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.
With fifty five gaming venues located across the United Kingdom, the Rank Group is the largest chain operator of casinos in the country. Operating the Grosvenor Casinos, the Rank Group has now partnered with Pl...
In regulatory and industry news today we see the 6th annual KPMG eSummit in Gibraltar at the Sunborn Hotel. The event is featuring more than 30 speakers and panelists who are covering all aspects of eBusiness i...
Lawrence Ho Yau Lung has gained the majority of the directors on the board of Tigre de Cristal operator Oriental Regent Ltd via its fully owned entity Summit Ascent Russia Ltd. Moreover, in a filing to the Hong...
NewKaliningrad.ru reports the scheduled opening of the Yantarnaya gaming zone’s first gaming facility, situated in the westernmost region of Kaliningrad, a seaport city located between Poland and Lithuania alon...
Two major players in the poker industry, 888Poker and King’s Casino, have partnered up for a one-year period and announced exciting poker events to fans. Those that are somehow not familiar with these two names...
SkyCity Entertainment Group, a New Zealand and Australia casino operator, says it won’t instigate talks but would consider a takeover by Aussie rival The Star Entertainment Group conditional upon the lead being...
The new owners of Les Ambassadeurs Club, London’s high-end gaming venue, plan on focusing even more of the business on the Asian high-roller market.
Hong Kong-listed Landing International Development Ltd (05...
In 2015 seven states in the U.S. considered legalizing online gambling, none of the bills got off the floor. Currently online casino games and poker are only available inside the borders of three states and one...
Camelot announced today that the biggest single prize in the UK Lotto game's history has been claimed for £35,133,888. Although not as large a total prize as the previous record set in January of £66m, only one...
NYX Gaming Group has managed to come to an agreement with OpenBet and confirmed it will be taking over the company for $270 million; the betting technology outfit is currently owned by the hedge funders Vitruvi...
Now that the €10 billion merger of Paddy Power and Betfair has been completed and the company had enough time to do calculations, the new entity, Paddy Power Betfair, revealed plans to cut around 10% of its wor...
A competition to earn the right to create a new casino along the Royal Pier Waterfront of Southampton has finally come to an end, with the Aspers group being named the winner. For years, companies vied for the ...
Germany’s 16 state ministers have agreed that the number of available sports betting licenses will be doubled but a rewrite of the controversial interstate gambling treaty was rejected.
Leaders of Germany’s ...
Online casinos and bingo rooms licensed in the United Kingdom may need to adjust their budgets and promotions to take into account a 15% general betting duty to be levied on them beginning August 17, 2017. Chan...
Switzerland’s casinos say they haven’t been profitable since 2007 and to help stop the continued loss, want to add sports betting and lottery options.
The Swiss Federation of Casinos (SFC) released its annua...