iGaming

The award will see Microgaming fund accommodation and essential living costs (excluding course fees) up to £6,000 per annum. Recipients of the bursaries will be demonstrably talented; Microgaming wants to bring home-grown talent to the fore. Roger Raatgever, CEO of Microgaming, explains: “The youth of the Island are our future – this generation will shape the growth of the Isle of …

Playson, the  game studio behind games such as Alice in Wonderslots and Lucky Pirates, is one of 25 active studios to join the Odobo Developer Program. Based in Malta, with technical development in Ukraine, Playson is a rapidly expanding studio with 250 employees and extensive game production experience. Playson takes pride in the skill of its team, its games’ high production values and impressive …

The Summit of iGaming Malta (SIGMA), commences on the 31st of October, and promises to be the most important new igaming conference in the 2014 igaming conference calendar. SIGMA will put to the forefront of its agenda, key operational and marketing issues effecting igaming operators and business suppliers. SIGMA is the first major igaming summit to be hosted in Malta, …

GiGse, North America’s iGaming event of choice, has announced new dates for next year. Following extensive discussions with stakeholders, GiGse and its co-located events will return to the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, CA earlier in the spring across April 21-23 and will build on the content innovations introduced in 2014. The decision represents a return to the dates traditionally occupied by …

EIG Berlin welcomes all start-up Submissions until 12 September for it’s annual START-UP LAUNCHPAD EiG Berlin’s focus on fresh thinking and innovative solutions for the gambling and igaming sectors,  offers start-ups the opportunity to showcase in front of key industry and business decision makers. Competing start-ups will be asked to detail their approaches to the gaming sector and discuss the …

Finnplay, the Finnish based iGaming platform provider, which specializes in tailored gaming solutions today, announced the launch of infinitybet.com Asia’s newest online gaming operator using Finnplay’s BillFold gaming platform solution. For infinitybet, Finnplay built a completely customised betting product to meet the requirements of infinitybet as well as a tailored website with casino, racing and sports book included to target …

The person responsible for stealing information relating to 649,055 Paddy Power customers is unlikely to face criminal prosecution. Instead, Canadian authorities have said the case is a civil matter and also declined to identify the individual. The Irish bookmaker said the full extent of the 2010 hacking episode became known to the company in recent months when it took legal action with the …

NetPlay TV plc, the interactive gaming company which operates the TV gaming brands SuperCasino and Jackpot247, has appointed Bjarke Johannes Lund Larsen to the Board and role of Commercial Director with immediate effect. Larsen, 31, joined NetPlay in January 2007, and is currently Chief Operating Officer of the subsidiary NetPlayTV Group Ltd. He has extensive experience in the online gaming …

Elray Gaming, the online gaming and turnkey solution subsidiary of Elray Resources Incorporated, has launched its proprietary virtual horse racing product. SimVRacing, a virtual thoroughbred horse racing product, is now live, with races taking place every four minutes at four different race tracks. Elray has developed the technology and owns the intellectual property of the product, having completed the acquisition …

Inspired Gaming Group, supplier of Virtual Sports and SBG Video Lottery games, has announced a game development partnership with Ian Livingstone. Livingstone is described as one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry. As co-founder of Games Workshop, he launched Dungeons & Dragons in Europe. He co-authored the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook series and has launched many …