Long Island Casino: Sands’ Proposal Suffers Courtroom Setback
A Las Vegas Sands Corporation proposal for a Long Island casino may have to “start over,” its opponents told Bonus on Dec. 14. That’s because Sands may not have access to the land where it planned to build a $4 billion to $5 billion casino and resort. Meanwhile, Sands and other would-be downstate New York […]
Wu-Tang Clan Announces Virgin Hotels Las Vegas Residency Beginning Super Bowl Weekend
Veteran hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan has announced a residency at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, a casino-resort property one mile off the Strip. Wu-Tang’s Old Dirty Bastard once famously said that “Wu-Tang is for the children,” but the group’s new home caters to a more mature audience, with an adults-only “beach” pool, spa, and 24-hour casino gaming. […]
Hard Rock Digital Announces Social Gaming Division, Hard Rock Games
Hard Rock Digital (HRD) is going social with the creation of Hard Rock Games (HRG). The new company is focused on offering free-to-play online and mobile “social” gaming. The move follows Hard Rock’s recent acquisition of leading mobile social gaming company WGames. According to the release heralding the announcement, the deal offers HRG enhanced in-house […]
Seneca Compact Negotiations to Extend Into 2024: Will Online Casino Effort Be Affected?
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Seneca Nation of Indians President Rickey Armstrong Sr. announced they’ve agreed on a short-term gaming compact extension. The extension runs until March 31, 2024, unless the parties sign a new gaming compact before then. If they don’t, it will renew automatically until either party decides otherwise. The current […]
Entain CEO Resigns, Leaving Half of BetMGM Ownership With an Interim Leader
Entain CEO Jette Nygaard-Andersen resigned, the company announced on Dec. 13. In the US, Entain is best known as half-owner of BetMGM, one of the Big Three online gambling brands. In the press release, Nygaard-Andersen said this is a good moment for her to step down because: The Group is now safe, stable, and sustainable […]
Crazy Time, Evolution’s No. 1 Live Game, Makes US Debut in New Jersey
Crazy Time, the massively popular live casino table game show from Evolution, is now available to players in New Jersey. Evolution () shared the eagerly awaited American debut in a Dec. 12 release highlighting the online casino live dealer game’s international success outside the US. From the release: Crazy Time has been a global hit since […]
Double-Up Blackjack: BetMGM & Borgata Online Casino Launch Table Game Variant in New Jersey
Blackjack fans in New Jersey have a new variant they can try at BetMGM-owned online casinos: Double-Up Blackjack. BetMGM partnered with the game’s owner, Score Gaming, for the rights to offer it. Double-Up Blackjack is the most popular game in Score’s line of “End 16” games. In these games, a dealer’s 16 results in players’ bets being returned to […]
Fanatics Casino Expected to Launch in Pennsylvania in Early 2024
Fanatics Casino may debut in Pennsylvania in early 2024. At some point after that, the online casino operator’s parent company, Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG), expects to offer iGaming as a standalone app. That’s notable for FBG because its parent company is best known as a sports merchandise etailer. Relatedly, FBG has been concentrating on […]
Relax Gaming Brings ‘The Great Pigsby’ & Other Slots to US for First Time With BetMGM
European content provider and iGaming aggregator Relax Gaming has made its US real money debut by extending its partnership with BetMGM Casino to New Jersey. The online casino operator already offers titles by Relax Gaming, which will use the name RLX Gaming in the US. Relax Gaming develops in-house slots and table games but is […]
Time Out Ohio, Gamban Offer Free Blocking Software to Ohio Gamblers
A new partnership between Time Out Ohio (TOO) and Gamban offers Ohio gamblers one year of free access to the software that blocks over 70,000 international gambling websites and apps—across multiple devices. With the deal between the Ohio Lottery Commission’s (OLC) timeout program and the UK-based developer, Ohio joins Pennsylvania in giving players free access […]
