The World Casino Directory's Gaming Industry News covers land-based and online happenings in the industry. Our coverage here will inform readers about everything from employment and job fairs to major moves being anticipated by the big industry players. Reporting on sweeping regulatory changes as well as the oft-times more nuanced fluidity of case law and legal interpretations of existing laws are some of the items we cover in this section.
Industry participants will find pre-show and post-show coverage of some of the most important conferences and tradeshows in the gambling world, whether land-based or iGaming in nature or both. Thought leaders and those looking to increase their knowledge of current trends in the global gaming industry may wish to visit our Calendars of Gaming and iGaming Conferences and Seminars for important details on summits ranging from G2E (Global Gaming Expo) and ICE to roundtables focused on sportsbetting.
We cover important industry events and changes from American tribal gaming and the Caribbean to India and Macau. If it affects the industry, for professionals or players, you'll find the story here. New licenses, casino sales, M&A, and labor relations are just a few of the story leads we chase for you and report on in this section.
Ahead of its planned opening on the Cotai Strip later in the year, the Wynn Palace resort casino has hired 3,600 employees following hundreds of onsite interviews and several job fairs organized with the suppor...
Led by the Platinum sponsor, LottoYard, the third Global Lottery Messenger Forum (GLMF), was a success, seeing 140 individuals from 22 different countries attending. Key individuals of the lottery messenger ind...
Well-established Macau gaming operator Galaxy Entertainment Group has posted quarterly profit gain for the first time since 2014. The financial data, which was released on Wednesday, revealed solid results than...
Gambling is currently illegal in the state of Maharashtra but the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) is pushing the state government to legalize the industry and license offshore casinos, which ...
Residents of Sedgwick County in the state of Kansas do not seem likely to be given a second chance to vote on whether to allow slot machines at the disused Wichita Greyhound Park following a ruling from the sta...
On Monday, 48 people were charged with a bank fraud scheme that netted those involved more than $570,000. Most of the money was withdrawn at casinos in Atlantic City.
According to New Jersey Attorney General...
On Monday, Cherokee County commissioners voted to appeal a Shawnee County judge's decision last month that upheld the manner in which a license for a state casino being built in Crawford County was awarded by K...
South African casino operator Tsogo Sun’s plan to purchase significant stakes in two Western Cape properties from rival Sun International has cleared an important hurdle after being approved by shareholders of ...
A judge is being asked by a labor union that represents workers at the Ameristar Casino located in East Chicago to review the Indiana Gaming Commission’s approval last month of a plan by Pinnacle Entertainment ...
Russian Gaming Week (RGW) is set to bring all sectors of the burgeoning CIS casino industry together in one place when the Tenth Annual RGW is held at the Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center in Moscow on...
Las Vegas-based LBO casino operator Red Rock Resorts (RRR) is scheduled to price its initial public offering (IPO) today and could raise $572.25 million, which would make it the second-largest IPO this year, tr...
A planned move by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) to license a second casino for greater Victoria has drawn protests from a local politician who believes the area of 344,630 people is already at...
Casino operator MGM Resorts International has established the MGM Growth Properties LLC subsidiary to handle ten of its properties including The Mirage and Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The new publicly traded rea...
The Washington State Gambling Commission has hired New Jersey-based consultant Spectrum Gaming Group to prepare an economic market study into gambling in the western state. The regulator revealed that the repor...
The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota has a new Class III gaming compact, the first awarded since voters approved gaming expansion in the state, .
According to a notice published Friday in the Federal Regis...