World Casino News brings you complete coverage of the European gaming markets, openings and closings, regulatory changes, mergers & acquisitions, and finance. You'll find coverage of major industry events and trade shows, as well as casinos for sale from Malta to Riga and beyond.
Much of the news in this section comes out of the UK, due to the mature gambling market and robust licensing requirements there. We also cover partnerships and game distribution deals in the online sector so players will know where to find their favorite games, and industry executives can follow emerging and continuing trends.
Olympic Entertainment Group (OEG), an Eastern European provider of casinos and gaming services, has opened its Hilton Tallinn Park in Estonia’s capital city of Tallinn. It is the first Hilton in the Baltic and ...
Earlier their week, Grosvenor Casinos decided to launch a new casino cab, calling the experience the smallest traveling casino in the world. In efforts to promote the brand’s online gambling options as well as ...
Tax revenue at the Primorye Integrated Entertainment Zone (PIEZ) is expected by Russian authorities to reach RUB165 million (US$2.5 million) this year, and by 2022, 700 million annually.
Last week Friday, Se...
Eastern European casino operator Olympic Entertainment Group has announced plans that will see its recently-acquires SIA Garkalns business merge with its Olympic Casino Latvia SIA subsidiary by the end of the y...
Greek lottery and sportsbetting games operator OPAP has released its interim financial results for the first three months of 2016 showing a 26.3% drop year-on-year in net profit due in large part to increased t...
Players of the National Lottery in the United Kingdom will soon be able to check their lottery numbers instantly via a mobile device once a new QR product being created by Camelot is complete. The operator of t...
Gambling software developer Playtech has announced plans to spend up to $55.6 million in order to purchase Swedish online games studio Quickspin.
Isle Of Man-based Playtech revealed that it will pay a maximu...
Grosvenor Casinos in the United Kingdom have been waiting to add a new casino management system known as Neon, provided by Playtech Retail, a gaming software supply company who recently finished adding Neon to ...
This week, two top United Kingdom betting firms, Gala Coral, and Ladbrokes are expected to hear if the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will allow the proposed merger of the two companies.
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“This is a hugely exciting industry and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us today,” so remarked Jon Tricker of KPMG Gibraltar, as the firm kicked off its sixth annual eSummit on the 21st April. More than...
Well-established casino game developer iSoftBet has announced a new strategic partnership with Merkur Interactive Services, an entity owned by the Gauselmann Group.
As part of the deal, Merkur will take iSof...
Early last week, it was announced that the Armenian Government had given approval to a project proposing the Dvin Hotel be repurposed into a resort complex including a casino. The group behind the project is th...
Only days after seeing his 5,000-to-1 Leicester City soccer side claim the English Premier League title, Thai retail mogul Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha won a multi-million prize at a local casino.
The founder an...
Trying to boost business in the $42 billion investment in Sochi, Russian authorities have already announced shutting down casinos in the Azov-City gaming zone. However, the president Vladimir Putin has decided ...
The competition is heightening among the large property owners in Cyprus as the three contenders for the sole casino license on the eastern Mediterranean island prepare to choose the location for their investme...