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 News postings tend to go out of date quite quickly but in case you're interested in the old postings, all of them are collected here.

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Relax Gaming Bingo Gets An Update

Relax Gaming Bingo – What Is It? Relax Gaming’s bingo product has been around since 2015 but is not well known amongst UK players as it powers just two UK facing sites, Unibet Bingo and bingo.com. Thanks to participation from players in the Nordic countries where it is much more popular, it has plenty of [...]
By Sue Dawson
Safer Gambling Week 2023

Here at Best New Bingo Sites we are pleased to support Safer Gambling Week 2023. 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
Vegas Ball Bonanza - A New Bingo Style Live Game

What Is Vegas Ball Bonanza? Vegas Ball Bonanza is a new live casino game show from Pragmatic Play that owes a great deal to 30 ball bingo. It’s played on 3×3 cards which conform to the usual 30 ball number placement rules with only numbers 1-10 allowed in column 1, only numbers 11-20 allowed in [...]
By Sue Dawson
If You Have A Bonus At Dragonfish, Use It Now!

Last week, many Dragonfish bingo sites and Dragonfish casinos sent an email out to players giving advance warning of a change to their general terms and conditions, to take effect from November 7th 2023. You’ve probably never read the terms and conditions in full, especially now that the significant terms and conditions of any promotion [...]
By Sue Dawson
MrQ Best For Slot Games? - Here's Why!

The wonderful MrQ have put a new behind-the-scenes initiative in place that makes them arguably the best place for UK players to play slot games. To understand just what it is they’ve done that’s so great, we first need to look at the increasingly problematic issue of slot game Return To Player. Slot Game Return [...]
By Sue Dawson
bingo40 is new at tombola

There’s one UK bingo site that is streets ahead of all the others in terms of the number of different sorts of bingo you can play, and that is tombola. And now, just a couple of months after launching the unique bingo game Wordsearch, they have done it again with bingo40! You’re probably thinking that [...]
By Sue Dawson
Wordsearch, a new bingo game at tombola

What is Wordsearch? Wordsearch is a new bingo game that was launched at tombola bingo on 10th July 2023. Following in the footsteps of other tombola exclusive bingo games such as Morph, Wordsearch has NO numbers and no balls. Instead, it’s based on a wildly popular word puzzle in which players must spot the hidden [...]
By Sue Dawson
Summer Specials Week at tombola

Coming up at tombola there’s an extra special lineup of promotions for Summer Specials Week. The promotions are running on site and on tombola social media accounts and there’s more than £200,000 of prizes altogether. Here’s what’s happening: Summer Specials – On site promotions Date Time Where Name of Promotion Details 26th June 9pm-10pm bingo90 [...]
By Sue Dawson
Slingo Bingo at Entain Bingo Sites

What Is Slingo Bingo? Brand new at Entain bingo sites this week is Slingo Bingo, a collaboration between Entain and Gaming Realms (who own the rights to the Slingo brand). Gaming Realms have done many collaborations with other iGaming brands but this one is a bit different; normally they take aspects such as the bonus [...]
By Sue Dawson
The Money Drop Bingo - New On Virtue Fusion

What Is The Money Drop Bingo? The Money Drop Bingo is a new 80 ball bingo game on the Playtech owned Virtue Fusion bingo software. It’s officially themed on the TV Show which has been variously known as The Million Pound Drop and The £100K Drop depending on the prize money on offer; The Money [...]
By Sue Dawson
UK White Paper - What Does It Mean For Players?

On 27th April 2023, the government’s much delayed White Paper on gambling law reform was finally published. Weighing in at a whopping 246 pages, it contains a detailed appraisal of the current state of the UK gambling industry (online and offline) and sets out a roadmap going forward. But what effect will it actually have [...]
By Sue Dawson
Super Spins, A New Free Daily Game at tombola arcade

What is Super Spins? Super Spins is tombola’s latest free daily game, replacing Free Vibes at tombola arcade. Daily games are something that tombola have been doing very well indeed for years, although the present free to play format only dates back to 2020 (the game prior to that – Worlds – cost 1p to [...]
By Sue Dawson