iGaming Business – UK-based interactive gaming company NetPlayTV has announced that its SuperCasino.com brand will again serve as the headline sponsor of UK reality television programmes Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother for a second consecutive year. Big Brother 2014 will begin in June while Celebrity Big Brother 2014 is scheduled for broadcast later this year. Both programmes will air on UK commercial broadcaster Channel Five. The advertising deal, which will begin in June and run for approximately 14 weeks, will see SuperCasino.com branded bumpers appear from 9pm onwards on all Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother television, online and…

  This Week in Gambling – The industry specialists at Super Casino are patiently waiting for the European Commission to unveil its recommendations on consumer protection and advertising for online gambling. Whilst member states share a common objective of protecting consumers, there are concerns that multiple gambling reforms at national level have yielded different results. It is expected that the executive body will disable this “patchwork of different national approaches” in favour of a new uniform approach across Europe. The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA), hopes the commission’s recommendations will draw together a common set of principles which provide…

A second gambling giant has entered the battle to run Southampton’s super casino. Grosvenor, the UK’s biggest casino operator, has announced it is set to launch a bid to run the complex at the proposed Royal Pier development. It will compete with Aspers, and there is likely to be further interest in running the casino over the next few months. Southampton has one of only eight licences in the country to run a super casino, which could have up to 150 slot machines and 30 blackjack and poker tables. But there are currently only two super casinos in the UK…