Casino
November 12, 2021
Zynga Newly-Acquired Subsidiary Continues to Add New Studios
Zynga has acquired three mobile game studios, namely ByteTyper, Cresaur Entertainment, and ZeroSum, through a subsidiary, Rollic. The studios will bolster Zynga’s market share in the mobile game development market and offer new and original content to the brand’s consumers. Zynga Carries on with Acquisition Push Zynga originally bought a major stake in Rollic in […]
Casino
November 12, 2021
Pennsylvania’s Regulator Allows Casinos to Reduce Their Slots Count
Several casinos in Pennsylvania, including the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course and the Hollywood Casino at the Meadows, will be allowed to reduce their total number of slot machines as the state’s Gaming Control Board is seeking to tackle unregulated and untaxed “skill games” machines. Adrian King Speaks About the Negative Impact of […]
Casino
November 12, 2021
2 More Casinos in Louisiana Now Offer Sportsbooks
The Boomtown and Margaritaville casinos in Bossier City, LA, are now licensed to offer sports betting. That brings the total number of legal Louisiana casinos that allow sports betting to nine. Louisiana Advances Sports Betting Efforts Ronnie Johns, chairman of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board (LGCB), said he had issued the licenses that will take […]
Casino
November 11, 2021
Patron Robbed of $40K After He Leaves Rivers Casino De Plaines
On his way out of Rivers Casino De Plaines in Illinois, a patron was accosted by two unidentified perpetrators and robbed at gunpoint earlier this week. 34-year-old Cordero Supe lost $40,000 and several valuables, including his phone and watch, in the attack, the victim alleges, as the police investigation is ongoing. Victim Approached by a […]
Casino
November 10, 2021
Fontainebleau Las Vegas Holds Gold-Shovel Ceremony, Plans 2023 Opening
Fontainebleau Las Vegas’ new owners held a gold-shovel ceremony on Tuesday and announced officially that they started the construction of the casino resort at the Strip’s north end. The property will have 67 floors, and is set to open in the final quarter of 2023. The Property Was Purchased in February Through a Partnership The […]
Casino
November 10, 2021
Gambling Companies to Return $1.5M in Healthcare Embezzlement Case
The United Kingdom recently sentenced a general practitioner to three years and four months in prison after he had been found out to have siphoned off approximately $1.5 million from a healthcare organization to fuel his short spell of gambling. In the wake of the discoveries and Dr Rumi Chhapia’s sentence, the gambling companies that […]
Casino
November 10, 2021
MGM and Orix Ready to Spend $10B on Osaka Integrated Resort
Japan’s Osaka prefecture has a favorite for a future casino complex developer as part of the integrated resort (IR) that will transform the country into one of the most important destinations in Asia for gambling. The consortium led by MGM Resorts, in collaboration with Orix Corporation, is proposing to invest $10 billion in building an […]
Casino
November 9, 2021
Philippines Ease Restrictions, Casinos Ready to Swing Back in Action
Manila casinos are ready to welcome back tourists and visitors after the Philippines government eased up COVID-19 restrictions amid falling hospitalizations and overall case numbers last week. The country has downgraded the active Alert Level to a Two from a Three previously. With this in mind, casinos are now able to start chugging along, opening […]
Casino
November 9, 2021
Illegal Casinos Keep Trafficking People in Cambodia
Lured on a false promise of a well-paid job, three Cambodian workers have been held captive by a human trafficker at an illegal casino site in Sihanoukville in the west of the country. The report, which comes from Radio Free Asia, depicts the latest in a series of disturbing incidents taking place in the no […]
Casino
November 8, 2021
China Busts $250M Illegal Gambling Junket Operator
Chinese authorities continue to pursue action against illegal gambling. With China prohibiting all forms of games of chance and pursuing wrongdoers overseas, anything but the National Lottery is illegal. In the latest move, authorities in the Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces have busted a criminal operation that offered junket services and flew Chinese high rollers to […]