Technology has influenced the gaming industry in hundreds, if not thousands of ways, and now casinos are using online gaming to give guest a preview of the experience at their properties.
A legislative committee looking at technology and gaming spent roughly 95 percent of its final hearing Tuesday debating taverns and other restricted slot machine businesses and whether or not a litmus test was needed to determine whether gambling revenue was “incidental” to a location’s success.
In the end, the committee decided to leave well enough alone.
Gambling industry entertainment provider Amaya Gaming Group has denied that it is looking to acquire another company following a sharp increase in its share price
The huge popularity of games like Candy Crush and Angry Birds have put the spotlight on mobile devices as gaming platforms in recent years. It’s not surprising then that the share of weekly time spent gaming on smartphones and tablets last year increased to 19% from 11% in 2011, according to Nielsen data. Given the publicity generated around mobile game apps, one might assume that proportion might be even higher by now.
Flagging online gambling is failing to bolster Atlantic City casinos that GovernorChris Christie has said are crucial to New Jersey’s rebound, compounding revenue shortfalls that threaten the state’s credit rating.
Five months after New Jersey started allowing Internet betting, the business had its first monthly revenue decline in April. The drop adds to the woes of the 11 casinos, whose revenue has dropped 44 percent since peaking in 2006. New Jersey depends on Atlantic City for its jobs, its taxes and the seaside resort area’s draw as a tourist destination. 
It’s a bit before my time but I gather that when the first baseball game was broadcast on radio on August 5, 1921, the team owners were outraged. They believed that KDKA, the country’s first commercial radio station, were starting a trend that would result in causing far fewer people to turn up to games in the flesh. As time has proved, that hasn’t quite been the case. 
Save for a few small companies, Wall Street has thrown in the towel on slot machine manufacturers for 2014.
Without new hotel-casino openings (other than The Cromwell and SLS Las Vegas) and a slot machine replacement market that analysts term “nonexistent,” the investment community has been advised to view the gaming equipment sector with caution. 
Is Canada’s Amaya Gaming Group about to merge with online poker giant PokerStars? Something is clearly going on behind the scenes, as Amaya’s stock shot up nearly 14% on Friday. The stock closed at $10.25 after finishing Monday’s trading at just $7.71, with Friday’s trading volume nearly five times the daily average over the preceding three months.
As unlikely as it may sound, sources have told CalvinAyre.com that an agreement is in place that would see Amaya assume ownership of the Isle of Man-based online poker colossus, thereby clearing the way for the Stars brand to return to regulated US markets.
After losing Americas Cardroom and the Winning Poker Network just over a week ago, Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey residents are now learning that the Equity Poker Network is shutting down real money games to players in these states as well. Full Flush Poker, the flagship site of the network, will no longer be offering real money game play to anyone located in the states involved with a regulated poker market in the US. This is the second real money gaming site in the US to shut down in these three states in just under two weeks. 
A Malaysian company received preliminary approval from the state Gaming Commission today for a $4 billion Asian-themed resort on the Las Vegas Strip. 
Casino game developer PlayStudios has announced an expansion to its rewards catalog in myVegas, the Facebook and mobile slot machine game that allows users to win rewards at real-world Las Vegas hotels and resorts. This expansion sees the company moving outside the Las Vegas area, offering rewards at two MGM Resorts International properties in Mississippi.
Online poker would generate $800 million (€587 million) and create more than 2,000 jobs for the Californian economy by the end of the decade, according to a new report released by Capitol Matrix Consulting.
The study found legalising Internet poker in California would result in $1.91 billion in economic output, $845 million in additional state revenue, and 2,657 jobs over the first five years.
For decades, the decision makers in video games have put their focus on the console business. PC games have ebbed and flowed over time, but the console cash cow has remained the place to be for what’s known in the industry as “AAA” game franchises—Assassin’s Creed, Grand Theft Auto and Need for Speed.
But that’s changing. The rise of mobile gaming and the proliferation of free-to-play games on PC, mobile, and consoles has ushered in a transition that could very well spell the death knell for the traditional oversized box that sits beneath your HD TV. And that means new opportunities for game developers and gamers alike.
Startup costs associated with internet gambling, along with the closure of one casino in January lowered Atlantic City’s casino earnings by 8.4 percent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2013.
A closely watched patent reform bill failed on Wednesday as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that he lacked the bipartisan support to push the bill forward.
In a statement, Leahy said he hoped the Committee “will return to this issue,” but made clear the process is finished for now. The statement read, in part:
There was some talk at this week’s East Coast Gaming Congress at the Atlantic City Borgata about how illegal online gambling remains quite active in the country even as only three states have legalized it.
Or as New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement director David Rebuck put it, “Internet gaming exists in all 50 states. It’s just unregulated” in 47 of them.
Consorteum Holdings, Inc., an international transaction management and mobile publishing company, today announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, ThreeFiftyNine, Inc. ("TFN"), in partnership with XpertX, Inc., has completed the development work on a new mobile results app for live Keno. With proof-of-concept now validated, this new app is designed to deliver a state-of-the-art mobile Keno solution to virtually any mobile device, regardless of operating system.
Atlantis Internet Group has teamed with Wikibetting to enter the social sports betting arena with a Facebook app titled Sportsbook Exchange.
If more states legalize Internet gambling, they should work toward common ground in regulations, New Jersey's top gambling regulator said Monday at a conference here.
Has social casino gaming already peaked? Market analysts SuperData Research reported that the ranks of monthly social casino players have shrunk from 109m a year ago to just 85m. However, social casino spending hit a record $175m in April, suggesting that the casual player chaff is being winnowed away, leaving a hard core of dedicated players who are more willing to flash the cash to either keep playing or progress further into their game of choice.
