iGaming Business – The London law firm Jeffrey Green Russell has allowed iGaming Business to publish its latest industry update concerning developments in the UK’s move to regulate and license remote gambling on a point of consumption basis. The information below assumes a degree of knowledge regarding the ongoing process and while the Bill is directed at remote gambling and is of particular interest to that sector, there are associated changes taking place to the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice attaching to ALL UK licenses, which those already licensed here also need to be aware of. The Gambling Commission…

Tech Crunch – Though they receive much less attention than other apps, social casino games are one of the top-grossing categories in mobile gaming, says a new report by Distimo. The report used data from Distimo AppIQ to see how much revenue different publishers are making in the iOS App Store and Google Play. Even though they don’t get the attention of Supercell, King, GungHo, and the other highest-grossing game publishers, social casino game makers still have a significant presence among the top 100 grossing apps in the iOS App Store and Google Play. Distimo found that in the iOS…

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…

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…

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…

Bloomberg – Roughly 100 percent of lottery tickets are currently sold by retailers—gas stations, supermarkets, or convenience stores—that do little more than print tickets with numbers. It was only a matter of time before someone made apps for that process. Shoutz, an Austin (Tex.)-based startup, announced an agreement Tuesday with the Mega Millions lottery that will bring the game to its LotteryHUB mobile app, which launched in September with the rival Powerball lottery game. Now the two largest forces in the $78 billion per year U.S. lottery industry will share a mobile platform that covers the vast majority of the country,…