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.
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...
Mississippi casino revenue fell from $198 million in March 2015 to $188 million in March 2016, after Gulf Coast properties such as Harrah’s Gulf Coast and Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis recorded a slowdown of 4...
Officials from the New York State Gaming Commission will tour the site of the coming Montreign Resort Casino in the Catskills Mountains today after operator Empire Resorts paid the required $51 million licensin...
A three-member advisory committee has been established by Hong Kong-listed Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd (1076:HKG) to provide the firm’s management with “sound strategic and tactical advice,” rep...
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 held a protest outside the Trump International Hotel to let their boss Donald Trump know that Las Vegas was “a union town.” The Thursday rally was quiet for approximately an hou...
On Thursday, Paradise, Nevada-based Boyd Gaming Corp. announced it had reached an agreement to purchase the Aliante Casino & Hotel located in North Las Vegas for $380 million.
Acquisition of the nearly 8...
The city of Brantford has hosted the Brantford Casino since 1999 and continues to receive payments from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. for being the host area. The most recent payment comes from the fourt...
The Nevada Gaming Commission has given the go ahead to Marnell Gaming LLC in the acquisition of the former John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks. The decision comes just two weeks after the Gaming Control Board appro...
On Thursday, Filipino billionaire, and chairman of Bloomberry Resorts Corp, Enrique Razon Jr., warned that the opening of two additional gaming complexes within the next two years would produce an “oversupply” ...