Party Gaming Adds Instant Banking Service

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor February 24, 2009                 Party Gaming, an online casino provider that made headlines this year for its involvement with the Department of Justice, announced today that it has launched an Instant Internet banking feature, which will allow players to make financial transactions directly from the website. ESI Entertainment Systems, a … Read more

Woman Sues Casino as an Historic First for Indian Tribes

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor February 21, 2009               While the land casino industry continues to decline, with media outlets reporting Las Vegas as a ghost town in recent months, the last thing the management needs is an injury lawsuit. Perhaps yet another reason why online casino show more growth than land casinos is that … Read more

MMORPG’s Found More Addictive than Online Casino Gambling

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor February 14, 2008               Many anti-gamblers have proclaimed that the internet is a gateway drug of sorts for the problem gambler. Opponents of online casinos argue that such an easily accessible industry opens the door for gambling addictions in youth. However, recent studies show that MMORPG’s, or Massively Multiplayer Online … Read more

A Rise in Live Casino Gaming

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor February 7, 2009                Online casinos that offer a live dealer option have begun to flourish in the industry, as it builds a level of trust not always believed to be there. This feature is quickly gaining momentum in internet casinos. A number of gambling websites have begun to add … Read more

Florida Man Steals $1.6 Million to Feed Legal Gambling Addiction

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor January 27, 2009                While the U.S. government recently saw the reimplementation of the UIGEA, it continues to protect the domestic market in allowing online horse racing wagers. Although many representatives feel that online casino gambling is dangerous in that it will lead to problem gambling, it was inevitably the … Read more

IGT Stock Down Significantly in the Last Quarter

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor January 23, 2009                 International Gaming Technology, or IGT, a Reno-based slots machine giant and online and mobile gaming provider, is struggling to make its goals this year – showing a 42 percent reduction in the Q4 revenue from this time last year. According to reports released on Thursday, IGT … Read more

Strip Casinos Lean Toward Internet Gambling

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor January 8, 2009                 Land casinos continue to struggle with the plummeting U.S. economy, with revenues expected to decline into 2010. The customer base is thinning as middle class Americans reprioritize their finances. The same cannot be said of online casinos, which continue to flourish, despite the recession, and their … Read more

Online Casinos More Popular than Prostitution

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor December 20, 2008                 The public is astonished by the growing success of online casino gambling during an economic crisis, calling it a recession-proof industry. While many land casinos are on the brink of bankruptcy, recent internet marketing surveys show a dramatic increase of in the number of visitors to … Read more

Opposition to Australian Internet Censorship

by Hillary LaClair, Senior Editor December 11, 2008                 The move by a group of Australian politicians to censor internet content, including online casinos, was not well received this week. Government officials had requested that a two-tier filtering system be implemented by Internet Service Providers during a trial period, to determine whether Internet censorship would … Read more