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As ICE London prepares to take eSports to the next level with a brand new, state-of-the-art Esports Arena combining live tournaments, demonstrations, workshops and world class eSports players, the event organiser’s Head of eSports, William Harding, reflects on why the ICE brand is primed to deliver the third age for the increasingly popular betting sector.  From his early days playing Warcraft 3, and his role in embedding Twitch.tv within Europe, Harding is well versed in the international arena and explores his passion for players, the need for industry-wide eSports education and where

The casino industry is thriving in 2019 and looks set to continue that way in 2020. Indeed, the industry, on the whole, is set to be worth $94.4 billion by 2024. The online sector of the casino industry is seeing more sites appear yearly, and a huge boom in customers to take advantage of the industry’s overall growth. As such, there are a lot of casino operators online that customers have to choose from. So, what can casino sites do to ensure they stand out from the pack?

Atlantic City, N.J. (January 2, 2020) – Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City is kicking off 2020 by extending their “Pro Football Pick ‘Em Challenge,” launching a new menu in Hard Rock Cafe, offering Dim Sum for the Chinese New Year and introducing NuFace and NuBody products in Rock Spa® & Salon. Entertainment continues to hit a high note with the return of boxing and Latin-music icon Marc Anthony taking center stage among many others performing at the resort destination.

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Macau has become the biggest gambling destination in the world, outdoing Las Vegas several times over. From 2014 onwards, the expansion of Macau’s Cotai Strip was set to double the Chinese territory’s annual gaming revenues to $115 billion. That was a forecast laid down for 2017, but at the close of 2019, Macau looked to be on the decline.

The minds behind casinoaward.net have launched a challenge for all the key players within the igaming industry. The name of the initiative is “Bet On 0GREEN”. Casinoaward.net is a rather new site that focuses on online casino topics, such as bonuses and promotions, responsible gambling, and industry news. The challenge they have launched is quite unique, since it deals with renewable energy.

By:  David Clifton, Director, Clifton Davies Consultancy Limited

By: Natalia Pakhomovska, Partner, head of IP&T practice at Kyiv office of DLA Piper & Ivan Shatov, Associate, IP&T practice at Kyiv office of DLA Piper

Interview with Paul Pellizzari, Vice President of Global Social Responsibility for Hard Rock International by: Victor H. Royer

Casino Life magazine recently had the opportunity to interview Paul Pellizzari, Vice President of Global Social Responsibility for Hard Rock International, which is the first US-based gaming company to develop its own fully-immersive, branded casino-and-player interactive program for responsible gaming, called the PlayersEdge.

Casino’s story is one of success despite the odds. Russian casinos began to flourish in the nineties but as the millennium kicked in they became prolific. As of 2002, Russia was host to 58 casinos (30 in Moscow alone), 2,000 gambling parlours and as many as 70,000 slot machines that were loosely regulated and beginning to cause social problems. The Russian government, led by Vladimir Putin, identified this and acted decisively.

What Does the Future of Online Casinos Look Like?

As a section of gaming, online casinos have consistently stood as some of the most progressive. From the early days of running over 56k connections to the modern age of smartphone adoption, whenever a leap in technology was made, online casinos would soon be there to follow.