Birds? Then you're doomed to become a gambling degenerate unless Congress bans online gambling, according to a new video ad from a group backed by billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
Virtual reality through the Oculus Rift headset is novel enough. But VR through Internet Explorer, enabled with just a few lines of code? Microsoft just demonstrated it at its Build conference, drawing applause from a room packed with developers. 
In a letter to the congressional leadership and copied to all members of Congress, the National Conference of State Legislatures said the organization expresses strong opposition to the Restoration of America’s Wire Act, which was introduced last month by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.
Joint legislation introduced in both the House of Representatives and the US Senate seeking to ban virtually all forms of online gambling would rollback New Jersey's online gambling industry, a move that would cause a number of serious economic problems in the state.
There is something truly spectacular about Sheldon Adelson. Witness the parade of Republican supplicants paying tribute in his Las Vegas lair. They would include Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
What's remarkable is not the aesthetics of possible presidential nominees beseeching a casino oligarch in return for campaign cash. Wannabes from the other party also engage in such activities -- though there's a certain down market feel to courting one whose many billions come from separating the gullible from their money. Some parts of the country still consider state-sanctioned gambling immoral.
Online and mobile gaming investment firm MGT Capital Investments has entered into an asset purchase agreement with CardRunners Gaming to acquire the DraftDay fantasy sports business and software platform.
Under the agreement, MGT will pay $600,000 (€435,599) in cash and approximately 100,000 shares of common stock to acquire the DraftDay assets.
Internet poker hasn’t proved so far to be the bonanza some had hoped for.
The first monthly report on online poker gaming win showed it exceeded only bingo compared to other casino games, slot machines and sports betting.
Though they receive much less attention than other apps, social casino games are one of the top-grossing categories in mobile gaming, says a new report by Distimo.
While several different companies have begun making it known that they will be continuing in the quest for the premier cloud-gaming service, such as Sony’sPlaystation Now, no one entity is currently recognized as the top name in cloud gaming. However, there is one company that may offer the services necessary to claim this top spot: Amazon