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 News postings tend to go out of date quite quickly but in case you're interested in the old postings, all of them are collected here.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

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

18th Nov 2024
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

14th Oct 2024
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

18th Sep 2024
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

9th Jul 2024
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

18th Jun 2024
Paddy's Mansion Heist, A New Live Game

Paddy’s Mansion Heist is a Playtech live casino game show that is exclusive to Paddy Power and was launched in June 2024. A True Exclusive Operator branded exclusive games are not a new idea and indeed, Paddy Power already has several, but they normally are not true exclusives: Games like Branded Megaways and Branded Slingo [...]

By Sue Dawson

13th Jun 2024
Bingo & Slots News May 2024

Bingo Specials At Playtech bingo sites, a series of escalator jackpot promotions are running every Wednesday and Sunday in May. Unlike in many previous versions of the promotion where the escalator moved up gradually over the course of an evening starting at 6pm, this time they’re not messing around – each escalator only lasts an [...]

By Sue Dawson

2nd May 2024
Slot Games Get Top Billing at tombola

For many years, tombola have resisted mixing bingo with slot and casino games. Originally the site was strictly bingo only. In 2016, after it became apparent that many bingo players also like to play slots and instant win games, they introduced tombola arcade. It’s a separate site, playable with the same login and wallet and [...]

By Sue Dawson

19th Apr 2024
Animingo, A New Bingo Game From Pragmatic Play

What Is Animingo? Just in time for Easter 2024, Pragmatic Play have launched a new bingo game called Animingo. It’s 50 ball bingo, but without any of those pesky numbers. Instead, there are 50 different cute animals – a frog, a seal, and owl, polar and brown bears, an ostrich, a lion, a unicorn and [...]

By Sue Dawson

28th Mar 2024
Stake Limits Coming On Slots And Slingo

Last week, maximum stake limits for online slot games were announced, to come into force in September this year. The announcement came from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (which has responsibility for gambling), i.e. directly from the UK government rather from the regulator (the UK Gambling Commission). The plan requires secondary legislation which [...]

By Sue Dawson

29th Feb 2024
Escalator Jackpots at Dragonfish

Dragonfish Escalator Jackpots – How They Work Escalator jackpot promotions are amongst the most popular of all bingo promotions and it’s not hard to see why; bingo games become much more exciting when there is a substantial jackpot that is guaranteed to drop within a specified time frame. UK bingo players are used to this [...]

By Sue Dawson

25th Jan 2024
Q&A with 4ThePlayer

At Best New Bingo Sites we’re always interested in hearing about the latest innovations in slot games. I caught up with Henry McLean, the co-founder and commercial and marketing director at 4ThePlayer for an inside angle from one of the industry’s leading challenger brand game suppliers. Q: How did you first get started in slot [...]

By Sue Dawson

22nd Dec 2023