February 7 2018, Swansea –Swansea City have become the first Premier League club to produce a commemorative shirt to celebrate Chinese New Year 2018 which will be worn by the team.

Working in collaboration with shirt sponsor LeTou, the special jersey featuresChinese charactersand will be worn in Swansea’s crucial Premier League fixture against Burnley on Saturday February 10.

Players including England striker Tammy Abraham, Portuguese midfielder Renato Sanches and South Korean international Ki Sung-yeung have taken part in Chinese cooking and language lessons as part of the 2018 celebrations.

China is a huge target audience for the Premier League, with hundreds of millions of fans watching games every week and there is a strong Chinese community in Swansea.

Sports betting supplier honoured twice by igaming industry, while Chief Product Officer Ian Bradley makes GI Hot 50

London, UK – 6 February 2018

World-leading igaming solutions provider and in-play market leader SBTech has once again been recognised by the industry, after collecting the Mobile Product of the Year accolade at the annual IGA Awards on Monday and the Sports Betting Supplier of the Year prize at the Gaming Intelligence Awards the following day.

After a year of spectacular commercial success and sustained growth across the SBTech operator network, the IGA judging panel had no hesitation in awarding the Mobile Product prize to the fast-growing technology supplier, noting the breadth and depth of its mobile sports betting product, the strength of its responsive offering and live streaming service, and the quality of its range of mobile-first innovations, including personalised live betting suggestion feature Action Betting.

07 February 2018 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: The largest global sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced its return to Malaysia’s bustling capital city of Kuala Lumpur. ONE: VISIONS OF VICTORY is set to ignite the Axiata Stadium with an evening of authentic martial arts action. While a main event is yet to be announced, ONE Championship has revealed a handful of compelling bouts featuring the absolute best in local and international martial arts talent.

Ticket information for ONE: VISIONS OF VICTORY is available at www.onefc.com.

Agilan “Alligator” Thani of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is a 22-year-old martial artist and one of the top welterweights in ONE Championship. Thani’s quick rise through the ranks has seen him amass a stellar 8-1 professional record, including a title shot against former ONE Welterweight World Champion Ben Askren in May of 2017. Although Thani fell short of victory against the American, he gained a great amount of experience as a result and has emerged as a more seasoned combatant. All but one of Thani’s victories have come by exciting finish. The young Malaysian has shown steady improvement in each outing and he will now face Amitesh Chaubey in his next assignment.

Amitesh Chaubey is a martial artist from India and a welterweight newcomer in ONE Championship. He owns a professional record of 8-5 and is a former SFL Welterweight Champion known for his knockout power. Primarily a boxing stylist who stifles opponents with his quick hands and fluid combinations, Chaubey joins a deep ONE Championship welterweight division looking for a new champion. He takes on former welterweight title challenger Agilan Thani in his promotional debut.

Identity verification leader is helping GVC to smooth the onboarding process for new players across its popular gaming brands including bwin, Sportingbet and partypoker.

London, UK, 7th February 2018 – Jumio, the leading digital identity verification provider, has today announced a partnership with GVC Holdings, the multinational online sports betting and gaming group, to create a smoother and more secure onboarding experience for customers. The partnership forms part of GVC’s drive to increase player protection measures and provide the world’s safest online gaming environment.

Under the partnership, GVC will deploy Jumio’s Netverify® solution, which combines artificial intelligence, machine learning and human identity experts, to accurately and securely verify the identity of new account holders. And, because Jumio’s industry leading technology automates much of the process, it also dramatically shrinks the time required from 24 hours to less than two minutes. This reduces the manual workload of GVC’s in-house verification teams while ensuring compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) mandates.

With more than 79 million customers, GVC operates a number of the online gaming industry’s leading brands, including sports brands: bwin, Sportingbet and Gamebookers, and games brands: partypoker, partycasino, Foxy Bingo, Gioco Digitale and CasinoClub.

The partnership formed by the majority of British racecourses to offer pool betting services from July 2018 has today announced that Britbet will be its customer-facing name.

The Britbet brand will be seen both on its partner racecourses and via the partnership’s remote betting platforms.

David Williams, Director of Communications at Britbet, said: “With less than six months to go until our launch we are delighted to announce Britbet as the customer-facing brand.

“We are working on some exciting ideas for Britbet which will bring the brand to life and the next few months will see those plans come to fruition ahead of going live in July.

Playtech licensees able to access live streamed roulette from world’s largest land-based casinos

London: February 7th, 2018 – Playtech, the world’s leading Omni-channel gaming software, systems and services supplier, and premium live casino supplier Authentic Gaming, have agreed a break-through partnership enabling Playtech licensees to access live streamed roulette from some of the world’s most famous land-based casinos.

Under the partnership, operators powered by Playtech Live casino software will gain access to live roulette tables located on the floors of land-based casinos, with real croupiers and real players, via Authentic Gaming’s live roulette streams.

Online players will be able to access live roulette games on any device from the following land-based properties:

ISLE OF MAN – Microgaming is unveiling the golden city of Fortunium on Day 2 of ICE Totally Gaming 2018, Wednesday 7 February.

Due for release later this year, Fortunium is a five by five reel steampunk themed online slot that will take players on a journey through an opulent metropolis of prosperity and abundance.

Featuring soaring skylines depicted with stunning graphics, Fortunium is the ultimate destination for innovators and entrepreneurs seeking acclaim and fortune. The game showcases a wealth of innovative features including Mystery Reels™, Stacked Mystery Symbols and a powerful Win Booster™ device to ramp up rewards.

With a design that offers a premium portrait experience, the feature-packed slot will supercharge mobile gameplay to give players a thrilling experience.

