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BGC: Safer Gambling Week sparks 12.5% increase in safer gambling tools
Problem gambling rates are falling according to stats from Safer Gambling Week Safer Gambling Week is an annual event bringing together industry organisations and charities together with casinos, amus...

Big Bass Bonanza pays out £2.4m at PlayOJO in February 2023
Fishing slots dominate the charts! For the fourth month in a row, Pragmatic Play's Big Bass Bonanza has topped PlayOJO's highest-paying game chart. Every month, PlayOJO records the highest-paying game...

GamCare awarded Quality Mark by National Youth Agency
GamCare is delighted to be recognised! GamCare is the leading provider of advice and support for anyone affected by gambling harms. In the past couple of months, the organisation has been working hard...

GamCare launches free online help portal with MyGamCare
This new tool has been developed by gambling harm professionals GamCare is used to offering telephone and live chat support as they are dedicated to helping with issues surrounding problem gambling. T...

BGC welcomes lower problem gambling but "refuse to be complacent"
The BGC believes that more work needs to be done to ensure standards rise The Gambling Commission has just released its latest figures, showing a drop in the rates of problem gambling among UK adults....

First recorded million Mega Dream Drop win of 2023 with €1,992,581
The sixth Mega Dream Drop Jackpot winner has been crowned It only seems like a couple of months ago that the fifth winner of the Mega Dream Drop Jackpot was announced! Now, Relax Gaming has announced ...

UKGC penalises Blue Star Planet with £620,000 penalty
Blue Star Planet fined for social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures Just under a month since Vivaro and TonyBet were fined by the UK Gambling Commission, the government body has announ...

Big Bass Bonanza remains PlayOJO's highest-paying game
The fishing slot tops the charts for the third month in a row! The weather may be too cold and wet to spend time sitting by a river that’s probably in flood anyway – but that doesn’t stop players from...

Entain and bet365 dominate GambleAware donations list
bet365 and Entain contributed 90% of donations GambleAware has just published its latest donations and pledges received between April 1st to December 31st 2022. The funding arrangements are voluntary,...

BGC's study reveals spike in black market gambling during World Cup
Over 250,000 sports betting fans visited illegal sites in December 2022 Black market betting sites experienced a huge rise in visitor numbers during 2022, particularly during the Qatar World Cup. In D...

84,000 people registered with Gamstop in 2022
A record amount of people have registered with Gamstop in 2022 The self-exclusion scheme, Gamstop, has announced that 84,000 people registered with the service in 2022 which is a record amount since t...

Videoslots goes live with its 9,000th game
Mammoth Gold Megaways becomes the 9,000th game on Videoslots Just last year, Videoslots Casino hit a massive milestone as the casino with no wagering requirements confirmed that it had reached its 8,0...