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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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What's Happening At Heart Bingo?
Heart Bingo is one of the oldest and well established names on the UK bingo scene. On 23rd September 2021, it underwent a radical change. Heart’s long running relationship with their previous operator came to an end when Global Media & Entertainment (the company behind Heart Radio) decided not to renew that contract and instead [...]
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Cash or Crash, A New Live Game
How To Play Cash Or Crash Cash or Crash Live is Evolution’s latest “game show” title, set on a vaguely steampunk themed blimp. In the middle of the cabin is a ball drawing machine containing 19 green balls, 1 gold ball and 8 red balls. The balls are drawn automatically, live on screen with a [...]
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Entain Bingo - How It's Going
Back in July, Entain‘s flagship bingo site Gala Bingo migrated from the extremely well known and popular Virtue Fusion bingo platform on to Entain’s own bingo product, joining the previously migrated Coral Bingo and Ladbrokes Bingo and also the ex Dragonfish bingo sites Foxy Bingo and Cheeky Bingo. Two months on from the move, how’s [...]
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Gala Bingo Has Left Virtue Fusion
It’s been a long time coming, and some people thought it would never happen, but Gala Bingo has finally moved all of its 20+ bingo rooms off the Virtue Fusion network, replacing the Playtech bingo product with Entain‘s proprietary bingo software. This move has been brewing ever since the autumn of 2018 when Foxy Bingo [...]
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Nevada, A Playing Card Bingo Game At Tombola
Those incredibly busy game developers at Tombola have been at it again! Over the last few years they’ve come up with more new bingo games than the whole of the rest of the industry put together – Blocks, Potion, Morph, The Machine, Hex, Paper and now Nevada! Nevada is a playing card based bingo game. [...]
By Sue Dawson