NetEnt, the leading provider of digital gaming solutions, has demonstrated the quality and scale of its multi-faceted offering at ICE 2018. The diverse showcase includes major advances in virtual reality (VR) and live casino, its newest blockbuster branded games, and its pioneering media buying programme.

VR is at the core of NetEnt’s ICE presentation, where it has revealed the first fully playable, operator-ready version of Gonzo’s Quest VR.

Never before has a web VR slot game been released within the igaming industry. Using state-of-the-art VR technology, the game is available through a web browser, without any specific integration needed for operators, or downloads of dedicated apps by players. Web VR makes the new genre of games easily accessible to any player.

Gonzo’s Quest VR is a true omni-channel creation: players simply log into the casino on a desktop or mobile device, press the VR tab, then plug in their VR headset to enter the immersive world of Gonzo. The HTML5 Gonzo VR game has been uniquely developed using real-time 3D and it is due to go live in summer 2018.

Over 300 gaming industry professionals attended the launch of ICE Africa which was held on the opening day of the world’s largest gaming technology event, ICE London.

Commenting on the launch of ICE Africa, Kate Chamber, Managing Director of Clarion Gaming, said: “Whilst the scale of ICE Africa will not be the same as ICE London, we will be bringing the same level of commitment, thinking, creativity and professionalism that has made ICE London the world’s favourite B2B gaming event. We launched in Africa following requests from the industry for us to develop and organise a professional showcase that the continent could be proud of and tonight’s launch highlights the industry’s enthusiasm for our newest event.”

Response from attendees at the launch was equally positive. Tristan Kaatze, Director of Casinos Sun International, said: “ICE Africa represents a key vehicle to pull Africa together. Historically bigger operators tend to focus on events in Las Vegas and London but Clarion’s commitment to the country highlights that, overtime, the African market warrants the same scale but with new growth opportunities too. The development potential in Africa is massive and this launch shows how much networking potential operators and international companies see in the market.”

Discussing the reputation of Clarion’s London event, Kaatze continued: “We come to ICE London because the entire industry is under one roof and we’re not only able to see what’s available in the industry right now, but what’s available in the future too.”

ISLE OF MAN – Yesterday, at the online gaming industry’s largest exhibition show, Microgaming announced that it is working with Triple Edge Studios, an independent global game studio that will be supplying exclusive content to the online gaming giant. The first official release under the Triple Edge Studios brand is Playboy™ Gold, which launches 7 March 2018.

To celebrate the launch of Triple Edge Studios, Microgaming unveiled a 360-degree time slice photography experience in the N5 Boulevard. Plus, the popular Microgaming Bar was themed Playboy, dressed to look like the famous Playboy Club.

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Tuesday, February 6, 2018, Malta – Malta-based Wazdan, the major casino games producer with products covering slots, table games and video poker has launched the long-awaited Great Book of Magic Deluxe at ICE. Wazdan has released several new games this year and are sampling their new British ‘Volatility Beers’ on stand S8-202 created with Ogilvy and passionate British brewers to highlight Wazdan’s world’s-first ‘Volatility Level’ and their new UK license.

Recent new game releases from Wazdan include Tetri Mania Deluxe, Fruit Fiesta, Mystery Jack Deluxe, Jack’s Ride, Haunted Hospital, Magic Fruits 4 Deluxe, Dracula’s Castle, Magic Hot 4 Deluxe, Magic Target Deluxe, High School Manga, Fenix Play Deluxe and Magic Fruits Deluxe to name just a few, which join established titles such as Wild Guns and Valhalla, which are very popular with players and casinos alike. During 2017 Wazdan deepened their portfolio with more than one new game per month while 2018 continues in the same vein. Upcoming titles include Los Muertos, Mayan Ritual and Captain Flynt, among others.

Technology companies like Wazdan are the ones driving progress in the igaming industry and their game releases utilise HTML5 technology which allows them to create high-quality games with impressive animations covering complex themes that run seamlessly on mobile, tablets and desktops. Great Book of Magic Deluxe offers a revamped blockbuster with improved graphics and a one-of-a-kind gamble game showcasing Wazdan’s Unique Features.

Importantly Great Book of Magic Deluxe is available in three different Volatility levels. Wazdan’s ‘Volatility Control’ lets players set to a low variance where the game has frequent but smaller wins in Low Volatility or fewer although bigger wins with the High Volatility setting. Leaving the setting at ‘Normal’ Great Book of Magic Deluxe reverts to its standard volatility.

Industry-leading provider unveils latest in-play innovation at ICE 2018

London, UK – 7 February, ICE 2018 ExCeL London

SBTech, the leading sports betting solutions provider to the igaming industry, has released Pulse, an innovation in live betting that is set to completely revolutionise the sector.

Inspired by principles of gamification, Pulse (patent pending) is designed to deliver an entirely new in-play experience, achieving greater levels of engagement and brand loyalty across the global SBTech operator network.

Experienced industry figures launch market-driven, agile payments company

London, UK. 7th February 2018. Intrapay today introduced its purpose-built payment platform to the global gaming sector, backed by a management team comprising some of the leading figures in the industry.

Led by the CEO, Koen Vanpraet, formerly of Credorax and GlobalCollect/Ingenico, the company has a fresh approach to providing better payment services and solutions. At a time when gaming consumers are accustomed to greater choice at the checkout, merchant growth will be driven by meeting the genuine payment needs of customers, whether it’s a new way to pay, rock-solid payment processing and security, or a white-labelled service to grow engagement and loyalty.

“The era of “one-size-fits-no-one” payments in gaming is coming to an end,” explained Koen, “and the future of payments is going to be defined by gamers themselves. Thanks to internationalisation, proliferating device use and newer payment methods, consumers are already becoming more influential, ‘voting with their feet’ by picking their payments preference at the checkout.