After 2-1/2 years, Virgin Games has completed their gaming platform, according to eGaming Review. Simon Burridge, Chief Executive, is set to monetize the new operation, pledging 100 new games this year and predicting double figure growth during 2010.
Burridge said: “We’ve all been working hard over the last two years to make the leap from...
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Alphameric boss resigns
Alan Morcombe, the chief executive of the betting shop software firm Alphameric, is resigning after escaping a humiliating shareholder coup last year backed by the largest investor, Bahamas-based currency trader Joe Lewis.
His departure comes after a bitter boardroom row involving Lewis at the pub group Mitchells & Butlers. In December the M&B board purged...
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Party Gaming and Bwin possible merger
Over the past 6 months the industry grapevine has been alive with talks of massive mergers between the largest online gaming companies. The most attention has been in the direction of the mooted partnership between PartyGaming and bwin when rumours began circulating back in the summer. However, the companies have...
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MasterCard cracks down
The US facing online gaming operators have been hit recently by an overnight crackdown on payments made through Mastercard.
The American company decided to toughen their stance on the practice many companies adopt, coding egaming transactions as other forms of ecommerce allowing US customer to use their credit cards to gamble online.
It has been rumoured...
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Hellboy slot machines debut in January
32Red Online Casino is launching Hellboy, an online slot based on the comics and films of the same name.
The Hellboy slot has been dubbed as groundbreaking in an announcement made by the Gibraltar-based online gaming operator.
The Hellboy slot is based on the hit comic book of the same name, with the graphical styling from...
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Skysports.com pays out Super Six jackpot
On Monday, a 20-year-old Scottish man received a belated Christmas gift of £100,000 after becoming the first person to correctly pick the scores in six English Premier League soccer matches at SkySports.com.
Jonathan Kilpatrick from Bo’ness was taking part in Soccer Saturday’s Super Six competition at SkySports.com and was indebted to Everton’s Marouane Fellaini after...
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