Microgaming, the world’s leading provider of gaming software and online bingo software developer and turnkey provider, has announced that it will be launching several new ground breaking features for its fast growing Bingo Network. Next month will see Microgaming introducing a brand new feature that will allow for a more user-friendly and streamlined purchasing experience by enabling players to purchase their tickets in advance for several rooms, all from one single bingo room. During May, … [Read more...]
Team Microgaming Senior Cycling Team Finish in Kerry
April 23, 2012 by
Team Microgaming Isle of Man’s senior cycling team participated in a tough 4 Day Ras Mumham stage race in Ireland over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. The five man team who made their 2012 debut at the race and represented the Island in over 500 km of racing included Darren Bell, Andy Roche, Aaron Livsey, Elliot Baxter and Graeme Hatcher who all succeeded in finishing in the bunch on the opening stage of the 101 km race which started and finished in Killorglin, East Kerry on Good Friday. … [Read more...]
Mazooma Selected as Bigpoint’s US Payment Partner
April 21, 2012 by
Mazooma, a leading Canadian internet payment processor has signed an agreement this week with Bigpoint, the worldwide provider of online games in terms of which Mazooma will enable Bigpoint’s US players to utilize Mazooma’s instant online bank transfer service in order to purchase virtual credits. It is hoped that this partnership will result in a strong U.S business for Mazooma if and when online gambling is legalized in the United States. Linus Menden, speaking on behalf of Bigpoint, … [Read more...]
Lucky Panda Online Slot Launched at Playtech Casinos
April 19, 2012 by
Playtech gaming software has announced the launch of an exciting new online slot game titled Lucky Panda. Lucky Panda Slot has four rows of symbols across the reels and is an all ways slot game. The game offers 1024 ways to win if all the reels are activated and the automatic wager is 72 coins. Players can, however activate fewer reels and the first four reels will have all four rows if they activate four reels while the fifth reel will only have the two central rows giving players 512 ways … [Read more...]
Gender Equality in Internet Gambling
April 18, 2012 by
According to statistics released by Bellerock Entertainment, one of the internet’s most flourishing online gambling groups, four times as many women played casino games in the UK during 2010 than during 2007 indicating that the number of women playing online casino games is practically as high as men. Close to half of all UK online casino players are female despite the fact that playing casino games has always been seen as a male pursuit according to Bellerock’s claim. Hitwase also carried … [Read more...]
Man Jailed for Online Gambling Fraud
April 16, 2012 by
In a first prosecution of its kind, a man was jailed a few days ago after being found guilty of using fraudulent identity cards, international passports and false utility bills to open numerous online accounts which resulted in him making almost $80,000 from online gambling. Andrei Osipau, aged 35, had stolen other people’s identities in order to open online betting accounts so as to take advantage of the numerous bonus bets that were offered by certain companies. Osipau’s action is known as … [Read more...]
Cyprus Police Raid Internet Gambling Premises
April 15, 2012 by
It has been reported that the local police in Cyprus raided two premises that they suspected of offering online gambling one night last week. Seven computer systems were confiscated by the police in their first raid and a further eight computer systems were seized by them during a second raid. The owners of both the premises were arrested on internet gambling charges. It would appear as if the police in Cyprus have increased their operations against online gambling this year as last month … [Read more...]
Coral Online Casino Now Accepts PayPal
April 13, 2012 by
One of the first things that online gamblers look out for when choosing an online casino is the range of payment methods supported by the site. Recently, it was announced that the top online betting and gaming operator, Coral.co.uk was now allowing players to pay for their entertainment with the e-banking method, PayPal. As from March 1st, players can fund their accounts using PayPal, as well as withdraw their winnings. “Continuously improving the online betting and gaming experience for … [Read more...]
