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 News postings tend to go out of date quite quickly but in case you're interested in the old postings, all of them are collected here.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

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
Megadozer by Big Time Gaming - A New Slot Game Feature

Bonanza Falls & Megadozer Big Time Gaming are behind one of the most popular slot games of the last few years and arguably of all time – Bonanza. The original Bonanza game marked the first appearance of the insanely popular Megaways game feature, which is so loved by players that it has appeared in hundreds [...]

By Sue Dawson

8th Dec 2023
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 and bingo.com. Thanks to participation from players in the Nordic countries where it is much more popular, it has plenty of liquidity [...]

By Sue Dawson

22nd Nov 2023
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

6th Nov 2023
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

18th Oct 2023
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

29th Sep 2023
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

21st Jul 2023
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

2nd Jun 2023
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

3rd May 2023
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

28th Apr 2023
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

27th Apr 2023