IGE sees more wonderful new WMS product enter the international market… Check it out on stand 3060

CryptoLogic’s move to focus on its casino vertical is no gamble.

Ales Gornjec, Business Development Manager (Gaming) for HERMES Softlab explains the requirements for the new generation of gaming platforms and the obstacles they face

Casino International spoke to Mike Gallant, one of the partners of Dinner In The Sky Events, an exciting idea which has already been used as a promotional tool by at least one casino in the US. Mike explained what Dinner In The Sky Events is all about…

Casino International spoke to international Life Coach Tom Fuetsch about how he works – and what he can add to your company and employees…

Octavian’s lottery systems and start-up expertise has helped turn the dream of the Rwanda national lottery into reality in less than 18 months, despite a lack of conventional telecoms infrastructure.

With a resurgence in the popularity of traditional table games, TCSJOHNHUXLEY's TouchTable MultiPLAY Roulette is the perfect combination of innovative electronic design and traditional live gaming.

What will the new president of the United States mean for gaming, both online and in land-based casinos? Sharon Harris investigates

As gaming sponsored bills set the country for Las Vegas-style casinos, Mexico City gets ready to welcome the first international gaming show.

Ricki brings the news from gaming hotspot Latino America in his monthly English language column…

Ricki Chavez-Munoz brings the news from gaming hotspot Latino America in his monthly Spanish language column…

They came with a canny investment on a prime piece of golf course land on the Cotai Strip and now feel they are well poistioned amid the chill of the global economic meltdown. Harrah’s CEO Gary W. Loveman tells Macau Business why he wishes they’d been able to enter the enclave’s gaming run when all the others did

Sharon Harris reviews 2008 and apportions cheers and jeers to those that deserve ’em.

Gaming Partners International (GPI) set up three live display pits at IGE 2009 to demonstrate the benefits of its RFID chip systems. "Using the latest of our RFID chips technology, this is GPI's global software solution working with the most recent computer systems that allows efficient monitoring and management of the tables," explained Christophe Leparoux, GPI International Sales & Marketing Manager.

In the face of ongoing difficulties raising funds through voluntary contributions, the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is considering imposing a statutory levy on the industry around £5 million a year.

London games developer Project has teamed up with TCSJOHNHUXLEY to produce Live Draw Poker, a game that features a live poker dealer and table, with satellite terminals linking in-venue players to the live game in real time.

JCM Global has been awarded more than $11.4 million in damages against MEI in a patent infringement lawsuit.

The UK Government is considering proposals to double the maximum stake and the jackpot payout on slot machines in premises other than casinos to £1 and £70 respectively.

Marcel Heutmekers has joined Bally Technologies as Director of Europe. Heutmekers will be responsible for managing all of the company's activities within Europe and in North Africa, based in Bally's new European headquarters for its sales and service operations, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Taiwan is but a Presidential signature away from legalising gaming now that the Legislative Yuan has agreed to amend the Offshore Islands Act. The legislation requires the signature of the President to come into force and could see the first gaming licences being awarded in 2010, depending on how quickly a regulatory infrastructure can be developed and put in place.

GeneralTouch has updated its range of LCD touch monitors with a 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor designed for gaming applications that includes Desktop and Open-frame.

Progressive Gaming failed to make a January deadline to pay $17 million to one of its backers, with the result that a foreclosure sale of its assets was triggered. No-one at Progressive Gaming's UK office was available for comment on 16th January, and for some days previously the US Headquarters phone number delivered a recorded message giving the trading hours and advising callers that the offices were closed - no matter what time we called.

Gert Telkämper has joined GLI's Dutch office as Business Development Manager. Telkämper has been active in the technical, commercial and operational aspects of well known brands in the European casino industry for the past 12 years.

The Gaming Standards Association will hold its second annual European technical meetings this February in Hillegom, The Netherlands.

All Slots Casino claims it is the first casino operator in the world to offer mobile games for the iPhone and iPod Touch mobile digital devices, as well as for the 1,200 devices that Spin3's GameWire system (powered by Microgaming) supports.

Gibraltar-based bookmaker Victor Chandler has launched a new online casino product operated by Swedish company Net Entertainment's Casino Module software.

Steve Wynn's new Las Vegas $2.3 billion resort Encore has opened for business, creating 5,000 much-needed jobs in Las Vegas, which is still suffering from the downturn. Apparently 100,000 applications were received for the job vacancies.

HERMES SoftLab claims it is now fully-equipped to support G2S, the Games to System protocol. The company employs more than 1,000 engineers in Central Europe with R&D Labs in the Adriatic and Western Europe.

Atronic Austria's operations plant in Gross St. Florian is one of the first organisations in the country to receive the new ISO 9001:2008 certification, which includes a focus on customer satisfaction as well as on process management.

According to Gala, the UK's largest Bingo operator, the form of the game as we know it was born in 1929 and was originally called "beano".

Final attendance figures for Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2008 held last November in Las Vegas reveal that 26,500 visitors from 89 countries across the globe attended.

The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) has approved a new slate of officers that includes Thomas A. Jingoli (Senior Director of Compliance & Legal Administration for Konami Gaming) as President.

Google is now allowing companies without gaming licences to use adwords to promote gaming services in the UK, subject to its approval and subject to terms and conditions that include prominent links to gambleaware.co.uk or gamcare.org.uk as well as age validation systems.

Independent standards body eCOGRA (e-Commerce Online Gambling Regulation and Assurance), which oversees fair gaming, player protection and responsible operator conduct for online casinos and poker rooms, is now including sports betting, internet bingo and other online gambling operations in its remit.

Despite a comparative downturn in the fourth quarter of 2008, revenues for casinos in Macau rose by almost a third, year-on-year, to around 13.7 billion US dollars according to figures released in January by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau of the Special Administrative Region.

Gary Platt Manufacturing has hired Clint Baker as Canadian Sales Manager for all Canadian Provinces. Clint has ten years of experience in the gaming industry with nearly five years as a table games dealer. Clint's educational background is in business and law and he is a trained ergonomics consultant.