Online gambling software outfit Net Entertainment has continued expanding its interactive games title coverage on igaming providers by launching its inventory on bwin.party casino products.

After a successful integration process, a selection of NetEnt´s games is now live and available in bwin.party’s online casino network. Popular NetEnt casino games titles include: Mega Millions, Jack Hammer, Piggy Riches and Gonzo’s Quest will be featured on bwin.party casino verticals for desktop and mobile devices.

”We are very pleased to launch a selection of our award-winning games with bwin.party – one of the world’s most successful online casino operators – and I am confident that we can support them to stay ahead of the competition and deliver the ultimate player experience,” said Enrico Bradamante, Director of NetEnt Malta Ltd and Chief of European Market Operations.

“We embarked upon a journey to enhance our casino offering by focusing on a content and gaming platform upgrade. We have been very impressed with the NetEnt content catalogue and the graphic quality of their work. I am sure that the new titles will work very well alongside our exclusive proprietary games”, said Golan Shaked, Group Director at bwin.party.

Gaming and lottery technology supplier Scientific Games Corp. has extended its relationship with Danish online casino and lottery operator Danske Spil.

Under the agreement, Danske Spil will utilize Scientific’s remote game server in the Danish ‘dot country’ online wagering jurisdiction.

Danske Spil players will now have online access to land-based slots and table games from the likes of Scientific Games companies such as Bally, Barcrest, Shuffle Master and Williams.

The launch of Scientific Games’ igaming products in Denmark is another milestone for the company, with its games available in New Jersey and Delaware and across a number of European jurisdictions and in Canadian provinces.

Moneyball Economics came out with a piece on its so-called “Vice Index” this week that tracks gambling, alcohol, drugs, and prostitute spending. It says that the Vice Index is trending down. Therefore the economy is in trouble.

Economists are always looking for the perfect index to predict future trends. Not only is there no perfect index. Try as you might, there is no way to accurately index human activity and decision-making. All an index can tell you is how much of a certain activity the indexers were able to record in a certain month, which might tell you something if there’s a drastic and sudden change somewhere, or if the index is taken over a very long period of time, like 10 or 20 years. We can try to triangulate trends by using many different indexes, but even this is not an exact science. The bigger the number that the statisticians are trying to index and the wider range of activity it covers, the less precise it will be, and therefore the less useful.

That said, I can’t think of a less useful index than the Moneyball Economics Vice Index. This index attempts to jump two hurdles over what other indexes are trying to do. Most indexes try to track legal activities that people are not actively trying to hide. This itself is impossible to do 100% accurately, but at least more information can be gathered. But the Vice Index attempts to track the most elusive of activities – illegal vices like drugs and prostitutes, together with gambling and alcohol.

The Federal Reserve can’t even give you a scientifically accurate number of how much money is in the Federal Reserve System on any given week and warns that all numbers are estimates and can change. How then can a bunch of people at Moneyball Economics give anyone an accurate number of how much under-the-table cash is being transferred for drugs and hookers? Do the hookers and drug dealers report their revenues to them directly, making sure the phones aren’t tapped?