Archive for month: January, 2010

Gaming VC plans for significant expansion. Will they focus on the player experience or just marketing?

Gaming VC, an online gaming company with brands like Casino Club, Poker Kings and Betaland, said they will invest up to €7 million during 2010 to build the new businesses. The have hired former PartyGaming marketing chief Jon Salmon and former Sportingbet head of sportsbook Jim Humberstone for the expansion. It will be interesting to see if [...]

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My initial thoughts from ICEi 2010

This year’s International Gaming Expo (IGE), incorporating ICEi, is over and I’m back home. My reflections from the expo are mixed. Most positive: I was impressed by Net Entertainment and  Betsoft’s games. The quality in their games is really good. It is especially interesting to see that Betsoft incorporate their controls as a part of the game. [...]

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Did Betsson listen to my design advice? :)

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I wrote a blog post, Betsson can make it easier for their poker players. Here is a suggestion!, giving Betsson a design advice back in September (read the post here).  And today when I played on Betsson I saw that Betsson had redesigned their poker section on Betsson.com and the solution I suggested is implemented. [...]

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Full Tilt Poker launches new innovative game Rush Poker!

Rush Poker is a new poker game just released at Full Tilt Poker; this is a new and completely different way to play poker and probably one of the most innovative things to happen to poker in many years. The idea of Rush Poker is extremely easy, insted of playing at one table you join [...]

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Player Experience: the new way to differentiate yourself!

It really doesn’t matter to which operator in online gaming you play with today. Gaming portals are very similar when it comes to everything from available games, user flows to registration and deposits. Bingo clients almost look identical from one provider to another. Why is that? Are software providers afraid to differentiate themselves by innovation? [...]

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Best poker experience. Instant or download client?

Is instant poker as good as the download versions? Not at the moment! If you compare Full Tilt Poker or PokerStars mac client with an instant version from any of the competitors then you’ll see that Full Tilt and PokerStars is way ahead. It is faster to load, faster to start tables and have more [...]

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Help your players even if it is telling them they can’t play!

NordicBet has launched a new download casino from Net Entertainment. I was really excited about this and wanted to try it out as fast as possible since Net Entertainment produce really good games. But I was really disappointed when I went to NordicBet’s portal to download the client, I found the download page but it [...]

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IGE is coming up. What exciting things will we see?

This year’s IGE is just a few weeks away and I’m starting to get excited about the event. It will be great to find out what will be the next big things in the igaming industry this year. I believe the following topics (among others) will be very important for igaming companies this year: personalisation social [...]

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