Although Macau surpassed the Las Vegas Strip in 2006 and is still the reining revenue champion, Las Vegas is still king of the game in many ways with more visitors arriving each year, as well as pioneering the concept of integrated casino resorts. Three of the four US-listed companies that operate in China also call Las Vegas home - Las Vegas Sands Corp., Wynn Resorts Ltd., and MGM Resorts International. Any move by the big players in Sin City has an effect on operations all over the world. World Casino News covers The Strip and Glitter Gulch as casinos open and close, C-Suite Executives rise and fall, and as Downtown is revitalized by important operators into a more sophisticated gambling and entertainment zone.
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A new professional sports league may be looking to move to Sin City, after an announcement was made by Rob Manfred last week, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Manfred stated that the league is open to...
American Class II and Class III game supplier, AGS have begun the process with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission that could result in a public offering of common stock.
Industry readers wi...
Friday night’s fire at the Golden Nugget Las Vegas was the city’s second casino fire within 24 hours.
Spokesman for the Nugget, Tim Szymanski, said that shortly after 8:40pm on Friday, Las Vegas Fire and Res...
A late night fire at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino on Thursday engulfed part of the roof of the MGM Resorts International property.
The blaze that engulfed the roof of a building at the south side of the B...
With the summer only a few months away, online poker rooms are preparing for the upcoming World Series of Poker. The popular poker series is set to take place starting on May 30th and continuing until July 17th...
Several current NFL players will reportedly be fined by the NFL for taking part in a sporting event at a Las Vegas casino over the weekend.
The MGM Grand Hotel & Casino was the stage for the Pro Football...
Las Vegas’ recent attempts at drawing a younger crowd are reportedly paying off after a recent study showed that more than a full third of visitors to the Nevada city last year were aged between 18 and 35 while...
The focus of casino gaming venues is shifting away from the traditional gambling game and moving towards a skill-based option in efforts to attract more millennial visitors to properties in Nevada as well as ac...
A betting ban hasn’t been requested by the NFL on Raiders games when the team leaves Oakland for Las Vegas, and league commissioner Roger Goodell said they have no plans to do so, according to the Las Vegas Rev...
The vote by National Football League (NFL) team owners on Monday to allow the Oakland Raiders franchise to relocate to Las Vegas has inadvertently helped some of the Nevada city’s largest casino operators to in...
In what could best be described as a bittersweet victory for the franchise, the Raiders are leaving Oakland for Las Vegas, after a 31-1 vote by NFL owners on Monday.
The vote that will relocate the Raiders t...
All 32 National Football League team owners could meet as early as Monday to vote on a proposed move by the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas.
Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports tweeted last week that a vote on the p...
Las Vegas casino owner Derek Stevens was set to earn a $1 million payout if Michigan was able to pull out the win during the 2017 March Madness tournament. The Wolverines were the seventh-seeded team in the ser...
In marketing millennial style 101, MGM Grand Las Vegas Hotel & Casino has brought what is being billed as the world’s first indoor laser golf course and private lounge to its new Level Up lounge.
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Detroit native and Las Vegas casino magnate, Derek Stevens, is in for a massive payday if his alma mater Michigan Wolverines win the national title.
Stevens, who graduated from the University of Michigan in ...