Game developer Machine Zone cleared on gambling allegations Illinois's notorious Loss Recovery Act has again been defeated in a class action lawsuit...this one emanating from in-game activity on a mobile social gaming video game. The LRA is a contentious piece of legislation that allows players who lose more than $50 gambling to recover their losses from an unlawful gambling operator....
Gambling supply company agrees to pay $500,000 The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that online gambling supply company International Game Technology has agreed to pay a fine of $500,000 for side-lining an employee who reported the company to the SEC regarding the IGT cost accounting model. IGT conducted an internal investigation into the whistleblower's allegations and determined that...
Newest US client to launch simulated gaming product B2B online gaming company GAN (formerly Game Account Network) has revealed Station Casinos as its previously unidentified partner in an announcement made August 2016. GAN's proprietary social gaming solution: Simulated Gaming™ will launch with Station Casinos in the Nevada market in early 2017 and will include the integration of Station Casinos' on-property...
100 computer sets seized from three venues in the Cocoa shopping plaza Officers from the Cocoa and Rockledge police departments in Florida, aided by the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, shut down what is alleged to have been an illegal online gambling operation based out of three units of a Cocoa shopping plaza. Armed with search warrants, police executed the raid...
But just what is the intention and detail of new bill S. 3376? Industry observers were taken by surprise late Friday when a little-known Republican Senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton, filed the beginnings of a new bill in the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary in what appears to be a move to toughen the US legal stance on the...
New figures from research group Technavio make some bullish predictions A teaser press release from the independent research firm Technavio predicts that the online gambling market in the US will grow at an impressive CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of more than 51 percent between 2016 - 2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated from...
Could professional who is paid to promote DraftKings be categorised as an employee? The risk of another "insider" scandal loomed this week as professional daily fantasy sports player Al Zeidenfeld - a DraftKings sponsored professional - came out tops in the company's $5 million Millionaire Maker competition, winning a million dollars and triggering speculation on whether his position is acceptable....
Opposition expected in the state Senate Local media reports from Pennsylvania indicate that the passage of an omnibus gambling bill that includes DFS and online gambling legalisation elements could be pushed out to the end of the current legislative season in November. State lawmakers returned to work this week for a brief period before the next adjournment, but seemed relaxed...
Guarantees spread across 75 online poker events Next month will see the kick-off of the fifth annual Garden State Super Series of Poker, and this year the PartyPoker-Borgata online partnership has invested a million dollars in guarantees across its 75 events starting October 9. Satellite qualifiers for the series are already running on PartyPoker.nj, with a games roster that includes...
Is this the House trying to trigger Senate activity? Pennsylvanian House lawmakers, newly returned to work this week from their break and with scant time left before another adjournment, have jump-started activity on an omnibus gambling bill which has already been factored into state budget calculations and includes the legalisation of i-gaming and daily fantasy sports. The House Gaming Oversight...
