The strength of the casino market on the Strip is brightening up financial reports, as are domestic markets in general. (Image: Gavin Hellier / Getty Images) A booming Las Vegas Strip helped Nevada’s casino giants to a positive Q3, as MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment Corp and...

Rock ‘n’ roll was cultivated in the United States, but Hard Rock is hoping to take its casino act to Japan. (Image: Chris Harris/thetimes.co.uk) Hard Rock Café International Inc. is the latest casino company in the United States to set its sights on Japan. The privately owned Florida-based...

    A view of the lobby following an official opening ceremony for the Downtown Grand in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013.   The Downtown Grand has a slate of new executives. Management announced today that Marie Ramsey was hired as chief financial...

    Instead of waiting for the California General Assembly to enact regulations for online poker in the state, an Indian tribe in the state has taken the bold step of opening up their own online poker room that will test several state and federal laws. Late last week, the...

  LONDON -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Cutting-edge casino games provider BetOnSoft today announces that it has rebranded to Saucify. The new brand name is evocative of adding sauce to a dish to make it more exciting and flavorsome, exactly what Saucify has been doing for the past eight years in the...

    LAS VEGAS -- IGT - International Game Technology’s $6.4 billion buyout at the hands of lottery giant GTECH Corporation was all about timing. After years without consolidation of the manufacturing side of the gaming industry, the deal between Italy-based GTECH and Nevada-based...

  (PRESS RELEASE) -- Card Player Media has announced that he next exciting stop on the Card Player Poker Tour will take place at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California with a nine-tournament series beginning September 21. The highlight of the series will be the $1,000 no-limit...

D-Day for 2016 Presidential Election: As Americans Cast Votes, Bookmakers Hold Breath November 08, 2016 By Kevin Horridge The 2016 US presidential election is finally here. It’s been 576 days since Democrat Hillary Clinton formally announced her White House aspirations on April 12, 2015....

Internet Gaming Disorder is far less common than problem gambling says a new study, which did not find a clear link between potential addiction and negative effects on health. (Image: Shutterstock) Online gaming is not as addictive as gambling, according to a new clinical study by Oxford...

  Mel Evans / AP The Trump Plaza towers over Vera Coking’s three-story rooming house Wednesday, July 23, 2015, in Atlantic City. The decrepit boarding home owned by the Atlantic City woman who has been turning down multimillion-dollar offers for the building in the shadow of Trump Plaza...

  Steve Marcus An exterior view of the Wynn and Encore Tuesday, November 15, 2011.   Wynn Resorts Ltd.'s second-quarter earnings increased 57 percent, bolstered by strong results in Las Vegas. The casino operator's adjusted profit topped analysts' estimates, but revenue...

  Nevada’s population puts it in the lower half of the states in the U.S. The Silver State’s 14-month old regulated online poker industry, while not a bust by any means, has not seen the success that people envisioned. Something needs to be done to wake things up and looks like...

    Day 3 of the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was the first day of the tournament in which all remaining players were competing at the same time, the first without a letter suffix. 1,871 players began the day with their eyes still set on the prize, but only...

    Yggdrasil Gaming, a leading Swedish online casino games developer, has revealed that it has expanded its senior team by appointing Ulf Norder, an online gaming expert, as its Business Development Director. Click for Yggdrasil Gaming Casinos Norder will be based in...

  Mansion Casino, the flagship site of the prestigious Mansion Group of casinos, is celebrating the fact that it has been ten years in the business by running a great “10 Year Giveaway” Promotion at the site. Click for Mansion Casino Review The “10 Year Giveaway” Promotion...

    Net Entertainment, the Swedish world leading casino software developing company, has announced that it has signed a contract with Bwin.Party. They will be providing Bwin.Party digital entertainment, an all round online gambling entertainment provider that operates several...