Promises players a rollercoaster ride SoftSwiss' newest release is the amusement-park themed "Fantasy Park". A 5-reel, 9-payline title, Fantasy Park presents traditional card symbols stylised as characters on signboards with the names of rides along with ice-cream, popcorn, a big wheel and an autodrome car. It features a merry Clown as the Scatter and a "High Striker" strength testing machine...
Travel with seafaring Scandinavian warriors "The Vikings" is a new 5-reel, 20-payline slot from software developer Endorphina. The Vikings features skull symbols that may grant a player with 12 free games along with a Risk Game option where the player must pick one of four remaining cards to beat the value of the game's selected card for an opportunity to...
Integration of portfolio of multi-channel games complete NetEnt's recently signed content supply agreement with bwin.party and Borgata (see previous Infopowa report) has come to fruition with the launch of a portfolio of multi-channel games on bwin.party's New Jersey online casino. "I am very pleased that we are now live with a selection of our multichannel games for desktop and mobile...
Federal Grand Jury convened in Florida, and a new class action in Illinois The troubles keep mounting for the beleaguered daily fantasy sports industry with developments late Friday including the convening of a federal Grand Jury in Florida, and the filing in Illinois of another class action against market leaders Fanduel and DraftKings. Twitter and online sports media reports revealed...
Online casino operator reveals that Brit soldier won GBP 13.2 million … on a 25p stake Jon Heywood, the Cheshire soldier who won GBP 13,213,838.68 by hitting a Mega Moolah online jackpot this week (see previous InfoPowa reports) did so on a 25p stake, operator Betway Online Casino has disclosed in a statement. The 26-year-old Afghanistan war vet scored big...
Mega Moolah progressive slot breaks world record with GBP 13.2 million strike by Betway player Microgaming has confirmed reports earlier this week that a world record online progressive jackpot has been hit at one of its licensees, advising that a UK player at the Betway online casino is now an instant multi-millionaire. The big hit took place on the Mega...
Aces rebound to score big on the virtual tables at Pokerstars Swedish high stakes poker ace Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was riding high on the virtual high stakes poker tables at Pokerstars this week, prospering by $673,881 in almost 14,500 hands over 109 sessions after taking a loss of almost a quarter million dollars in the preceding week. Blom remains the...
Reports of a meeting with the 82-year-old would-be kingmaker Republican presidential candidate and online gambling opponent Sen. Marco Rubio could be "the chosen one" for big-money financial support from multi-billionaire land casino owner Sheldon Adelson, US media speculated this week. The usually reliable Washington DC publication Politico reported that Adelson is increasingly inclining toward backing Rubio, according to sources close...
Resurgence of political interest as state budget deficit rises Pennsylvania's $2 billion state budget deficit and the political debate on how to address it has created a resurgence of interest in legalised online gambling after a year of little progress on relevant proposals in the Legislature. Speaking to Pittsburgh's KDKA-AM television broadcaster this week, Governor Tom Wolf said he would...
Winner payments capped at $600 as political feuding over budget moves into fourth month The Illinois state lottery restrictions on lottery pay-outs (see previous InfoPowa reports) worsened Wednesday as the lottery announced a cap of $600 on winner pay-outs, and state Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger said Illinois would skip a $560 million November pension payment. Political feuding over the budget...
