Valve has followed up on its announcement with action by issuing cease and desist notices to no less than 23 skins betting sites. Most notably this included CSGO Lounge, a hugely popular site for betting with skins from the game. Another site, CSGOBig, published a copy of the letter it received which also listed all of the sites targeted in the …

Online sportsbook JAbet is one which specialises in tennis and this week spirits are high after a record breaking week for the company following the Wimbledon finals.  The operator has grown rapidly since its launch in March 2015, with betting volumes for this year’s Wimbledon up by over 500% on 2015. This expansion has been aided by the sophisticated proprietary pricing software used …

As the esports market continues to expand, competitive gaming integrity is increasingly in the spotlight and under the microscope.  The creation of the ESIC with Ian Smith as Integrity Commissioner, as well as Valve’s decision to finally speak out on the issue of skins betting are recent developments whilst match fixing remains another major issue.  The question of how to tackle …

Omni-channel gaming software and services supplier, Playtech, has triumphed over international technology and energy giants Google and BP to claim the prize of ‘Most Effective Agency Collaboration’ at this year’s prestigious International Corporate Event Awards.  The awards ceremony took place at the iconic Victoria and Albert Museum in central London, attended by professionals from some of the world’s biggest and most popular …

Mondogoal is one of the largest DFS operators in the world and has partnerships with some of the football greatest clubs from Real Madrid, to Barcelona, Chelsea and Roma.  It recently established deals with SISAL and Lottomatica in Italy, and so the discussion about how DFS operators and bookmakers can complement rather than challenge one another has come to the …

The odds on Gatwick beating Heathrow in the bid for a new runway have been cut to 4/7 by Betway. It is now expected that Heathrow Airport will lose out in the runway battle as Betway lengthened these odds to 5/4. Betway’s Alan Alger stated: “Increasing UK airport capacity is broadly supported by most MPs, but the devil is in the detail …

A set of new proposals have been made concerning daily fantasy sports in the state of Maryland by State Comptroller Peter Franchot. Franchot said: “Daily online fantasy sports games have established a significant presence in Maryland. It is entirely appropriate that we begin making sure the games are fair, anticompetitive abuses are declared out of bounds, and appropriate taxes are …

Bitcoin sportsbook operator SportsBet.io is celebrating a successful first month following its launch in June.  The sportsbook went live shortly before Euro 2016, and has already paid out in excess of 800,000 mBTC to players. The biggest individual win from a single betwas 8,650 mBTC (£4230) which was won by a punter betting on an Kansas City Royals v Houston Astros …

One lucky BetVictor customer became a millionaire overnight thanks to Eder’s winning Euro 2016 strike in the final.  Daman Chick, 32, from Birmingham, correctly predicted the Portuguese substitute would open the scoring, and duly won BetVictor’s Million Pound Goal competition. Unsurprisingly the Lille striker was far from the most popular player to score the Million Pound Goal, with Golden Boot winner …

Betway’s year on year inspection of punting on the Open has revealed that Matt Kuchar’s popularity is rising faster than any of his golfing rivals.  Having already attracted 40% more bets than he did last year, Kooch’s price for the Claret Jug has been trimmed from 66/1 to 50/1 and he stands as the most costly result for the leading …