From Daily Finance International Game Technology (NYS: IGT) a global leader in gaming systems technology, today announced it will bring its love for Las Vegas to players around the world by making DoubleDown Casino available in French, German and Spanish. As the exclusive online provider of IGT slot games found on real casino floors and a large selection of table games and bingo that are all free to play, DoubleDown transcends Las Vegas gaming online. Every day, over 1.7 million people play DoubleDown casino games for fun on Facebook or on mobile devices. DoubleDown is the only online casino that…

In spite of the recent layoffs, Zynga is still picking up talent in strategic areas like social casino gaming. The company bought a roughly 40-person team called Spooky Cool Labs full of real-money gaming talent. Based in Chicago, the Spooky Cool Labs team is made up of social and real money gaming veterans from companies such as Aristocrat, and slot machine makers like IGT (International Game Technology) and WMS Gaming. The company’s founder, Joe Kaminkow, was ranked as one of the 10 most influential people in the history of slots by Strictly Slots Magazine. But from Spooky Cool’s website, the…

From iGaming Business Location technology provider, GeoComply USA, Inc. has become the latest company to be awarded a Class II Nevada Gaming License. Yesterday’s award comes after successful hearings before the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Nevada Gaming Commission earlier this month. “We’re very excited to receive our license in Nevada and have the ability to offer Nevada operators our accurate, user-friendly and secure geolocation solutions,” says GeoComply CEO Anna Sainsbury. “It’s a big step in our continued commitment to the evolving North American iGaming market.” GeoComply has also submitted a license application with the state of New Jersey, in…

From iGaming Business Three-dimensional online slots developer BetSoft Gaming Limited has signed a ‘white-label’ deal with Scandinavian operator Redbet Gaming Limited that will see its complete portfolio of Slots3 video slots launched at Redbet.com. Recently acquired by Bonnier Gaming AB, Redbet Gaming also operates the Whitebet.com and Heypoker.com brands while BetSoft Gaming inked a similar agreement earlier this month with Leo Vegas International that has seen its complete portfolio of ToGo mobile games go live at LeoVegas.com. “Redbet Gaming is a phenomenal operator,” said Anthony Locke, Head of Product Development for BetSoft Gaming. “We are gratified to contribute to its…

From Business Insider Sheldon Adelson is the CEO of mega casino company Las Vegas Sands. You might think that his business would feel threatened if online gambling became legal, and gamblers no longer had to enter his physical casinos. Thus it’s no surprise that during an interview on BloombergTV, Adelson slammed online gambling as a toxic trainwreck. Of course, he doesn’t say he’s against online gambling because it will hurt his business. He says it’s all about society and the possibility that gamblers will get too hooked. “They are not getting wrong. I just had lunch with Steve Wynn. He…

A design studio founded by a longtime slot machine industry veteran has been acquired by social gaming giant Zynga, which is seeking an avenue into Nevada’s gaming market. San Francisco-based Zynga, developer of “Farmville,” “Words With Friends,” and other freeplay social games, did not disclose a purchase price for Spooky Cool Labs. The 40-person game studio, which is based in Chicago, focuses on developing social casino games. Spooky Cool Labs was founded by veteran slot machine designer Joe Kaminkow, who spent more than a two decades with International Game Technology, developing some of the casino industry’s best performing slot machine…