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.
The Louisiana Legislature has created a task force comprised of state officials that will examine ways in which it can increase the competitiveness between the state’s gaming sector and Oklahoma’s Native Americ...
Station Casinos recently announced that their sports books will once again start accepting bets on the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 205 event which is scheduled to take place in the iconic Madison Squar...
The Barangaroo casino project in New South Wales (NSW) has been hit with a number of delays ever since Crown Resorts proposed to build the $2 billion casino resort in 2012. The Land and Environment Court is exp...
The six licensed casino operators in Macau have reportedly revealed that VIP games accounted for only 44% of their aggregated gross gaming revenues during the third quarter while the mass-market segment grew by...
Following a September call for concern, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s government offered up a plan Thursday that would see a third of the country's slot machines pulled off the market by the end of next...
London: November 11th 2016
Playtech, the world’s leading gaming content and software, systems and services supplier, has launched the industry’s most cutting-edge live casino HTML5 Roulette product across it...
In New Jersey, the administration of Republican governor Chris Christie has assumed complete control over fiscally distressed Atlantic City with the state now holding the power to take over key functions usuall...
In Argentina, the governor for Buenos Aires Province, Maria Eugenia Vidal, has inaugurated the tendering process for the license to operate slots within the state’s eight casinos with established firms such as ...
The Chicago Cubs historic World Series win has been wonderful for the city of Chicago as well as for the state of Illinois. However, it seems the win may have affected the casino earnings of neighboring state I...
In Rhode Island, a proposal that would see casino operator Twin River Management Group Incorporated transfer the license for its Newport Grand Casino slots-only property to a new full-scale Twin River Tiverton ...
The Singapore Tourism Board has revealed that the first six months of the year saw international visitor numbers to the Asian city-state increase by 10.3% year-on-year to 11.3 million.
The tourism promoter d...
The Health Bureau in Macau says that since January, 536 cases of illegal smoking inside local casinos have been prosecuted by the agency; almost 80 percent of which it says were committed by tourists, as report...
After being defeated in a state-wide ballot on Tuesday, proponents of a New Jersey measure that would have expanded casino gambling outside of Atlantic City have revealed that they could now push for far more s...
Earlier this year the Australian Minister for Human Services, Alan Tudge, announced that he would be introducing legislation to amend the Interactive Gambling Act of 2001 to remove any loopholes that currently ...
Update 11/11/2016 Rhode Island casino proposal becomes a reality
In Rhode Island, voters could discover as early as later today whether Twin River Management Group Incorporated has won approval to relocate t...