If you count the thousands of betting shops along with the casinos, the United Kingdom offers more gambling facilities than the United States, the country with the most casinos in the world. The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) administers one of the world's largest and most robust regulatory and enforcement frameworks in existence, so the Gambling Commision features prominently in our reporting about the UK. London is also home to some of the most important conferences and trade shows for online and terrestrial casinos so were cover those as well.
Mergers and acquisitions occur in Great Britain with greater regularity as the industry consolidates and big fish eat smaller fish. Not all partnerships result in one of the entities being consumed, so we stay on top of news about UK-based and licensed online casino game developers as software agnostic platforms dominate the industry.
In the United Kingdom, mobile and server-based gaming innovator Inspired Gaming Group Limited has launched land-based versions of titles from online games developer NetEnt via over 10,000 of its omni-channel an...
The UK Gambling Commission has released new figures on the gambling industry of the country, which show that online gambling has taken the top spot as far as the most popular form of gambling. The gambling mark...
Thirteen years after the launch of what was hyped at the time as the future of British casinos, Genting Club Star City, is expected to close later in January.
Owners of the Birmingham casino that opened in 2...
After being granted a new license in June of 2014, the latest Casino 36 property has opened in the English city of Wolverhampton offering a portfolio of 80 slots and 24 gaming tables alongside sportsbetting and...
New-formed UK gambling giant Ladbrokes Coral might see their earnings suffer by 25% if the UK government decides to move forward with its plans to crackdown on FOBTs (fixed-odds betting terminals). Being the bi...
Certain spam from online gambling affiliates will no longer be tolerated by the UK. Today more than 400 letters went out from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to companies the watchdog agency believe...
Poker Pro Phil Ivey is one of the most accomplished and decorated poker players in the history of the gaming having won 10 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and more than $23.5 million in career prize mone...
In the United Kingdom, after reviewing the results of a public consultation began in June, councilors for the southwest London borough of Kingston Upon Thames used a licensing committee meeting on Tuesday to un...
In the United Kingdom, Chelmsford City Racecourse has unveiled a $61.53 million plan that would see the Essex venue open and casino and be permitted to host up to ten outdoor music festivals a year.
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After 18 months of negotiations, British sportsbetting operators Ladbrokes and Gala Coral Group Limited have completed their $2.81 billion merger to create the biggest retail bookmaker in the United Kingdom wit...
In the United Kingdom, the operator of The National Lottery has reportedly suspended its mobile app following the discovery of a technical glitch that meant some players may have been incorrectly told to discar...
In 2015, the UK Gambling Commission started a consultation of the Remote Gambling and Software Technical Standards and the results found that several changes needed to be made. The UKGC has now proposed revisio...
William Hill is a top operator of betting shops in the United Kingdom, offering thousands of facilities across the country. The gambling operator recently announced that as many as 2,300 of their betting shops ...
After beginning the process of obtaining a license in January of 2012, Global Gaming Ventures (Development) Limited has this week unveiled detailed plans for its new Victoria Gate Casino for the northern Englis...
In alignment with their focus on keeping problem gambling at bay, the UK government has recently announced a plan to review the fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) found at UK sports betting providers under th...