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The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) in UK has warned about 9,000 jobs being on risks because of recently announced tax hikes of Machine Games Duty to 25%. On October 29, Chancellor and UK Treasury Head John Healey confirmed that Machine Games Duty rises to 25% ahead of Autumn Budget. The rise is a…

The mandatory monthly deposit limits introduced in the Netherlands in 2024 have led to a contraction in the online gaming market, regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has reported. The gambling authority has released two sets of reports covering the entirety of 2025 and the first half of 2026, focusi…

Japanese gaming company Konami has reported a strong increase in revenue from its Gaming & Systems business, with help from its fresh casino openings, demand for replacement slot machines, and wider adoption of its casino management technology. Impressive Growth For the six months ended September 3…

Alexey Sparivak, Head of Media Buying at TrafficStars, explains how the network’s new AI assistant, Gryzo AI, helps media buyers work up to 10x faster. As many traffic sources become harder to scale under stricter advertising policies and rising costs, more media buying teams are looking for altern…

Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) expansion in the three months to September 30 slowed sequentially, amid the contraction of “exports of gaming services” in the period. That is according to a Friday announcement of preliminary economic data made by the city’s Statistics and Census Service. Third…

HM Treasury believes that it can secure a total of £655m from a five-year cycle generated by new tax rise on Machine Gaming Duties (MGD), yet UK gambling remains exposed to further taxes on its activities. This morning, the government published the key considerations applied to its decision to incr…

Florida has announced the results of its latest attack on illegal gambling, with the state’s law enforcement successfully taking care of another venue that was hosting unauthorized operations. A total of ten people were arrested in a recent bust by authorities, and 239 slot machines were seized in…

BGaming is officially live on Goldbet, PWO and Lottomatica’s gaming platform, through the integration and support of Tuko Productions. Vincenzo Tancredi, CCO of Tuko Productions, said: We are delighted to have supported BGaming in going live on Lottomatica, Goldbet and PWO. This launch is an import…

888casino and a gambler are having a row over missing winnings; the gambler stipulates they are rightfully his own, while the casino attributes them to a technical accident. James Kotylak, 42, of Alberta, has spoken to Gaming America, arguing that he had won $930,000 playing at the casino, but the…

Paraguay is planning new gambling sector ruling with establishment of an independent regulator. On October 12, Governement submitted bill to Congress. It would replace the National Gambling Commission (Conajzar) with a new body, the National Directorate of Gambling (Dinajzar). Dinajzar will have it…

Casinos in Nevada won $1.28 billion in gaming revenue in September of 2026, about the same as the same month a year ago. Nevada Casino Revenue Dips 0.05% Despite Las Vegas Strip Growth Stronger results on the Las Vegas Strip and gains in a number of smaller markets helped offset weaker results in d…

The $750 million North Fork Mono Casino & Resort in Madera County, California, opened its doors a day early, welcoming its first customers on October 27. The launch comes, however, as a neighboring tribal gaming operator has an unresolved federal lawsuit seeking to stop the property from offering c…

Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) posted a 23.4% year-on-year decline in revenue to Php64.41 billion (approximately $1.01 billion) for the first nine months of 2026. The drop was mainly driven by weaker electronic gaming performance. Electronic gaming revenues dropped by 37.2% to…

China’s consulate general in Jeju, South Korea, has cautioned against the use of Chinese social media platforms – by what it termed “unlicensed agents” – to solicit that nation’s citizens to gamble in Jeju’s foreigner-only casinos. It also urged the South Korean authorities to “earnestly fulfil the…

MGM Resorts International’s business in Macau is helping cushion weakness in its U.S. operations, while its casino resort being developed in Osaka, Japan, remains a source of longer-term growth, according to analyst reports issued following the group’s third-quarter results. The memos also highligh…

On Sept. 30, Casino.org reported that Victory Casino Cruises in Florida had furloughed its entire staff because of a longer-than-expected dry dock of its lone vessel, Victory I. There’s apparently much more to the story. Florida Today was first to report that a federal court has issued a seizure wa…