China reported record lottery sales in 2023 of RMB579.70 billion (€74.28 billion), with strong annual performances by both the Welfare and Sports Lotteries.
The Welfare Lottery had a 31 per cent rise in annual sales to RMB194.44 billion, while the Sports Lottery had its highest annual sales at RMB385.26 billion, up [...]
Las Vegas Sands’ Macau-based subsidiary Sands China has made changes to its senior management team with Grant Chum named CEO and Wilfred Wong appointed executive vice chairman.
Chum assumes the chief executive's office from Robert Goldstein, who will continue to serve the company as chairman and non-executive director, alongside his role [...]
Last week’s games and platform integrations round-up from Gaming Intelligence featured Nolimit City, Relax Gaming, PopOK Gaming, Pascal Gaming, Wizard Games, Play’n GO, Playson, Pragmatic Play, Indigo Magic, Pariplay and Digitain.
Nolimit City’s Land of the FreeEvolution-owned Nolimit City goes guns blazing with its latest release, Land of the Free.
“Land of [...]
888poker has recovered $362,893 to refund to 4,068 players who lost to players using AI poker bots or Real-Time Assistance (RTA) in 2023.
The company said that by using sophisticated and innovative methods of detection, it continued to make progress in tackling the issue of bots, which use software programming to [...]
New York-listed casino operator Las Vegas Sands has recorded a 152 per cent increase in net revenue to $10.37 billion for the full 2023 year, following ongoing improvements to the operating environments in Macau and Singapore.
Revenue in the final quarter of the year increased by 161 per cent year-on-year to [...]
Continent 8 Technologies has named long-serving Google executive Dave Phillips as its new vice president of network.
Phillips spent nearly 15 years at Google in a range of leadership roles across engineering, operations, delivery and product teams.
At Continent 8, he will oversee the company’s global network of more than 100 data [...]
The Taiwan Sports Lottery posted a 2 per cent fall in sales to NT$59.27 billion (€1.73 billion) in 2023, which was a good performance up against the FIFA World Cup year of 2022.
December’s sales were down by 64 per cent year-on-year to NT$3.96 billion, compared with a record month in [...]
Playtech has hosted the largest online poker tournament series on its iPoker network with over 33,000 players taking part.
The Elite Series Winter Edition took place between 1 December and 16 January, and surpassed the previous Winter Series from last year as the largest tournament series ever held on the iPoker [...]
This week’s games and platform integrations round-up from Gaming Intelligence features Pragmatic Play, Play’n GO, Pariplay, Relax Gaming, Playson and Yggdrasil.
Pragmatic Play’s Privé Lounge BaccaratPragmatic Play has rolled out an enhanced version of the classic baccarat live casino game with the launch of Privé Lounge Baccarat.
“Privé Lounge Baccarat from Pragmatic [...]
Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has strengthened its global leadership team with new promotions for Ginnie Hollis and Samantha Powell.
Hollis (pictured left) will be based in GLI’s Colorado office in the United States and will focus on the support and development of teams, regulators, suppliers and operators in the digital gaming [...]
Flutter Entertainment grew full year revenue by 24 per cent to £9.51 billion in 2023, with revenue in the fourth quarter of the year rising by 11 per cent versus the same period in 2022.
Revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 climbed to £2.67 billion as Gaming revenue rose 15 [...]
Macau’s gaming revenue rose to MOP183.06 billion (€20.89 billion) in 2023, after fourth quarter revenue increased five-fold to MOP54.11 billion.
The baccarat tables at Macau’s casinos accounted for 85 per cent of casino gaming revenue during the year, with MOP110.49 billion coming from mass market players and MOP45.19 billion from VIP [...]