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Booze, Street Food and Legal Gambling: Mini Golf No Longer Just A Kids’ Game
Miniature golf was a childhood staple for Gen-Xers and older Millennials, but the game has grown up with them and is increasingly being marketed to adults rather than kids. London-based, “crazy golf” outfit Swingers recently announced it will bring minigolf to Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in 2024 after closing a $52 million funding round […]
Boom Entertainment Brings Its Slots to New Jersey Via BetRivers Partnership
Boom Entertainment has announced its entrance to New Jersey through an existing partnership with BetRivers Casino. New Jersey players can now play two of the company’s slots, Goose the Gold and Lucky Money Tree, while more titles, including Money Mansion, will come later this year. Boom Entertainment’s entrance to New Jersey is through the existing […]
Online Gambling Operator PlayUp Sees House of Cards Fall, Starting With New Jersey Shutdown
Online gamblers interested in placing sports bets on PlayUp were out of luck on July 21. That’s because, on July 19, New Jersey regulators revoked PlayUp Sportsbook‘s ability to do business in the state, as well as follow through on its PlayUp Casino plans. Plus, on July 21, the operator’s house of cards continued falling […]
WynnBet Becomes Third Online Casino Partner for EveryMatrix in New Jersey
EveryMatrix has signed a deal with WynnBet to provide the operator with online casino content in New Jersey. The agreement allows WynnBet to offer games developed by EveryMatrix’s subsidiaries, including Armadillo Studios. Games from EveryMatrix are already live with two other online casinos in New Jersey. Popular titles include: Armadillo Goes West Fortune Dragon Queen […]
Online Casino Live Dealer Competition Sees Playtech Enter the Augmented Reality Looking Glass
New Jerseyans will be the first to benefit from the latest product in a stepped-up US online casino live dealer competition. On July 18, Playtech announced its “live casino game show” reminiscent of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The product, Adventures Beyond Wonderland (ABW), has live dealers interacting with augmented reality versions of […]
Evolution Launches Lightning Dice Live Dealer Game in New Jersey
Evolution announced the New Jersey launch of its newest online live casino game, Lightning Dice. The game is already streaming live from Evolution’s studio in Atlantic City and is available to players in the state. Evolution describes Lightning Dice as a straightforward yet captivating dice game that incorporates random number generated “Lightning” strike multipliers of […]
Unibet’s Upgraded Platform Now Available in Pennsylvania, New Jersey
After a period of downtime on July 10, Unibet Pennsylvania is back up and running, now using the latest online casino and sportsbook platform from owner Kindred Group. Unibet made the same upgrade for New Jersey players in May. That means the company has now rolled out the new platform in both its US online casino markets. […]
New Jersey Online Casinos Officially Receive Five-Year Extension
On June 30, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Assembly Bill 2190 into law, officially extending the state’s online casino legislation for another five years. That means that New Jersey iGaming can continue until at least November 2028 but will need a further extension before then. The five-year extension represents a compromise between the Senate Budget […]
New Jersey Assembly Budget Committee Amends iGaming Extension Again, Now Proposing Five More Years
While it’s unlikely that New Jersey legislators will let the state’s online casino law expire in November, the length of the extension is still up in the air. New Jersey online casinos launched in November 2013, and the law authorizing them was given a 10-year time limit. Assemblyman Ralph Caputo’s bill A-2190 originally would have […]
NJ Assembly Budget Committee Wants Two More Years of Online Casinos, Not Ten
New Jersey’s need to grant its legal online casinos a 10-year extension seemed like a mere legislative formality, but the Assembly Budget Committee has added a wrinkle to the plot by amending the bill to extend the state’s iGaming law by only two years. The companion bill had already emerged from the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee with the full extension […]
