Launches and sign-ups extra 19 September 2014
A round-up of the latest launches and deals in the egaming industry including Evolution Gaming and Realistic Games
Live dealer supplier Evolution Gaming has struck a deal with Royal Panda to provide its full portfolio of games to the new online casino.
Live roulette, blackjack, baccarat and casino hold’em are now all available to Royal Panda customers under a new ‘live casino’ tab on the site, as well as VIP tables, slingshot auto roulette and multi-camera roulette.
“As one of the best performing new online casinos of 2014, RoyalPanda.com aims to offer its players the best games around, so we’re delighted to add Evolution’s world-leading Live Casino games to our portfolio,” Royal Panda director, Mark Podd, said.
“Whether players are sat at their desktop or using their tablets or mobile phones, there really is nothing quite like playing Evolution’s Live Casino games,” he added.
Online slots supplier Realistic Games has shifted its operations to bigger offices in Reading after a year of what it described as “unprecedented growth”.
The company relocated from its previous headquarters in Oxfordshire to the Reading Bridge House in Reading after signing a number of deals with major UK operators including William Hill, Gala Coral and Gaming Realms.
“We have some ambitious plans for the business and felt that relocating would help to facilitate them,” commercial director, Andy Harris, said.
“The new offices provide a really enjoyable and creative environment for our existing team, whilst making it easier to attract further talent to the company,” he added.
Online gaming operator Betclic has announced that it is the new sponsor of Italian football club Fiorentina.
The partnership will see Betclic branding inside Fiorentina’s Stadio Franchi in Florence, plus a number of online initiatives through the club’s social and digital platforms.
“This collaboration is another step towards leaving traditional forms of sponsorship behind us. It will also help us to find new ways of interacting with our fans, which we hope will strengthen the club’s relationship with its supporters,” Gian Luca Baiesi, Fiorentina executive director, said.
“We are also convinced that, thanks to the support of the whole Viola team and the club’s fans, we will be able to forge a new sponsorship model with a strong onus on more interactive participation from the supporters,” Francesco Postiglione, director of Betclic, added.
“We’ll learn as we move forward through the season in order to perfect our engagement activities, so that we can make the Fiorentina experience a unique one for the fans.”
NextGen Gaming, the Australia-based slots studio of NYX Gaming, has launched its Gorilla Go Wild online slots game on William Hill Las Vegas, the latest title developed between the two companies.
“Slot games with high production values and deep feature enhancement as seen in Gorilla Go Wild are key to extending player lifetime, by providing an immersive and entertaining gaming experience,” Will Mathieson, Slots Operations Manager at William Hill, said.
“I look forward to working with NextGen on future slots games and concepts,” he added.
EnergyCasino is aiming to expand beyond its core Central European markets after the online casino brand signed deals with game suppliers Net Entertainment and Microgaming.
The deals will see EnergyCasino expand its current portfolio of gaming content already provided by Greentube following its parent company Probe Investments receiving three new licences from the Maltese regulator the Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA).
“After the huge success that EnergyCasino has achieved in Central Europe, we have decided to spread positive energy to other European countries as markets, and the portfolio of EnergyCasino games will be soon updated with hot new titles,” Marcin Sapinski, EnergyCasino marketing director, said.
Social casino start-up Plumbee has launched a revamped mobile version of its flagship Mirrorball Slots app on iOS as it aims to become a true “multi-platform” operator.
The app was re-launched on the Apple App Store earlier this week for both iPhone and iPad under the new name of Mirrorball Slots: Kingdom of Riches and includes a range of new features.
Mirrorball Slots was first launched on mobile in July 2013 but had failed to achieve the growth in revenue and users Plumbee had originally hoped for.
888 has unveiled a tranche of mobile updates this week as its mobile sportsbook, bingo and poker apps all received upgrades.
The operator signed an agreement with sports rights agency Sportsman Media Group to integrate live streaming services into its sportsbook app for the first time, replicating moves by other sports betting firms.
The service, dubbed BetWatchWin by 888, was launched last weekend and allows users who bet a minimum of £1 on any market or who just have funds in their account to then watch events unfold live.
Virtual world technology and games developer FlowPlay has announced the launch of a new sports betting feature for its flagship Vegas World app.
BetZone incorporates multiplayer sports betting into the MMORPG game and allows players to bet using virtual currency on sporting events such as the NFL and MLB World Series.
The new in-app offering is based around a virtual environment enabling players to chat, exchange drink charms and player multiplayer casino games such as blackjack and poker.