Author: Duncan Kingston

Lottery company Lottoland has launched a new gambling awareness programme, aimed at parents and children in Gibraltar. The programme has been named P.A.R.E.N.T. with the initials referring to what the company has described as the six key aspects of behaviour required to protect children from gambling online: parenting, awareness, responsibility, environment, nurturing and trust. The programme has been developed through a…

Sportsbook builder and betting services technology company SBTech has announced the rollout of a basketball focused tool designed to enhance the basketball betting experience. In expanding the reach of its ‘Yourbet Betbuilder’ technology to include basketball markets, SBTech is claiming to have achieved a first in the betting industry. Thus far, the Betbuilder technology has been based around football markets, which…

Gambling stalwart Paddy Power Betfair has reported an increase in revenue from online gaming during the third quarter of 2018. Although there was a mixed picture to their earnings, with overall revenue remaining flat, there was a significant boost to online betting revenue, which increased by 15 percent to a total of £248 million, boosted by the World Cup in…

Laughlin is a gambling town which is located around an hour and a half drive away from Las Vegas, and it is certainly a place where gamblers are going to be well looked after in the many casinos located there that line the banks of the Colorado River. One thing that those Laughlin based casinos are famed for is the…

A Macau based company, De Club, appear to be intending to launch an initial coin offering (ICO), in the hope they can raise a cool $1billion, which will be used to purchase existing casinos in Macau and land based casinos in other parts of the world. An initial coin offering if you are unaware is a way for any start…

It remains to be seen if there is any interest whatsoever in the Lucky Dragon Casino, and whether anybody out there is prepared to breathe new life into the now shuttered mini casino resort. October the 30th is when we will find out whether anybody is going to take the venue on, for that is the day it will be…

With the Government of Japan having given the green light for casino styled gambling, there is a strategy being put in place for the way that casinos will be regulated and licensed there, but the very first thing that does need to be decided is just where the first set of casinos will be built. That is probably going to…

You have to hand it to a couple of teenagers in Australia, for they have certainly discovered a unique little hack for playing a skill based arcade machine. The game in question is based on the classic TV game show Deal or No Deal, but instead of answering questions, players of that machine simply have to watch the arcade machines…

There are two things that many gamblers like to do in addition to gambling when visiting a land based casino, one of them is drinking alcohol and the other is smoking. However, with more and more people now choosing to give up smoking and with there being plenty of non-smokers visiting such venues, the operators of land based casinos have…

Any gambling company that wants to operate gambling sites or venues in the UK, or even offer their gambling services such as online and mobile casinos to UK based customers, have to go through all manner of checks and vetting before they are legally able to do so. It is of course the UK Gambling Commission that are tasked with…