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 News postings tend to go out of date quite quickly but in case you're interested in the old postings, all of them are collected here.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

Age of the Gods Bingo

Age of the Gods Bingo is a new network bingo room at Virtue Fusion bingo sites, themed on the Age of the Gods slots by Playtech. Most of the games in the new room are straightforward 90 ball bingo but some games add a feature game, Arena of the Gods, for the full house winner. [...]

By Sue Dawson

20th Sep 2018
Best Odds Bingo Arrives at Mecca Bingo

Best Odds Bingo aka BOB is the new 50 ball “equal chance” online bingo game at Mecca Bingo. The game itself is just 50 ball bingo (albeit with some pretty graphics) – what makes it different is the way the room and ticket sales are set up. Everyone has the same number of tickets at [...]

By Sue Dawson

18th Sep 2018
Red Hot Chilli Themed Slots!

Some themes for online slot games are perennially popular – think gems, Egypt, Irish luck, vampires, Vikings – but players are also always on the lookout for something new and different. The current fad seems to be for slot games themed on red hot chilli peppers and several have been released during 2018. Chilli Gold [...]

By Sue Dawson

11th Sep 2018
Blocks - A New Bingo Game At Tombola

What is Blocks? Earlier this week Tombola launched their brand new bingo game Blocks. Not to be confused with Blox Bingo at Gamesys which is just 90 ball bingo with a feature round, Blocks is a genuinely new concept in bingo. Blocks has much in common with Tombola’s earlier game Pulse: It’s a multi stake [...]

By Sue Dawson

3rd Aug 2018
Goodbye Dragonfish Million Pound Sliding Jackpot Bingo Games

For many years a signature promotion of the Dragonfish network has been a sliding jackpot bingo game on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings with a headline prize of a million pounds. Wednesday’s game has a £1 ticket price, Friday’s a £1.50 ticket price and Saturday’s a 50p ticket price and in each case the baseline [...]

By Sue Dawson

24th Jul 2018
Rainbow Riches Slingo At Gala Bingo

Rainbow Riches Slingo is a new twist on Britain’s best known slot machine. Not to be confused with Rainbow Riches Bingo, the 40 ball bingo game that plays across the Virtue Fusion network, the new game is a version of Slingo by Gaming Realms. As a result of a special deal, Rainbow Riches Slingo is [...]

By Sue Dawson

18th May 2018
Where Did All The Cartoon Characters Go?

In the last week or so a massive purge has taken place in the world of online bingo (and is still going on, with some sites yet to react). It all started back in October when the Gambling Commission wrote to operators regarding the use of images in their advertising that are likely to appeal [...]

By Sue Dawson

30th Nov 2017
White Rabbit - The Next Big Thing In Slot Games?

If you’re at all aware of new slot releases you’ve probably heard of the Danger High Voltage slot game which came out earlier this year. Big Time Gaming, the makers of this slot, specialise in creating super volatile slots for maximum excitement and this isn’t just for players but also for the audience who enjoy [...]

By Sue Dawson

15th Nov 2017
Mysterious Licensing Change at Cozy Bingo Sites

Since November 2014 all Cozy bingo sites and casino sites have been covered by the licence issued to Cozy Games Management Limited by the UK Gambling Commission – reference 38719. A visit to the Gambling Commission public register, however, reveals that not only is this no longer the case, but the licence apparently doesn’t exist! [...]

By Sue Dawson

7th Nov 2017
Mecca Bingo Set A New World Record

We’ve recently seen world records set by UK bingo sites for the biggest bingo balls and the biggest bingo card – but Mecca Bingo have done something a bit different and smashed the world record for the largest game of office bingo (previously set at 97 participants by a team of TaskUs employees in the [...]

By Sue Dawson

15th Sep 2017
888 hit with massive fine

In May this year 888 Holdings – who hold the licence for all Dragonfish and Cassava bingo sites as well as dozens of slots sites – disclosed that their licence was under review by the UK Gambling Commission and part of the reason for this was rumoured to be an inadequate self exclusion system. In the [...]

By Sue Dawson

1st Sep 2017
New tax means big changes at Cozy bingo sites

POCT stands for Point of Consumption Tax and POCT2 – a new tax which took effect on 1st August – extends the tax to bonuses. This makes no deposit bonuses a critically endangered species, as operators simply cannot afford to pay 15% tax in cash on a bonus they give to someone who then never [...]

By Sue Dawson

2nd Aug 2017