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SBC News’ recently spoke to Kirill Nekrasov, BETBY’s Head of Innovation and R&D about SlotBet Games, a new product designed to close the gap between sportsbook and casinos. In the first part of the conversation, Nekrasov explained the design choices of SlotBet Games and the first product, BETBY Slo…

Stockman’s Casino has completed a year-long renovation that brought upgrades across its gaming floor, food service areas, and back-of-house operations at the Fallon, Nevada property. The casino marked the completion of the project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 18, following an overhau…

Relax Gaming, the iGaming aggregator and supplier of award-winning content, has taken the global jackpot product, Dream Drop, into the regulated market of Denmark for the first time, through their partnership with FDJ UNITED. The successful launch, via the leading operator group’s Unibet and Maria…

Aristocrat Interactive™ has entered a new licencing agreement with Gaming Realms™ that will allow the development of Slingo™ versions of two of Aristocrat’s most popular game brands, Buffalo™ and Mo’ Mummy™. Lauren Caruana, VP of Commercial UK & EU for Aristocrat Interactive, said: We’re excited to…

Long time coming At times, it felt like the longest wait between the announcement that Alberta would be launching a commercial online casino market and the actual launch. Many wondered if it would actually happen. Was it going to be possible to fulfill so many competing demands? Well, the detractor…

Queensland defers Star Gold Coast’s license suspension to March 2027, allowing more time for reforms under independent oversight. The post The Star Gold Coast license suspension deferred to March 2027 first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

Germany’s GGL wants greater flexibility to introduce enforcement measures without waiting for all 16 federal states to amend the Interstate Treaty on Gambling 2021 (GlüStV 2021). GGL board member Ronald Benter argued that the current system takes too long to adapt to new developments in the illegal…

Barry Diller’s People Inc. has decided to pull its proposal to acquire the remaining shares of MGM Resorts International, thus putting an end to months of discussions over a potential deal that would have valued the Las Vegas-based casino company at more than $18 billion. “We Didn’t Feel the Mix Wa…

Supplier says its sports betting-style crash game is already live with in the market.

Star Entertainment seeks approval to settle $8.4 million in unpaid interest with new shares, preserving cash for casino operations. The post Star Entertainment seeks approval to settle $8.4M in interest with new shares first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

Former junket investor Rich Goldman to receive $3.7M Macau property via court order after 2023 default on a $4.5M loan from 2020. The post Rich Goldman unit to receive $3.7M Macau property after loan default first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

The average nightly rate for Macau’s five-star hotels in August was MOP1,477.6 (US$182.9), down 6.6 percent year-on-year. That is according to the latest information from the Macau Hotel Association, published by Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO). Average occupancy rate for the five-star hotel…

Eight emerging filmmakers have each been awarded HKD300,000 (US$38,248) in production funding through the International Film Camp (IFC) 2026, a programme sponsored by Macau casino operator Sands China Ltd. The recipients were selected from 16 participants following five days of training and mentori…

Casino technology supplier TransAct Technologies Inc is launching what it says is a “next-generation” tabletop ticket-in, ticket-out (TITO) printer, the “EPIC TT+”. The product was designed to extend the company’s technology to transaction points beyond the slot-machine floor, the firm said in a We…

Earlier this month, GamblingNews reported that workers at the Encore Boston Harbor property in Massachusetts had announced a strike, following their failure to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement with the casino management. The strike did materialize and, as of the time of this writing, shows n…

MGM Resorts International, the United States-based parent of Macau casino concessionaire MGM China Holdings Ltd, says it will continue as a “standalone company” after conglomerate People Inc withdrew its proposal to acquire all public shares of MGM Resorts it didn’t already own, and take the casino…

Clark County has earmarked $10 million to help Insomniac, the promoter behind the annual Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), renovate the former Sahara Event Center just east of the Las Vegas Strip. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Clark County’s Redevelopment Agency set aside the funds toward…

Shares of MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) plunged in after-hours trading Wednesday after Barry Diller’s People Inc. (NASDAQ: PPLI) yanked the $18 billion go-private acquisition offer it floated on June 1. The news, originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, arrives as Diller and other MG…