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 News postings tend to go out of date quite quickly but in case you're interested in the old postings, all of them are collected here.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

It's National Bingo Week Again!

What is National Bingo Week? National Bingo Week 2025 is an expansion of National Bingo Day and runs from 23rd – 29th June. National Bingo Day 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) in [...]
By Sue Dawson
Grace Media Casinos Offline For Nearly A Week

On Tuesday 10th June, the Grace Media network of online casinos and bingo sites went offline “for a few hours” so that an lobby upgrade could be done. At many of these sites, players were notified about this a couple of weeks in advance and promised that: “Not only will our new lobby be quicker [...]
By Sue Dawson
Mecca Bingo Mega Money Live

Mecca Bingo first introduced a live stream (Mecca TV) into their bingo rooms some years ago and at first glance the Mecca Bingo Mega Money Live Hour, which debuts on Friday 6th June and looks set to be a monthly occurrence, seems to be more of the same. OK so there’s a big money game [...]
By Sue Dawson
Relax Gaming Dream Drop New Daily Jackpots

What Is Dream Drop? Dream Drop by Relax Gaming is a progressive jackpot network that was launched relatively recently, in 2022. It’s unusual in that Relax have tweaked the jackpot mechanism in response to player feedback not once, but twice. Dream Drop was originally a 5 level jackpot with Mega, Major, Maxi, Midi and Rapid [...]
By Sue Dawson
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