Facebook has once again expanded its social gaming options. On Wednesday, Facebook Fantasy Games went live in the United States and Canada, offering fun and social format for users to make predictions on upcoming sports events, television shows, and pop culture. Prediction games are popular among fantasy sports fans, but their introduction on Facebook introduces…
Gaming tribes have long resisted the allure of online gambling, but the repeal of PASPA and the ongoing pandemic has tribes rethinking their online strategy.
The COVID-19 pandemic derailed the 2020 gaming conference schedule, sending numerous events online. After having to cancel the 2020 G2E in person show, G2E announced its return in April. G2E 2021 is scheduled for October 4-7 at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. But with the Delta variant raging, the show is becoming…
The gambling industry is usually quite grounded, but it suddenly becomes enlightened and always seems to have an eye towards the future when it comes to customers. As Yoda said, and using Luke as a proxy for the gambling industry, “All his life has he looked away…to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind…
In a press release, Kambi announced the acquisition of Abios, a B2B esports company that provides data, odds, and visualization services to industry operators, including Kindred Group, LeoVegas Group, and Pinnacle Sports, as well as major technology companies such as Microsoft.
In a blog post, Regulus Partners called the use of gross gaming revenue (GGR) to assess the sports betting market fools gold. The reason, in some locales, GGR doesn’t account for promotional spend.
Sports betting and daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings recently announced that its new NFT platform, Reignmakers Marketplace, is now open for business.
After ongoing calls to action, Twitch unveiled a new policy that restricts gambling advertising this week. Specifically, referral links are no longer allowed on the platform. As dotesports.com reported: “In a Creator Update that was shared with users today, Twitch announced that it will prohibit links and referral codes to gambling websites. They claim this…
DraftKings and investment research firm Hindenburg Research are at odds after a report surfaced questioning technology provider SBTech, an entity that merged with DraftKings in 2020 when the company went public. Hindenburg claims that half of SBTech’s revenues came from markets where gambling is illegal.
With the news it’s purchasing online-casino-centric Golden Nugget Online Gaming (GNOG), DraftKings just plugged a glaring hole in its suite of online gambling offerings. The move also puts the rest of the industry on watch, as one of the preeminent US sports betting operators just added one of the preeminent US online casino operators.
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