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 News postings tend to go out of date quite quickly but in case you're interested in the old postings, all of them are collected here.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

Free Form, A New Free Daily Game at Tombola

What is Free Form? Tombola’s last free daily game, Free Vibes, was only launched in January 2022 so it came as quite a surprise to see a new free daily game, Free Form, launched this week. As soon as you log on to the Tombola site all becomes clear. Free Form is NOT replacing Free [...]

By Sue Dawson

21st Jun 2022
Bingo Boom, A New Bingo Game At Entain

Entain have just launched a new bingo game, Bingo Boom, as well as a new and much improved version of their mobile lobby. What is Bingo Boom? Bingo Boom is perhaps best described as bingo with a side order of a gem drop game! It’s 90 ball bingo with an added feature game. Everyone with [...]

By Sue Dawson

26th May 2022
Entain Reinvent Slot Tournaments

Why Slot Tournaments Needed Reinventing Slot tournaments are not a new idea. Bingo and slots sites have been running promotions for many years that involve playing slots competitively against other players. In the earliest slot tournaments, scoring was based on total wagering which meant they were basically competitions to see who could spend the most [...]

By Sue Dawson

5th May 2022
Mecca Bingo's Got Talent

What Is Mecca Bingo’s Got Talent? Mecca Bingo’s Got Talent is a HUGE promotion running at, you guessed it, Mecca Bingo until 5th June 2022. The promotions are based around the latest season of Britain’s Got Talent and as the official bingo partner of the show, Mecca have secured plenty of money-can’t-buy prizes. Judges’ Jackpot: [...]

By Sue Dawson

20th Apr 2022
Bloom, A New Game At Tombola

Back before Christmas, Tombola introduced a new game called Winter Spotlight. One of the things that was new and different about this games was that it was a seasonal special, designed to have a limited run. Now, Tombola have launched another seasonal special game – Bloom. When Winter Spotlight ended its run at the beginning [...]

By Sue Dawson

21st Mar 2022
Entain Go Large On Player Protection

Entain, the operator behind household names like Ladbrokes Bingo and Gala Bingo, have recently made changes to their sites as part of their long term safer gambling strategy which bring player protection to the fore. One of the changes is obvious to everyone – instead being hidden away in the footer, the link to Safer [...]

By Sue Dawson

21st Jan 2022
Free Vibes, A New Free Daily Game At Tombola

What Is Free Vibes? tombola’s free daily game Merge, which was launched in May 2021, was removed in November 2021 to make way for the tombola Advent Calendar and other Christmas promotions. Instead of returning after New Year, it’s been retired and replaced for 2022 by a brand new game, Free Vibes. Many daily free [...]

By Sue Dawson

4th Jan 2022
We Won Another Award

Back in February 2019, Best New Bingo Sites won the iGB Affiliate Award for Best Bingo Website against some stiff competition. And now, we’ve done it again, or rather FTD Digital (the parent organisation of our sister site WDW Bingo as well as us) has done it. This latest award is the EGR Operator Award [...]

By Sue Dawson

20th Dec 2021
Dragonfish Sold To Broadway Gaming

Every now and again, a piece of news about mergers and acquisitions sends a seismic shock through the world of online bingo. On 15th December 2021, the biggest shock piece of news of this type broke since Entain (then GVC) bought Cozy all the way back in November 2017. Broadway Gaming, the operators of Butlers [...]

By Sue Dawson

15th Dec 2021
Sweet Bonanza Candyland & Slingo

Sweet Bonanza is one of Pragmatic Play’s best known and most popular slot games. As well as the regular version, it comes in a minigame version that can be played while inside a Pragmatic Play bingo room and in a special Christmas version, Sweet Bonanza Xmas. Reskinned as Heart Bonanza, it’s appeared at Heart Bingo [...]

By Sue Dawson

30th Nov 2021
Bingo Sneaks In At Skill On Net Casinos

PlayJango is a Skill on Net casino that has recently added bingo, but the bingo rooms are EXTREMELY hard to find for the casual visitor and indeed, the only reason that we even know they are there is that the operator contacted us and told us about them! There’s absolutely nothing about bingo visible when [...]

By Sue Dawson

24th Nov 2021
New End2End Bingo Software On The Way?

On 1st November it was reported that a company called End2End had been granted a UK Gambling Commission licence for its Bingo Multiplayer Platform. There’s nothing about this on the UKGC website yet but we believe that it is for remote bingo. Who are End2End? What is the End2End bingo product? When will End2End bingo [...]

By Sue Dawson

16th Nov 2021