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Quickspin has released its first slot game of the new year, and it was certainly worth the wait. Genie’s Touch features an all-powerful genie who is there to make players’ wishes come true. Players can enjoy playing Genie’s Touch at Quickspin-powered casinos such as Unibet Casino, Fruity Casa Casino and Joy Casino. About the Game Genie’s Touch is a 10-line slot with a palatial background and an enchanting soundtrack. Reel symbols include Arabian characters, jewels, and of course, a magic lamp. The main attraction of the game is the Genie’s Touch feature, which is triggered when three or more magic lamp symbols appear on the reels. In the Genie’s Touch feature, the genie, who looks a bit like a mermaid, floats out of each lamp and turns adjacent symbols into matching symbols, consistently choosing the best winning combinations. There is also a Free Spins feature that includes extra magic lamp symbols, which means that the genie continuously appears and the possibilities for winning combinations continues to grow. As with all Quickspin slots, operators can customize the free spin amounts and feature triggers in order to make the game most appealing to their players. Quickspin games are launched on the supplier’s own platform to ease integration with online casinos. Quickspin CEO Daniel Lindberg commented on the new release, “The Genie is one of the enduring mythological images and is appropriate to slots players looking to uncover riches. We think her ability to turn symbols into matching ones and the free spins feature will have great appeal and we’re confident it will be a real money-spinner.” About Quickspin Quickspin is a Swedish game development company that develops online games for real money and social gaming sectors. Quickspin produces quality video slots whose design, style, graphics and quality are enjoyed by players around the world.
New Jersey New Jersey’s online gambling industry set a new record this year when January’s revenue reached $14.6 million, 26.5% more than the revenue from January 2015. This is the highest amount of earnings the industry has generated since it was legalized in November 2013. New Jersey’s lofty numbers are even more impressive considering that their online poker market is not doing well. While online casino revenue grew by a total of 34.6%, online poker revenue decreased by 6.4%, reaching a total of only $2.15 million. Breakdown of New Jersey Online Gambling Sites Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa is leading the pack of New Jersey casinos. When compared with January 2015, Borgata’s online casino revenue saw a 36% increase, while their online poker revenue saw a decrease of 6%. Caesars Interactive Entertainment also saw an increase in their casino revenue between January 2015 and January 2016, to the tune of 16%. Tropicana saw a year-on-year increase, while the Golden Nugget’s revenue remained static and Resorts Digital Gaming, which didn’t exist in January 2015, saw a month-to-month increase between December 2015 and January 2016. Delaware While Delaware’s online gambling market has always lagged behind New Jersey, this month they too saw a rather large increase in revenue - 44%. But like New Jersey, while their online casino revenue rises, their poker revenue is falling. California Online gambling has been in the hot seat in California for years already; this week showed some progress as key tribal gaming groups met, while additionally, a new draft of legislation was released. The new draft made amendments to California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s proposed bill which would offer state racetracks up to $60 million in annual payments in exchange for not being part of California’s regulated online poker market. The bill requires ⅔ of the vote in order to pass; as of now, it is difficult to tell whether the bill will have a real chance at being passed or not.
Juventus players and fans are anxiously waiting for the Champions League game against Bayern Munich and they don’t pay too much attention to the Serie A fixture. Their impressive track record allows them to take this match lightly, but the home side is highly motivated to cause a major upset this weekend. No Goal Allowed in Eight Matches Juventus has returned to the top of the Italian first division after trailing the leaders for many weeks and are en route to another title. They seem unstoppable at the moment and one of the reasons for why they are so successful is that their defensive looks unbreakable. There are no breaches to exploit and for eight consecutive games the reigning champions managed to keep a clean sheet. Both at home and on the road Juventus is exercising pressure on opponents, which presents the latter with very few chances to become dangerous. They’re expected to use the same strategy against Bologna, but the top priority is to avoid injuries to key players ahead of the Champions League fixture. Great Opportunity for a Draw Bologna players are secretly hoping to defeat Juventus and cause the biggest upset of this Serie A round, but they don’t get their hopes up too high. A draw would help them greatly in their quest to return to the first half of the standings and that’s the result the home side will chase on Friday. A quick glance at their recent results highlights the fact that Bologna managed to avoid defeat in the last three home games. Granted their opponents were not as strong as Juventus, the hosts found the perfect balance between deadly counterattacks and precise defending. As far as punters are concerned, odds of 3/5 on less than 2.5 goals to be scored at bet365 Sports are great under these circumstances.
