Evolution Gaming Launches in Eastern Europe

Evolution Gaming has reached agreements with Olympic Entertainment and in the newly regulated Romanian market at Grand Casino Bucharest (l.) to offer its Live Casino gaming studio. Evolutions’ titles will be available across desktop and mobile and may eventually be converged with the gambling operator’s brick-and-mortar casinos.

Evolution Gaming has signed a content distribution agreement to supply Live Casino Games to two European casino operations

Olympic Entertainment Groups online casino sites will offer Evolution Live Casino studios.

The group is the largest online provider in the Baltic region and also offers gambling options in Belarus, Italy, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia. Overall, the company manages 125 land-based casinos and 33 sports betting outlets.

Director of Business Development and Land-Based Sales at Evolution Gaming James Stern said that inclusion on OEG’s brands strengthen their live dealer services and allow the company to add native speaking live tables and environments dedicated to specific gaming markets.

Dual Play Roulette, one of Evolution Gaming’s most popular titles, will also be rolled out with OEG’s brands. Being one of the supplier’s leading convergence solutions, the game will make it possible for the gambling operator to mix its online offering with its brick-and-mortar operations, the company said in a press release.

And the first fully certified Live Casino gaming studio to serve operators in the newly regulated Romanian market will go live later this month, launched by Evolution Gaming in partnership with iSoftBet at the Grand Casino Bucharest. The studio facility will be located on the level below the existing casino gaming floor.

The state-of-the-art Live Casino service from the Grand Casino Bucharest studio initially will offer a selection of Evolution’s core games streamed live to players via desktop, tablet and smartphone.

iSoftBet Chief Executive Officer Nir Elbaz said, “Expansion in regulated markets is one of our key goals and our license in Romania with over 60 certified games is a true testament to that. Partnering with Evolution will allow us to sell a multi-product offering in the market. In light of Evolution’s Live Casino studio build and our regulatory experience, and given the world-class quality of their live games offering, they were the natural partners.”

Evolution Gaming Director of Business Development James Stern added, “The studio location at Grand Casino is perfect. It is a prestigious resort-style venue well known to players in that market, which will add kudos to the new service and help to quickly build trust. Obviously, we are very excited to be launching an additional studio and always had the goal of being the first Live Casino provider certified to go live in this newly regulated market. With our track record of successfully deploying remote studios in other new jurisdictions such as Spain, Belgium and Italy, we are confident that we can achieve another ‘first-to-market’ success for licensees looking to operate in Romania.”