Science Daily – New research finds that online social behavior isn’t replacing offline social behavior in the gaming community. Instead, online gaming is expanding players’ social lives. The study was done by researchers at North Carolina State University, York University and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. “Gamers aren’t the antisocial basement-dwellers we see in pop culture stereotypes, they’re highly social people,” says Dr. Nick Taylor, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and lead author of a paper on the study. “This won’t be a surprise to the gaming community, but it’s worth telling everyone else. Loners…

Las Vegas Review Journal – Nearly a year after the launch of real money online poker in Nevada, there’s a new wave of players who must pay taxes on Web poker winnings from 2013. In the years before regulated online gambling, offshore sites that skirted the law to attract U.S. players may not have cooperated with the Internal Revenue Service. But the legislation passed in Nevada and two other states means that the IRS has the means to easily trace online winnings. Nevada’s first regulated real money site, UltimatePoker.com, launched in April 2013, and WSOP.com followed later in the year….

iGaming Business – Online casino software provider SkillOnNet has announced that it is to launch 14 new online slot games during April. The launch, which will be the firm’s largest ever schedule of new slot games in a single month, will include a mixture of in-house titles and branded gamed from WMS Interactive after the two companies recently agreed a partnership, as reported by iGaming Business. The new games will be released over a four-week period and will be backed up by extensive localised marketing campaigns by all SkillOnNet licensees. In addition, new online casino Slotsmagic.com, which recently went live…

The Argus – Sussex gamblers are estimated to have wagered nearly £1 billion on virtual gaming machines dubbed the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’ last year. The controversial high-stake betting shop machines, on which punters can spend £100 every 20 seconds on games like virtual roulette, have been described as dangerously addictive and accounted for around half of all highstreet bookmakers’ profits last year. Nearly £280 million was gambled on the machines in Brighton and Hove alone in 2013, according to figures from the Campaign for Fairer Gambling. Of that, nearly £10 million was lost by punters and across the county…

Blackjack Champ – If some of the EU member states were casino games, who’d get to be blackjack and who’d be a slot machine? Gambling is enjoyed for the most part throughout the entire EU, with only minor restrictions applying in certain member states. Recently, there has been the suggestion that new legislation and regulations could come into place in the very near future, which will provide a ‘blanket’ set of rules on the matter for all countries. This would be beneficial to providers of internet and mobile casinos, which have been subjected to the most restrictions; such as not…

Online-Casinos.com – The Australian government is serious about gambling regulations and licensing. It has been a political topic in various parts of the nation with unexpected consequences for some politicians. In order for the government to understand the industry better a study has been completed that surveyed the, who, what, where, and why of the online gambling habits of Australians. Gambling Research Australia, a problem gambling initiative involving both federal and state governments commissioned the survey. The resulting survey is 432 pages long and is available on the internet. The telephone study revealed that the prevalence of problem gambling was…