NetEnt is one of the most consistent game developers for the iGaming industry. They continue to release titles that seemingly become overnight hits and they have started 2016 off with a few new games, including one that has a lot of potential for a huge fan base. At the beginning of the year NetEnt announced a high-speed new slot called Drive: Multiplier Mayhem which will be released this week at leading NetEnt casinos like Fruity Casa, Mr Green and 10Bet Casino. At the same time, the company gave word of another slot, Fantasini: Master of Mystery, bringing to the NetEnt table a mystery themed slot with a stylish design. Fantasini: Master of Mystery Fantasini Master of Mystery is a 5 reel, 243 ways to win 3D Video Slot, which will be available at Fruity Casa, Mr Green and 10Bet Casino for their desktop and mobile sites. The game is optimized for all iOS and Android phones and tablets and includes some very cool features. NetEnt has added the Linked Reels feature, which can link all five reels for wins up to 1,000 times ones bet. Based in the 19th century with a magical theme, reel symbols are items like a deck of cards, handcuffs, a crystal ball and the famous chained magic box. The soundtrack gives a Gothic, eerie feel to the game adding mystery and suspense. The wild symbol is a magician that appears on the second, third, fourth and fifth reel and substitutes all of the magic symbols. The game is full of many chances to win and is quite exciting to play. Fruity Casa, Mr Green and 10Bet Casino also offer other new titles such as NetEnt's Glow and their critically acclaimed Guns N' Roses slot. The award-winning team of developers, designers and 3D dreamers continually produce high-quality games and Fantisini looks like it has gotten some extra care.
Barcelona hasn’t lost in the last 30 games in all competitions, which makes them overwhelming favorites to defeat Las Palmas on the road. Not having home pitch advantage means little for the reigning champions and the home side has good reasons to be concerned ahead of their visit. Key Players on the Bench Barcelona has so many options up front that it can afford to rest its key players or at least use substitutes in the second half. Their top priority is to avoid any injuries ahead of their London visit, since they need to defeat Arsenal at Emirates Stadium. While it is essential for the leaders to win on Saturday, they have no reasons to go for a lopsided victory against a team threatened by relegation. Barcelona has the advantage of facing terrified teams regardless of venue and it is most unlikely for Las Palmas to try to take the initiative. Messi, Neymar and Suarez are all fit to play and the visitors have plenty of reasons to keep them that way. While it is perfectly possible for all of them to feature in the starting formation, it’s most unlikely for the three strikers to play for 90 minutes. Estadio De Gran Canaria Turns into a Fortress Las Palmas is not going to take any chances against Barcelona and will gladly use a single striker to have enough players in the back line. Five of them are hardly enough to contain the offensive threat posed by the visitors, but four more midfielders will assume defensive roles. Las Palmas won 5 out of 10 games at home and lost on just three occasions so they are not as weak as one might assume. Barcelona hasn’t scored more than two goals on the road since humiliating Real Madrid at Bernabeu, so it’s worth backing the home side to cover the +2.5 goals spread at odds of 4/5.
Unibet has set another record, this time its for the fourth quarter, which also allowed the gaming operator to cap off its 2015 totals with quite a bang. Gross winning revenues for Unibet in Q4 topped out at £111 million for a 57% jump in the three month ending December 31. Boosting the Year This boosted revenues for the year to £354.1 million, for a healthy 13% jump. This led to more robust figures of profit after taxes at £19.4 million for Q4 and £69.7 million for the full year for Unibet, which offers an array of online casino sites under their name including Unibet Casino, Unibet Sports and Unibet Poker. The Breakdown Casino and games was the top earner at £53.8 million gross winning revenue, followed by sports betting at £51 million and poker at £2.2 million for Q4. This reflected a total increase for 2015 in sports betting to £161.2 million, with casino games reaching £171.6 million. Poker stumbled ever so slightly, falling from £8.4 million in 2014 to £7.6 million. New Assets Help Newly acquired assets Stan James Online and iGame Group contributed a combined £13 million in corporate revenues and £2.7 million earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). A spike in active customers drove the growth, topping out at a total of over 921,000. Of these, 156,208 came from Unibet's 2015 acquisitions. Unibet Strategy Working Unibet CEO Henrik Tjärnström lauded the growth as effective implementation of his company's expansion strategy. Tjarnstrom pointed out that gross winnings revenue was up 43% from reported figures in 2014, and cited organic growth in Unibet and Maria of 26 per cent as essential to the scaleability. The emerging sector of mobile revenue brought in 56 per cent of gross winnings revenue compared with 51 percent in the third quarter of 2015. Unibet Sustainability With the rise of online gambling, Unibet stands as a model of expansion and scaleability in the growing organic market that iGaming already represents.
