iGaming Business – Provider of technology and affiliate iGaming management solutions, Income Access, has launched what it claims is the industry’s first social gaming network in the US market. The company has agreed terms with a number of social gaming studios and brands, allowing them to access previously un-monetised US traffic. Tracking and reporting software from Income Access offers signed-up studios a complete solution to manage a single partner programme for their company’s gaming sites. Once integrated into the network, social brands can tap into a range of marketing partner sites from the gaming sector and track traffic and transitions…

BBC – The Manx government has welcomed a gambling tournament which is expected to attract “hundreds” of poker tourists to the island this month. The main festival event, which will be held at the Villa Marina in Douglas, carries a of prize of £500,000. The tournament will be hosted by e-gaming firm, PokerStars, which moved its headquarters to the island in 2005. Head of Isle of Man tourism, Angela Byrne said: “The event will give us a welcome boost for our visitor numbers.” She added: “I believe there could be as many as three to four hundred people coming over…

iGaming Business – Online scratchcard and instant-win games developer NeoGames has agreed a seven-year deal, from 2013-14 to 2019-20, with MSL Ukraine to provide the Ukrainian state lottery operator with a customised portfolio of instant win games for desktop and mobile devices. NeoGames said it has been working with MSL Ukraine to identify local market preferences in order to supply a tailored portfolio best suited to the sector. In addition to providing the customised games portfolio, NeoGames will also cooperate with the lottery’s marketing department to create various growth programmes for interactive instants and other categories. “We were pleased to…

iGaming Business – Canadian lottery games operator Atlantic Lottery Cooperation has become the latest gambling regulator in the country to express an interest in launching a licensed online casino. According to Onlinecasinos.org, support is high for regulated online gambling in the country, although some governments in the Maritimes provinces do not fully back the plan. Maritimes gambling is collaborated under the Atlantic Lottery Corporations. The operator argued that the provinces are losing out on money due to the lack of a regulated online casino. Michelle Carinci, chief executive officer of Atlantic Lottery Corporation, said that an online casino for the…

Poker News – According to PokerNews Portugal, Portuguese State Minister Paulo Portas announced that there will be potential online gambling regulation in 2014. Portugal is desperately in need of tax revenues, as they were given a €78 billion bailout from the European Central Bank. The estimated gross annual revenue in the country is around €60-50 million. The problem is that the request for regulated online gaming omits rates, and it was evidently included in the budget only to add “virtual income” that will go towards the four-percent deficit target in 2014. The projected tax rate will be around 20 or…

Venture Beat – Every now and then, International Game Technology, the world’s biggest slot machine maker, flexes its muscle. That’s the case today as it announces that its DoubleDown Casino Online game will have a version based on Hasbro’s Monopoly Plus brand. IGT’s DoubleDown Casino division is one of the hottest providers of social casino games on Facebook and mobile. Now players can enjoy the iconic gameplay of Monopoly as they play DoubleDown’s popular slots game on Facebook. John Clelland, vice president of global marketing at IGT Interactive Group, said that his company is constantly seeking new ways to entertain…