Social casino gaming, which simulates gambling games on a social platform such as Facebook, is a nascent but rapidly growing industry — social casino game revenues grew 97 percent between 2012 and 2013, with a USD$3.5 billion market size by the end of 2015. Unlike gambling played for real money, social casino games generally have no monetary prizes and are free-to-play, although they may include some optional monetized features. The size of the market and users’ demonstrated interest in gambling-themed activities mean that social casino gamers are an attractive market for many gambling operators, and several large international gambling companies have merged with social casino game...
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The Four Most Popular Chinese & Asian Gambling Games November 03 2015 03 Nov 2015 Quite often, website publishers forget that their site can be viewed - and clicked-on - all around the world. This is the case, and so it's worth looking into attracting users not only from Europe and North America, but also from Asia. We're talking about a continent containing most of the people in the world - over 4 billion at the last count - and rising. Yes, China is the powerhouse, but there are also many other countries where people view Asian gambling games as a daily hobby. Card games are among the most popular pastimes in many Asian countries. Hong Kong and Macau hold regular poker tournaments,...
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Mobile-social game companies are moving fast into real-money gambling by signing up as beta partners with gambling startup Betable. The San Francisco-based Betable announced today that it has signed partnerships with Slingo, Digital Chocolate, and Murka Games. The news comes two days after Big Fish Games announced that it had launched a real-money gambling version of its Big Fish Casino game in the United Kingdom. Betable makes it easy for companies to offer real-money gambling, helping them get around years of complicated legal and technical challenges. It offers a license so that they can offer real-money gambling to players on mobile devices or the web, provided the players are in...
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FEARS are growing over gambling firms deliberately targeting kids with their favourite cartoon characters in online betting games. Some of Britain’s biggest betting operators are promoting games using popular fairytale characters to appeal to children, without violating Gambling Commission rules. Around 450,000 children have been found to gamble in England and Wales every week, according to The Gambling Commission An investigation by The Sunday Times found that many games can be played for free without age checks or registration. Some of the culprits include Moon Princess on the Casinoland website, which has a minimum stake of 20p, rising to a maximum bet of £100. Another was 888 website’s...
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HIGHLY addictive casino-style gambling games are being offered to children as young as four by Apple, Google and Facebook. Hundreds of free-to-play games, which include roulette, poker and slots, feature popular cartoon characters and are rated appropriate for youngsters aged 12. Gambling games featuring popular cartoons are made 'attractive' to children Apple's app store even rates some games suitable for four-year-olds, including one said to be the most "addictive coin pusher game ever". Through the games' in-app purchases, addicted kids can run up huge bills on their parents' credit cards. One game invites players to buy up to £179 of virtual coins, an...
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Asian Gambling Games: Play Oriental Games Online! It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Oriental culture is an inspiration for many games online. It’s becoming popular everywhere, not only in the games. But that’s what you’ll read about in this article – the best Asian gambling games you can play online. Let’s take a minute think about Asia. How many different symbols and things do you picture? I bet – a lot. And I’m not talking only food here. Mangas, anime, karaoke, feng shui, martial arts, calligraphy, lanterns, lucky coins, ninjas, dragons – there are so many things we connect to Asian culture. Are Video Slots one of them? Maybe not. But after reading this article about popular Asian...
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FANDOM Gambling games in the Fallout universe are forms of entertainment post-War or pre-War, derived from a set of artificial rules, typically with a known goal to be reached. The final result of players is usually to earn or lose money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome. Many gambling games have created after the Great War, for earning money by someone, by many, and lost money by some. Blackjack Edit A casino game played with a standard deck of 52 cards. The player and dealer each draw cards to an initial two card hand with the object of bringing the total hand value as close as possible to 21 without exceeding it. Caravan Edit A card game played with...
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The most popular gambling games Gambling is one of the world’s most popular and oldest forms of entertainment. Researchers have unearthed evidence that humans have been gambling for thousands of years. Gambling was a popular form of entertainment in the ancient Roman, Egyptian and Chinese civilizations. Indeed, many of today’s most popular games are themselves hundreds of years old. Blackjack, for instance, dates back to the Seventeenth Century, but is played by hundreds and thousands of people online each day. Given its long and fruitful relationship with mankind throughout history, it seems strange that there are governments who would have banned. Despite this, its millions of fans...
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What are The Most Popular Chinese Gambling Games and Why China has a long and illustrious gambling culture that dates back more than 1000 years, with traditional games like Keno, Mahjong and Pai Gow an others regularly played in China then and now, and further afield at leading land and virtual casinos across the world. Today most forms of gambling are banned in China with the exception of state-run lotteries, Keno, sports betting, scratch cards and virtual lottery terminals (VLTs), which are similar to slots. However, despite this ban China has a vast ‘underground’ gambling culture that encompasses traditional games, Western casino games, and unofficial lotteries. The only permitted...
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Since the early 2000s, the boom in mobile technology has seen the spread of video games from desktop PCs to the pockets of young people everywhere. But with that spread has come new hazards, in the form of online social gambling. Gambling games are mostly rated 'PG' or 'G' Gambling via mobile devices or mobile games has remained largely unregulated in Australia. In a 2012 study of more than 100 video games featuring gambling simulations, 69 of them were rated PG (8+) and 33 of them were rated G (for a general audience) by the Australian regulator. In other words, no gambling games received any age restrictions. The Australian Classification Board, the body charged with rating games,...
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