New York-listed supplier Scientific Games has unveiled its latest lottery innovation, 7-11-21 LIVE!, an instant scratch game for US lotteries which includes a live social media component.
Retail sales of 7-11-21 LIVE! are expected to begin with participating state lotteries in early 2021, building up to a virtual event on Facebook [...]
New York-listed gaming supplier International Game Technology (IGT) has reported a 48 per cent drop in revenue to $637m for the second quarter of 2020, reflecting the impact of global COVID-19 restrictions.
Revenue was down across all business segments and all primary revenue streams, except for digital activities which saw revenue [...]
Lottoland’s B2B arm ALOT Solutions has announced a significant equity investment in London-based game developer G Games.
The investment further enhances ALOT Solutions’ lottery offering with G Games’ portfolio of lottery, bingo and casino games, while the two companies will also collaborate on ad-hoc strategic opportunities, including lottery tenders.
“I am pleased [...]
The Pennsylvania Lottery has generated more than $1bn to benefit older Pennsylvanians for the ninth consecutive year, despite posting a 0.8 per cent drop in total lottery sales to $4.47bn for the fiscal year ended 30 June.
The lottery benefited from strong growth in scratch-off ticket sales, which rose 7 per [...]
The Oregon Lottery has recorded turnover of $7.9m from its SBTech-powered Scoreboard online sports betting operation in June.
Turnover increased by 8 per cent compared to the previous month’s $7.3m, with table tennis again the most popular sport with turnover of $2.8m during the month.
The next most popular sport was football [...]
Sydney-listed gaming giant Tabcorp Holdings warned Monday that it expects to incur non-cash goodwill impairment charges of up to $1.1bn for the financial year ended 30 June, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following the latest review of the carrying value of its assets, Tabcorp said that the impairment charges [...]
The Kentucky Lottery Corporation has reported a second consecutive record sales performance for its fiscal year ended 30 June.
Total sales increased by 6 per cent compared to the previous year’s record to $1.20bn, with scratch-off tickets again the largest individual game category as sales grew 11 per cent to $741.1m.
Internet [...]
New York-listed supplier Scientific Games has been awarded a new contract to continue providing instant lottery games to the Montana Lottery.
The two-year contract runs through August 2022 and sees Scientific Games continue as the sole provider of Montana Scratch games, extending a relationship which stretches back to 1987 when the [...]
Paris-listed lottery and gaming operator FDJ has reported a 15 per cent decline in revenue to €849m for the first half of 2020, as growth in the early part of the year was halted by the COVID-19 crisis.
Total stakes fell by 18 per cent year-on-year to €6.9bn, with retail stakes [...]
New York-listed gaming supplier Everi Holdings has launched its online slot games in Canada for the first time following an integration with Canadian provincial lottery operator Loto-Quebec.
Utilising Scientific Games’ OpenGaming platform, Everi has brought its most popular land-based games to the lottery’s Lotoquebec.com site, including titles such as Star Magic, [...]
Athens-listed gaming and lottery supplier Intralot has signed a multi-year deal to provide its retail sports betting platform to Dutch national lottery operator Nederlandse Loterij.
The four-year deal, which includes an option to extend the contract by three years, will see the supplier expand its existing partnership with Nederlandse Loterij to [...]
China’s lottery market has seen total sales fall by 42 per cent year-on-year to RMB123.90bn (€15.1bn) for the first half of 2020.
Lottery sales have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the period, although sales in June were only 3 per cent lower than a year ago at RMB33.57bn, [...]