Following a rash of rumors that Bodog Life is seeking to exit the United States gambling market due to payment processor problems and issues with the authorities, the company’s head, Alwyn Morris reassured the public and said that nothing of the sort would be happening. "In regards to accepting US players, Bodog has not and is not planning to close its doors to any market," said Morris.

One of the casino industry’s most trusted and popular online sites, Royal Vegas, has undergone a visual transformation and a software upgrade.

Wild Jack Mobile Casino, which launched this week on the Microgaming powered Spin 3 platform, also includes a superb new payment method that will definitely make banking much easier. Players can now fund their accounts on the site and be billed on their regular Vodafone telephone bills at the end of the month.

Norway’s second largest political party, the Progress Party has said that should it be voted into power in next year’s elections it would bring an end to the state monopoly on gambling.

The Malta-licensed gambling operator, Unibet, has decided to pick Microgaming’s award winning suite of casino games to power its casino platform, after searching for a suitable solution. This is not the first arrangement that Unibet has with Microgaming. The company has been working off Microgaming’s successful poker network for over two years.

Platinum Play will become the second online casino in the Fortune Lounge gambling group to launch a mobile game offering. The fourteen game portfolio will work off Spin3’s GameWire platform, and provide players with one of the best mobile game offerings in the industry.

Things are not as bad as they seemed in May 2008. The revenue statistics for May indicated the second worst year-over-year performance for Nevada in more than ten years.

The U.K. Gambling Commission surveyed 8,000 adults and published its 2008 report. The main finding was that the incidence of remote gaming has remained unchanged since last year. 8.8% of the respondents said that they had engaged in at least one form of remote gaming in the previous month.

888 Holdings, which holds a five-year contract to back the World Champions of Snooker held in the United Kingdom every year, has announced that it is pulling out of the deal.

From November 1, 2008, 21 casinos in California will switch to using lead free chips. The new lead free chips will contain less than 0.005% lead. This decision was made after discussions between the casinos, Center for Environmental Health of California (CEHCA) and Gaming Partners International (GPI). CEHCA is a nonprofit group monitoring lead content in consumer products.