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What’s the best meal you’ve ever eaten? Was it your mom’s home cooking? Was it a dinner out with friends? I’d be willing to bet the bill didn’t come to anywhere near $15,000! This month, you could be privy to such an exquisite fine dining experience in the new Royal Vegas online casino promotion,...

A new market research report by Technavio has identified the top 5 slot machine makers across the globe. The study, designed to predict the Global Slot Machines Market 2017-2012, projects overall growth of 15.49% over the next five years. While the report offers underlined market building strategies for the industry, one of the most...

Ahh, the Millennial mobile gambling craze. We keep hearing about this. How games manufacturers and operators are tirelessly brainstorming new ideas on how to attract today’s younger generation to live and online casinos. How the key to appealing to them is ‘instant gratification‘. Millennials want wins, and they want them now. They want to...

In June 2015, innovative online slot developer Yggdrasil wowed the interactive gambling community with the release of its Chibeasties Slot. Nearly two years later, the company has quenched the insatiable thirst of Chibeatsties fans with the launch of a sequel, releasing the new Chibeasties 2 Slot earlier this month. Those cute, cuddly and mischievous...

It’s official – owners of the Hard Rock Cafe at the Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto confirmed the property will be closing its doors for good come May, when its lease runs out. Unlike most of the world’s Hard Rock properties, this one doesn’t offer any sort of gambling, but its impending closure may be...

Online gambling has been around for more than two decades now. However, for some unfathomable reason, its regulation lacks any uniformity; not just from one country to the next, but within national territories. And when it comes to online casinos Canada is one of the strangest, least uniform markets on the planet. Most European...

Where were you one year ago today, March 18, 2016? Were you in the Brampton area of Southern Ontario? Any chance you played the Lotto Max? Did you win the lottery and not even know it? The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp (OLG) is asking these very questions today, in hopes of finding the...

One of the most attractive features that have helped build the internet gambling industry to its multi-billion dollar size, is the availability of generous online casino bonuses and comp-based rewards programs. Interactive gambling affords much higher promotional offerings than the land-based variety. Online casinos aren’t bogged down with massive utility bills and enormous employee...

Has David Baazov, former CEO of Canada online betting giant Amaya, gone from ‘King of the Mountain‘ to ‘Bottom of the Barrel‘? It’s doubtful the situation has escalated so far. More likely, his recent divestment of 7 million shares in the online gambling firm, is just another way to further distance himself from the...

A few years ago, the British Columbia Lottery Corp (BCLC) launched a socially responsible gambling strategy called GameSense. The provincial regulator has since rolled out the new program at all 35 of its land-based casinos and gaming facilities. It has a simple purpose, but involves a much deeper, interactive process than the casino world...