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Microgaming lends its best online bingo platform to Betsson Group. For years, Microgaming has been lauded as the provider of the best online casino, poker, bingo, sports and other digitized wager-capable platforms. The company’s reputation is unparalleled, having pioneered almost every technology in the online gambling space since its inception in the mid-1990s. With...

Quickspin releases Ark of Mystery, and other new slots at Playtech casinos. It’s been a busy few months for the design team over at Quickspin. A subsidiary of Playtech, Quickspin has ramped up its digital games output lately, delivering one new online slot machine per month since August. And it looks like things are...

Cybercrime report says mobile online casino IP spoofing a rising threat. If you visit mobile casino sites from Canada, chances are you’re doing it in a perfectly legal manner. There are no local prohibitions against gambling for real money at websites regulated in Canada, or at overseas operations regulated by international jurisdictions. Thus, there’s...

Do online slot machines pay better on bonus wagers? I was asked an interesting question this morning by a friend of a friend who’d recently found out just how much I understand the math behind online casino gaming. This person told me that they’d been playing online slots for a few months now, and...

Online gambling trends that are promoting confidence in iGaming. The last two decades have seen technology promote wondrous capabilities never before imagined. Today’s generation grew up in a world so unlike past generations. Technology has always progressed with each passing decade, but it’s truly amazing how it’s changed our lives since the introduction of...

Holy Grail Technology’s new Intelligent Table Management system to eliminate stealing casino chips. Who do you think the highest paid employees of land-based casinos are (aside from the big-wig executives, of course)? I’d be willing to bet members of the security team are very high on the list. It’s their job to protect the...

New 6 reel slots game is a classic fruit machine with jokers wild. Did you ever hear the phrase “It’s all in the name”? StakeLogic, a digital slots development firm with Novamatic, has taken the term quite literally. Its latest creation, released on October 1, 2018, is called Classic Joker 6 Reels. You can...

Yggdrasil exudes Halloween spirit in new Wolf Hunters Slot. The month of October is fast approaching. There’s a shivering chill in the air as the leaves take their annual turn to the vibrantly flaming shades of autumn. What was that sound? A distant howl? Is that a full moon shrouded beneath the wandering clouds?...

Betting online nowhere near cannibalizing the land-based market in 2018. For years, a lot of land-based casino operators—especially in North America and Australia—have feared that online gambling will inevitably cannibalize the real-world casino industry. The games are too convenient. The slot machines pay way better RTPs. Why wouldn’t they be afraid? Canada refuses to...

Online blackjack games draw the masses, while Las Vegas casinos continue to struggle with table games. For so many decades, table games were the bread and butter of casinos in Las Vegas and beyond. The 1930s, 40s, 50, 60s, 70s… then came the 80s. According to statistics, the shift happened in 1984. That was...