Dutch Gaming Authority Projects 15 Percent Market Growth

The Dutch online gaming market is projected to grow 15 percent in 2023. That’s the prediction by Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Dutch gaming authority. KSA stated, “This fourth monitoring report...

Published May 8, 2023

RMG Pays £117.6 to Racetracks

RMG (Racecourse Media Group) has paid out £117.6 million to its member racecourses for 2022. The profits were generated from media and data rights paid by betting shops, online...

Published May 8, 2023

U.K. White Paper Elicits Varied Reactions

The U.K.’s long awaited gambling white paper, spearheaded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, was finally released late last month, and so far the reforms have garnered...

Published May 8, 2023

Ontario Casino Reopens After Ransomware Attack

Two weeks after being brought to its knees by a ransomware hack attack, Gateway Casino in London, Ontario reopened on May 1. Now Gateway is reopening the rest of...

Published May 8, 2023

NSW Pubs Skirt Machine Count Limits by Combining Rooms

Regulators in New South Wales recently ordered two Sydney pubs to disconnect their gaming areas—the two venues had offered dual access in efforts to skirt machine count limits. ...

Published May 8, 2023

ACMA Fines Entain for Offering Online In-Play Bets

In-play bets cannot be offered in a purely online format in Australia. Entain found that out the hard way when it was fined by the Australian Communications and Media...

Published May 8, 2023

Grupo Televisa to Spin off Gambling, Soccer

Grupo Televisa, which is the largest media conglomerate in Mexico, has obtained permission from its shareholders to spin off part of its business to create a “gambling and soccer”...

Published May 8, 2023

Canada: Westlock County Voices Support of Capital Casino Relocation

Officials in Westlock County have reached out to the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission asking it to approve the relocation of Capital City’s Camrose Resort Casino (l.) to...

Published May 8, 2023

PH Resorts Hopes to Jumpstart Philippines IR

PH Resorts Group, a unit of Philippines business conglomerate Udenna Group, is hoping investors will enable it to resume construction on a stalled integrated resort in Cebu.

Published May 8, 2023

Mohegan Inspire on Track to Open This Year

Mohegan Gaming’s long-awaited South Korean resort, Inspire, is set to open in late 2023, according to the U.S.-based tribal gaming enterprise. Inspire will include a foreigners-only casino.

Published May 8, 2023

Japan IR Opening Pushed Out to 2030

Japan’s first casino, to be built on Yumeshima Island in Osaka Bay, is now set to open in 2030, a year later than recently planned. The resort is a...

Published May 8, 2023

Macau GGR Hits Three-Year High

Macau casinos posted brisk gaming revenues for April, up 450 percent year on year and more than 15 percent from the previous month. Tourism was healthy for the Labor...

Published May 8, 2023

Illinois Approves Hollywood Joliet, Aurora Relocations

The Illinois Gaming Board approved Penn Entertainment’s request to move Hollywood Casino Joliet to Rock Run Crossings and Hollywood Casino Aurora to an Interstate 88 site.

Published May 8, 2023

Urban One Completes Divestment of MGM Stake

Urban One has completed the sale of its minority stake in MGM National Harbor (l.), receiving $136.8 million after MGM bought back all of the media company’s investment.

Published May 8, 2023

Station Casino Project Approved In Nevada

The Henderson City Council unanimously approved Station Casino’s purchase of 3.8 acres for the Station Inspirada casino resort, opening in March 2025.

Published May 8, 2023

Virginia’s Third Casino Opens May 15

Caesars Virginia will open a 40,000-square-foot temporary facility in Danville on May 15, becoming the state’s third casino. The permanent $400 million facility (l.), opening in late 2024, is...

Published May 8, 2023

Caesars Invests $100 Million in Paris LV Hotel Tower Renovation

Caesars Entertainment will invest $100 million to renovate the Jubilee Tower from Horseshoe Las Vegas and connect it to Paris Las Vegas (l.) by a new pedestrian bridge, the...

Published May 8, 2023

Genting Abandons Miami, Looks to New York

In 2011, Genting Malaysia acquired a bayfront parcel in Miami with plans to develop a casino there. Now the company will sell that prime real estate to a Florida...

Published May 8, 2023

Virginia Cities Continue Casino Competition

The competition for a casino continues in Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia. After Richmond voters rejected casino gambling in 2021, Petersburg lawmakers maneuvered to block a do-over, and aim to...

Published May 8, 2023

Coney Island Leaders Reject Casino Proposal

A community board appointed by Brooklyn borough and council members passed a resolution that overwhelmingly rejects the proposal for a Coney Island casino.

Published May 8, 2023