News

Although we've been writing about online bingo since 2013, news postings are a relatively recent feature to arrive at Best New Bingo Sites - in summer 2017. News postings tend to go out of date quite quickly but in case you're interested in the old postings, all of them are collected here.

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Entain Reinvent Slot Tournaments

Why Slot Tournaments Needed Reinventing Slot tournaments are not a new idea. Bingo and slots sites have been running promotions for many years that involve playing slots competitively against other players. In the earliest slot tournaments, scoring was based on total wagering which meant they were basically competitions to see who could spend the most […]
By Sue Dawson
Mecca Bingo's Got Talent

What Is Mecca Bingo’s Got Talent? Mecca Bingo’s Got Talent is a HUGE promotion running at, you guessed it, Mecca Bingo until 5th June 2022. The promotions are based around the latest season of Britain’s Got Talent and as the official bingo partner of the show, Mecca have secured plenty of money-can’t-buy prizes. Judges’ Jackpot: […]
By Sue Dawson
Win A Mini Cooper At Heart Bingo

From 25th March till 24th April 2022, Heart Bingo are running a HUGE prize draw promotion with a top prize of a Mini Cooper Sport worth £23,000. There’s lots of other prizes too. What You Can Win 1st – Mini Cooper Sport 2nd – £500.00 cash 3rd – £400.00 cash 4th – £200.00 cash 5th – […]
By Sue Dawson
Bloom, A New Game At Tombola

Back before Christmas, Tombola introduced a new game called Winter Spotlight. One of the things that was new and different about this games was that it was a seasonal special, designed to have a limited run. Now, Tombola have launched another seasonal special game – Bloom. When Winter Spotlight ended its run at the beginning […]
By Sue Dawson
£1 Million Virtue Fusion Slots Prize Draw

What Is The Virtue Fusion £1 Million Slots Draw? Starting today (4th March 2022) and for the next 4 weeks, Virtue Fusion bingo sites are running a £1 million slots prize draw promotion with tens of thousands of cash prizes, ranging in value from £10 to £5000, to be won over 8 prize draws. If […]
By Sue Dawson
March Millions at Tombola

March Millions is the latest promotion from Tombola Bingo, with £1 million to be won altogether over the month. Unusually for a Tombola promotion, the £1 million consists entirely of guaranteed prize money for special promotional bingo games. Tombola have run big money games before but this schedule takes it to a whole new level! […]
By Sue Dawson
Love To Win at Mecca Bingo

What is Love To Win? At Mecca Bingo they love to go large with their promotions and Love To Win, which started this week and runs all the way until 25th March, is no exception. Love To Win is a prize draw that takes place live every Friday on the Love To Win Mecca TV […]
By Sue Dawson
Entain Go Large On Player Protection

Entain, the operator behind household names like Ladbrokes Bingo and Gala Bingo, have recently made changes to their sites as part of their long term safer gambling strategy which bring player protection to the fore. One of the changes is obvious to everyone – instead being hidden away in the footer, the link to Safer […]
By Sue Dawson
Free Vibes, A New Free Daily Game At Tombola

What Is Free Vibes? Tombola‘s free daily game Merge, which was launched in May 2021, was removed in November 2021 to make way for the Tombola Advent Calendar and other Christmas promotions. Instead of returning after New Year, it’s been retired and replaced for 2022 by a brand new game, Free Vibes. Many daily free […]
By Sue Dawson
We Won Another Award

Back in February 2019, Best New Bingo Sites won the iGB Affiliate Award for Best Bingo Website against some stiff competition. And now, we’ve done it again, or rather FTD Digital (the parent organisation of our sister site WDW Bingo as well as us) has done it. This latest award is the EGR Operator Award […]
By Sue Dawson
Winter Spotlight at Tombola

Winter Spotlight is a new single ticket, multi stake bingo game at Tombola, and something of a new departure in that it is a seasonally themed game that is only going to be around for a limited period of about 6 weeks. It’s also one of Tombola’s best games yet- to find out why, read […]
By Sue Dawson
Dragonfish Sold To Broadway Gaming

Every now and again, a piece of news about mergers and acquisitions sends a seismic shock through the world of online bingo. On 15th December 2021, the biggest shock piece of news of this type broke since Entain (then GVC) bought Cozy all the way back in November 2017. Broadway Gaming, the operators of Butlers […]
By Sue Dawson