iGaming Business – Bitcoin gaming network BetCoin has launched two of its most popular games as applications on the new Hive Bitcoin Wallet for Mac OS X devices. Having only previously been accessible via the BetCoin website, the BetCoin Dice and BetCoin Prize Bitcoin titles can now be accessed by Mac OS X users directly from the Hive Bitcoin Wallet. Winnings are sent automatically to the same wallet so players are able to access funds instantly. Further games are due to be released on the Hive Wallet in the coming weeks. SOURCE

iGaming Business – Social casino studio Plumbee has announced the addition of player tournaments to the Facebook version of its Mirrorball Slots application. Players will be able to access the new tournaments via a lobby within the app, allowing them to select one of four different stakes in which to compete with others in a ‘Battle Royale’, with the top two players winning virtual cash prizes. In addition, Plumbee has also introduced a new free-to-enter tournament where players can win coins to spend in other tournaments or slot games in the main Mirrorball Slots game. Dave Wright, games producer at…

Calvin Ayre – Spain’s struggling online gambling market showed signs of life in Q4 2013, posting sequential revenue growth while falling short of Q4 2012’s figures. Figures released by the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) show overall revenue of €59.9m in Q4, 15.6% better than Q3 but 2.5% lower than Q4 2012. Stakes rose 13.9% to €1.47b as the number of new registered players rose 9.4% to 137k. For the year as a whole, total player registration in Spain rose 585k to 1.6m with average monthly active players coming in at 277k. Sports betting revenue came in at…

Poker News – On November 23, 2013, partypoker returned to the United States with their launch in New Jersey. Now, just four months later, the site is already closing in on the 30,000,000th hand mark. To celebrate the landmark, NJ.partypoker.com will be giving away more than $40,000 to players across the Garden State. Starting on hand 25,000,000, partypoker will be counting down five million hands to that epic 30,000,000th deal. Along the way, the winner of each milestone hand (25,000,000-29,900,000) bags $1,000 while everyone else at the table gets $100 each. The winner of the 30,000,000th hand gets $10,000 with…

Philly.com – New Jersey Internet gambling regulators have eased the parameters used to determine that an online gambler is actually in the state, Brian Mattingley, chief executive of 888 Holdings P.L.C., said Friday. “By allowing us a little bit more flexibility and easing the tolerance in that distance, it made it significantly better in the second and third month,” said Mattingley, whose London-based company has a partnership with Caesars Interactive in Atlantic City. The issue is the buffer between the state line and a gambler’s location, which is determined using cellphone signals. To ensure that a gambler was on the…

iGaming Business – UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has signed a multi-year agreement to add the entire portfolio of online slots games from the Williams Interactive subsidiary of Scientific Games. Through integration with the Williams Interactive Remote Game Server, customers of the official Ladbrokes website will have access to a library of Vegas-style slot games such as ‘Spartacus Gladiators of Rome’ and ‘Zeus III’. A number of the online slot titles are already available to customers in the bookmaker’s betting shops, courtesy of an existing arrangement with Scientific Games’ SG Gaming UK division. “The expanded access to themes already popular in our…