CasinoBeats Digest: 31/05
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WEEKLY INSIGHTS
Off the back of the CasinoBeats Summit in Malta, the gambling industry heads into a vital period for many regulatory frameworks, including the UK.?It can’t be doubted that the eyes of Europe and various markets will be closely fixed on the UK, awaiting the outcome of new regulations and taking a closer look at their impact. However, they will have to wait as the resignation of the Gambling Minister and a snap election has left the region in something of a limbo.?These past two weeks on CasinoBeats, we have taken a closer look at UK regulation and provided insights into a myriad of regulatory changes across the igaming globe.
TOP STORY
Resignation of Gambling Minister leaves industry with further election uncertainty?
The formal resignation of Stuart Andrew caused further disruption to the UK gambling sector as it awaits its fate on new frameworks being implemented.?
FEATURED
Aideen Short, Advisor to the Cura?ao Gaming Control Board, provided a deeper analysis of the region’s latest developments and how the market is looking to evolve as an igaming jurisdiction.?
Player preferences and trends need to shape the future of innovation within igaming, according to a panel at the CasinoBeats Summit in Malta.?
NUMBERS
6.95%
Nevada Gaming Control Boardrevealed that statewide gaming revenue improved by 6.95 per cent year-over-year in April to $1.24bn.
DKK 595m
Spillemyndigheden, the Danish gambling authority, has reported DKK 595m (€79.8m) in gross gaming revenue for April, down from the DKK 640m GGR during the same month last year.
?VIDEO OF THE WEEK
领英推荐
The potential impact of the UK’s snap election called by PM Rishi Sunak on gambling regulation was analysed on a recent episode of iGaming Daily.
WEEKLY INSIGHTS
Amidst industry events and several expansion-fuelled partnerships, the month of May has seen slot production kicked up a notch, with studios continuing to churn out new games, tapping into new themes and formats.?As the month draws to a close, this week saw Blueprint Gaming utilise IP from an ever-popular cartoon, Amusnet placed a Bulgarian football superstar under the spotlight and Swintt’s Elysium Studios clinched our Slot of the Week award.
SLOT OF THE WEEK
Mesopotamian mayhem ensues in Swintt & Elysium Studios’ SOTW win
Elysium Studios, a subsidiary of Swintt, set the reels alight with Mesopotamian multipliers to clinch Slot of the Week with Law of Gilgamesh.?
LATEST SLOTS
Blueprint Gaming has transported players to the town of Bedrock for a Yabba-Dabba-Doo time in The Flintstones.?
Ex-Barcelona and Bulgarian footballing icon Hristo Stoichkov took centre stage in Amusnet’s latest slot release, Stoichkov #8.?
BONUS STORIES
The latest Eilers-Fantini report studied slot performance in the US and Canada across May, with IGT, Evolution and Light & Wonder continuing to sit atop the supplier charts.?
The growing influence of niche games like crash, mine and plinko in the online casino space became a key topic of conversation at last week’s CasinoBeats Summit.?
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