The month of March just set a new all-time American gambling revenue record, bringing in $5.31 billion from slot machines, table games, sports betting and even online gambling! This brings the first quarter nationwide revenue totals for the first quarter of this year to over $14.3 billion, just short of the single-quarter revenue record set in the fourth quarter of last year. March revenue was up 18.5% from the same time last year, when most casinos were operating at or near full capacity. The first quarter of 2022 saw gaming revenue accelerated almost 29% from last year and 34% when…

There have been thousands of online slot titles released over the years, covering almost every theme imaginable. Whatever topic you are interested in, you’ll probably find a slot machine related to it. From popular culture and entertainment to ancient history and fantasy, the world of slots has it all covered. Even relatively mundane topics such as gardening and cooking are featured in online casino slot titles. Creative concepts With so many topics covered, game developers must use their creativity to come up with new concepts. This can sometimes involve taking an older theme and ramping it up to a new…

PokerStars has decided to bring their players even more with the launch of their new peer-to-peer online betting platform! The PokerStars Betting Exchange is now available at both at PokerStars .com and .eu sites, giving their customers access to a sports betting experience on a global level while maintaining the ease of a single account and wallet! The PokerStars Betting Exchange uses technology from Flutter Entertainment, which gives PokerStars players access to a global liquidity pool. It’s the world’s largest betting exchange (the Betfair Exchange), which means that players have immediate access to global markets and opportunities to buy and…

Online gambling wasn’t even a topic of discussion when Congress made sports gambling illegal.Back in 1992 they passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) and no one really blinked. If someone wanted to place a bet on the Super Bowl or a basketball game, their options were minimal at best: jump on a plane to Las Vegas or phone their local bookie. Fast forward 25 years and the internet is ubiquitous and laws such as PASPA arcane, making May 14, 2018, a day of gambling liberation, as the Supreme Court overturned the law on the grounds it was…

It’s taken nearly three years of work, but today is the day that Ontario online gambling finally goes live. Residents in the province are now able to bet on casino games and sporting events via websites and mobile apps. Several operators have gone live already, including FanDuel, BetMGM, Rush Street, Unibet, Bet365, FanDuel and 888. Also up and running are PointsBet Canada and theScore Bet, among others. They are all under the regulatory watch of iGaming Ontario, which is part of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. This all began when the province unveiled plans to put an end…

Ever since iGaming began gaining popularity in the early noughties a small handful of online slot developers found their way to the top of the mountain, cementing themselves as leaders and innovators within the field. iGaming is a perfect example of a monopolistic industry. 99% of online slot developers produce similar products and there’s very little to differentiate one studio from another. However, despite this, a small handful of developers have dominated the market for quite some time. If you were to follow a timeline of proceedings within the industry from the year 2000 all the way through to 2020,…