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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The Lucky Dragon Hotel & Casino of Las Vegas has announced their new culinary portfolio, with five new restaurant concepts being revealed by the venue. The Lucky Drago has worked with Willy Ng of San Franci...
Established gaming company Nevada Gold & Casinos announced yesterday that it will expand its Board of Directors. The operator has come to an agreement with Novation Companies and Esplanade Capital Partners ...
The iconic Riviera Hotel and Casino has gone out with a bang. The defunct casino has sat empty for some time on the Las Vegas Strip and has now been fully removed to make way for a new convention center expansi...
U.K bookmaker William Hill Plc recently announced that it has turned down an acquisition offer from Rank Group and 888 Holdings. The company was offered 3.2 billion in pound sterling, the equivalent of $4.2 bil...
More than a decade after purchasing the shuttered Castaways Hotel And Casino in Las Vegas and then demolishing the property, American casino operator Station Casinos is attempting to sell the vacant 25.5-acre s...
MGM Resorts International, the biggest casino operator on the Vegas strip recently released results of its second quarter which outperformed analyst's estimated. The strong performance of its Las Vegas casinos ...
Here at World Casino Directory we don't publish press releases very often, but in this case we wanted our members to get a shot at naming one of the restaurants in the much anticipated Lucky Dragon Casino which...
A revenue summary released by the by the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Friday shows that for the month of June, Nevada casinos reported a total “gaming win” of $887.4 million; up 6.80 percent from the $830.9 r...
Atlantic City’s casino industry has been in decline for close to a decade but gaming analysts believe that the impending sale of the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa is a sign that things are about to improve in ...
Las Vegas Sands Chairman and billionaire has been cleared of all foreign-money allegation charges by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) after their investigations found that there was ‘no reason to believe’ ...
Station Casinos is set to take over the Palms Casino of Las Vegas, Nevada and current employees of the Palms want to keep their positions of employment. In hopes of doing so, hundreds of employees of the venue ...
The top athletes and sports teams from all parts of the world are flying to Rio de Janerio, Brazil to take part in the 2016 Rio Olympics, scheduled to begin August 5. The Nevada Gaming Control Board recently co...
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld the earlier dismissal of a lawsuit brought against international casino operator Wynn Resorts by the Louisiana Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System o...
The owner of the giant Mohegan Sun, the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, is interested in purchasing a Las Vegas casino property that fell into bankruptcy while under construction in 2009.
According to a rep...
Infighting and a better offer have caused the Moulin Rouge to be open yet again for development. Two days ago, Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez stopped the sale of the Moulin Rouge property of Las...