US mobile social casino studio Gamzio Mobile has acquired the Facebook app Go-Go Casino as the company continues to aggressively grow its business through strategic acquisitions.
The American Gaming Association (AGA) has made the decision to stop fighting for the legalization of online gambling in the United States. The commercial casino industry lobbying organization says that the course change is not the result of a 180-degree turn on internet gaming, but rather the inability of its members to all get on the same page.
Social and mobile casino game operators are facing a shrinking market, as the number of monthly players has shrunk to 85 million from 109 million a year ago, according to market researcher SuperData Research. In response, those companies are shifting away from acquiring more players and instead are focused on making money from those that they already have.
What do Star Wars: The Old Republic,Titanfall, Destiny, and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare all have in common? An internet connection is required to play all of them; and they could well be dead in a few years.
Online gaming first reared its head in the 1990s as an evolution of LAN-based sessions, with gaming itself evolving in tandem with the platforms on which it was based - as the World Wide Web has grown, so has the variety of games at our fingertips. The original Doom was largely considered the first game to break into competitive online gaming with its ‘Deathmatch’ mode, which went on to influence most games after it to include an online multiplayer component.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. completed sale Tuesday of Harrah’s New Orleans to Caesars Growth Partners after receiving approval from the Louisiana Gaming Control Board.
The nascent market for regulated real money online gambling in the United States has some growing to do before it can challenge the market for fake online gambling, according to a report from Adam Krejcik of Eilers Research.
Krejcik’s research, covering 1Q14, puts the total revenue generated by social casino games - games where players can purchase chips but never cash out any winnings – at roughly ten times the amount of revenue generated by traditional online gambling in the regulated markets ofNew Jersey,Nevada and Delaware.
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), working in cooperation with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, has issued a series of cease-and-desist notifications to a handful of largely US-based online poker affiliates carrying links and click-through banners to several prominent unregulated offshore poker sites.
PlayStation 4′s game streaming experiment enters a key phase tomorrow.
Sony said it will launch its long-awaited PlayStation Now as a closed beta test on the PS4 video game console starting tomorrow.
To reinforce his beliefs, the former Travelscape.com partner argued that “91 percent of US adults now have a mobile phone and 2 out of 3 of them went to a land-based casino last year. These folks will soon be playing online.”
Using uncommonly harsh language -- including characterizing New Jersey's arguments as "splitless" no less than four times -- and evoking "The Hunger Games" in the conclusion, the NCAA and the four major professional sports leagues urged the Supreme Court last week not to review New Jersey's challenge to the Third Circuit decision upholding the validity of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act ("PASPA").
Google is turning into more of a gaming company.
In accordance with a previously announced agreement with Caesars Entertainment, the two companies now have seven games live on CaesarsCasino.com available for real money gaming as well as playing for fun.
Bally Technologies Chairman Richard Haddrill returned to the slot machine manufacturer’s CEO position Thursday, replacing Ramesh Srinivasan in a move that surprised the investment community.
In a statement released shortly after the stock markets closed, Bally said Haddrill would give up the chairman’s role, but would remain on the company’s board of directors.
Online gaming has been a great pastime for over a decade now, but one form of gaming which has seen a gigantic growth is the mobile gaming industry.
Internet gambling in the United States is off to a slower start than many had imagined, but regulators and industry observers expect it will flourish in time.
When the owner and CEO of Fertitta Entertainment walks into one of his three Golden Nugget casinos, one thing scares him — the changing landscape of the customers.
After several years of stonewalling any movement regarding online poker in the state, California’s powerful Indian tribes are now backing the move towards regulation in the state of the industry.
We all know how addictive regular gaming apps can become, even relative non-gamers like me, who need only wait barely two seconds after picking up my kid in the afternoon carpool before I feel the “tap-tap-tap” on my shoulder that tells me it’s time to hand over my iPhone 5 so she can crush her next round of Temple Run 2.
Playstudio, the MGM Resorts International-backed social casino studio, has expanded the range of slot games available for Facebook and mobile devices with the launch of a new title on each platform.
The need for alternative tax revenue sources to help fix South Carolina’s disintegrating road network has prompted the state’s Democratic Party to ask state residents for their views on internet gambling legalisation, reports the WLTX television station.
Regulated online poker is a reality in New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware, but such states have a combined population of just 12.54 million compared to California’s population of 38 million.
The leagues asserted that New Jersey had a chance to be part of the initial sports betting setup, along with Nevada, however the Eastern state declined to take part at the time. Therefore, New Jersey missed its opportunity at being “grandfathered” into legal sports gambling.
With casinos revenues sliding, gaming officials and operators in Mississippi could be on the verge of making a sizeable gamble to protect the state’s interests.
Tilman Fertitta, who has online gambling operations in New Jersey via his Golden Nugget casino, struck a similarly pessimistic tone, telling Summit attendees that online gambling had been “a bust” for his company.
It’s not looking good for the Minnesota Lottery’s attempts to drag itself into the 21st century.
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.
Friday's report from the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States comes amid a contentious, costly battle over whether Internet gambling should expand beyond the three states where it is already legal — or whether it should be banned across the country.
The overwhelming demonstration over these three cases demonstrates that it is money rather than individual commitment or belief that is driving much of the discussion. The complete hypocrisy on both sides leaves supporters of online gaming and poker wondering where the “power players” are for the pro-side of the game and why they don’t speak up more vehemently.
Caesars Interactive Entertainment CEO Mitch Garber considers himself and his colleagues “The New Generation” of gambling executives, who are willing to take on the old school naysayers in order to follow their customers online.