Having signed an exclusive agreement with Kurastica, Cryptologic is now able to continue its expansion into the new markets, this time in the Commonwealth of Independent States a very promising market.

Kurastica’s parent company has becpme known for itss succesful gaming business in Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus and some ex Soviet Union countries.

Kurastica will be able to use Cryptologic’s software only in the first quarter of 2009.

The latest winning of the progressive jackpot worth Euro 501,000 at Europa Casino indicates that the casino is growing and enjoys benefits from the thriving online gambling industry in Europe.

The winner is DuarteF, a Portuguese gambler who frequents the online casino site. He was playing Playtech’s Global Traveler 5-reel, 20 pay-line progressive slots game.

Now, the Global Traveller is at its minimum and has started building up again.

No one will doubt the fact that there are lots of vacancies for software development companies in the online casino gambling industry. So, having spent two years in development, forming the games, honing the technology and developing a portfolio of games, Wizard Gaming is known to have received its first licensee. Now, company’s games are available through GoldRockCasino.com.

To start with, GoldRockCasino.com offers Wizard’s 21 video slots titles via download. Some more slots titles and progressive slots that are so popular in the gaming community are to be launched in the nearest future.

Wizard is planning its further development with the extensive offer of a great number of online casino games, slots titles, table games, and perhaps even poker down the line.

In the competitive world of the internet gambling the appearance of new technologies and gaming formats is unavoidable. So, Party Gaming after two years of brand reestablishment and new player base development launched a live dealer format at the site’s casino and poker sites.

The company has been looking for a niche at the European market, and the live dealer agreement of Party Gaming with Evolution gaming will for sure help them achieve their goal.

The fairly new technology, the live dealer format is thought to be a very good means in the intense competition at the European internet gambling market.

The CEO at Party Gaming, Jim Ryan notes: “We believe that live casino will gain us access to players who enjoy and prefer the experience of watching croupiers dealing cards or spinning roulette wheels and calling ‘place your bets’ in real time that’s great, live online gaming entertainment.”

Austria is showing increased number of online gamblers. Online betting is very popular there and Austria’s gross gaming revenues are on the rise this year.

The Austrian betting market demonstrates significant overall increase of 12.4% for the country’s 50% yearly growth.

The gambling and betting industries’ analysts predict the European online casino and sportsbetting industries will grow at huge rates. As for the Austrian market, it will slow down on yearly gross revenue growth two year after its massive growth.

Baby Boomers: Cash Cruise is another i-slot game launched by Club Vegas USA. It is a 15-line, 5-coin i-Slot game that has free spins, expanding wilds, multiplier and four absolutely new bonus rounds.

The player starts his journey in the “Travel Agency” and then visits the randomly selected various places via the bonus round.

Club Vegas USA offers gigantic 300% bonus and an ongoing $20,000 bonus promotion.

For further information, go to www.clubvegasusa.com.

Blackberry, in its attempt to expand into the mobile gaming industry, has announced a new application for its users.

The application will make it possible for US mobile gamers to enjoy sportsbetting without the illegal aspect to the game. Gamblers will have instant access to wagering odds and regularly updated information on sporting events. But please note that the only form of wagering is free-money.

The application announced is compatible with Blackberry and is a SportsLine. The BBSportsLines free application is an alternative for Blackberry devices.

Sophie M from Peterborough turned out to be the first dual jackpot winner at William Hill. The first time she was playing on the Pharaoh’s Treasure slot game and won EUR 102,000. Her second winning came one month after the first one. This time she was playing Gold Rush Showdown and won EUR 84,978.

In spite of the fact that lots of Asian governments ban internet gambling, it has become very popular in the Asian Pacific gaming market and lots of online casino gambling companies are trying to enter or have already entered the market.

Thus, CryptoLogic has teamed up with Mahjong Time to offer Mahjong gaming products appealing to the Asian market.
The idea of that partnership is for international software developers like CryptoLogic to secure brand preference before online casino legislation is even passed. In fact, the popularity of Mahjong gaming in Asia proves to be very lucrative for the software development company as more internet based games come into demand in the coming months.

After the implementation of UIGEA, some of the land gambling companies started looking for the ways to attract more gamblers to their land casinos.

Thus, Foxwoods Casino offers internet gamers the opportunity to play slot machines and other games for free. Meanwhile the players will be earning credits redeemable at the land casino. The similar online marketing campaign is offered by the Pauma Tribe in California.

Online marketing techniques used to attract gamblers to land casinos really proved to be a success for Foxwoods some time ago. As for the Pauma tribe, despite some legality problems, they can celebrate success as well.