News

We've been bringing you news flashes from the world of bingo and slots summer 2017. New games, special promotions and other stuff you really need to know! News postings tend to go out of date quite quickly but in case you're interested in the old postings, all of them are collected here.

Latest bingo news

Fishin Frenzy Bingo, But Which One?

What Is Fishin’ Frenzy Bingo? Fishin’ Frenzy Bingo is a bingo game themed on Blueprint Gaming’s incredibly popular series of slot games. Confusingly, there are two completely different versions of it, one brand new and one not so new. Fishin’ Frenzy Bingo – Gamesys Version The recently launched Gamesys version of Fishin’ Frenzy Bingo looks [...]
By Sue Dawson
Bonus and Wagering Changes On The Horizon

Changes coming in December For more than a year, we’ve been waiting for the results of a Gambling Commission consultation on gambling promotional offers following the publication of the Gambling White Paper all the way back in 2023. Finally, the Gambling Commission have announced the action they will be taking – and it’s going to [...]
By Sue Dawson
Pragmatic Play Launch Big Bass Bingo

What Is Big Bass Bingo? A year on from the launch of Animingo, Pragmatic Play have come up with another great new bingo game, this time themed on everyone’s favourite slot game Big Bass Bonanza. Big Bass Bingo is based on 30 ball bingo and played on 3×3 cards with a prize for full house. [...]
By Sue Dawson
Heart Bingo Goes Playtech

On 27th January 2025 Heart Bingo changed its bingo software from Pragmatic Play to Playtech Bingo. This is not the first change of bingo software we’ve seen at Heart in the last few years – the Pragmatic Play bingo rooms had only been in place since autumn 2021 – but given the great reputation and [...]
By Sue Dawson
No More Autoplay On Anything

Today – January 17th 2025 – some regulatory changes came into effect at UK facing online casinos and slot sites. If you like to play live casino games, you’ll probably already have noticed this. Back in October 2021, some slot game design changes were implemented for UK players as mandated by the UK Gambling Commission. [...]
By Sue Dawson
75 Ball Bingo Card Generator Upgrade!

It’s been nearly 3 years since the launch of our awesome bingo card generators and in that time, tens of thousands of printable, playable bingo cards have been created by our users. Some of our most popular card generators are for football, Formula 1, Eurovision and reality TV including Love Island and Strictly, but the [...]
By Sue Dawson
Safer Gambling Week 2024

Here at Best New Bingo Sites we are pleased to support Safer Gambling Week 2024. Safer Gambling Week is an annual cross-industry initiative to promote safer gambling in the United Kingdom and Ireland, coordinated by the Betting & Gaming Council with the support of partners across the industry. It started back in 2017 (when it [...]
By Sue Dawson
Big Money Live at Buzz Bingo

Buzz Bingo have long been one of the bingo industry’s greatest innovators. For example, their live bingo sessions which run from noon until 10pm every day have live streamed video presenters who get properly involved with the bingo games. Now, they have gone one better and brought Buzz Bingo clubs into the equation as well [...]
By Sue Dawson
Bingo & Slots News - Autumn 2024

Now that everyone’s back from summer holidays, UK bingo and slot sites are ramping up their promotions. The biggest promotions won’t appear until Halloween and the run up to Christmas, but there’s plenty to be going on with! Bingo Specials Playtech are once again running an escalator jackpot promotion, in a different bingo room every [...]
By Sue Dawson
The Chase Live at Gala Bingo

The Chase Live is a new live casino game show by Playtech that is exclusive to Entain. You can try it at any Entain site, but Gala Bingo is where the big fanfare is taking place with the creation of The Chase Hub to showcase other The Chase games alongside the new game show. Until [...]
By Sue Dawson
National Bingo Week 2024 - What's On

What is National Bingo Week? National Bingo Week 2024 is an expansion of National Bingo Day and runs from 24th – 30th June. National Bingo Day itself is a fairly recent addition to the UK calendar; the British bingo industry imported the idea from the USA (where there’s a national day for pretty well everything) [...]
By Sue Dawson
Bingo & Slots News June 2024

National Bingo Day is coming up later this month on 27th June, with a whole week of celebration expected to take place this year. Until then, it’s all about the Euros! Bingo Specials Virtue Fusion bingo sites have the £280,000 Footy Bingo Room which runs whenever there’s a match on, each time with a series [...]
By Sue Dawson