EGR Operator Awards by EGR Magazine takes place later this month and the shortlist for the mobile operator category are the following: Betfair mFortune mobile phone casino Paddy Power Rank Interactive (Blue Square) William Hill Online I’m especially interested in the mobile operator category for a number of reasons: Mobile gaming is the future way of [...]
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I regularly play online but I try to test many different igaming portals and sometimes it takes a while before I return to a portal. This was the case when I today returned to NordicBet’s portal. I usually use a couple of different usernames but none of them worked when I tried to log in. [...]
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Today I saw a pretty cool banner on Spotify by a casino called Vera&John. I clicked on the banner and was transferred to the gaming portal. My first impression was positive; the site looks cool, have lots of games and also have customization possibilities. I usually sign up pretty quickly to check out new gaming portals [...]
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This week’s redesign is about betaland’s flash casino start page. betaland’s players can play on three different flash casinos from three different suppliers, Chartwell, Net Entertainment and Portomaso.
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It is almost time to go to ICE for the second day. I spend a couple of hours at the show yesterday walking looking at all the different exhibitors, especially in the igaming section. And it is pretty similar to previous years. We have everything from Microgaming’s big brands to bwin’s new iPhone poker app. [...]
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This week’s redesign is about BetClic‘s casino game “window”. BetClic offer Net Entertainment casino games and the players have many different games to choose from. I choose to redesign the game “window” because it is very cluttered and doesn’t really offer a good way to find and select a game. Today Image 1. BetClic’s current [...]
Read more888.com is a big player in the igaming industry and when you visit 888.com you get the feeling that it is a gaming portal offering casino, poker, sportsbook and more. Earlier last week after playing casino at 888.com I wanted to try out their poker. But I was really surprised to find out that I [...]
Read moreNetPlayTV recently launched an iPhone App for the SuperCasino brand. The App let players play live roulette with their iPhone while watching the real-time Live Casino shows on TV. Image 1. Supercasino’s login view It is easy to start using the App as long as you already have an account with SuperCasino, but too complicated [...]
Read moreNet Entertainment has build a download client in which their flash games can be played. I think this is a great alternative to playing on a gaming portal. If I just want to play casino games then I think a download client gives a better player experience. I believe Net Entertainment could make a better choice [...]
Read moreLast night I tried to sign up at 888.com to play casino. It wasn’t the easiest thing to do. The registration form is pretty straight forward but the thing that made me get stuck was the password field. In the images below you see what it looks like. Today Image 1. Password fields Image 2. Help [...]
Read moreToday most gaming portals offer bingo, casino, games, poker and a sportsbook. Is this the best way? Look at Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and PartyGaming who promote brands for one kind of game. For instance players go to PokerStars to play poker, but when you go to for instance bwin, Unibet, Ladbrokes and many more gaming portals [...]
Read morePlaying together with friends is always fun. But it isn’t easy to do at gaming portals today. So I am looking forward to when we’ll see online tournaments in bingo, casino and poker where you play as a team with your friends against other teams. The nice part with this is that you can make [...]
Read moreGaming 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 [...]
Read moreThis 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. [...]
Read moreIt 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? [...]
Read moreNordicBet 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 [...]
Read moreDo you develop gaming software? Do you prototype? If you do prototyping then great! If you don’t, then it is time to start doing it! A prototype is a representative model of the final product. Why should you build prototypes? Prototyping is an interative and generative process. You’ll never get the best solution at your [...]
Read morePeople like to be around other people for many different reasons, for instance be part of a group or be recognised for their skills. Playing on a multiplayer slots you either play against or with other players. The design of the slot needs to be very different if it is a slot where you play WITH [...]
Read moreImage 1. 8 steps to start playing Black Jack. This week’s redesign is just one quick and fast design implementation to Betsafe’s gaming portal. My design advice to Betsafe is, Let players stay on the same page after logging in! Today players are redirected back to the start page when they log in . In [...]
Read moremr Green won the prize as the best gambling site last night at Internetworld’s Top 100 Award Cermony (link in Swedish). In the overall list mr Green came in the 6th place, congratulations to everyone at mr Green! A part of Internetworld’s motivation read: “Mr. Green is the style and remains the most exciting gaming [...]
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