Report: Discussions Underway to Include eSports in 2024 Olympics

Leopold Chung, secretary general of the International eSports Federation, has disclosed that his group is in “deep in talks” with organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics about including eSports...

Penn National Gaming Partners With Lightning Box

Penn Interactive Ventures, a subsidiary of Penn National Gaming has announced a partnership with slots developer Lightning Box. The deal will bring new titles to PNG’s portfolio of online...

Swiss to Vote on Foreign Gaming Websites

Switzerland will vote in June on a government proposal that would ban foreign casino websites. Crying censorship, a coalition of young people of all political stripes has risen to...

Macau Police Move on Cryptocurrency Launch

Macau’s Judiciary Police announced that a male Macau resident had been detained for allegedly giving false information to attract investors in a cryptocurrency launch for use in transactions related...

China Bans Online Poker Apps on Social Media

China appears to be cracking down on online poker by declaring that the game will no longer be recognized as a competitive sport and banning promotion of online poker...

Borgata Linked Online Sites Launch Live Dealer Games in New Jersey

New Jersey online gambling sites linked to Atlantic City’s Borgata casino have quietly launched live dealer games in New Jersey. The sites BorgataCasino, playMGM and PartyCasino now offer the...

New Jersey to Join Online Poker Player Sharing in May

New Jersey will begin online poker player sharing with Nevada and Delaware as soon as May 1. Two of Caesars Interactive’s online poker brands—WSOP.com and 888 Poker—plan to go...

NetEnt Partners with Hard Rock New Jersey

NetEnt Americas will be the online gaming partner of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City for the distribution of online casino games over an affiliated website.

N.Y. Lawmaker Calls for Online Betting Task Force

Queens Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (l.) has introduced a bill to form a 10-member panel to recommend policies and best practices for governing the state’s prospective online market in sport...

Pennsylvania Lottery to Go Online in May

The Pennsylvania Lottery will begin selling different draw games online in May, with “virtual sports monitor” games to be added in June.

Florida Internet Cafes: Legal In City, Illegal In County

Internet cafes operate in St. Augustine, Florida, but they're illegal in St. Johns County. City police monitor the half-dozen cafes, since St. Augustine was the base of the internet...

PokerStars Blocks Social Games Play from Washington State

PokerStars has stopped accepting players at its free social games sites from Washington State after a federal court ruling there that social games play constitutes gambling under state law....

Poland Online Gambling Market Off to Slow Start

A review of the first year of regulated online gaming under Poland’s new gambling act by Casino News Daily found few major online companies entering the newly regulated market....

Major Online Poker Tournaments Announced for May

Online poker players will be able to choose from two mega-tournaments this May announced respectively by rivals PokerStars and PartyPoker. The international events carry millions in prize pool guarantees.

Mega Jackpot Hits Again at PlaySugarHouse in New Jersey

A New Jersey woman hit a $61,000 jackpot playing online at PlaySugarHouse.com just one week after the site announced that another player had hit the same jackpot for $161,000...

Pennsylvania Gives Some Skins

Regulators in Pennsylvania have approved temporary regulations for online gaming that allow current licensees an unlimited number of “skins,” as long as each domain identifies its affiliated licensee. Two...

Online Gaming, Casino Bailout Axed from N.Y. Budget

Gaming came away empty-handed from negotiations on a 2018-19 spending plan for the Empire State. A Senate provision for online gaming was DOA yet again. As for the struggling...

Live Online Dealers Coming to Philippines

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. has agreed to allow the country’s iGaming operators to offer live-dealer table games. A one-year permit cost PHP1 million (US$19,220) and must be...

Stars Group Readies for Launch of PokerStars India

The Stars Group has set April 17 as the launch date for its Indian market version of PokerStars. The site will be available for play on desktop and mobile...

New Jersey Man Wins Big Online Payout on First Try

A New Jersey man hit a $194,000 jackpot on his first spin of an online slot machine after joining playsugarhouse.com. The player won a progressive Mega Jackpot that had...