Churchill Downs Opens New Casino Derby City Gaming Downtown in Louisville
Churchill Downs opened the Derby City Gaming Downtown and made Louisville, Kentucky, a popular destination for horse racing and betting fans. The Derby was opened exactly 150 days prior to the legendary 150th Kentucky Derby.
New venue to revive the downtown:
The new $90 million venue is located downtown, and it is an annex of the already popular Twin Spires racetrack. The racetrack will feature historical horse racing betting machines, several bars, and various entertainment options.
Sarah Davasher-Wisdom, a President and CEO of Greater Louisville Inc., the metro area chamber of comme…
Gaming Corps Launches Content with LV Bet for Latvian Market
LV Bet, a company that provides both casino and sports betting products, has teamed up with Gaming Corps to strengthen its library of available games. The Swedish supplier will bring its premium games to the operator and allow players to experience some of the most worthwhile and exciting games there are.
Stealing Another March in the Baltics
Among the titles that LV Bet will have access to are such titles as Plinko, Slot, Crash, Mine, and Table, titles all of which will be integrated with the operator. Individual titles include Coin Miner 2, Luke E. Chance and the Book of Luck and Ragin…
Inspired Entertainment Incorporated entering the global lottery market
American online casino games and systems developer Inspired Entertainment Incorporated has entered the global lottery sector after spending $12.5 million in order to purchase Sportech Lotteries Incorporated.
The New York-headquartered firm used an official Tuesday press release to detail that the arrangement for the subsidiary of British pools betting innovator Sportech is destined to allow it to increase its customer base and build out a turnkey platform featuring the latest lottery and iGaming innovations.
Successful signs:
Inspired Entertainment Incorporated explained that the purchase agreement was funded on a debt-free basis with cash from its balance sheet and contains a clause that could see it hand over an additional $2 million based on the …
Nintendo Switch Online Adding More GBA And N64 Games Today, Including Zelda And Perfect Dark
Nintendo announced the next wave of games for its Nintendo Switch Online subscription service during the June 2024 Nintendo Direct. A handful of classic games are coming to the service starting today, including online play for a Zelda classic.
The Zelda game is Four Swords, a cooperative four-player Game Boy Advance game that will now feature online play to conquer its dungeons and challenges. The GBA selection is also adding Metroid: Zero Mission, the GBA retelling of the very first Metroid game that is considered a classic in its own right. Meanwhile, the N64 is getting two new entries as well: Turok Dinosaur Hunter, and the very first Perfect Dark. All of these will be available today.
The Nintendo Switch Online service–and its Expansion Pas…
The nine online sportsbooks in the eastern American state of New York reportedly racked up an increase of 8.9% month-on-month in aggregated handle for August to reach a tally slightly over $872.22 million.
According to a source citing official information supplied by the New York State Gaming Commission (pdf), the August performance halted a four-month slide in combined handle that bottomed out at roughly $800.75 million in July. This latter figure was purportedly more than 42% below the $1.39 billion recorded for April and represented a 59% decline when compared with the $1.98 billion seen for the 30 days from the market’s official launch on January 8.
Proliferating proceeds:
New York is home to in excess of 20 million people and Augu…