Category: Online Gambling Stories
Dirt Ralley Review
If you’re a rally driving fan then you’re going to love the latest rally racing game, Dirt Ralley. Ralley driving games have been popular ever since the beginning of the Colin McRae rally driving games. The audience that this game will appeal to the most are fans of rally and other kinds of racing games. If you don’t like racing games then it’s best your probably skip this one. This game is particularly ideal for gamers who want a simple rally driving experience with their game play. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that this game doesn’t provide an immersive…
Betclic Ready to Re-Enter Belgium Market?
Belgium news sources have reported that French sports betting operator Betclic Everest Group (Betclic) is collaborating with the national Gambling Commission with a view of re-entering the market. The operator has had a troubled history with Belgium’s authorities who in February 2014 seized €600,000 of Betclic funds, stating that the unlicensed operator had breached gambling laws by digitally transacting with national consumers. French licensed and Malta operated Betclic has been on the national operator blacklist since 2012. The Belgian Gambling Commission (BGC) has further issued consumer fines to Betclic customers for interacting with the operator. More at SBC News
EC Ponders Fairness of Online Gambling Laws
One of the heads of the European Commission recently expressed concern over gambling laws implemented by some European Union nations and, in what may come as a shock, her concern was that they were too restrictive. Answering a parliamentary question last week, European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Elżbieta Bieńkowska said that the requirement of some countries that online gambling operators have a physical office in the country merits discussion. The question was posed by European Parliament member David Casa of Malta on June 9th, 2015: In a particular national gambling law that has been notified to…
William Hill Debuts “Contactless” Payment Card
Betting firm William Hill has launched a new contactless payment card that will let you spend your winnings as soon as they roll in. The company William Hill Labs development team has teamed up with MasterCard to offer new Priority Access card offers an instant transfer of funds from a user’s online account that they can spend immediately, on whatever they want. In doing so, William Hill says it can replicate the feeling of winning in a bookies and walking away with a handful of money to spend, and bring it to its three million online account holders. The card…
MGM CEO: Online Gambling Ban ‘Ridiculous’
Murren’s comments came via an interview with News3LV in Las Vegas, in which he touched on a number of subjects. At the end, the interviewer broached the subject of online gambling; Murren spent more than four minutes talking about the issue, sometimes passionately. Loosely referencing the Sheldon Adelson-backed effort to ban online gambling at the federal level — the Restoration of America’s Wire Act — Murren once again dismissed the idea that prohibition is an effective way to deal with the issue: “People are gambling illegally online — Americans — right now,” Murren said. “We don’t know how old they…
Higher Bwin.Party bid from GVC Holdings?
GVC Holdings is said to be considering increasing its offer to acquire online gaming operator bwin.party. As reported by iGaming Business, GVC has put forward a number of bids in an effort to take ownership of bwin.party. GVC’s most recent offer came earlier this month, with the 122.5-pence-per-share bid valuing bwin.party at approximately £1 billion (€1/4 billion/$1.6 billion). However, with the company still facing competition from preferred bidder 888, the Times newspaper has reported that GVC could increase its offer once again to 130 pence per share, valuing bwin.party at approximately £1.1 billion. The newspaper reported that GVC’s board will…




















