From iGaming Business Integrated global gaming firm Novomatic has launched a new mobile business-to-business app for iOS-powered devices that provides partners with comprehensive descriptions of its games along with related information such as categories and pay tables. Novomatic is the parent firm for Astra Games Limited, Admiral Casinos and Entertainment AG and Austrian Gaming Industries among others and revealed that the free app is presented as a direct support tool and also demonstrates how its games function. “Moreover, the app offers the possibility to read and download on demand the latest Novomatic news and the award-winning industry magazine Novomatic: The…

From iGaming Buisness Three-dimensional online casino games developer Sheriff Gaming has signed a ‘white-label’ deal with Panda Media that will see its complete portfolio of titles made available to players at VideoSlots.com and EmuCasino.com. Eindhoven-based Sheriff Gaming launched mobile versions of its The Amsterdam Masterplan and Spartania slots via its SMART brand earlier this week and stated that players at the domains will be able to enjoy ‘fantastic variety’ including access to games within its progressive Mega Money Pool. “We are thrilled to have been recognised by Panda Media as the leading provider of three-dimensional games technology and to integrate…

It’s a question that’s loomed over the gambling industry since Internet gaming became a reality: In a battle between brick-and-mortar casinos and online casinos, who wins? At the 15th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, hosted by UNLV at Caesars Palace this week, industry experts and players made their cases in a panel moderated by Joshua Smith of Colliers International Gaming Group. Here’s a look at some highlights of their discussion. Mark Lipparelli, former chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board: “Nevada was the first jurisdiction in the U.S. to develop a comprehensive set of gaming regulations dealing with…

Dan Gilbert is positioned to be a player in the emerging Internet gambling market, but a state constitutional amendment that he championed might make it hard for him to capitalize on the trend in Ohio. The unique 2009 amendment physically restricts casino gambling to parcels occupied by Gilbert’s Horseshoe casinos in Cleveland and Cincinnati and the Hollywood casinos that Penn National Gaming operates in Columbus and Toledo. Matthew Schuler, executive director of the Ohio Casino Control Commission, goes to conferences and hears regulators from other states openly wonder whether the amendment would prohibit online betting. Christy Prince, an attorney who…

From Gambling 911 David Baines of the Vancouver Sun reports that a backpack filled with $1.3 million cash intercepted by the RCMP enroute to Vancouver in February 2012 belonged to a Hells Angels linked Internet gambling operative. The monies were later returned to Erwin Speckert, though the RCMP continued to investigate him.  Speckert was later implicated in an alleged stock scheme by the B.C. Securities Commission. Baines writes: In February this year, they charged him with possessing the proceeds of crime, trafficking in the proceeds of crime, possession for the purpose of trafficking in proceeds of crime, and laundering the…

In a new partnership with SHFL Entertainment, Evolution Gaming will now have access to the rights to offer many of SHFL’s specialty casino table games titles into its online live casinos. Recently, Mr Green partnered with Evolution Gaming to add its online live dealer casinos to the Swedish operators catalog of casino table games. This exciting partnership will bring together the world’s leading provider of video-streamed live dealer gaming solutions, (Evolution) and one of the industries biggest manufacturer of shuffling machines, table games, slot machines, SHFL Entertainment. “We are thrilled to be working with Evolution,” said Lou Castle, Chief Strategy…