In a complicated Swedish market, 2015 figures showed that the real winner was the Swedish government. Domestic Growth Swedish gambling regulator Lotteriinspektionen released preliminary figures showing a 1.5% year-on-year increase in regulated market turnover to SEK 45.6b ($5.3b) for 2015. Total gaming revenue showed a similar gain to SEK 16.7b. The more significant gain for the Swedish market was in online gambling revenue, which jumped a good 7% year-on-year for 2015 to about SEK 8b. Foreign Competition Landscape Sweden currently does not issue licenses to foreign operators. However, international operators can still host Swedish players, with popular casino brands such as Insta Casino, LeoVegas Casino, Jackpot City Casino and others estimated to take in some 4.4b share of that 8b total, according to Lotteriinspektionen. The other SEK 3.6b was collected by Swedish state-owned betting monopoly Svenska Spel. The growth of the share of the Swedish operator of 8% year-on-year constitutes the advantage over the international sites growth rate of 6%. Advertising Revenue The total expenditure on gambling advertising expenditure was approximately SEK 3.3b, with roughly 70% of this spent by international operators. In other words, the majority of gambling advertising money was spent by international operators, as taxable amounts of direct foreign investment into the Swedish economy. While foreign operators did take in slightly more online gambling revenues (4.4b to 3.6), that slight 10% advantage promises to shrink because the Swedish market is growing faster than the foreign operator market in Sweden, an advantage that required foreign investment of 70% of online advertising revenue. Player Activity Of further note is the fact that the average Swedish adult lost around SEK 2,133 to the regulated market, with the average loss to international online gambling operators over a quarter less at SEK 447. Forecast With intake like this, its no wonder Sweden is taking its time revising its online gambling market. Adaptations are eventually expected to include the privatization of Svenska Spel, the issuing of licenses to international operators, and blocking of non-licensed foreign ISP's within Sweden. For now, Lotteriinspektionen is hitting the jackpot.
ICE Totally Gaming 2016 celebrated one of its best-ever years by attracting 28,487 attendees from 150 countries . People who came to London during 2-4 February for the diverse igaming expo were from all sectors of the industry, including casino sites, sportsbooks, poker sites, bingo sites, and various others. Just below is a special recap of ICE 2016’s most memorable highlights. NetEnt Rocks NetEnt used the first day as an opportunity to debut the software provider’s “NetEnt Rocks” theme for 2016. Guns N’ Roses is the first video slot to be released by NetEnt, but the provider revealed two more forthcoming games. Music fans can expect a Jimi Hendrix slot on 21 April, while a Motörhead slot will come later on 22 September. Endorphina’s Twerk Slot But NetEnt was not the only software provider to serve up a musical showcase. Endorphina definitely has a case for stealing the show with its Twerk slot show, with the assistance of Di Baddest, a troupe of glamorous dancers. With the help of their dancing friends, Endorphina delivered one of the most exciting shows for an upcoming slot release at ICE, based on the exotic dance that became a sensation. Playtech Academy Playtech was another active software provider at ICE, electing to focus on delivering informative presentations. A total of 15 were hosted under the banner of “Playtech Academy”, which was set up to help Playtech’s clients and partners develop a deeper understanding on a wide range of industry topics. IGT Unveil New Content IGT has invested considerably to implement its TRUE 3D technology, which is designed to give players a 3D slot experience without the need to wear glasses. In showcasing the platform, IGT announced that an officially licensed Baywatch slot would join a selection that already boasts Wheel of Fortune and Plants vs. Zombies. Sportradar Targeting eSports Sporting data specialist Sportradar took a larger booth for 2016 than in previous years. The intention was driven by the company’s expansion into eSports. Sportradar also announced a partnership with the Electronic Sports League during its time at ICE. Sportradar openly described eSports as “new territory” during the expo, highlighting its growth potential. Emerging Markets Central and Latin America were discussed as potential new markets for gambling operators and software providers to target in the months to come. A specialist igaming lawyer named Santiago Asensi was able to identify Columbia as the first major market to emerge in 20016, with Brazil and Mexico expected to open up later. Meanwhile, Asian exhibitors were well-represented, which is a sign that ties are strengthening throughout the global industry.
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After the incredible success of the Jurassic Park slot at online casinos, Microgaming is now going to release a new game with dinosaurs. It will be themed after the blockbuster movie of 2015, Jurassic World, and it is expected to be an amazing addition to the collection provided by the company. A New Deal with Universal Being one of the biggest movie studios in the world, Universal is behind huge hits and the list includes the Jurassic World movie which had the second largest opening weekend worldwide. The film went on to be one of the highest grossing movies ever and it is a perfect choice for Microgaming to bring to the world of online slots. The agreement made between the software developer and Universal Brand Development will most likely result in a casino game with scenes and characters from the actual film, similar to the Jurassic Park online slot. According to the announcement made by Microgaming, the upcoming title will be available on the Quickfire platform. This means that players at leading online casinos like Royal Vegas Casino, 7Sultans Casino and Jackpot City Casino will have first crack at it as soon as it is released. Keeping the Jurassic Action Going The Jurassic Park slot machine was released on August 2014 after Microgaming and Universal made the deal in January 2014. Online casinos quickly featured the new release and it became one of the biggest titles on the platform due to its impressive graphics and features. With five reels and three rows, the slot machine has 243 ways to win always active and the features are themed after the different dinosaur species shown in the 1993 classic film. This includes the dangerous T-Rex, which can randomly appear in the game to trigger a rewarding special mode. The new Jurassic World slot is expected to go live this year, although Microgaming did not set a release date as of now.
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